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• It’s a deal: Spanish fixer-uppers for tenants willing to work
• In Atlanta, a Civil War painting stops stretching the truth
• Mexico to US: You think caravans are tough for you?
• A light of understanding into black holes

It’s a deal: Spanish fixer-uppers for tenants willing to work Posted: 11 Apr 2019 01:34 PM PDT "When my daughter first visited the apartment and realized she was finally going to have a bathtub, she almost lost it with happiness," says her mom, Mireya Rodríguez. Ms. Rodríguez and volunteers from the nonprofit Todos con Casa, which brokered the deal, are ready to get down to work.

In Atlanta, a Civil War painting stops stretching the truth Posted: 11 Apr 2019 12:10 PM PDT When Tim Crimmins, way back in 1973, first saw "The Battle of Atlanta," a towering wraparound picture of 60,000 soldiers in gray and blue clashing over the fate of a nation, he elbowed a friend.

Mexico to US: You think caravans are tough for you? Posted: 11 Apr 2019 11:57 AM PDT Migrant caravans have long been regular fixtures on the northward path, typically annual events. Since last October's 6,000-person-strong caravan, a handful of others have followed, drawing attention to a human flow through the region that's been growing for years, albeit more quietly.

A light of understanding into black holes Posted: 11 Apr 2019 10:37 AM PDT Or perhaps the Great Eye of Sauron, the foreboding nucleus of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy classic "Lord of the Rings." But for the first time, humans have finally seen what was once merely predicted: a black hole. Scientists and other thinkers have long speculated that black holes are real and observable. "We have seen what we thought was unseeable," says Shep Doeleman, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who headed the project.

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