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Sontag's High-Toned Tale: Her Brains Center Stage.(Arts&Entertainment)
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Byline: Adam Begley
In America, by Susan Sontag. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 387 pages, $26.
No way to sweeten the pill: Susan Sontag is a powerful thinker, as smart as she's supposed to be, and a better writer, sentence for sentence, than anyone who now wears the tag "intellectual"-but she can't seem to write a great novel. Her early forays into fiction, The Benefactor (1963) and Death Kit (1967), are unbearable, repellent brainy experiments; The Volcano Lover (1992), though a huge and welcome improvement, bounced uncomfortably between narrative and ...
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Studies from A. Simionescu and co-researchers in the area of astrophysics published.
Newspaper article from: Physics Week
; ...cool core cluster of galaxies Hydra A using a deep similar to 120...colleagues published their study in Astronomy & Astrophysics (Chemical...cluster of galaxies Hydra A. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2009...information for the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics is: EDP...
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The haunted sky.(Zoom into astronomy)
Magazine article from: Odyssey
; ...snakelike," starry pattern. This is Hydra, the Nine-Headed Monster. According to legend, when Hydra was in battle, if one head was cut off...big rock. To find the immortal head of Hydra, imagine a line between the star Procyon...
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Research data from A. Simionescu and colleagues update understanding of astrophysics.
Newspaper article from: Physics Week
; ...of the cluster of galaxies Hydra A, focusing on the large...colleagues published their study in Astronomy & Astrophysics (The...cluster of galaxies Hydra A. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2009...information for the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics is: EDP...
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Investigators at University of Florida target astronomy.
Newspaper article from: Physics Week
; ...to a study from the United States, "We test four commonly used astrophysical simulation codes, ENZO, FLASH, GADGET and HYDRA, using a suite of numerical problems with analytic initial and final states. Situations similar to the conditions of these...
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Studies from University of Ghent in the area of astronomy described.
Newspaper article from: Physics Week
; ...isolated dwarf galaxies (DGs). We have used the publicly available N-body/smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) code HYDRA, to which we have added a set of star formation criteria, and prescriptions for chemical enrichment [taking into account...
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Pluto not largest of dwarf planets
Newspaper article from: Honolulu Star - Bulletin
; ...system, including Charon, a large satellite discovered in 1978, and Nix and Hydra, two smaller moons discovered in 2005. Tholen was among UH Institute for Astronomy scientists presenting their work at the semiannual meeting of the American Astronomical...
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Name Games
Magazine article from: Natural History
; ...discovered moons: Nix and Hydra. Historically, classifying...s most important roles m astronomy. By professional consensus...the fledgling field of radio astronomy. Rudolph Minkowski excelled...In the early days of radio astronomy, it was next to impossible...
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Galactic magnetism on a gigantic scale.
Magazine article from: Science News
; ...Taylor of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Socorro...bright radio source known as Hydra A. The radio waves come from...years in diameter. "What makes Hydra A exceptionally interesting...ionized gas. Radio emissions from Hydra A reveal that if the magnetic...
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The sky in April
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...April to celebrate International Astronomy Year (visit www.astronomy2009...commemorating the labours of Hercules. Hydra - the 'Water Snake' - is the...s only one bright star in Hydra - Alphard - whose name means...Hercules had a problem with Hydra. The Water Snake was so terrifying...
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Goddard Space Flight Center details research in applied superconductivity.
Newspaper article from: Electronics Newsweekly
; ...PoST's) for future X-ray astronomy missions such as the International...our single TES PoST's or Hydras, which consist of four electroplated...Using a numerical model of the Hydra we fit to measured complex...shapes and noise spectra. from Hydras with different internal thermal...USA. Keywords: ...
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