If the Earth had been in its path, this would have been followed minutes to hours later by the electrons and protons accelerated by the blast, followed by the CME, a billion-ton cloud of magnetized plasma.

It's certainly a bulger of a place. There are thousands an' thousands of houses, an' you can't count the sails in the bay.

Or perhaps something darker—a raw hunger, a blind ambition wrapped in the gauzy language of service?

Then in 1991, Jada won her breakout role playing Lena James on NBC's A Different World.