Word: shadowed
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...TITLE: SHADOW PLAY...
...Shadow Play is definitely corilineal. Baxter's setting is conventional small-town America, but his scenes are as eerie as the realism of Edward Hopper paintings. Five Oaks is a town where history no longer takes root. Industry is elsewhere. Spirits too have up and gone. People have dusty backgrounds and odd occupations. A Palmer neighbor is a retired airline dietitian; a young woman describes herself as a Con-Tact-paper decorator...
...blackness that enfolds them. The Milky Way, Alcock knows, is like a sprinkling of bright sequins on an invisible cloak spread across the vastness of space. This cloak is woven out of mysterious stuff called dark matter because it emits no discernible light. A sort of shadow with substance, dark matter dominates the universe, accounting for more than 90% of its total mass. Yet scientists, struggling to interpret just a few sparse clues, know virtually nothing about it. The dark matter could be made up of giant planets, failed stars, black holes, clouds of unknown particles, or even...
...enough that Bush signalled that shadow governments are acceptable and the separation of powers meaningless by cooperating in the Iran-contra cover-up. He didn't even exhibit a shred of courage by admitting that what Weinberger and the others did was wrong, but that he had chosen to pardon them anyway...
Imagine an infinitesimal particle that is as heavy as a large atom and less tangible than a shadow. For 15 years, hundreds of physicists have been chasing such an improbable phantom. Their quarry is the top quark, the sole missing member of a family of subatomic particles that form the basic building blocks of matter. Of six types of quarks that are believed to exist, five have already been discovered. "The top," says Harvard University theorist Sheldon Glashow, "is not just another quark. It's the last blessed one, and the sooner we find it, the better everyone will feel...