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Also, the average age of Atlantic City's casinos is 26 years, making it difficult for the outdated gambling houses to compete with newly built ones in nearby states, says Chris Snow, a CFA and senior analyst at CreditSights, an independent credit-research firm. (See 10 things to do in Las Vegas...
...planet, Gliese 581 e, is 1.9 times the size of Earth and 80 times smaller than the first exoplanet, which was discovered in 1995. The solar system where the planet was found is 20.5 light years away and can be found in the constellation Libra. Members of the CFA, which has played a major role in the search for exoplanets, heralded the discovery as momentous. “This discovery can be compared to what happened 400 years ago with Galileo’s discovery of Jupiter’s moons,” said Dimitar Sasselov, a professor...
...massive fireball," says Robbins, who was at her home in Melbourne during the fire. "People have explained it leapt across in giant bounds like huge balls of fires, and all the sprinklers in the world would not have been enough to stop it." Martin and his wife died. "The CFA (Country Fire Authority) should have told them this fireball was coming and to get out," Robbins says. "If I had known, I would have got a helicopter if need be and flown up there and made dad leave...
...failing to implement a proposed telephone warning system, and for giving homeowners the choice of evacuating or staying to fight the fire. "I know the sort of people my parents were," says Robbins. "If mum had come out and told dad that they had a call from the CFA that there was a firestorm and get in the car and go, he would have gone," she says. "There should have been a graded warning system, air raid sirens and a mandatory evacuation system...
...Quasars light up because gas is falling down toward them, which heats up through friction like a rocket reentering the atmosphere,” said Martin S. Elvis, a senior astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA) and a co-author of the study...