Word: vigil
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...intruders they watch for are Earth-crossing asteroids, giant rocks that have strayed from their neighborhood between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter and periodically pass close to Earth -- and sometimes smash into it. The vigil has paid off. Over the years, the couple have discovered more than 300 asteroids, some of which they have named after their children, grandchildren and in-laws. About 10% of their discoveries are ECAs, but none is currently in an orbit that puts it on a collision course with the earth. Still, the Shoemakers keep looking: lurking somewhere out there may be a hulk...
...McDonnell), an actress made paraplegic in a car crash, and her helpful nurse, Chantelle (the ever splendid Alfre Woodard) -- is notable for what it doesn't show: the collision, the sight of May-Alice's mangled legs, even a clip from , the old movie she watches during the edgy vigil of her recovery. Passion Fish is an antidote to a male-buddy uplifter like Scent of a Woman. It suggests that heroism is found not in the public victories we achieve but in the intimate truths we learn to accept...
About 60 students gathered yesterday for a silent vigil in support of faculty diversity at Harvard Law School as faculty members trickled into a meeting to vote on whether to tenure a visiting woman professor...
...students held fluorescent-colored paper signs with slogans reading "Diversity Now" and "Good Enough for the Cabinet but not for HLS" at the Pound Hall vigil--the latest in a three-year student movement to demand the tenure of more minorities and women...
Several who attended the vigil said they thinkit is important for people to speak out againstthe violence...