10/14/2008
Spallation Neutron Source sends first neutrons to 'Big Bang' beam line (The Oak Ridger)
New analytical tools coming on line at the Spallation Neutron Source, the Department of Energy's state-of-the-art neutron science facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, include a beam line dedicated to nuclear physics studies.
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10/13/2008
View the universe at the UWSP planetarium (Stevens Point Journal)
The Hubble Space Telescope has been providing incredible images of the solar system since its launch in 1990. Take a peek at its views of stellar nurseries, star clusters and galaxies at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Allen F. Blocher Planetarium beginning Sunday, Oct. 19. Hubble Vision will be shown Sundays at 2 p.m. on Oct. 19 and 26 and Nov. 2, 9, 16 and 23. Shows are open to the ...
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10/13/2008
Ghana: The New World Order (AllAfrica.com)
The current financial difficulties that are currently engulfing the United States and other western nations is proof that a New World Order is being entered.
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10/12/2008
Anne Rice returns to the religion she knew as a child (The Kansas City Star)
LOS ANGELES | Ultimately, Anne Rice decided that being an atheist was just too damned hard. She had been raised in a devoutly Catholic New Orleans family, and with a child’s eyes and accepting heart had experienced “the beauty of God.”
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10/12/2008
Treasure hunter (Anchorage Daily News)
Helen Simeonoff doesn't look like Indiana Jones. She's bespectacled, quiet-spoken, not given to sudden moves and will turn 67 this month. Yet this smallish Sugpiaq woman from Kodiak is now receiving credit for discovering -- insofar as most Alaskans are concerned -- one of the most important troves of old art from her Native region.
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10/12/2008
Around Rochester (Rochester Eccentric)
Circle of Caring
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10/12/2008
Ancient objects whisper the desire to live forever to receptive modern ears (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
Against vistas of sun-baked dunes and cold, star-filled desert nights, the ancient Egyptians created an art and culture centered on death and the afterlife.
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10/11/2008
The failed 'god' of The Market (The Morning Call)
The best question not answered during the whole second town-hall-style presidential debate was when one woman asked ''Is it right to treat medical care as a commodity?''
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10/11/2008
Religion vs science: can the divide between God and rationality be reconciled? (Independent)
''A clergyman in charge of education for the country's leading scientific organisation – it's a Monty Python sketch," pronounced Britain's top atheist, Richard Dawkins, recently.
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10/10/2008
Professor Stephen Hawking to be depicted in statue (BBC News)
A 10ft high bronze statue of Professor Stephen Hawking in his wheelchair is to be made.
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