Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moving astronomers to reevaluate the size and age of the universe. The map, made from data received from the agency's Hipparcos satellite, has led scientists to speculate that the cosmos is older and perhaps 10 to 15 percent larger than previously believed. This possibility may help explain why some stars in the heavens appear older than the universe itself. To produce the celestial plan, know as the Hipparcos Catalog, the satellite studied the positions and movements of thousands of stars over an eight-year period beginning in 1989. After extensive analysis of the data, scientists produced a three dimensional...
After weeks of persistent phone solicitations for credit cards from MBNA Corporation that have angered students campus-wide, Harvard officials still cannot explain how the company obtained the University's directory information...
MBNA Marketing Director Peter Frank refused to explain where the company obtains information to make solicitations...
...good financial books explain, one's earning capacity is not at its peak. So for ARCELI KEH, better known to most people as the Woman Who Had a Baby at 63, the obvious way to put aside a little nest egg for her daughter was to sell her story, complete with interview, home videos and family snapshots. After a quick but brutal media race, the National Enquirer emerged victorious, handing over a six-figure sum to the Keh family, who told the magazine they would like to have another child. Then, after the dust had cleared, a new bidding...
Write what it smells like; go into the past; follow your nose. This is what you will do as writers. You will plunder the past to explain the present and make the present more intense. Think of stream of consciousness as a detour off the path of the narrative. Go where it takes you, and when you get back, the main road will have changed...