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...Olympics: "Wonderwall," "Cigarettes and Alcohol," "Don't Look Back in Anger," and perhaps their finest song, "Live Forever." There was something about hearing a packed Orpheum all sing out the climactic line of "Live Forever." Grown men hugging. Quibbles, can, of course, be found: where was "Champagne Supernova"? Where was "Some Might Say"? But then, who knew Oasis had so many songs that I would miss hearing...
...many small dips that probably represent segments of the spectrum where light has been absorbed by other elements--perhaps those in the object's outer atmosphere or in gas clouds between the object and Earth. Bewildered, the Caltech team looked for other answers. Maybe the object was a supernova, an exploding star, which often projects what Djorgovski calls a "weird-looking" spectrum. But the team observed the target a number of times over several months and noted no change. That ruled out a supernova's light, which gradually fades after the initial explosion...
While undergraduates know Kirshner as the professor of the popular Core class Science A-35, "Matter in The Universe," Kirshner moonlights as a member of the High-Z Supernova team, a group of researchers who looks at supernovae...
With last week's $60 billion acquisition of cable company MediaOne and a $5 billion partnership with Microsoft, AT&T and chairman C. Michael Armstrong have completed the first stages of a plan to remake the famously ponderous long-distance telephone company into a new-economy supernova. And if it seems hard to imagine that the cable bringing you Matlock reruns and Stone Cold Steve Austin will be your sole electronic connection with the outside world, get used...
...Ellis' annoying habit of naming the songs that are playing in the background, or even quoting them, as he does with Oasis' "Champagne Supernova", comes across like an effort to give a soundtrack to the entire book. Perhaps this is all a parody of how celebrities or people in general think in the modern world, but surely the point could be made with less. As it stands, all the names merely detract from Victor's troubles...