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Unbeknownst to the duo, physicists at nearby Princeton University were about to turn their antenna on the heavens to look for that same signal. Astronomers had known since the 1920s that the galaxies were flying apart. But theorists had belatedly realized a key implication: the whole cosmos must at one point have been much smaller and hotter. About 300,000 years after the instant of the Big Bang, the entire visible universe would have been a cloud of hot, incredibly dense gas, not much bigger than the Milky Way is now, glowing white hot like a blast furnace...
...resume its anti-inflation stance as the economy recovers and raise interest rates in 2002. According to Berner and Shepherdson, the central bank may do that as soon as next spring. While higher rates would raise the cost of mortgages, car loans and credit-card debt, they would also signal to Americans that the sharpest slowdown in a decade is behind them. It may be safe to feel more exuberant again...
...Republican Rep. Charlie Norwood moved closer to casting his support behind the Kennedy bill after he reportedly became frustrated in negotiations with the White House. Is this a signal to Bush...
...Women?s health groups hail the decision as a breakthrough; activists hope the federal ruling will signal other employers that inequitable coverage will not stand up to legal scrutiny. (They won?t get any argument from the defendant; after the judgement was announced Bartell?s chief financial officer, Jean Bartell Barber, said she believes Lasnik wanted to make an example of her company...
...North American major league player salary this year is more than $2.2 million. Still, the average big league player would, given the chance, stand naked on the field and sing a rendition of Hall & Oates' Maneater for a free bologna sandwich. Hence, when the carousel lights started blinking to signal the imminent arrival of their bags, the Mariners packed in shoulder to shoulder, each one dreaming of that juicy wad of 28 singles. "It sounds like chump change," said Perry, who doesn't make anywhere near $2.2 million, "but we can all use the money...