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Langes-Swarovski explains that the Xilion is cut with 14 facets instead of the usual eight. "But it's not actually the number that's the most important; it's the angle of the facets," says Buchbauer, pointing out a pattern in which sizes and shapes alternate. "Several years back, we looked around the marketplace and saw our competitors getting stronger and advancing technically. There was market demand for a new, more brilliant stone. We had always claimed to be the innovation leader, so we knew it was time to bring out the next generation...
...member Deborah Hersman said Monday on CNN. "We do know from the information that we have obtained on scene, gathered evidence, documentation and from the flight data recorder, that the runway that the crew used was Runway 26." The two runways at the Lexington airport cross in an X pattern. To get from the terminal to the head of Runway 22, the airport's 7,000-ft.-long main strip, the plane would have had to pass the entry point to the 3,500-ft.-long Runway...
...first, the simulations agree, gravity was the only force at work. Regions of higher density drew matter to them, becoming denser still--a pattern preserved to this day in the distribution of galaxies, with huge clusters where there were high-density regions back then and great voids in between. Eventually, clouds of hydrogen became so dense that their cores ignited with the fires of thermonuclear reactions--the sustained hydrogen-bomb explosions, in essence, that we know as stars. But whereas the familiar stars of the Milky Way are mostly similar in mass to the sun, these first stars were...
...about her: What does she really believe in? A First Lady can pick and choose her issues, but as a Senator, Hillary has been forced to take stands in areas that go far beyond the health-care and family issues that Americans have long associated with her. Her voting pattern has tilted liberal, but in National Journal's ratings of the five Democratic Senators most often mentioned as presidential contenders, Hillary's record (more liberal than 80.5% of her Senate colleagues', in a computer analysis of key votes) comes down in the middle--less liberal than Kerry (85.7%) but more...
Though not everybody loves Franzen. After he got labeled a snob in the Oprahgate affair (and Winfrey had moved onto embracing and then birching James Frey--is this a pattern of abuse?), Harper's magazine published a long cover story by the writer Ben Marcus accusing Franzen of betraying the cause of difficult, experimental writing in favor of mere popular storytelling--essentially, of not being enough of a snob. It's like the guy can't win. "I'd done him a number of favors, done nice things for him," Franzen says of Marcus. "My real feeling about...