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...that we’ve smelled blood we want to look out farther and observe fainter stars to test the merging theory in more detail,” she said...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Star Nearly As Old As Universe Found | 3/26/2010 | See Source »

...Earth that are looking at the brightest objects in the sky,” Weiss says. “However, astronomers study the faintest and most distant objects in the sky...Now with Hubble, other Earth-based telescopes, and the Internet, we have been able to show these fainter and more distant objects to the public. I think with this new technology, it will influence and inspire a new generation of poets and artists...

Author: By Kristie T. La, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Organizations Use Art for Accessibility | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

...Holding his party together has become all the more important as the prospects for winning Republican support have become fainter and fainter. Baucus noted that even Charles Grassley, his good friend and the ranking Republican on his committee, is "under intense pressure from his side of the aisle to withdraw from the process" after months of bipartisan talks. Nonetheless, Baucus says, "I still think there'll be some Republican support at the end of the day." Say this for Max Baucus: he's not one to give up easily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baucus Open to Changes in Health-Care Bill | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

When my host sister Kinga and I walked outside after dinner, however, the sky in front of us was graced by one of the brightest rainbows I'd seen in a long time. The entire arc and a fainter, second arc were visible against the clouds above the open fields that stretched from the edge of town. One end terminated near a red-brick church spire atop what might be the town's tallest building—over six hundred years old, according to Kinga...

Author: By Ellen C. Bryson | Title: Pot of Gold | 7/20/2008 | See Source »

...Reports of a passed out individual in front of Au Bon Pain on 1360 Mass. Ave. led Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officers to investigate last Thursday, April 6. Cambridge Police Department (CPD) officers also responded to the scene, but the fainter subsequently awoke and left the area...

Author: By Noah S. Bloom, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Log | 4/14/2006 | See Source »

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