09/07/2008
Trip Tips (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
Those heading to New York can check out how to get tickets to TV shows ranging from "The Colbert Report" and the "Daily Show" to "Martha Stewart" and "Regis and Kelly Live" at www.nytix.com. The site also has links to discount tickets to Broadway shows.
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09/07/2008
Mind Museum: Every exhibit visual, auditory, touchy-feely (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines—It’s shaped like a flying saucer and big enough to hold the earth, the universe, four kinds of environment and a T-Rex.
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09/06/2008
Heavy metal on ice since early 1900s, experts find (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
CARSON CITY -- Reno scientist Joe McConnell was not particularly surprised when he discovered high traces of pollution embedded in ice taken in southern Greenland.
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09/05/2008
Robot Scout: Fly Me (Safely) to the Moon (PhysOrg)
The first attempt to land humans on the moon -- Apollo 11 -- was a triumph that almost ended in disaster. At just 400 feet from the lunar surface, with only about a minute's worth of fuel remaining, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin saw that their ship's computer was taking them directly into a crater the size of a football field, strewn with SUV-sized boulders. They quickly took ...
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09/05/2008
Sea Level Rise Won't Be a "Hollywood Cataclysm" (National Geographic)
Oceans will likely not rise a cataclysmic 16 feet suggested by some scientists, but the increase will still be substantial, a new glacier study predicts.
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09/05/2008
Global cyclist dies in Greek road crash (Guardian Unlimited)
Friends and admirers pay tribute to traveller killed in collision near Athens
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08/31/2008
United Nations Environment Programme (United Nations Environment Programme)
Geneva/Zurich/Nairobi, 1 September 2008 – Monitoring of glaciers and ice caps in Central Asia, the Tropics and in the Polar Regions needs to be urgently stepped up, scientists and the United Nations said today.
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09/03/2008
New Climate Study Indicates Hottest Decade in 1,300 Years (AnandTech)
More research supporting a warming climate continues to pile on...
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09/03/2008
Greater efforts needed to provide safe water for more than 1b people, says Ban (Islamic Republic News Agency)
UN - Ban - Safe Water More than one billion people still lack access to safe drinking water, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said Tuesday, calling for greater efforts to achieve the water and sanitation targets set by world leaders in 2000.
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09/03/2008
USAF/LockMart Team Achieves Major Milestone On First SBIRS HEO System (Space War)
by Staff Writers Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Sep 03, 2008 Lockheed Martin has announced that the U.S. Air Force has certified readiness for dedicated operational utility evaluation and trial period operations of the first Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO-1) payload and associated ground system in preparation for use by the warfighter.
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