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"The planet orbits a star that's completely bizarre -- the mass of the Sun, but the size of a city," said University of Chicago astrophysicist Michael Zhang, the study's principal investigator.
From Science Daily
When a homeowner first starts repaying their mortgage, most of the money goes toward interest, not the principal.
From MarketWatch
“The U.S. doesn’t really have anything like the bases that it has in Japan elsewhere in Asia,” said Eric Heginbotham, a principal research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s security studies program.
Glenn Milne, Chair and Full Professor within the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at uOttawa and the study's principal investigator, highlighted the broader importance of these findings.
From Science Daily
The school’s principal immediately asked Moore for 24 more pouches.
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