Archive for May 29th, 2007
No plans to join NASA lunar program – Russian space agency
Russia will not participate in joint lunar exploration with NASA, but will assist the U.S. with its shuttle program until 2015, a spokesman for the Russian space agency said. After U.S. President George W. Bush announced his Vision for Space Exploration in 2004, a plan for new manned lunar missions, the country’s National Aeronautics and
Channel: Science Tags: NASA lunar program Russia space NASA lunar program
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Immigration Agency Mired In Inefficiency
Last June, U.S. immigration officials were presented a plan that supporters said could help slash waiting times for green cards from nearly three years to three months and save 1 million applicants more than a third of the 45 hours they could expect to spend in government lines. It would also save about $350 million. The response? No thanks.
Channel: Politics Tags: US Immigration Officials Green Cards Cost Savings
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Unbelievable magazine ads from back in the day
“Blow in her face and she’ll follow you anywhere.” Wow that won’t fly today…
Channel: Art & Design Tags: art design ads marketing history magazine
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To Smoke or Not? Thereby Hangs a Tale
CLAUDIA ELMHIRST can’t wait to read a novel again. When she’s memorizing lines, the British actress doesn’t touch a book, though that usually means only a few weeks of burying herself in a script. Since February of 2006, however, she has been immersed in “Intimate Exchanges,” a 750-page epic by Alan Ayckbourn that asks 2 actors to play 10
Channel: News Tags: to smoke or not
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Scientists find 28 new planets beyond our solar system
The world’s leading team of planet-hunters has announced the discovery of 28 new planets outside our solar system. They are among 37 objects outside our solar system found to orbit distant stars.
Channel: Science Tags: solar system planets stars brown dwarfs
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I Was On the Global Warming Gravy Train
I worry that politics could seriously distort the science. Suppose that carbon taxes are widely enacted, but that the rate of global warming increase starts to decline by 2015. The political system might pressure scientists to provide justifications for the taxes.
Channel: Science Tags: science global warming taxes government power
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Secrets of the 2007 NFL Season
Mike Nolan’s San Francisco 49ers remarkably win the NFC West, the NFL’s most balanced division, by a staggering four-game cushion. Even more remarkably, they win it with a 6-10 record.
Channel: Sports Tags: NFL NFL Secrets sport Secrets
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Top 10 Kicking Babies
This is just an amazing look at how far babies go when moving around in their safe, little havens.
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Guantanamo prisoner urges release of BBC journalist
A television cameraman held prisoner for years at the
U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has issued an impassioned plea for the release of a fellow journalist kidnapped in Gaza.
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Japanese minister ‘kills himself’
Japan’s agriculture minister has died in hospital after apparently committing suicide, reports say.
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