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Original estimates of the solar system's speed were based on what Reid calls "one-dimensional velocity" obtained solely from Doppler shifts. "Now," he says, "we have three-dimensional velocity and more exact measurements" - a huge advancement in the field. The findings debunk the notion that the Milky Way is a little-sister galaxy to her neighbor Andromeda. "They're more like fraternal twins," Reid says. And the fact that they are of equal size increases the likelihood that the two will someday collide. (See the Top 50 space moments since Sputnik...
Although they have not offered exact figures, Caballero’s spokespeople have reported that increased crime rates have helped business significantly. Caballero’s success speaks to a disturbing trend among the Mexican elite. Bulletproof clothing is emblematic of a greater divide between Mexican problems and Mexican money; as a BBC report revealed in October, the Mexican wealth gap is the largest in the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), with “some parts [comparable] to Spanish or German cities, but other parts…more like the poorest parts of Africa...
...help us... When the sages created the national holiday of Tisha Be'av, they made it the single day on which we commemorate all the traumas of our history, from the destruction of the first temple to the Spanish expulsion. These events did not all happen on this exact date; the founders of Jewish civilization confined the memory of the traumas of our history to one day, to allow us the rest of the year to get on with being Jewish, rather than letting sorrow take over our entire existence...
...baby is latched on properly, it still shows. It's not fair to these women. When there's a bottle-feeding baby, there's nothing that has to be private. You don't have to hide it from anyone or be nervous about anyone seeing. It should be the exact same way with breast-feeding...
...another experiment, the researchers gave people two bowls of potato chips. Type A was thicker than type B; the experimental group was told type A was 1.5 millimeters thick, while type B was 0.8 millimeters. As expected, once people were given the exact measurements, they much more often said they'd choose to buy type A - 51% of the time, compared with 37% for the control group. Yet when people were given the two bowls of chips and told to eat however much of whichever type they'd like, the two groups ate type A at practically the same rate...