Word: sheerness
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...that of the Sun. A team of Harvard researchers led by San Diego State professor Jerome A. Orosz separately found an object they called M33 X-7, which is about 15.7 times more massive than the sun and researchers are confident is a black hole. In addition to its sheer size, M33 X-7 is unusual for having another star in an extremely close orbit around it, Orosz said. He added that the discovery meant current theory would have to be rethought, since it states that black holes near stars should be smaller than average, rather than larger...
...drenched in a thick red light, foreshadowing the bloodbath of the final scenes. The use of magnified shadows to prefigure actors’ entrances onto the stage was also a nice touch.The major strength of the Agassiz production came from its close adherence to its original script, which is sheer entertainment on its own. However, many scenes in the first act of “Bodas de Sangre” were loaded with so much incoherent action that it made the play seem more like satire than a tragedy. But the play did pull through...
...better safety net, thanks to a $1.1billion fund the commonwealth had established to reimburse hospitals and health centers that provided medically necessary care to people who couldn't pay for it. But with a third of the state budget going toward health care, the sheer inefficiency of treating the sore throats of the uninsured in emergency rooms didn't sit well with the businessman in Romney even after he'd told Stemberg that health-care reform was not on his agenda. Meanwhile, religious groups and health-care advocates were pushing their solution: a liberal universal-health-care ballot...
...Cambridge police officer Shawn Keogh was shocked by the sheer number of people involved...
...driveway, my mind-set was, I was saying good-bye to all my memories," he says. "I thought the whole neighborhood was going to be leveled." When he returned the next morning, fewer than half the homes in his area had survived - including his own. But the sheer scale of the destruction in the city Hamilton has called home for 22 years has left him wondering how San Diego will go on. "I'm mostly numb. I really felt we were losing everything...