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...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...
...early novel Raditzer is an almost allegorical tale of a restless, artistically minded son of wealth -- Charlie Stark -- who goes to sea "unable to answer his own questions, and nursing ill-defined resentments" and finds himself irresistibly drawn to an orphaned ne'er-do-well who seems his shadow self. By the time of his next novel, At Play in the Fields of the Lord, the two sides are even closer -- in characters whose names alone (Wolfie and Moon) suggest that men have murderous beasts in them, and pieces of the heavens...
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...
...Navy assigns Lieut. Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise, proving again that a really cute guy can also act really acutely) to defend them at their court-martial. Kaffee's life is all softball, brewskies and smart remarks -- evasions of his grownup responsibilities, his large lawyerly talents and the long shadow of his great- man father. To him, principles are merely things that interfere with cozy plea bargains. He is, in fact -- neat balance here -- an upmarket version of this case's victim, a goof-off in need of some kind of Code Red himself...