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Black holes are formed when massive stars, having exhausted their nuclear fuel, collapse under the weight of their own gravity until they become so dense that nothing that enters their sphere of influence can escape--even light...
Slowly, but surely, I began to be more preoccupied with the jellyfish. Not only had they increased in number, but they were also picking up my scent, consciously moving toward me. Our Norman Rockwell painting had devolved into a scene from the movie Sphere. Trust me, after a few of the little guys start ricocheting off of your crotch, you become a little preoccupied. Then they executed a maneuver not soon to be forgotten...
Harvard officials say they just need time to prove they have women's interests at heart. After all, they claim, under the old arrangement they had become accustomed to thinking of women's issues as Radcliffe's sphere...
...Soviet communism. Truman's foreign-policy leadership gave the U.S. an unprecedented role in international affairs. The choices he made, from the Marshall Plan--to economically strengthen noncommunist nations in the wake of the war--to the founding of NATO, a peacetime military alliance that would limit the Soviet sphere of influence and provide an umbrella for Germany's reconciliation with Europe, fundamentally reshaped the world and planted the seeds of the Soviet Union's eventual destruction...
...Harvard would be the first private institution to implement a living wage; this will initiate a transformation of the private sphere," Morgan says. "Harvard wants to be viewed as a leader...