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http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/01jul_4...
Scan a small telescope along the line. You'll see Saturn's rings, the little red disk of Mars, a grand sweep of lunar mountains and craters, and just maybe—flash!—a manmade incendiary. How often do you see fireworks through a telescope?
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1029...
Speaking yesterday from the stall in Bristol he has owned for 20 years, Mr Down said: 'It's total nonsense. I work hard enough to make a living without all these bureaucrats telling us what we can and can't sell.
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_sty...
Stylist Gok Wan gained fame after seemingly becoming the first person in fashion to accept that the bodies of women with curves were perfectly acceptable and, gasp, even to be celebrated in his show How to Look Good Naked.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml...
A year ago, the Bank for International Settlements startled the financial world by warning that we might soon face challenges last seen during the onset of the Great Depression. This has proved frighteningly accurate.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/30jun_t...
June 30, 2008: The year is 1908, and it's just after seven in the morning. A man is sitting on the front porch of a trading post at Vanavara in Siberia. Little does he know, in a few moments, he will be hurled from his chair and the heat will be so intense he will feel as though his shirt is on fire.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/ju...
Closed-circuit TV cameras are the crime-fighting tool so fiendishly sophisticated that they can be foiled by the wearing of a hood. Yet having stuck 4.2 million of the things around this country, with nary a consultation on the matter - nor any significant impact on crime statistics - efforts to pimp them to 2.0 status continue
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2206813/...
The new rules are part of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 and are due to come into force from October next year at the same time as a new Independent Safeguarding Authority to vet adults.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080628/ap_on_re_eu...
But some critics fear the Large Hadron Collider could exceed physicists' wildest conjectures: Will it spawn a black hole that could swallow Earth? Or spit out particles that could turn the planet into a hot dead clump?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news...
The ONS said UK households saved just 1.1 per cent of their income during the first quarter of the year, the lowest figure since the end of 1959. The statistics suggest the fall-off in savings has been very rapid, with the ratio falling from 3 per cent in the final quarter of last year and 6.3 per cent in the summer of 2006.
http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/sto...
They returned with images and data showing that red-hot magma has been rising from deep inside the earth and blown the tops off dozens of submarine volcanoes, four kilometres below the ice. "Jets or fountains of material were probably blasted one, maybe even two, kilometres up into the water," says geophysicist Robert Sohn of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, who led the expedition.
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climat...
The disappearance of the Arctic sea ice, making it possible to reach the Pole sailing in a boat through open water, would be one of the most dramatic – and worrying – examples of the impact of global warming on the planet. Scientists say the ice at 90 degrees north may well have melted away by the summer.
http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/ce/eek/crit...
Lightning bugs....Have you ever wondered about the small, blinking creatures that light up summer nights? Lightning bugs, also called fireflies, are not simply bugs and are not flies. They are beetles and part of a scientific family that contains the largest order of living things290,000 species at last count. In fact, there are about 136 different species of fireflies illuminating earth's summer nights.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asi...
Newly published figures show that 30,093 people took their own lives in 2007 — a 2.9 per cent increase in a year — leaving the country as the most suicide-prone anywhere in the developed world and rendering government efforts to combat the problem a failure.
http://money.aol.com/news/articles/retirement/_...
(June 17) - Swamped by debt and rising medical bills, elderly Americans have been seeking bankruptcy-court protection at sharply faster rates than other adults, a study to be released Tuesday indicates.
http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/88515/?p...
Despite all of the talk about medical errors and patient safety, almost no one likes to talk about diagnostic errors. Yet doctors misdiagnose patients more often than we would like to think. Sometimes they diagnose patients with illnesses they don't have. Other times, the true condition is missed. All in all, diagnostic errors account for 17 percent of adverse events in hospitals, according to the Harvard Medical Practice Study, a landmark study that looks at medical errors.
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/_/vie...
Image: Freedictionary. Beschreibung Universum - C. Flammarion, Holzschnitt, Paris 1888,*) Kolorit : Heikenwaelder Hugo, Wien 1998
