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...duck of a spacecraft, scheduled to launch in September, is known simply as Dawn, and its destinations are the asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres, mysterious bodies orbiting in the belt of rubble that circles the sun between Mars and Venus. NASA vehicles have been this way before, but they've usually been just passing through on their way to the planets in the outer solar system. This time the asteroid belt itself will be the destination, and the ship will get there courtesy of the young technology of ion propulsion...
...this year, and they point out that their putsch was met with almost no public outcry. That's true: Thaksin's popularity had nosedived by the end of his tenure, in part because of his autocratic style, and street protests against him last year still dwarf the current rallies against the junta...
...Charbonneau hopes to continue to expand upon his discoveries by studying the atmosphere of other newly discovered planets and by building an array of telescopes in southern Arizona that would survey dwarf stars that may have Earth-like planets orbiting around them...
...whether an eighth tray should be added to the ceremony, this one holding a pool of oil. Around 2010, a cluster of offshore fields is expected to begin yielding significant amounts of oil and natural gas, radically changing the Cambodian economy. Optimistic estimates suggest that future oil revenue could dwarf the country's current GDP. But will any of this money trickle down to Cambodia's poor? Economists aren't sure, warning of a Nigerian-style oil curse that could simply make a privileged few very rich and leave the vast majority of people penniless...
...Some Cambodians may be wondering whether an eighth tray should be added to the ceremony, this one holding a pool of oil. By 2010, a cluster of offshore fields should begin pumping oil and natural gas, radically changing the Cambodian economy. Optimistic estimates suggest that future oil revenue could dwarf the country's current GDP. But will any of this money trickle down to Cambodia's poor? Economists aren't sure, warning of a Nigerian-style oil curse that could simply make a privileged few very rich and leave the vast majority of people penniless...