Word: broking
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...does smack into Mars, every telescope on Earth will be pointed in that direction - just as they were in 1994 when Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter. In that case, the comet broke up while it was still in orbit, so astronomers watched nearly two dozen individual impacts. But Jupiter is made mostly of thick clouds, so there was no lasting scar, and because it lies so far from Earth, the event wasn't quite as spectacular as this one promises to be. Asteroid 2007 WD5 should release some 3 megatons of energy if it slams into solid ground...
After he was placed under arrest, Wu kicked a police officer and then broke the rear window of the police car while seated inside, the log said...
...62¢ in 2002, the turbocharged loonie shot past the U.S. greenback for the first time in nearly 31 years this September and kept right on soaring. Fueled by record prices for Canadian commodities, a surge in foreign investment and anxiety over the subprime-mortgage meltdown, the loonie broke the $1.10 barrier in early November. It has since settled close to parity. "The U.S. dollar is going to stay weak against major currencies for a while," says Dan Katzive, director of currency strategy at Credit Suisse in New York City...
...found McGeary in the corner for a three with 24 seconds left to make it a one-possession game.Northeastern guard Matt Janning hit two free throws with 16 seconds left, but Lin made it a one-possession game again with a lay-up with 6.6 seconds remaining.Bataille then broke away from the Crimson defense to bring in a long inbounds pass, forcing Housman to foul, setting up the final sequence.“I thought we did some really good things,†Harvard coach Tommy Amaker said. “We stretched it as well as we could...
...been a bumpy ride so far for Argentina's new president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. And barely more than a week has passed since she was inaugurated. Hailed as Argentina's new Evita, Fernandez had been in office for three days when her first crisis broke. It originated in faraway Miami, where Assistant U.S. District Attorney Thomas Mulvihill said in court that the FBI had recorded alleged Venezuelan agents saying that $800,000 confiscated by Argentine customs authorities in Buenos Aires four months ago was actually an illegal campaign contribution from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to Fernandez' electoral campaign...