"If you are a CEO who has some large, profitable project you are shelving because of short-term worries, call Berkshire, " he said.

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By measuring some of these large bubbles, Norio Kaifu, the head of the project in Hawaii, hopes that Subaru will provide astronomers with a clearer idea of what, if it actually exists, the dark matter really is.

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