Word: spins
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Astronomers have recently discovered that stars like the sun are born rotating very slowly, spin faster and then slower as they age. The unexpected result provides new insights into the ways stars form and evolve...
...Hartman of the Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, one of the new theory's pioneers, and his colleagues, including-John Stauffer of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Canada, have shown that stars spin at various speeds during their lifetimes. These scientists are currently devoting much of their energy and time to decipering this curious behavior...
Hartman explains that if a forming star does not rid itself of its spin efficiently, its rotation increases too rapidly as it contracts. The acceleration produced by the rotation can cancel the force of gravity and prevent the final collapse into a compact normal star...
Sunday football, for example, takes a back seat to the commercials shown between posessions. Local radio stations, when not airing campaign ads, spin Helms-Hunt musical parodies. Ray Parker Jr.'s hit "Ghostbusters" has been dismembered so that the chorus repeatedly chimes "Who ya gonna call? Mudslingers! They ain't afraid of no mud. They're just out for some blood...
...when MacFarquhar signed on in 1979 with the Social Democrats, a centrist spin-off group, he took quite a political risk. But he says he had to. "The Labour Party had a great tradition of reform in Britain, and now they're destroying themselves.... They're going very far to the left in manner which the British people, who are very sensible and moderate, will not tolerate...