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...Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) accused protesters of “stoking the flames” of violence. Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) accused Republicans of “aiding and abetting . . . terrorism.” President Obama used the claims for a fundraising appeal...
...kind of way. But astronomers - and volunteers - have made real discoveries by mining its crowd-sourced data. Among them: red spiral galaxies (most spirals are blue), green peas (small but energy-packed, star-spewing galaxies) and Hanny's Voorwerp, an amorphous blue blob spotted by Dutch schoolteacher Hanny Van Arkel, who learned about Galaxy Zoo on the website of Brian May, the former Queen guitarist turned astrophysicist...
Adam’s Brain Break is guarded as if it were a U.N. aid van in a disaster zone rather than a source for food in a college dorm. At 9:58 p.m. EST, six hungry Adams residents lined up in front of a uniformed guard. And unless you can prove your Adams residency with a recently postmarked letter or a parking ticket (okay, we're kidding about the letters, but proof of residency in Adams is sometimes actually required), don’t expect the guard to budge, and don’t expect to be able...
...reading this passage about Leah [in the Bible]... and all of the sudden from outside I heard the sound of a circus van announcing the circus very loudly, and there was something in that juxtaposition that made me rethink what I was reading,” she says...
...system of structural supports, including massive X-braces that made its faade a knockout emblem of architectural force. In 1974 Graham and Khan produced another masterpiece with the Sears Tower (now the Willis Tower). Once the world's tallest building, it drew the severe black box of Mies van der Rohe into the setback forms of older skyscrapers like the Empire State Building. Graham's personal philosophy was as direct as his architecture. Buildings, he once said, should be "clear, free of fashion and simple statements of the truth...