And the best thing about the ending, which casts the beginning in an eerie new light, is its heart-stopping romanticism.

WSJ: Brilliant Mind Games

Watch this space every week for an offbeat and memorable selection that might be light in tone, but never light-headed or lacking in heart.

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Organic polymers are a fundamentally new way of converting electricity to light, a process at the heart of all displays--TVs, computer monitors, cell phone screens.

FORBES: Seeing the Light

To take just one example, from a public health perspective, it makes little sense to focus on the miniscule elevation in breast cancer risk associated with light-to-moderate alcohol consumption, when moderate alcohol intake has been shown to have a beneficial effect on coronary heart disease, a much more common condition.

FORBES: To Combat Some Big Diseases, We Should Focus On The Basics

The Madonna has a pale, heart-shaped face, tiny pert nose, light distant eyes, and small perfect mouths.

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But Noble quit to join Capital's rival, Heart FM, claiming their partnership off-air was less light-hearted.

BBC: Tarrant: TV's Mr Millionaire

Then he discovered a new Japanese method of cutting diamonds: When viewed under a low-magnification (3x) lens, the stone refracted light in such a way as to give off a pattern of eight heart-shaped sparkles at the bottom of the diamond and eight arrow-shaped fire-bursts through the top--hence the name "hearts-and-arrows" diamonds.

FORBES: Stones on fire

Enbrel's potential in this realm might never have come to light but for the dogged efforts of a few university researchers, including Douglas Mann, who heads heart-failure research at the Baylor College of Medicine.

FORBES: Chemical Chameleon