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...With its 11.5-ft.-wide (3.5 m) mirror, Herschel will be the biggest telescope in space. Named after the great 18th century British astronomer William Herschel, it will search a vast array of galaxies collecting radiation that emits from protostars, the dust clouds that contract to form stars and galaxies. Unlike Hubble, which is tuned to visible light, Herschel will go after much longer wavelength radiation in the far-infrared and sub-millimeter range. By allowing astronomers to study objects in space not visible in other wavelengths, it should record the formation of protostars for the first time...
...cloud of uncertainty looms over the shape of things to come. Experts talk of China's maritime rise in the same continuum as that of the British Royal Navy in the days of Victorian empire, and the U.S. fleet during the Cold War. At present, China's naval capabilities are still that of a regional power - its own state planners aim for the PLA to finally have "risen" only in half a century's time. By then, the world could be very a different place. The Chinese navy could act as a stabilizing force - or a source of conflict that...
Three thousand dollars to fix the pipes beneath a tennis court; $462 for the upkeep of a swimming pool; $942 to fit a chandelier. The extravagance of many of the expense claims filed by British MPs in recent years, deliciously catalogued this past week by the country's Daily Telegraph newspaper, which obtained leaked details, have British voters fuming. In a poll taken by the Times of London, more than four fifths of Britons thought all the country's legislators were as bad as each other for milking their allowance system, if not illegally, then far beyond its spirit...
...buildings he is no less a conservative than Prince Charles. Davies rails against the New Brutalism, a style that incarcerated generations of the English working-class in structures of almost defiant ugliness. "Municipal architecture [is] dispiriting at the best of times," he dryly intones," but when combined with the British genius for creating the dismal, makes for a cityscape that is anything but elysian...
...firms valued at less than $7.5 million - almost 40% of all companies listed on AIM - "there's quite a strong feeling that if things aren't going to improve in the near future, they're minded to look at coming off AIM," says John Cowie, head of AIM at British accountancy group Smith & Williamson, one of the market's appointed Nomads...