Things are not so simple, however, for a spinning black hole, since there is an outward "centrifugal force" acting to prevent any shrinkage of the hole. The force depends on how fast the hole is spinning. It turns out that at a critical value of the spin, a black hole flips from negative to positive specific heat - that is, from growing hotter as it loses heat to growing colder. What determines the critical value? The mass of the black hole and the golden ratio!

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Arctic research funding in Canada now stands at about 20 cents per capita, compared to about $3 in the United States and $2.50 in Australia. Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Great Britain all fund Arctic research at a per-capita rate that is several times higher than Canada's, said Paul Hebert, a professor of zoology at the University of Guelph who tracks federal sponsorship of Arctic research.

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Organizers met yesterday in the Vancouver-Point Grey constituency to plan strategy for unseating the Premier. To automatically trigger his resignation, they need to collect signatures from 40 per cent of the riding's registered voters from the last provincial election in May, 2001.

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There was only one problem. The antidepressant had not just improved her mood, but had also transformed the content of her art. While Sheryl was now making and selling more photographs, she judged the quality to be inferior....

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"They were not listening to us," Col. David Nichols told the U.S. military hearing in Louisiana Saturday. He described the pre-flight air control orders as "complex and very difficult to use."

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We're talking attitude, the same assertive attitude you see in the classroom and on the athletic field. "There's none of this 'Ooh, I'm wearing your jacket' stuff," says Julie Nemirovsky, a freshman at Emory University in Atlanta who has a boyfriend on campus. Over winter break at home, she went out for coffee with a guy she has known for years and it didn't occur to her to tell her boyfriend. Why should she? "He's not my keeper," she says.

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Sex is a conversation. Why can't a scene with two people having real sex be as dramatically interesting as a scene with them talking in a restaurant? Why can't there be a film that makes you say, "I laughed, I cried, I came!"

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