BEST Anything, Feb 06, 2012

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Top British actor Clive Owen to host Laureus World Sports Awards
ITCM
Hugely popular Golden Globe and BAFTA Award winning actor Clive Owen is to host the 2012 Laureus World Sports Awards to be staged in London at Central Hall Westminster today (Feb 6). British TV and film star Owen, best known for films Closer and ...
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Giants win Super Bowl: Big Blue fans on top of the world following 21-17 ... New York Daily News Everything. I'm on top of the world right now. I never want this moment to end.” Brady choked in the final minute of the game. “I came to see Brady get stomped and this was unbelievable!” Capestany said. “Pop the champagne. We are world champions. See all stories on this topic »

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Top 10 Best Super Bowl halftime shows
TheCelebrityCafe.com
In celebration of the 2012 Super Bowl, TheCelebrityCafe.com has compiled the top 10best Super Bowl halftime shows. Fans can both take a trip down memory lane, and show Madonna just what she has to live up to. Sports Illustrated attributes one man for...
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Best Buy Uses the Big Game Stage to Focus on Mobile Technology
Reuters
5, 2012) - Tonight Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) is using the world's biggest stage to celebrate mobile technology by using true tech pioneers to assert its growing influence in the mobile phone business. The campaign kicks off with Best Buy's second appearance ...
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Content Curation Contests Seeks World's Best Curators
PR Web (press release)
Curators who enter the first Content Curation Contest can win an I Pad 2®, Kindle Fire® and a Top Curator label. “Cool new tools such as Scoop.it, Hunch.com and Twitter along with a special group of content curators who do hard work to help others ...
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The Top 10 Best Super Bowl Car Ads AOL Autos Car companies are the category with the most advertisers participating, so we, being AOL Autos, figured we would rank the top-ten car ads of the game. In the 2011 Super Bowl, there were two car ads that seemed to capture most of the attention: ... See all stories on this topic »

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Top five vice holidays - sex, drugs and partying around the world
TNT Magazine
Here's our (not-exhaustive) list of the best breaks for being bad. Not that we in any way recommend the activities described herein. If you get in trouble, TNT accepts no responsibility. Make no mistake: you're on your own, buddy. Top of the list was a ...
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Colleges gain 'best' rankings obsession as students shrug
Tuscaloosa News
Buy Photo The Associated Press By Justin Pope, The Associated Press When US News & World Report debuted its list of “America's Best Colleges” nearly 30 years ago, the magazine hoped its college rankings would be a game-changer for students and families ...
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Rice uses home course knowledge to steal thunder from World's best riders at ...
The Nelson Daily
Lobby a major sponsor to bank roll the event before inviting a few friends, who just happen to some of the best boarders in the world. After everything is in place and conditions are just right, steal the thunder by winning the competition.
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Hilton HHonors Reveals Top 10 Happiest Winter Travel Destinations in Europe
MarketWatch (press release)
To help beat the winter blues, Hilton HHonors, the loyalty program for Hilton Worldwide's 10 distinct hotel brands, commissioned a study to identify Europe's top 10 happiest cities to travel to during the winter months. In addition, HHonors is offering ...
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DIED, Feb 06, 2012

Micron chief Steve Appleton dies in plane crash The Guardian Steve Appleton – the chief executive of Micron Technology, which makes products under the Lexar and Crucial brands – has died in the crash of an experimental plane he was piloting. The image that Appleton, 51, cultivated as a stunt pilot and off-road ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian

Presbyterian football player dies Chicago Tribune Clinton, SC — Presbyterian College student-athlete Kyle L. Allen died Sunday morning after being found unconscious in a campus fraternity house. The cause is being investigated by Laurens County Coroner Nick Nichols. Allen, a 21-year-old linebacker on ... See all stories on this topic »

Yuri Rasovsky dies at 67; big name in radio dramas, audio books Los Angeles Times Rasovsky died of esophageal cancer Jan. 18 at his Los Angeles home, said his companion, Lorna Raver. He was 67. "He was demanding and smart and kind when needed, and a frightening martinet when also needed," actor Edward Herrmann told The Times in a ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

Man Whose Wife Disappeared Dies With Sons in Explosion New York Times The husband and the two young sons of a missing Utah woman died on Sunday at the husband's home in Washington State in what appeared to be an intentional explosion, the authorities said. The blast occurred around noon, just after a social worker took ... See all stories on this topic » New York Times

Russian climber dies on K2, team abandons bid for first winter ascent Washington Post ISLAMABAD — A spokesman for a Russian mountaineering team seeking to be the first to climb K2 in winter says it has abandoned the attempt after one of its members diedon the mountain. The 15 climbers had been on the mountain, the world's second ... See all stories on this topic »

Man dies in fire in F train station New York Daily News By Edgar Sandoval AND Sarah Armaghan / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS A homeless man who lived in an abandoned room at an F train station died in a fire there. A homeless man died Sunday in a fire inside an abandoned room on a Manhattan subway platform, ... See all stories on this topic » New York Daily News

Man dies in Thruway pursuit Albany Times Union By Bryan Fitzgerald ALBANY — A man died early Monday morning after he crashed into trees as state troopers pursued him on the Thruway, State Police said. The man, whose identity had not yet been released, was driving a stolen car when he crashed on ... See all stories on this topic »

Third student dies from injuries received in Campbellsport area crash Fond du Lac Reporter (Reporter photo by Aileen Andrews) TOWN of ASHFORD — A third teen has died of injuries she received in a crash early Saturday morning just west of Campbellsport. Katie Berg, 16, died Sunday at Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee, according to a Fond du... See all stories on this topic »

Man who was beaten outside Augusta grocery dies The Augusta Chronicle A man who was beaten outside a grocery store last week has died, authorities said. Jermaine Demond Little, 32, died at 3:47 am Saturday at Medical college of Georgia Hospital, Richmond County Deputy Coroner Johnny McDonald said Sunday night. See all stories on this topic »

Elderly Pulaski man dies following apartment fire WatertownDailyTimes.com PULASKI — An elderly village man died following a Sunday morning fire in his residence at a senior citizens apartment complex. Oswego County sheriff's deputes said a fire started at 7:05 am in the apartment of Carl Tanner, 88, at Spring Brook ... See all stories on this topic »

  

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SPACE, Astronomy News, Feb 06, 2012

WV educators to join NASA astronomy mission West Virginia Public Broadcasting By Suzanne Higgins February 6, 2012 · Two West Virginians are among 26 educators selected to join leading scientists aboard a National Aeronautics and Space Administration astronomymission. Anne Smith, a science teacher at Green Bank Middle School and ... See all stories on this topic » West Virginia Public Broadcasting

Space Rock of Love: Asteroid Eros Attracts Skywatchers in Earth Flyby LiveScience.com "Hundreds of years ago, scientists were sent out on long expeditions around the world in order to observe a rare astronomical event," Michael Richmond, of the Rochester Institute of Technology, told SPACE.com. "They had lots of adventures — it was ... See all stories on this topic »

This Week On The Space Show Space Fellowship His tenure also featured an emphasis on cost control in NASA flight missions that resulted in a 63% decrease in cost overruns. In 2007, he was named to the Time 100's list of most influential people. His career has taken him to numerous astronomical ... See all stories on this topic »

Asteroid Vesta Floats in Space in High Resolution 3-D Universe Today Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA. The giant Asteroid Vesta literally floats in space in a new high resolution 3-D image of the battered bodies Eastern Hemisphere taken byNASA's Dawn Asteroid Orbiter. Haul out your red-cyan 3-D anaglyph ... See all stories on this topic » Universe Today

39 countries at astronomy meet Oman Daily Observer MUSCAT — The 10th Arab Conference on Space Sciences andAstronomy opened at the Sultan Qaboos University here yesterday. The event is organised by Oman AstronomicalSociety about the theme “The Role of Space Sciences andAstronomy in the Development ... See all stories on this topic » Oman Daily Observer

Rowan County high schoolers make astronomical discovery Lexington Herald Leader 13 — it was a snow day — spending her time poring over radio telescope data from deep space. She noticed in all the clutter what appeared to be the signature of a pulsar. Soon afterward, observations by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at... See all stories on this topic » Lexington Herald Leader

Giant Eye Will Peer at the Sky TIME The mirrors for the GMT are currently being built at the University of Arizona, by a multinational consortium that includes Harvard University, the Australian National University, and the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute. See all stories on this topic »

2012 Mauna Kea Coin Contest open to all school kids now thru March 9 KPUA The Mauna Kea Coin Contest is initiated by Mauna Kea AstronomyOutreach Committee (MKAOC) and co-sponsored by KTA Super Stores, 'Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawai'i, Onizuka Space Center, and Galaxy Garden/Paleaku Gardens Peace Sanctuary. See all stories on this topic »

Why LightSquared cannot deploy LTE ExtremeTech NASA's research satellites are used for astronomy and spaceresearch. Often times, those satellites are used to communicate with the many probes the United States has sent out into deep space for investigation. As this is a receive-only band, ... See all stories on this topic » ExtremeTech

Astrobiology: We are the Aliens Scientific American (blog) By Caleb A. Scharf | February 6, 2012 | A few days after the successful launch of NASA's behemoth Curiosity rover with its Mars Science Laboratory instruments on November 26th 2011, a somewhat muted piece of news came out admitting that the strict ... See all stories on this topic » Scientific American (blog)

Our Earthly Connection to the Sun Salem-News.Com The Astronomy Picture of the Day taken by the astronauts of the Space Station on 16 Feb. 2010. The magnetic field current stimulates atoms of gases in both the atmosphere of Enceladus and the Earth to a glowing state of excitement. See all stories on this topic » Salem-News.Com

600 Million Year Drought Makes Life on Surface of Mars Unlikely Universe Today Credit: NASA/JPL-Calech/University of Arizona Mars is often referred to as a desert world, and for good reason – its surface is barren, dry and cold. While water was abundant in the distant past, it has long since disappeared from the surface, ... See all stories on this topic » Universe Today

Astronomy picture of the week - Bodes Galaxy Daily Post North Wales By North Wales Astronomy Society WE ARE fast approaching Galaxy season so this week's picture shows the grand design spiral galaxy M81 also known as Bodes Galaxy. This Galaxy is one of the largest best placed galaxies for imaging and part of our local ... See all stories on this topic »

An Examination Of Han Solo's 12 Parsec Kessel Run Claim Science Fiction ... is a unit of measurement in Astronomy that equals the distance light can travel in 3.26 light years. However, Han's claim may have some merit because space travel has a unique set of obstacles that one does not encounter on the surface of a planet. See all stories on this topic » Science Fiction

Classic portrait of a barred spiral galaxy Astronomy Magazine Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is a similar barred spiral, and the study of galaxies such as NGC 1073 helps astronomers learn more about our celestial home. Credit: NASA/ESA The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the barred spiral ... See all stories on this topic »

Blowing Up Stars Space Daily In honor of his lifetime contributions, Arnett has received the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship from the American Astronomical Society, or AAS, an honor that he shares with other scientists of the caliber to have had telescopes or buildings named ... See all stories on this topic »

Why Are Blacks And Indians Identified As Original Asiatic People Now Being ... FinalCall.com News What is the meaning behind this high science of mathematics and astronomy in describing these events which occurred in the far distant past for us to learn today? One of the tribes of the original 13 got lost with many people being destroyed or killed ... See all stories on this topic » FinalCall.com News

Physicist talks on 'observer effects' at free talk Bennington Banner From the first pictures of spiral galaxies in Van Gogh's "Starry Night" to the Hubble Space Telescope; and from the atomic bomb's mushroom cloud to the intricacy of fractals, this talk will examine the past influence of pictures in science and the ... See all stories on this topic »

Air: Le Voyage Dans la Lune Daily Californian For over a decade, Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoit Dunckel have immersed their music in retro Moog synthesizers and galactic themes (prior singles include “Kelly Watch the Stars” and “Surfing on a Rocket”) like a pair of dreamy astronomyenthusiasts. See all stories on this topic » Daily Californian

The art of recycling pulsars Astronomy Magazine Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Dana Berry What happens to the spin of rapidly rotating neutron stars called millisecond pulsars when reaching the end of their mass-accretion phase? The formation of millisecond pulsars is the result of stellar ... See all stories on this topic »

The Gods vs. Aliens Debate UFODigest Bible ufology, in contrast, states that some celestial visitors are eternal beings created by God, who might be at war in spacewith aggressive alien entities. By strict definition, a god is nothing other than an immortal being. See all stories on this topic » UFODigest

NASA Launches Space Trivia Game Into Facebook ... - Yahoo! News News: NASA unveiled its first online space trivia game today (Jan. ... withNASA astronauts, spaceships or astronomical objects, NASA game designers said. news.yahoo.com/nasa-launches-space-trivia-game-facebook-fr...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Zooms in on a Magnified Galaxy (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center); and K. Sharon (Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago) A team of astronomers led by Jane Rigby ... www.clarksvilleonline.com/.../nasas-hubble-space-telescope-zo...

US astronomers endorse NASA work on European dark energy mission NASA has the blessing of a committee of US astronomers to become a small-percentage partner in Euclid, a European Space Agency (ESA) mission to study dark ... blogs.nature.com/.../us-astronomers-endorse-nasa-work-on-eu...

Space weather center to add world's first ... - Astronomy Magazine Home » News & Observing » Astronomy News » Space weather center to add ... By NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland — Published: ... www.astronomy.com/~/link.aspx?_id=392c7322-0285...

Educators Selected to Fly on NASA's SOFIA Airborne Observatory ... Twenty-six educators from the United States have been selected for research flights aboard SOFIA, NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy. www.redorbit.com/.../educators-selected-to-fly-on-nasas-sofia-...

Nature News Blog: US astronomers endorse NASA work on ... NASA has the blessing of a committee of US astronomers to become a small- percentage partner in Euclid, a European Space Agency (ESA) mission to study ... blogs.nature.com/.../us-astronomers-endorse-nasa-work-on-eu...

When Astronomy Made a Town Go Dark : Discovery News Discovery News > Space News > When Astronomy Made a Town Go Dark... NASA. Most TV personalities are asked to turn lights on -- usually Christmas tree ... news.discovery.com/.../stargazing-live-astronomy-town-black-...

NASA - NASA Releases First Multi-Player Facebook Game If you know the answer, you're ready to play Space Race Blastoff. ... earn virtual badges depicting NASA astronauts, spacecraft and astronomicalobjects. www.nasa.gov/topics/nasalife/.../space_race_blastoff.html

Space and Earth Sciences News :: NASA probe discovers 'alien ... For the very first time, a NASA spacecraft has detected matter from outside our solar system -- material that came from elsewhere in the galaxy, researchers ... www.news-about-space.org/astronomy-news/.../page2.html

Report Identifies 16 Highest Priorities to Guide NASA Tech ... Niuzer - Local News ... News /Science /Space & Astronomy / ...Washington DC ( SPX) Feb 02, 2012 During the next five years, NASAtechnology development ... www.niuzer.com/.../Report-Identifies-16-Highest-Priorities-to-...

Today's NASA Breaking News February 1, 2012 :ScienceLine Today's NASA Breaking News: NASA, University Of Maryland Invite Public To Astronauts' Discussion Of Recent International Space Station Missions.NASA and ... www.scienceline.eu/.../todays-nasa-breaking-news-february-1-...

4 brief space news jan,25 2012 - YouTube Revealed: What alien astronomers peering at the Earth during the age of the ... Breaking News NASA tell's lie's ufo space iss c...by COSMICSHIT11543 views ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq2gy_hztO8

NASA's Kepler reaps new planet harvest | Skymania News and Guide NASA's Kepler space telescope has discovered an astonishing 26 worlds in 11 new planetary ... Skymania astronomy and space news and observing guide ... www.skymania.com/wp/2012/01/nasas-kepler.../5434/

Mars Express Radar Provides Strong Evidence For a Former Ocean ... You are here: Astronomy News » Mars » Mars Express Radar Provides Strong Evidence ... Mars Express NASA Spacecraft Mahogany Dried Wood Model ... Visit the Night Sky Observer for more astronomy and space newsor are looking for . www.nightskyobserver.com/.../mars-express-radar-provides-st...

Astronomical Success - Spitzer Space Telescope - California ... Subscribe to news ... Astronomical Success: Caltech's George Helou Honored by Home Country of Lebanon ... Since the early 1980s, Helou has been involved in all of NASA's and the European Space Agency's infraredastronomy missions. www.spitzer.caltech.edu/.../1364-feature12-02-Astronomical-S...

'First Light' Taken By NASA's Newest CERES Instrument Home · Science & Astronomy · Solar System News 'First Light' Taken ByNASA's Newest ... CERES arrived in space Oct. 28, 2011, carried byNASA's newest ... www.messagetoeagle.com/.../1172-first-light-taken-by-nasas-n...

Remembering Columbia / Archive Film Of Explorer | David Reneke ... Astro Quiz · Why Is It So? Gift Vouchers. Sponsors. Astro Space NewsDelivered to You. Join my newsletter to stay up to date on all the latestspace news. ... The tragedy's cause: the lack of curiosity by NASA brass to understand the true ... www.davidreneke.com/remembering-columbia-archive-film-o...

  

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