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Perhaps the most exciting thing about the discovery of GJ 1214b is that the planet was found at all. Planet hunters usually focus their attention on Sun-like stars - that is, large and hot - on the assumption that if you're looking for life, you should look in a place that is as similar to our solar system as possible. Charbonneau, however, focused on about 2,000 small, dim, red stars known as M-dwarfs, nearby Earth. M-dwarfs are much more numerous than Sun-like stars; of the 300 stars closest to Earth, says Charbonneau...
...sunken amphitheater that surrounds the T-stop entrance, seemed the perfect place for interesting encounters...
...honored to be asked to fill this role. The Corporation operates very much as a collegial, non-hierarchical body that governs largely by consensus,” Reischauer said. “As a mere member before this transition takes place, I had the feeling that my voice was important and listened to, and I think all my colleagues would expect that to continue over the course of the ensuing years...
Hyman announced the membership of the implementation committee last month in an e-mail containing the University Library Task Force report. The committee is charged with putting in place the recommendations of the University Library Task Force report published last month...
...Lefilleul disagrees with both analyses. "The reality is, until we find a way of physically moving the English coast farther away from France, the Calais region will be the place most aliens go because it's closest to the U.K.," he says. "The solution is to find a way to convince illegal aliens not to leave home in the first place. Trying to make their lives as miserable once they're here serves nothing...