Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:36:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Fw: large hole found
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Ron Kean wrote:

> http://www.physorg.com/printnews.php?newsid=107109720

> University of Minnesota astronomers have found an enormous hole in
> the Universe, nearly a billion light-years across, empty of both
> normal matter such as stars, galaxies and gas, as well as the
> mysterious, unseen \223dark matter.\224

There's probably nothing to it.

(You know you've been working as a proofreader too long when your
first reaction to that sentence isn't a sense of profound wonder, but
an awareness that "both" doesn't go with "as well as."  (The Microsoft
"smart quotes" I won't comment on.))