Word: solarization
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...before it. Toward the end of the 20th century, reflecting on the Catholic Church's two millenniums, John Paul issued extraordinary apologies for the Inquisition and the Crusades. He rehabilitated Galileo for the "heresy" of espousing the theory that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the solar system. In 1998 he released "We Remember," a much anticipated penance for the Holocaust. Many Jews criticized the document for confining itself to the culpability of individual Christians rather than admitting church complicity and for defending the wartime Pope, Pius XII. That did not prevent them from shedding tears...
Harvard astronomers and a team of scientists from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) announced at a press conference on Tuesday that they measured thermal radiation from two planets orbiting stars outside our solar system, marking the first successful direct observation of extrasolar planets...
...hope is...to compare planets and see how they differ from properties of planets in our own solar system,” he said...
...pity, and she never makes the mistake of allowing her parents to become monsters: they're always flawed yet recognizably human, desperately trying to be themselves and instead destroying everyone around them. The book takes its title from her father's dream house, a fanciful transparent mansion powered by solar energy that he sincerely seems to believe he will one day build. He never does construct his Glass Castle, of course, but we can be grateful and relieved that Walls survived to create hers...
...semi-indie divisions productive and use the allure of his hip brands to attract fresh, young (and, pssst, cheap) talent. "I want us to be a place where you build relationships with up-and-coming people," he says, "give them a comfortable home so they can be in your solar system." And then, the dream goes, Paramount can roll out the occasional megamovie, like this summer's War of the Worlds, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise (who also has a production deal with Paramount...