Word: spinnings
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...element is the spinning disk. As a cloud of gas and dust collapses under gravity, it spins faster and faster, like a figure skater pulling his arms in against his body as he goes into a rapid whirl. The accelerating rotation, in turn, makes the cloud flatten out into a pancake, with the highest density in the center, where the star starts to form. Unlike a solid disk -- a CD, for example -- this one rotates faster in the center than at the edges. The star, pulling in more matter as it grows more massive, should spin the fastest...
...explain this baffling fact, astronomers in the past decade or so have suggested that jets of matter must be shooting out of these still forming stars. Only by slinging some of the incoming matter away as a counterbalance could the protostars avoid going into a superfast spin. When a new star finally becomes massive enough to ignite the nuclear-fusion reaction that makes it shine, the resulting outward blast of energy would stop any more matter from falling in, the jets would turn off, and the remaining dusty disk would start clumping together to form planets...
...Pyka also put a visionary spin on the trip to water polo's Big Dance...
...Weathermen, a militant spin-off SDS's New Left caucus, violently disrupt the Center for International Affairs, injuring several and breaking windows...
...police. No one else was injured. "The guy was just going crazy," said one witness . "He was mowing cars over." Police said the driver, Shawn Nelson, had served in the military and apparently knew how to maneuver the vehicle. They said they shot him as he was trying to spin it round and head into traffic. Fortunately, the tank's weapons -- a 105 mm cannon, 12.7 mm anti-aircraft gun and 7.62 mm machine gun -- were not loaded.Post to National Affairs "Time's Anti-Gun Bias, Part...