By LOUISE ANN NOETH
Drag racing is no longer an exclusive men’s club. There is now a strong, confident and skilled female contingent that commands respect.
Published: November 1, 2014 at 08:00PM
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Monthly Archives: October 2014
Beyonce’s Fashion Collab, Susan Sontag’s Sephora and Ebola-ween by HILARY MOSS
By HILARY MOSS
Plus, Lottie Moss’s first big gig, Chris Benz heads to Bill Blass and more from the week in style.
Published: October 31, 2014 at 09:30AM
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The Workout: Running While Pregnant by ANAHAD O’CONNOR and LINDSAY CROUSE
By ANAHAD O’CONNOR and LINDSAY CROUSE
Clara Horowitz Peterson, an elite runner, mother of three and expecting, talks about training during and after pregnancy.
Published: October 31, 2014 at 08:04AM
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Specular Spectacular
This near-infrared, color mosaic from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows the sun glinting off of Titan’s north polar seas. While Cassini has captured, separately, views of the polar seas (see PIA17470) and the sun glinting off of them (see PIA12481 and PIA18433) in the past, this is the first time both have been seen together in the same view.
The sunglint, also called a specular reflection, is the bright area near the 11 o’clock position at upper left. This mirror-like reflection, known as the specular point, is in the south of Titan’s largest sea, Kraken Mare, just north of an island archipelago separating two separate parts of the sea.
This particular sunglint was so bright as to saturate the detector of Cassini’s Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) instrument, which captures the view. It is also the sunglint seen with the highest observation elevation so far — the sun was a full 40 degrees above the horizon as seen from Kraken Mare at this time — much higher than the 22 degrees seen in PIA18433. Because it was so bright, this glint was visible through the haze at much lower wavelengths than before, down to 1.3 microns.
The southern portion of Kraken Mare (the area surrounding the specular feature toward upper left) displays a “bathtub ring” — a bright margin of evaporate deposits — which indicates that the sea was larger at some point in the past and has become smaller due to evaporation. The deposits are material left behind after the methane & ethane liquid evaporates, somewhat akin to the saline crust on a salt flat.
The highest resolution data from this flyby — the area seen immediately to the right of the sunglint — cover the labyrinth of channels that connect Kraken Mare to another large sea, Ligeia Mare. Ligeia Mare itself is partially covered in its northern reaches by a bright, arrow-shaped complex of clouds. The clouds are made of liquid methane droplets, and could be actively refilling the lakes with rainfall.
The view was acquired during Cassini’s August 21, 2014, flyby of Titan, also referred to as “T104” by the Cassini team.
The view contains real color information, although it is not the natural color the human eye would see. Here, red in the image corresponds to 5.0 microns, green to 2.0 microns, and blue to 1.3 microns. These wavelengths correspond to atmospheric windows through which Titan’s surface is visible. The unaided human eye would see nothing but haze, as in PIA12528.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The VIMS team is based at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
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Luis Enrique Backs Suarez After ‘Clasico’ Setback by REUTERS
By REUTERS
Barcelona coach Luis Enrique has backed Luis Suarez after the Uruguay forward came in for criticism for his performance in last weekend’s ‘Clasico’ defeat at Real Madrid.
Published: October 31, 2014 at 05:11AM
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Arsenal Can Still Win Premier League, Says Wenger by REUTERS
By REUTERS
Arsenal are still in contention for the Premier League title and it is too soon to say that leaders Chelsea can go through the season undefeated, manager Arsene Wenger told a news conference on Friday.
Published: October 31, 2014 at 04:35AM
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How Should Schools Address Cyberbullying? by MICHAEL GONCHAR
By MICHAEL GONCHAR
Do you notice online bullying? How big of a problem is it in your school?
Published: October 31, 2014 at 01:00AM
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Apple Chief Tim Cook’s Coming Out: ‘This Will Resonate’ by JAMES B. STEWART
By JAMES B. STEWART
Mr. Cook said the trade-off to his own privacy was worthwhile, “if hearing that the C.E.O. of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is.”
Published: October 30, 2014 at 08:00PM
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Lawsuit Says Rental Complex in Queens Excludes Ex-Offenders by MIREYA NAVARRO
By MIREYA NAVARRO
The Fortune Society, a social services group, said the operators of the Sand Castle in Far Rockaway have a policy of not renting to people with criminal records.
Published: October 30, 2014 at 08:00PM
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Controversial Batsman Ryder Gets World Cup Lifeline by REUTERS
By REUTERS
Aggressive top-order batsman Jesse Ryder was passionate about rekindling his international career after he was thrown a World Cup lifeline by being named in a New Zealand ‘A’ team for one-day matches in the United Arab Emirates next month.
Published: October 30, 2014 at 04:28PM
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