Word: smalling
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Connolly--a well-known gadfly who gave interviews last week wearing a fishing cap and seated in front of a human skeleton he keeps in his office--says he learned about Bush's D.U.I. through a round of old-fashioned small-town gossip. According to Connolly, an elderly man seeing his chiropractor had mentioned that he was in a courtroom on a D.U.I. charge 24 years ago and that Bush had been there too. The chiropractor, realizing the significance of that news, called a Democratic public official in Portland. And that official--whom Connolly won't name--told Connolly...
...isolated beach on Spain's Catalan coast near the town of Rosas, El Bulli has become a pilgrimage site for foodies brave enough to make the dizzying drive down for the experience--not really a conventional meal but a series of 25 to 30 small courses, some no more than a bite-size morsel or slurp. They are presented on a silver spoon or on a stick or in a tiny fluted glass, often with suggestions about how things should be eaten--in one go, in separate bites or in a certain order...
...while the Hubble is good at locating faint celestial objects, the follow-up science is often done by observatories on the ground. In essence, the Hubble is like the small finder telescopes backyard astronomers use to pinpoint interesting objects for their full-size telescopes...
...only with infrared radiation. That's not a huge problem, given that infrared is ideal for spotting new planets and for studying the early universe, the core of the Milky Way and the formation of stars. A bigger drawback is that adaptive optics can currently correct only for a small patch of atmosphere at the center of the telescope's field of view. But pockets of atmospheric turbulence are small enough that a slight change in viewing angle means a whole different pattern of distortions, which in turn requires a different pattern of corrections...
Even with these limitations, astronomers at both the Keck and Gemini have taken pictures that are every bit as clear as the Hubble's. Clearer, in fact, because a large telescope's images are inherently sharper than a small one's. Indeed, Ghez's latest and sharpest Keck images of the galactic center have been made with the adaptive optics...