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...much of a mystery. Too small to have a molten core and too far from the sun to feel even a flicker of its heat, Enceladus does have other moons - principally outlying Tethys and Dione - orbiting nearby. Each time those moons pass, they give Enceladus a gravitational tug, which causes it to flex slightly. Do that enough times - and the 4 billion years the solar system has been around is more than enough - and the pulsing moon heats up in much the way a wire hanger does if you bend it repeatedly back and forth. That explains both...
With apologies to Apple Pie, bankruptcy is as American as it gets. From the earliest days of the Republic to General Motors' June 1 filing for Chapter 11, debt relief has been at the center of a tug-of-war between competing Yankee principles: reinvention and responsibility...
...next time Obama does a media blitz, does he do Jay or Conan (or Letterman)? Will he need to do all of them? In the end, the Jay/Conan schism may be less a generational tug-of-war than a recognition that the audience is too diffuse for any one host...
...Dancing technically started at ten, but people are still milling around the dining hall chatting it up and taking advantage of the open bar. All you need to drink is a friend or two over 21 or the balls to tug on some random senior’s sleeve till he or she finally relents and goes to the bar for you. Spreading love (and drink) that's the Kirkland...
Even in the academic community, where copy-conservative litigators seem convinced he belongs, Nesson’s image doesn’t stand still. It is, rather, a continuous tug-of-war between sheer brilliance and a series of lesser qualities—childish compulsion, utter laxity, idealistic extremism—that shimmer on and off, sometimes apparently part and parcel with the brilliance, sometimes apparently harmful to it. Nesson is either the most intelligent man in the room, or he is the most insane, it often seems. Sometimes he is probably both...