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...runs a publishing firm), the houses they've inhabited (confusingly many), some nice family outings to the beach, a cat they once owned. Hurry, sunrise. When the momentous, life-altering revelation finally comes, the real surprise is that it's pretty lame. Sixteen-year-olds see scarier stuff at the Cineplex, and you can find far more disruptive and entertaining traumas - flood, fire, financial ruin, murder, rape, penury - in Swift's previous novels. And yet, despite its frustrating lack of world-class tragedy, there is something doggedly compelling about Tomorrow. Even when you know what's coming, the way Swift...
...stars form more or less the same way after all - coalescing out of the same celestial gas and often leaving a dusting of the stuff behind that can, in turn, coalesce into planets. All stars can additionally snag passing bodies in their gravitational lasso, conscripting new worlds to add to the home-grown litter. So it was no surprise in the early 1990s when astronomers began detecting these so-called extrasolar planets circling distant suns, and it's no surprise that in the years since they've spotted more than 220 of them. But the latest one added...
...Coming straight from the heart. It’s just a lot questions that I had. Like really personal questions...it was really just a bunch of personal questions that I had for the past few months or maybe the prior year and stuff that I thought everybody wanted to know why and it happened too, you know. It was controversial, you know controversy sells in this business...
...broken water pipes in Adams House created a sewage smell that permeated the dining hall and serving area over the last two weeks, according to residents and dining hall staff. “First it was like the smell of a laundry room with the rubber hoses and stuff like that,” said Adams House general cook Edward P. Childs. “Later it just started getting repugnant, like the nasty B.O. in the gym.” Several students and staff said the smell reminded them of sewage. “It was fetid...
...gave the U.S. and Russia a score of 5 out of 10 on making progress in eliminating nuclear materials. He said that as other nations become nuclear capable, the number drops. Progress on rounding up loose, radiological matter - non-weapons-grade material that is the stuff of dirty bombs - is even worse. He said the score drops to 4 out of 10 when it comes to destroying chemical weapons. (He happily noted that Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Belarus all destroyed their stockpiles...