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...UConn netminder was named national player of the week by Soccer America magazine for his stellar performance this year--which has included shutouts of two of the nation's top five squads...
...Brooklyn, N.Y. native had a stellar freshman season that culminated in his being selected to the All-Ivy and All-American squads and gaining Ivy League Rookie of the Year honors...
...addition the society bestowed two teaching awards to Associate Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel and Associate Professor of Psychology James R. Stellar. The teachers were selected by the society's undergraduate members...
...miles wide -- impressive by earthly standards but diminutive on a galactic scale and in relation to the tremendous amount of energy it emits. Concludes Astronomer Donald Backer of the University of California, Berkeley: "What we observe is a very bright, compact object that appears to be rather small by stellar dimensions. Yet it's radiating a lot of luminosity. There are many stellar objects in the galaxy that radiate this amount of energy, but this one is peculiar. None of the others are as compact or as steady." In other words, it behaves like a black hole...
...best way to calculate the mass of Sgr A*, says Lo, is to study the motion of stars orbiting near it; their movement is dependent upon Sgr A*'s gravity, which in turn is related to its mass. But, Lo explains, "measuring the stellar motion is very difficult because it's highly obscured...