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...separate scientific teams as either 4.3 billion or 4.4 billion years old. That puts it within a geological blink of Earth's fiery birth out of a swirling cloud of solar dust and gases 4.56 billion years ago. But how could any crystalline object solidify under such torrid conditions? The answer, the scientists reported in Nature, is that the planet was already bathed in cooling water...
...Botterill can keep up her torrid pace, Harvard may well be headed back to Minnesota's Mariucci Arena to reclaim its national title...
...little for his $1.3 trillion tax cut. It's not Clinton's fault, though it's still on his watch; the economy, with a lot of help from global doldrums (Japan just keeps getting worse and worse), is coming in for a rate-hike induced landing after a torrid spring...
...work again on a personal project. In 1946, Buñuel moved to Mexico, where his work on pedestrian comedies and the great success of his gritty, yet still dreamlike, juvenile delinquent saga "Los Olvidados" (1950) made him a bankable commodity. He proceeded to make a series of torrid melodramas and light comedies that pleased his studio bosses and also allowed him to indulge his sacrilegious imagination...
...plus side, at least October is over. After starting out the month on a torrid pace by reeling off seven straight wins, the Crimson experienced an utter reversal of fortune, losing its next four games, three by a single goal. In just one week, Harvard has gone from standing a good chance of receiving a first round bye in the postseason tourney to the unenviable position of being on the bubble...