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8A Daily News – Thursday, January 5, 2012 WORLD BRIEFING Romney hoping to turn Iowa win into momentum MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Mitt Romney eagerly pocketed an endorsement from two- time New Hampshire pri- mary winner John McCain on Wednesday and bid to convert a sin- gle-digit victory in Iowa into a Republican presi- dential campaign jugger- naut. Unimpressed, Newt Gingrich ridiculed the former Massachusetts governor as a liberal turned moderate now masquerading as a con- servative. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum sought to rally conserva- tives to his side after com- ing achingly close to vic- tory in the Iowa caucuses. ''This is a wide-open race still,'' added former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, who skipped the Iowa caucuses in hopes of mak- ing his mark in next Tues- day's first-in-the-nation primary. Romney is the odds-on favorite to win the New Hampshire primary, and the endorsement of McCain, an Arizona sena- tor, made his welcome in the state a warm one. ''''The time has arrived for Republicans to choose a presidential nominee, a new standard bearer who has the ability and deter- mination to defeat Presi- dent Obama,'' said the 2008 Republican presi- dential nominee, a man with a demonstrated appeal to the state's inde- pendent voters. Already, the Republi- can field of challengers was dwindling. Obama says he won't take 'no' for an answer SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio (AP) — Defying Republican lawmakers, President Barack Obama on Wednesday barreled by the Senate and installed a national con- sumer watchdog on his own, provoking GOP threats of a constitutional showdown in the courts. Setting a fierce tone in the election-year fight for middle-class voters, Obama said: ''I refuse to take 'no' for an answer.'' Obama named Richard Cordray, a respected for- mer attorney general of Ohio, to be the first direc- tor of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, after giving up on hopes for a confirmation vote in the Senate. 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But sci- entists have made an entire event impossible to see. They have invented a time masker. Think of it as an art heist that takes place before your eyes and surveillance cameras. You don't see the thief strolling into the muse- um, taking the painting down or walking away, but he did. It's not just that the thief is invisible — his whole activity is. What scientists at Cornell University did was on a much smaller scale, both in terms of events and time. It hap- pened so quickly that it's not even a blink of an eye. Their time cloak lasts an incredibly tiny fraction of a fraction of a second. They hid an event for 40 trillionths of a second, according to a study appearing in Thursday's edition of the journal Nature. We see events hap- pening as light from them reaches our eyes. Usually it's a continu- ous flow of light. In the new research, however, scientists were able to interrupt that flow for just an instant. 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