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...recorded by astronomers in 1987. For millenniums before the blast, Burrows and his colleagues believe, the terminally ill star had been gushing out great volumes of gas, which formed an hourglass-shape "bubble." (The bubble would ordinarily have been spherical, except that the gas around its equator was especially thick and slow-moving and thus stayed relatively close to the supernova.) Then, when the star blew up, the flash of light made the gas glow. Most of the bubble is shining too faintly to be seen at all, but the small central ring is made of dense gas that...
...soon as the briefing book from Feinstein arrived at his Rayburn Building office, Hyde pushed aside the chaos on his desk, settled into reading the thick document with its seven sections and quickly came to the one made up solely of murders in Chicago, whose suburbs Hyde represents. There was Gerome Allen, a local basketball player who was shot with an AK-47 by another teenager outside a supermarket; the 7-year-old fatally wounded while walking to school with his mother; the Chicago Housing Authority police officer who was killed by an AR-15 as he walked back...
Workers have been using two jack-hammers to demolish a thick concrete slab beneath the dining hall. During Wednesday's question-and-answer session, discussion was punctuated by vibrations and loud hammering from the basement beneath the dining hall...
...main hall in San Francisco, the crowd was thick with employees from AT&T. Corporations buy about 40% of Success's tickets, mostly to reward good work or to perk up salesmen and saleswomen suffering from syndromes called "fear of closing" and "cold-call reluctance...
Today's music is more anarchic -- a rap on the thick skull of an oppressive society -- and the street mood is rancid, desperate. It makes one wonder if Ellison's message ever got through to the larger public. As he declared in his 1963 essay "The World and the Jug," he wrote not from a belief that blacks can only suffer and rage, but from "an American Negro tradition which teaches one to deflect racial provocation and to master and contain pain. It is a tradition which abhors as obscene any trading on one's own anguish for gain...