Word: wave
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...These star wombs are great clouds of gas and dust floating in interstellar space. Like the clouds that formed in the expanding primordial fireball shortly after the big bang, they consist mostly of nature's simplest molecule, hydrogen. A star is born when some force, perhaps a shock wave, drives enough of the hydrogen molecules in a cloud sufficiently close to one another that they are held together by their mutual gravity. As a result, a huge pocket of condensed gas, trillions of miles across, is formed at the edge of the larger cloud. In a model proposed...
Ironically, the wave of arrests may help bring East Germany a bonanza in precious Western currency with which to buy the foreign-made goods that are in such short supply. Last week the Bonn government was continuing to ransom political prisoners from the East for as much as $15,000 a head. Since 1970, when this unsavory commerce in human beings began, Bonn has purchased 7,200 prisoners. The cost: $108 million. The West German government dislikes this grisly trade but justifies it as a humanitarian necessity. West Germans live too close to incidents such as last week...
...were younger Mafiosi, who in recent years have grown markedly disrespectful of their elders' feelings. Even the favored nephew of Giuseppe Garda ("Don Peppino"), the boss of Monreale and an associate of Quartuccio's, was kidnaped in 1974 and ransomed for $1.5 million. To Sicilian police, the wave of killings suggested that the dons were at last losing patience with the punks...
...Mexico City, many of the Roman Catholic pilgrims drop to their knees to shuffle painfully forward as they pray for forgiveness. On any day there are crowds at this most venerated shrine in the Americas, but on Dec. 12, the Day of Guadalupe, the crowds turn into a tidal wave of humanity. This week for the first time the day is being celebrated in a huge new basilica, a structure of such size and strident modernity that it raised some fears among the faithful that the Virgin might forsake her sanctuary...
They teach you in statistics that nothing is impossible. The New England Patriots believe that. Satch and his crew seem to subscribe to this philosophy and the Harvard icemen probably believe that they can emerge from the vacation unscathed. Who knows, maybe there will be a heat wave in Cambridge...