Word: shifting
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...interviewed about the discovery of the first planet outside of our own solar system. So, they came to the planetarium. I'm an easy date for them because I'm just up the street. I give them my best professorial reply. I talk about the Doppler shift and the measurement and the spectra, and I say, There's not really a wobble - which is how it was commonly described - it was more like a jiggle; and I do a little jiggle with my hips. I rush home, watch the interview on TV, and hardly anything I said made it onto...
Some of us, of course, will believe that change when we see it. Maybe we're the ones Obama had in mind when he said, "What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them." Whether Obama can affect that shift--and where those tectonic plates carry him, and us--is the next big story of our frightened, giddy culture...
...plus the expense of printing and then pulping the merchandise. "They print way more than they know they can sell, to kind of create a buzz, and then they end up taking half those books back," says Sara Nelson, editor in chief of PW. These systems were created to shift risk away from authors and bookstores and onto publishers. But risk is something the publishing industry is less and less able to bear...
...Texas conservationists, any shift may come too late, according to Laura Huffman, state director of the Texas Nature Conservancy. In the last week of 2008, the Department of Homeland Security sued the conservancy in a condemnation proceeding involving the Lennox Southmost Preserve, a 1,000-acre parcel that is just that - southmost - where the Rio Grande meets the Gulf of Mexico near Brownsville, Texas. The preserve, bought in 1999 by the conservancy for $2.5 million, is home to a rare grove of native sabal palms through which endangered ocelots and rare jaguarundi roam...
...Rwanda, that's a particular problem. In December an expert's panel report to the U.N. Security Council accused Rwanda of supplying weapons, uniforms and men to Nkunda's rebels. Rwanda's initial response to the allegations was an angry denial. "This report is a calculated move to shift blame away from the government of DRC [Congo] and the international community - both of whom have failed to resolve the conflict in the eastern DRC despite numerous bilateral, regional and international initiatives in the last 14 years," read a Rwandan government statement. Tuesday's invasion can be seen as a follow...