Word: spitzers
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...Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. Once again, your list of influentials is peppered with people whose impact - if any - does not go beyond the borders of the U.S. I agree that Americans such as Condoleezza Rice, software inventor Bram Cohen and to a limited extent New York State attorney general Eliot Spitzer have achieved breakthroughs that the rest of the world can care about. I was not impressed, however, by your choice of Senate majority leader Bill Frist, Wal-Mart ceo Lee Scott and, goodness, actor Jamie Foxx, among others. It's like 2001 all over again, when Time chose Mayor Rudy...
...their feet with her set, culminating in the Janis Joplin classic Me and Bobby McGee. More than 50 influentials attended, and several of them--Bill Belichick, Martha Stewart, the architect Santiago Calatrava, the Dutch women's-rights advocate Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Indian superstar Aishwarya Rai and Eliot Spitzer--toasted those who had influenced them...
...Spitzer is the most sensible and stable infrared telescope out there,” Charbonneau said...
...Spitzer provided researchers with direct observations about the temperature and color of two planets—TrES-1 and HD 209458b—and also dispelled a long-accepted explanation for the size of one of the planets...
...isolate TrES-1’s infrared emissions, Charbonneau said his team used Spitzer to obtain data when the planet was in transit, meaning it was passing in front of its star, and during the secondary eclipse, when the planet was behind the star. The light from the star was then subtracted from the light from both the star and the planet. The data, collected for six hours on Halloween, allowed Charbonneau and his colleagues to determine that there was a signal from TrES...