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...relativity,” O’Leary said. The cluster is expected to be highly compact and the “black hole will give the stars higher speeds.” O’Leary has started the search for these compact clusters using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Database—a program that maps the Northern Hemisphere’s sky. The objects should have already been detected in the database, but since no one has been looking for them, they haven’t been identified and studied, he said. O’Leary...
...Select Committee, during a recent debate on trust and financial markets organized by the Fabian Society, a left-leaning London think tank. In future, bosses ought to know their CDOs from the CDSs, McFall said, and not leave such understanding to the banks' "35-year-old Ph.D.s." Reining in sky-high bonuses, boosting capital reserves and sharpening risk management won't do any harm to public trust, either...
...disease experts lying awake at night. Thanks to the efforts of the WHO, we've built a remarkable early-detection system for new diseases - one sensitive enough to catch major threats and minor ones - and we should be rational enough to heed its warnings without acting as if the sky were falling...
Well, once again, Hardin's heart was broken. Reaction from Montana's three-man Congressional delegation was swift and unanimous, but hardly supportive. "I understand the need to create jobs, but we're not going to bring al-Qaeda to Big Sky Country - no way, not on my watch," said Sen. Max Baucus, a Democrat. (See pictures from inside the Guantanamo Bay detention facility...
...challenges of New York theater. “In the short term, I’d just like to be an independent person, getting professional work, not living in my parents’ home,” she says. “In the long term, the sky is the limit! I want to do everything.” She pauses briefly. “Really well.” —Staff writer Rachel A. Burns can be reached at rburns@fas.harvard.edu...