Young and old, men and women worked from sun up to sun down, through the summer heat and bitterly cold winter.
Depending on its initial mass, it might collapse to a compact hot star known as a white dwarf (when the star's mass is less than 1.4 times the mass of our sun) or to a neutron star (for stars 1.4 to about three times the mass of our sun) or to a black hole (for stars more massive than three times the mass of our sun).
Sun's OpenOffice.org project should be ready by October and will not only give users access to open-source code but will also provide filters to allow Sun customers to use Microsoft's rival products.
As a comet gets closer to the sun, the sun's heat causes these elements to melt, spewing out dust and gas in a brilliant tail.
Fourth: Predicting that the stock market will increase following a recession is somewhat akin to predicting the sun to rise after the night.
Granted admission to Stanford's business school, he met Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla and went on to head Sun for 22 years.
An extendable microphone can be clipped to the sun visor to ensure conversations are louder and clearer.
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Growing sales and slashed costs seem poised to return Sun Microsystems to profitability in 2007, though that expectation is already reflected in the storage company's stock price.
"At night the clouds change to stars and the sun to the moon, " Mr. Thorne, chief technology officer of 4moms, explained when I got him on the phone.
In the quest to tap new sources of renewable energy, scientists are turning to the sun, to the wind, and of course, to a variety of bio-derived fuel alternatives.
He then insisted that he was going to wait for the sun to go down that night before trying it out, so there would be no chance of any neighbors seeing him.
In a separate case, but one also brought as a result of the Operation Elveden inquiry, a prison worker at a high-security jail appeared before the court accused of selling information to the Sun relating to a "high-profile prisoner".
There will also, according to Charlie Bolden, NASA's administrator, be a mission to the sun, to study the solar wind, and one to improve the agency's ability to detect and catalogue interesting (but potentially dangerous) asteroids that pass near Earth.
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The research team's temperature analysis showed that summer temperatures in the Arctic, in step with the reduced energy from the Sun (related to an approximately 21, 000-year cyclical wobble in Earth's tilt relative to the Sun), cooled at an average rate of about 0.2 degrees Celsius per thousand years.
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Ms. HOLIDAY: (Singing) Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck, for the rain to gather, for the wind to suck, for the sun to rot, for the tree to drop.
Some people may wonder why we in the Northern Hemisphere have our spring and summer when our planet is far away from the sun. (Equally confusing: our fall and winter come when we are near to the sun.) Shouldn't proximity to that nice warm ball of sunshine predict our seasons?
Since Kepler 62 is a cooler star than our sun, planets can orbit closer to it than the Earth can to our sun before overheating.
The result is a material that is not only waterproof but is able to block out UV radiation from the sun to such an extent that it would rate a Ultraviolet Protection Factor (UPF) of 101.15 if the chart went that high.
The model that Sun wants Wall Street to use in thinking about Sun is that of a wireless carrier like Nextel, which sells its technology any way customers want.
Sun claims to have distributed 15 million copies of StarOffice, with close to 3 million copies downloaded from Sun's Web site.
Miles suggested AOL acquiring Netscape and for Sun to partner with Netscape, bringing AOL's eyeballs together with Sun's servers.
Eventually, when it is within the orbit of Mercury, the innermost planet, it will tack, turn its sail to the sun, and start to accelerate outwards again.
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Brown insisted he had never given permission for the Sun newspaper to report that Fraser had cystic fibrosis, and he rejected the Sun newspaper's explanation that it had heard about the condition from a person who also had a sick child in the hospital.
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The asteroid's position was very close to the sun, so astronomers had to observe it when the sky was dark.
This same Nobel prize winner also wants to paint roads and roofs white to reflect sun heat away from earth to reduce global warming.
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And so, like Deadheads 40 years before them (but with espresso as their drug of choice), a new tribe has formed to follow the route from Sun Valley to Aspen to Austin to Switzerland.
Mr. STERN: So a few weeks after the Pluto encounter when we've chosen our target, we'll fire the engines of the spacecraft, but we'll have to fly a distance something like from here to the sun or twice that far to reach these Kuiper Belt objects.
There was little drama to the proceedings after Florida failed to pass a bill that would have helped pay for renovations to Sun Life Stadium, something the league hinted would be a prerequisite for the Miami Dolphins to host the game.
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