Word: scooped
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Rather than try to scoop each other, the friendly rivals decided to cooperate--and soon realized they had stumbled onto something truly astonishing. The new supernova, some 50% closer to the beginning of the universe than any supernova known before, was far brighter than had been predicted. That neatly eliminated the idea of dust, since a more distant star should have been even more dust-dimmed than nearer ones. But the level of brightness also signaled that this supernova was shining when the expansion of the cosmos was still slowing down. "Usually," says Riess, "we see weird things...
...balls 150 ft. up a hill in my backyard--the perfect distance for my young brown hound Otto, who is an utter maniac for retrieving stuff. The Slinger is nearly perfect in every respect. It even has what I think of as a "wife feature": it lets my spouse scoop slimy, post-retrieved balls into a built-in wire rack without having to sully her ivory hands...
...Gore '69 is "upset" at being "passed over" this year as speaker at Harvard's commencement, according to a report by gossip columnist Jeannette Walls in "The Scoop" for the network MSNBC...
...course, the real estate crisis is not just about real estate. "It feels as though the soul of the place is in jeopardy," says Wes (Scoop) Nisker, a legendary local radio commentator whose smooth voice has been practically synonymous with Bay Area counterculture for 30 years. "Ever since its inception, San Francisco has been a place where adventurers came, the last outpost of the continent, where you could experience a sense of rugged, outlaw freedom. Now it feels like a theme park of itself--the San Francisco Experience...
...outbreak occurred at a time when small farms predominated in British agriculture. Farmers then kept pigs outside, facilitating the airborne spread of the virus. And for consumers, there's still one major problem with the organic alternative: it's expensive. Shoppers addicted to cheap food are more likely to scoop up the imported products than shell out for high-priced, homegrown organic goods, no matter how safe they promise...