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LAST LAUGH More than 70 years ago, Albert Einstein calculated a force in the universe that works opposite to gravity: instead of pulling objects together, it pushes them apart. The idea was so wild he later refuted it, but Hubble telescope images of an exploding star have proven him right


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First Chinese basketball player . . . wait, wrong sport. Japanese pitcher becomes the fourth to throw a no-hitter in both U.S. major leagues
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Posthumous album by the rapper who...

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