The abundance of such compounds tells us that the sun grew up less than 1 light year away from a massive star that exploded.
Even without eventual practical use, it would be good if the Higgs boson had a cultural impact, by moving into the language as a metaphor, just as "light year, " "Darwinian, " "subconscious" and "in the DNA" have done.
Cheng says the comet is likely making its first visit to the inner solar system from the Oort cloud, a reservoir of hundreds of millions of comets encircling our solar system at a distance of about a light year.
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The other two airline companies earning a red light this year are AirTran and ExpressJet.
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What if the flu season is light this year but heavy the next?
Gould's estimate of a 15, 000-light-year distance to the new planet is an approximation, and he says he will need more data to refine the number.
Astronomers think there are thousands of fledgling stars in 30 Doradus, a significant fraction of the original generation of stars, packed into a 600-light-year-wide nebula.
We appear to be entering another light flu year, Carroll says.
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After the trading loss came to light last year, Ms Drew resigned after 30 years with the bank and voluntarily paid back two years' worth of salary.
In a "light" year, a few thousand people may still die, but a particularly serious year could see up to 49, 000 deaths from the flu, Fauci said.
The black holes are separated by an estimated distance of less than a third of a light-year - cheek-to-cheek by black hole standards and significantly closer than the postulated binary system spotted by the Chandra X-ray Observatory in 2003.
Accenture ( ACN - news - people ), dumped the 34-year-old golf icon after his relationships with many women came to light late last year, Nike has stayed faithful to Woods.
Conoco is widely seen as the most advanced player, in light of last year's acquisition of a 10% stake in top Russian oil producer Lukoil.
One of the things that came to light during last year's hearing was that there is no uniform mode of operation for U.S. Internet companies' operations in China.
Mark Light, Microsoft year-2000 product manager, said that SP3 -- even with all of the hot fixes issued in the meantime -- would not offer users the year-2000 compliance available via SP4.
Last year, Mr Corbett waived his bonus "in light of the events of the year and his position in the industry".
Edmunds.com is forecasting full-year 2012 light vehicle sales will total about 14.3 million vehicles.
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Such findings have come to light more than a year after Japan's amended Water Pollution Prevention Act came into effect.
There were 425 million 60-watt incandescent light bulbs sold last year in the U.S., so there is surely money to be made replacing some of these.
If Best Mate confirmed his status as jumping's superstar, Persian Punch made a good case for ousting some of his more fashionable and younger rivals as the leading light of the Flat year.
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Among the high-profile deals it has given the green light within the past year: the union of XM Satellite Radio and Sirius, and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange 's purchase of the Chicago Board of Trade.
It used to be the Padrones of yester year would light a cigar and negotiate the right thing with the understanding that the party faithful would have to ultimately accept the compromise as a deal and move forward.
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Beth Taylor works as a consultant for the Institute of Physics as chair of the UK National Committee for the International Year of Light, and for the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) on the development of an advanced skills training hub.
The daughter and three of the children fathered by Fritzl were kept captive in the cellar until the case came to light in April last year, when one of the children became seriously ill and was taken to hospital.
Last flu season was light, but this year has brought with it some "ominous signs, " Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, told CNN's Wolf Blitzer Tuesday.
The most physical demonstration of this rivalry is, famously, the annual University Boat Race: one spring Saturday each year the Light Blues (Cambridge) and Dark Blues (Oxford) each send their finest eight oarsmen to row the 4 miles and 374 yards along the Thames between Putney and Mortlake in west London.
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The startup is offering a 3-year warranty for its LED light, which can achieve payback in less than one year, Kim said.
For the exterior Pinault commissioned a light sculpture by 39-year-old Danish artist Olafur Eliasson.
The start of a multi-year uptrend in light vehicle sales started in 2010, notes Levy.
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