SPACE, Astronomy News, May 13, 2011 (2)

Closure of NASA's space shuttle program to limit UCLA research
Daily Bruin
By LYNN RICE Mike Rich (left), a UCLA research astronomer, and Matt Malkan, a UCLA physics and astronomy professor, rely on information from the NASA spaceshuttle program, which will end in June with Atlantis' final flight. The program completed more ...
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NASA Event to Showcase SOFIA Science, Education Projects
Sacramento Bee
Several basic science flights will carry American and German teachers participating in the AirborneAstronomy Ambassadors program in the coming months. To kick off the media event at 9:30 am PDT, June 8, SOFIA Program Manager Bob Meyer will present an ...
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Galaxy NGC 4214: A star formation laboratory
PhysOrg.com
Size isn't everything... in astronomy, at least. Dwarf galaxy NGC 4214 may be small, but what it lacks in size it makes up for in content. It is packed with everything anastronomer could ask for, from hot, young star-forming regions to old clusters ...
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India designing reusable spacecraft
Times of India
Besides, Astrosat-an astronomy satellite to study the movements of celestial bodies, has already been popular among astronomy circle. However, the senior scientist was cagey about use of remote sensing in military missions and anti-Maoist operations.
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'Despite galactic alignment, world will not end today'
Philippine Star
Jose Mendoza of PAGASA's Space Science and Astronomy section said people would be able to see with the naked eye the alignment of the planets Mars, Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Uranus and Neptune at the eastern horizon before sunrise today. ...
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Gravity Probe B Demonstrates Einstein Theory
Aviation Week
Results from the mission will inform astronomy and cosmology for decades, scientists say, while its engineering lessons may guide future spacecraft developments in unexpected ways. One specific technology developed for GP-B already has enabled Nobel ...
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U-46 honors former astronomy educator: 'It was like Mr. Rogers was in here'
TribLocal
Carol Tuttle said her husband loved teaching astronomy, especially during a time when people were fascinated by the space program. Donna Hoppe remembers her father showing off the observatory at Carleton College where he first decided to pursue ...
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Colwyn Bay school studies the final frontier
North Wales Weekly News
He hinted that an astronomy GCSE may be on offer in the school as soon as next year. “Astronomy forms part of the GCSE science curriculum, and a planetarium is a useful way of providing pupils with a memorable visual experience to help them see that ...
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Dwarf planet Haumea shines with crystalline ice
EurekAlert (press release)
Observations from the SINFONI instrument of the Very Large Telescope (VLT), the enormous telescope of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile, were used in order to carry out the study, which has been published in the journal Astronomy ...
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Every School Every Thursday - Des Moines East/North
DesMoinesRegister.com
During the next six weeks they will be covering astronomy and space explorations. There will also be a review of the basics in the make-up of solar system and the theories of how it is all held together. Students will go to the Science Center of Iowa ...
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Global Warming Rap: 'Yo...We're Climate Scientists'
NewsBusters (blog)
As for America's second-leading proponent of this myth, the head of the Goddard Institute for SpaceStudies James Hansen has a BA in physics and mathematics from the University of Iowa, as well as an MS in astronomy and a Ph.D. in physics. ...
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NASA selects 2 California teachers for space flight
News10.net
Marita Beard of Branham High School in San Jose and Kathleen Fredette of Desert Willow Intermediate School in Palmdale were chosen to ride the Stratospheric Observatory for InfraredAstronomy. AP.
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NASA Event to Showcase SOFIA Science, Education Projects
PR Newswire (press release)
PALMDALE, Calif., May 11, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) program will showcase its science and education efforts to journalists on June 8 at NASA's Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in ...
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Look! In the sky! It's a sign, it's an omen! It's a sweet conjunct of aspects
Examiner.com
One website proclaimed that it would be "one of the most exciting, powerful and transformative celestial events of our millennium according to astronomy and astrology experts." In many ways, these words sound all too similar to the hype and tripe that ...
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$25-Million Gift to Ensure Telescope Time for Texas A&M
Chronicle of Philanthropy (subscription) (blog)
He has also given tens of millions of dollars to Texas A&M's physics and astronomy programs. Backers of the Magellan project have raised $255.5-million of the instrument's estimated $700-million cost and hope to complete it in 2018. ...
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ILC, Wetzel narrow down lecturer candidates
Exponent Online
... enter space; human rights speaker Madame Jehan Sadat, widow of the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat; filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, director of Supersize Me and Where is Osama Bin Laden?; and Cornell University professor of astronomy Steven Squyres, ...
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Thornbury-bound museum to promote Islamic contribution
Leader News
“We're planning to bring in high-quality international exhibitions, like the 1001 inventions, which shows the Islamic contribution to science and technology (such asastronomy and algebra),” Ms Fahour said. Others behind the not-for-profit project ...
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Places in the pew
Episcopal News Service
The Gaon believed that in order to understand Torah, one also needed to understand worldly subjects, and so he became learned in medicine, astronomy, and mathematics. Though he never became a rabbi, never held a public post, and never published any of ...
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Business Profile: Kynite Kennels, Fobbing
Yellow Advertiser
I enjoy astronomy, scuba diving, mountain biking, mountain climbing, microlighting and other activities when I have the time! What is most exciting you about your business?: I really enjoy the competition side of things, it gives me a sense of ...
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Thrilling trilliums: Spring is in full bloom at gardener's Amherst home
Amherst Bulletin
In front of the porch are dramatic standing stones signaling that this is the home of the UMassastronomy professor who in 2000 created the Sunwheel near the university's Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium. In 2005, Young went back to the same quarry, ...
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Teachers Selected to Fly on SOFIA Airborne Observatory
SunHerald.com (press release)
The Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors program is facilitated through the SOFIA Science Center (SSC) at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. managed by the Universities SpaceResearch Association (USRA). "USRA is proud to take the leading ...
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Space and Earth Sciences News :: Flipping hot Jupiters
planets that orbit stars other than the sun -- have been discovered since 1995. But only in the last few years have astronomers observed that in some of these systems the star is spinning one ...
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Next-to-last space shuttle launch faces more delay (AP) | Space ...
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Astronomy Without A Telescope – Cosmic Magnetic Fields - Space ...
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Cosmic Magnetic Fields - Space News Category Magnetic field data from the Whirlpool Galaxy, M51. Credit MPIfR Bonn.
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Space and astronomy digest: May 2011
The Royal Astronomical Society, encourages and promotes the study of astronomy, solar-system science, geophysics and closely related branches of science.
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Supernovas In Space
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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, May 13, 2011

Phone radiation “affects biological processes”
swissinfo.ch
The four-year programme from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) concluded, however, that there were “no easy answers to these simple questions”. Some research projects have confirmed that non-ionising radiation affects biological processes in ...
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Dairies, Idaho energy research center to cooperate
BusinessWeek
The Center for Advanced Energy Studies, based in Idaho Falls, includes the US Department of Energy, Idaho National Laboratory and Idaho's research universities. With this partnership, the parties say they will marry science-based information with ...
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Research Matters: 'Demand for researchers is higher than ever'
The Independent
Meanwhile, for those continuing in research, the placements offer excellent opportunities to develop the wider impact of their studies. BBSRC also offers policy placements with hosts including theParliamentary Office of Science and Technology, ...
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New centre at UCT to take Africa forward
Independent Online
The South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) – created by the Department ofScience and Technology and administered through the National ResearchFoundation – was initiated to make South Africa competitive in the international knowledge ...
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Independent Online
Activated graphene makes superior supercapacitors for energy storage
EurekAlert (press release)
The work at Brookhaven was supported by DOE's Office of Science; the UT - Austin team'sresearch was supported by the Office of Science, the National Science Foundation, and theAdvanced Technology Institute. The Center for Functional Nanomaterials at ...
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Study finds lung stem cells, likely to generate debate
Boston Globe
“At the same time, the technology being used has its own inherent limitations, which may make it difficult to draw firm conclusions and has led to difficulties in others easily replicating the work of the group.'' Anversa's work has fired vigorous ...
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Teaching fellows announced in Lansing include 12 headed for WMU
WMU News
WMU is one of six Michigan universities invited to recruit both recent college graduates and those seeking a different career for three-year fellowships designed to attract promising educators with strong backgrounds in science, technology, ...
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WMU News
Turning Climate Tech Transfer on Its Head
Huffington Post (blog)
Climate technology is then a one-way, conventional development aid strategy. And this conventional strategy will come at a huge cost -- studies show that this form of transfer could cost trillions of dollars. Our research in innovation theory and ...
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Every School Every Thursday - Urbandale, Dallas Center-Grimes, Johnston
DesMoinesRegister.com
Second-grade students will be going to the Blank Park Zoo to cap their animal research. Third-grade students will be going to Jester Park to study nature and connect to their study of animal life inscience. Fourth-graders went to Exercise Your ...
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Flying With Fossil Fuels May Sometimes Be Greener Than Biofuels - At Least In ...
Treehugger
(Science Daily) Hileman notes that coal-to-liquids fuels are not a green option either, however. Those cases of severe land use change? Looking at palm oil, Hileman's team's research confirms previous studies. When grown on newly cleared rainforest ...
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Ten Important Reasons to Include the Humanities in Your Preparation for a ...
Securities Industry News (blog)
Humanities study helps you understand the impact that science, technology, and medicine has had on society and understand the future scientific needs of society. The study of literature, history, and philosophy shed light on the influence science has ...
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Mind Reading: Technology Turns Thought Into Action
NPR
... a researcher who studies ECoG at the New York State Department of Health's Wadsworth Center in Albany. "It really goes pretty close to what people used to call mind reading." So perhaps it's not surprising that Schalk's research is funded by both ...
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How to Make a Human Antenna
Discovery News
He worked on the proof of concept with Desney Tan, senior researcher at Microsoft Research, and Shwetak Patel, University of Washington assistant professor of computer science and engineering. The researchers set up controlled experiments in 10 homes ...
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Gain or drain? How study abroad affects our economy
The Independent
These are precious imports: a number of UK postgraduate science, technology and engineering courses could collapse without international students. In biotechnology, 93 per cent of students are international; in computer science it's 82 per cent; ...
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Perspective on: The future of fusion
Princeton University
The first reason is US competitiveness, both the specific competitiveness in fusion and the general competitiveness in science and technology. Whoever controls the energy sector, whoever innovates with the science, is going to be economically dominant. ...
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Princeton University
Science Bound Graduates First Five Students
Inside INdiana Business (press release)
She graduated from Broad Ripple High School. She plans to attend graduate school for culturalstudies in either sociology or American studies. * Douglas Fletcher, who will receive a degree incomputer graphics technology this weekend. ...
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Don't pity moms of twins – they may outlive you
Globe and Mail
Smith, who teaches family and consumer studies and is director of the Utah Population Database at the university, says he and his colleagues are primarily concerned with longevity and disease prevention. They look at fertility very closely, ...
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Globe and Mail
Arrowhead Reports Fiscal 2011 Second Quarter Financial Results
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
“We are looking to bring Ablaris' first anti-obesity compound into the clinic later this year, and MD Anderson is spearheading final toxicity studies to complete the pre-clinical package. In addition to the exciting implications of Ablaris' technology ...
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Blackketter selected as new Montana Tech chancellor
KBZK Bozeman News
... emphasis on engineering, science, business, health, informational sciences, liberal studies andtechnology, Montana Tech is positioned to continue to be an educational leader and to become nationally recognized as a leading research institution. ...
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University selects dean of technology
WLFI.com
... a distinguished professor in the Department of Computer Graphics Technology and a professor of computer and information technology. He also is the executive director of the Center for ProfessionalStudies and Applied Research (ProSTAR), ...
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Universities Urged To Work With Artisanal Enterprises
Modern Ghana
Asenso-Okyere said all regions of the country needed sustainable technologies that increased the productivity, stability and resilience of production systems. He further called for the funding of agriculture and science research, which was key to ...
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Cancer Sleuths Uncovering DNA Mysteries for Novartis, Glaxo
Bloomberg
Source: MD Anderson Cancer Center Via Bloomberg A screenshot of cancerous tissue from theMolecular Pathology Research Program is shown at General Electric Co.'s Global Research Center in Niskayuna, New York. Photographer: Vijay Paruchuru/Bloomberg ...
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news In detail
Knowledgespeak
Laskey informed the first hearing of the UK's Commons Science and Technology Committee's inquiry into peer review. The engine of peer review had not seized but was misfiring, he was quoted as saying. There has been a dramatic rise in referees' demands ...
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Technology Strategy Board to invest £5m into the 'Internet of Things'
PR Web (press release)
Beginning with a series of workshops and the launch of a Special Interest Group in the Summer, which will be followed by investments in feasibility studies, research & development projects and pilots, the objective of the initiative is to help the UK ...
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Anything goes at THATCamp UWO
Western News
Quan-Hasse, an associate professor joint appointed in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies and Sociology, and Martin, a PhD student in Library and InformationScience, are two of the organizers of THATCamp UWO (The Humanities andTechnology ...
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Western News
Nine candidates square off in Indiana Area
Blairsville Dispatch
He said his background in information technology can be an asset in developing a cyber school for Indiana Area. Ray, 65, is a novelist and retired legal studies professor at IUP. He graduated with abachelor's degree in political science from Grove ...
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FINANCIAL News, Money, Banks, Stock, Economic and Financial Crisis, May 13, 2011

US Money Funds, Rajaratnam Trial, German Banks: Compliance
BusinessWeek
The FSA is imposing stricter supervision after being criticized for failing to prevent the UK's worstfinancial crisis since the Second World War. The regulator in February secured the longest-ever UK sentence for insider trading when former Dresdner ...
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A Look Back at 2010: Metals Up, Currency Wanes
Resource Investor
Canada's banking system may have escaped the financial crisis unscathed, but unemployment is high, and Canada's consumers continue to sink into debt. This is despite warnings from the authorities, including Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney, ...
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Resource Investor
Special report: Europe's Greek tragedy
Reuters
After a brief lull in their debt crisis at the start of 2011, tensions in the 17-nation euro area had returned and financial markets were piling new pressure on the bloc's weakest members. Ten days earlier, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French ...
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Reuters
Macro Economic Theory Confusion on Inflation, Commodities, and the Fed
The Market Oracle
This is because the mere act of printing money in order to make prices rise destroys savings, destroys capital, and therefore causes economic and financial crises. All of these things lower standards of living and make people worse off. ...
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The Market Oracle
A 'New Normal' how Fed policy influences global financial markets
The Market Oracle
With the help of the positive effects of financial and structural economic reforms after the Asiancrisis, the stimulus package is a great success in terms of growth. China is growing 10% or more per year, with most other Asian countries growing 5% or ...
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Wall Street Journal
That stint at Goldman—one of the banks most in the public eye during the recent global financial crisis—initially raised doubts, including among some French officials, about the appropriateness of his leading the ECB. Mr. Draghi returned to Italy in ...
See all stories on this topic »China's Yuan Convertible by 2016 in Global Poll Marking Big Investor Shift
Bloomberg
“China will have to put in place a sound financial, macro-control and exchange-rate regulatory framework” to enable the step, she said. Meantime, respondents were less optimistic about Chinese government policies helping the investment climate than in ...
See all stories on this topic »A More Expansionary Fiscal Policy Would Be Effective Now
Seeking Alpha
As a temporary measure in a time of crisis, during a severe winter, this intervention on the part of the taxpayer could have good effects... as insurance. It adds nothing to the number of jobs nor to total wages, but it takes labor and wages from ...
See all stories on this topic »Newspaper Briefing including Google set for Windows fight with Chrome OS - The ...
Proactive Investors UK
While some outsourcers such as Connaught have floundered following the financial crisis, others have not. Capita Group. 741p +5p. Questor Says Buy. HSBC cuts threaten thousands of jobs: Thousands of jobs are on the line at HSBC as the UKs biggest bank ...
See all stories on this topic »GLOBAL MARKETS-Stocks, oil rebound on debt ceiling report
Reuters UK
For details, see [ID:nLDE74B0PZ] The ECB raised interest rates by 25 basis points to 1.25 percent in April to address the firming price pressures, ending two years of crisis-induced loose policy.Financial markets expect two more such rises this year. ...
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Stocks, oil rebound on debt ceiling report
Reuters
The ECB raised interest rates by 25 basis points to 1.25 percent in April to address the firming price pressures, ending two years of crisis-induced loose policy. Financialmarkets expect two more such rises this year. US stocks erased early losses in ...
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Reuters
3 Dominant Factors That Will Impact Precious Metals
Seeking Alpha
The US is rapidly approaching that point, and investor anxiety is increasing in concert with the realization that currency creation for bailout purposes -- the knee-jerk monetary response to thefinancial crisis – is no longer a temporary matter. ...
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EUROZONE Debt Crisis News, May 13, 2011

Debt crisis could still spread to EU core-IMF: Fidelity
IMF says debt crisis could spread to core euro zone. ... News & Insights; >. Page published by Fidelity Interactive Content Services. Skip Section Links ...
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LIBYA, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen News, May 13, 2011

A hard road to DamascusGlobe and Mail
Syria poses the toughest test yet for Barack Obama's pragmatic handling as
the Arab Spring threatens repressive dictators throughout the region. By
comparison, Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain, Yemen, even Libya, were relatively
easy. But in Syria, an Arab ...
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Charlie Rose Talks to Recep Tayyip Erdogan
BusinessWeek
By Charlie Rose With these recent developments in Tunisia and which went on
to Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, and all, democracy and freedom demands are
affecting us whether we like it or not. At this point in time in Tunisia,
there is tranquility. ...
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The Arab spring
Sydney Morning Herald
But one thing is clear as revolts continue or turn into hiatus and
stalemate from Yemen to Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, Bahrain and Syria: for
all their organising, marching, rabble-rousing, blogging, hunger-striking,
and, yes, dying, Arab women are ...
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ANALYSIS: Expanded GCC seeks to face Iran, uprisings
Monsters and Critics.com
Rofou was referring to the recent toppling of the Tunisian and Egyptian
regimes and the ongoing unrest in Yemen, Libya and Syria. Protests in
Bahrain, a GCC member state with a Shiite majority, was quelled by force
that involved the dispatch of Saudi ...
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Voice after exit: Revolution and migration in the Arab world
EurActiv
Cairo's largely peaceful protesters removed a 30-year regime in Egypt, and
major, violent confrontations between citizens and their governments have
taken place in Bahrain, Syria, and Yemen. Mounting civil unrest has moved
the Libyan regime to launch a ...
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Amel Pain / EPA
msnbc.com
From Tunisia to Egypt, Bahrain to Syria, Yemen to Libya, Arab states failed
because they couldn't (or wouldn't) stop corruption. They couldn't stand up
to Israel. They couldn't stand up to America. They couldn't stop Abu Ghraib
or Gitmo. ...
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Arab spring hope 'in the balance'
BBC News
It criticises Libya, Syria, Bahrain and Yemen for targeting peaceful
protesters to stay in power. And it says repressive regimes in China, Iran
and Azerbaijan have tried to pre-empt uprisings. The campaign group
released its report on human rights ...
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DISCOVERIES, Inventions News, May 13, 2011

4 Things The US Can Learn From Innovative Foreign Countries
Co.Design
Basic science research discoveries, inventions, and better education have already led to increased life expectancy. At the beginning of the 19th century, the average life expectancy was approximately 24 years. At the beginning of the 21st century, ...
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Co.Design
IP Rules for Synthetic Bio Generate More Questions Than Answers
Genetic Engineering News
“The proposed reform is intended to improve the quality of patents issued, in particular the proposal to have increased interaction with third parties before issuance of patents might help with the issue of classification of inventions. ...
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Genetic Engineering News
Sports hijab lets Islamic women throw some punches
AFP
The university immediately seized on its potential: its agency for commercializing its scientific discoveries and inventions filed patents for the sports hijab on her behalf in Canada and the United States. Made of a fabric that moves perspiration away ...
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AFP
Should Obama Show His School Transcripts?
Huffington Post (blog)
Inventor Thomas Edison, who gave us the light bulb and other inventions (1093 patents) that ushered in the 20th century, was called dull by a grade school teacher who believed that Edison had no ability to learn. Pablo Picasso was dyslexic and a poor ...
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EUROVISION Song Contest News, May 13, 2011

The Eurovision Song Contest Part 2: Does being a semi-finalist help?
Significance Magazine
In 2004, in an attempt to deal with the ever-increasing number of countries wanting to take part, the Eurovision Song Contest introduced a televisedsemi-final stage. From 2004-2007 the top 10 countries in this semi-final would proceed to the showpiece ...
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Significance Magazine
Netherlands falls short of Eurovision final
Radio Netherlands
They join Serbia, Lithuania, Greece, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Switzerland, Hungary, Finland, Russia and Iceland – the qualifiers from Tuesday's first semi-final – and automatic finalistsFrance, Germany, the UK, Spain and Italy. The results were determined ...
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Belarus' Eurovision entry was victimized by biased judging, Lukashenka says
Belorusskie Novosti
Belarus with a song called “I Love Belarus,” performed by 20-year-old Minsk student Anastasiya Vinikava (Anastasia Vinnikova), failed to qualify for the final as a result of asemi-final held in Dusseldorf, Germany on Thursday night. “Well done! ...
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Eurovision Report: The Second Semi Final
Anglophenia (blog)
The second semi final of Eurovision is over, eyeballs have been peeled, ears destroyed, all of the 25 finalists have been selected, and there is, in a very real sense, no turning back. The big surprises? Well the Netherlands have gone, ...
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Anglophenia (blog)
Eurovision pop opera divas to shine this Saturday
euronews
The French, British, German, Spanish and Italian acts are guaranteed finalists, because their countries are the main funders for Eurovision. The competition was filtered from 43 down to 25 contestants in the semi-finals. Among those eliminated — which ...
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euronews
Lena faces down Irish twins, French tenor
The Local.de
The rivals standing in the way of Lena Meyer-Landrut's bid to keep her crown in Saturday night's Eurovision Song Contest are now set after the secondsemi-final left Irish pop duo twins Jedward as the favourites. In a surprise knock-out, ...
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Slovenia's Maja Keuc Makes It to Eurovision Finals
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... Keuc made it to the grand finale of the Eurovision song contest in Duesseldorf, Germany late on Thursday. The 19-year-old won Slovenia's ticket to Saturday's main contest after the country got stuck in the semi-finals in the past three attempts. ...
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... Eurovision song contest in Duesseldorf, Germany late on Thursday, with "Noone", a soul ballad sang English. The 19-year-old won Slovenia's ticket to Saturday's main contest after the country got stuck in the semi-finals in the past three attempts. ...
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10 Eurovision finalists are chosen - RTÉ Ten
10 Eurovision finalists are chosen. Wednesday 11 May 2011 ... Irish act Jedward will compete in the second semi-final on Thursday night. ...
www.rte.ie/ten/2011/0511/eurovision.html
Eurovision 2011 First Semi-Final Results – Finalists
Eurovision 2011 First Semi-Final is just finished. Eurovision 2011 First Semi- Final Results and the finalists list is as below.
en.nkfu.com/eurovision-2011-first-semi-final-results-finalists/
Eurovision 2011: Semi-Final 2 Song By Song & Finalists ...
Eurovision 2011: Semi-Final 2 Song By Song & Finalists. by Jon Jacob on May 12th , 2011. Here's a little experiment I hit upon when I was sat in the arena ...
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YouTube - EUROVISION 2011 SEMI-FINAL 1 - 10 FINALISTS
The announcement of the 10 finalists from the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2011. Eurovision Song Contest ESC 2011 Germany Düsseldorf ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=98mHW5e2eGA
EBU.CH :: 2011_05_13_ESC_SF
Second Semi-Final result: All 25 Eurovision Song Contents Finalists chosen. Düsseldorf,Thursday 12 May 2011 – The second batch of 10 countries qualified ...
www.ebu.ch/en/union/news/2011/tcm_6-71882.php
Winners' Press Conference, First Semi-Final - Eurovision Song Contest
The First Semi-Final took place from 9 PM to 11 PM on Wednesday, May 10th, 2011. ... Her first impulse upon hearing herself announced as a finalist was “to .... for their big stage appearance in the Semi-Finals on Thursday, May 12th. ...
www.eurovision.tv/.../press-conference-updates?id...
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