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...Charbonneau searches for extrasolar planets by looking for signs of planets crossing in front of stars outside our solar system. Through a series of NASA-funded telescopes located in southern California that monitor 10,000 stars at a time, Charbonneau and his researchers scour the data, measuring the brightness of the stars. If a star is dark, it could be due to an eclipse from a planet in orbit around...
That is a tough one. I don't want to tell an 11-year-old to scour the Internet for all the horrible stories. But I think this child's desire to help is very heartening. Keep asking that question, and a lot of answers will come...
...When Magor takes off to scour the room in search of beer, he is constantly stopped by fellow dissidents. Then, he drags four of his gray yet hairy buddies - one of them a former politician - on stage to sing an exile blues song, supposed to have been performed by a friend who is at home with fever. "What a hypochondriac! I told her, real artists die on stage...
...next in fashion and what will come down the runway, say, for spring 2008. Even while designers were putting the final touches on their fall 2007 collections last month, they were dispatching fabric teams to the big trade fairs?Premiere Vision in Paris, Moda In in Milan?to scour the market for spring 2008. And looking at those fabrics is like looking into fashion's crystal ball, especially if you are a designer like Prada, who is widely considered one of the most adventurous when it comes to how far she will push the textile mills in new directions...
Hoping to avoid embarrassment at the '08 Olympics, Beijing officials have sent linguists to scour the city's signs over the next eight months to correct their infamously quirky English translations...