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Google-China relations at an all time low over repression

Tuesday, January 12 2010 20:10 | By D. Scriber |

Freedom of Speech Update

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Forget the blue Moon... In Spain, 12 grapes ring in the New Year

Thursday, December 31 2009 05:35 | By Sancho in Spain |

New Year Celebrations

GIBRALTAR -- As the bells in the Puerta del Sol in Madrid chime midnight on New Year’s Eve those gathered in the square and watching TV throughout Spain will down 12 grapes – hopefully before the chimes finish. The same scene will be replicated throughout the nation in city, town and village plazas, at parties indeed wherever celebrations are held. But why?

There are two main theories.

U.S. enviro chief: Americans not adequately protected from chemical hazards

Wednesday, December 02 2009 13:36 | By D. Scriber |

Workarounds

Americans rely on the Environmental Protection Agency to ensure that chemicals in their daily lives are safe for use. But Lisa P. Jackson, the EPA's administrator, today told the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works that the law that helps federal officials in their efforts to protect people is outdated and does not provide the tools to "adequately protect human health and the environment" as Americans expect and deserve.

In prepared remarks, she told senators: "Understandably, the public is turning to government for assurance that chemicals that are ubiquitous in our economy, our environment and our bodies have been assessed using the best available science, and that unacceptable risks have been eliminated. But, under existing law, we cannot give that assurance."

Leonid meteor shower (2009) -- coast to coast and around the planet

Monday, November 16 2009 17:55 | By D. Scriber |

Star Hustler

Tiny particles of dust and cosmic rock falling from a comet circling the Sun called "Tempel-Tuttle" are hurtling into the Earth's atmosphere. And the peak of the so-called Leonid meteor shower, which appears to roar from the mouth of the Leo constellation, is tonight and early tomorrow morning.

Of course your chances of seeing something spectacular tonight depend on where you live, but with a New Moon, skies will be nice and dark for displays everywhere (unless your local weather messes your plan up).

Giant crack spreads in Africa, parts the Red Sea

Tuesday, November 03 2009 14:43 | By Greg Campbell |

Just Add Water

First the good news: Geologists have found a permanent cure for droughts in arid East Africa.

The bad news: Relief is about a million years away.

That's how long scientists estimate it will take a giant crack in the surface the Ethiopian desert to deepen enough to eventually join with the Red Sea, which will flood the region and create a new ocean. The 35-mile fissure is 20 feet across at some points, the result of shifting tectonic plates deep below the surface of the Earth.

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