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...DARK MATTER Accounting for a bigger portion of matter than ordinary atoms, dark-matter particles were spread unevenly through the cosmos; areas of higher concentration drew in hydrogen and helium gas, gradually forming the first stars dense enough to burst into thermonuclear flame 3 FIRST STARS The earliest stars were massive, weighing in at 20 to more than 100 times the mass of the sun. The crushing pressures at their cores made them burn through their nuclear fuel in only a million years or so and caused them to spew radiation so intense that it kept other stars from forming...
...know what's in there. But I've spent a good portion of my career feeling that way and overcoming my own questions. There's nothing this year to suggest I have a high level of tennis in me, which has been frustrating. That being said, New York is going to be very comfortable for me. I'm either going to win the last match I play or make somebody beat...
...French accent." That accent is relaxed and rural: lunghetti pasta came with anchovies, wild garlic and pistachios, while the thicker taccole noodles glistened in a sauce of red spring onion and baby cuttlefish; stockfish ragout arrived bubbling with Italian sausage and poached salt cod. G. was hunched over a portion of prosciutto generous enough to upholster a Chesterfield when I approached. I only intended a quick hello, but his girlfriend, misinterpreting my postprandial bloat, sweetly asked when the baby was due - a bloomer that left us seeking comfort in our cups. These were quickly filled with Brunello di Montalcino...
...could not accept it. We were so near to the end of the trial. I was really very angry. All that we had done, four years' hard work, was finished. We lost the chance to illustrate the global picture of what really happened. Everything else is just a portion of what happened. You say that Mladic is still in Serbia. How do you know? I have my own information. I have my own tracking team and information from [the government in] Belgrade. So is the government in Belgrade hiding him, or are they just incompetent? Neither. I identified three times...
...very happy sitting on the beach earning 5% and just not worrying for a few months," says Tony Proctor, president of money-management firm Proctor Financial. He is raising the money-fund portion of all five of his model portfolios, citing worries over rising oil prices, a slowing economy, the summer stock-market doldrums and soaring tensions in the Middle East...