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...press release, Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Drew Gilpin Faust said that Richardson’s “stellar reputation as an administrator and an intellectual” made her a good match for Radcliffe...
...Mariners are now made of players like Edgar Martinez, a quietly stellar hitter who will be batting .300 with 125 RBIs well into his 50s. Bret Boone and John Olerud are fine players and deserving, but superstars? More like hometown voting passion. Likewise Cameron, Garcia, Sasaki and Nelson - none of these guys are going to make Rodriguez-type money or do Griffey-type commercial endorsements...
...lately, reading the newspapers about some rides has been a little scarier than we may be comfortable with. In June, Disney continued what's shaping up to be a less-than-stellar year by settling a lawsuit brought by Deborah Bynum, who claims she had a brain hemorrhage after a 1998 spin on the "Indiana Jones Adventure" ride at Disneyland. Last September, Brandon Zucker, now 5, suffered severe brain damage when he fell out of the Anaheim park's Roger Rabbit Car Toon Spin...
Aside from that detail, the Einstein connection made the idea of dark energy, or antigravity, seem somewhat less nutty when Schmidt and Perlmutter weighed in. Of course, some astrophysicists had lingering doubts. Maybe the observers didn't really have the supernovas' brightness right; perhaps the light from faraway stellar explosions was dimmed by some sort of dust. The unique properties of a cosmological constant, moreover, would make the universe slow down early on, then accelerate. That's because dark energy grows as a function of space. There wasn't much space in the young, small universe, so back then...
...mounted the stage they wobbled on platform shoes, fiddled with new neckties and tried to control their flyaway hair. Meanwhile, the parents tried to control their flyaway emotions. The ceremony was the culmination of two weeks of nonstop parties and events during which the graduates were congratulated on their stellar achievements. Now my daughter and her fellow grads, diplomas in hand, look forward to a stress-free summer, followed by the rigors of seventh grade...