Word: star
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Central Square resident Alberta Miller said that with the closure of the former Purity Supreme store in her neighborhood, she now has to walk 30 minutes to Market Basket in Somerville or pay much higher prices to shop at the closer Star Market...
...instead, last week Simpson frantically dialed 911 from his girlfriend's Florida townhouse to report a friend who had been on a two-day cocaine binge with former Los Angeles Dodgers star Pedro Guerrero...
Isaacs can't help his subject's unruliness, but one wishes for more interpretation and overarching narrative--a history of ideas atop the history of events. There are a couple of implicit morals. The first is that cultures that turned inward, notably China (the breakout star of the show, with an apparent big role in the sequel), have not fared so well as those that were outward looking, even imperialist. The second is that the era's driving force, for good and for ill, is human arrogance. This millennium is a graveyard of eternal empires, authoritative explanations and overreaching ambitions...
Light streaming in from space tends to get distorted by the planet's atmosphere, causing a star's familiar twinkle. The CFHT, however, is equipped with optical hardware that lets it calibrate itself on the light from a known star--whose degree of atmospheric distortion will generally be predictable--and then use that information to correct the distortion of other, unknown bodies. A little fiddling with the incoming image and even the blurriest picture snaps right into focus...
...form for fear you would be deluged with junk e-mail for life? Now enonymous.com offers free downloadable software that ranks the privacy policies of 10,000 websites. As soon as you reach an online form on any of the sites, a window pops up with a rating. One star means the site will disclose your personal information without your explicit permission, while four stars mean your privacy is fully protected. One-star sites include ticketmaster.com and gap.com while qvc.com and bestbuy.com earn top honors...