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...Padilla's downgrade from deadly menace to overeager errand boy is a tale of legal miscalculation and political overkill - a textbook case, critics say, of the overreaching of the Bush Administration's war on terror. Initially whisked away to the dark hole where "enemy combatants" go to be interrogated and held without charges, he emerged more than three years later as an almost conventional suspect endowed with constitutional rights. Gone were allegations of a dirty bomb and a scheme to annihilate apartment buildings. In their place were charges of conspiring to support terrorism and kill unspecified people overseas...
...Despite its recent refusal to share samples, Indonesia has actually been fairly open about bird flu and prompt in reporting new cases - considerably more so than China, which remains a "black hole of bird flu data," according to the expert. But that goodwill will be squandered unless Indonesia resumes sharing. Unfortunately, Jakarta may be digging in its heels. Supari told TIME that "the current unfair access to vaccines worsens the global inequality between the rich and the poor, between the North and the South - and I think that is more dangerous than a pandemic." Unless Jakarta changes its policy...
...dying. Typically, a massive star exhausts the elemental fuel in its core and begins to collapse inward. The outer layers blow off in a huge flare we recognize as a supernova while the core becomes more and more compressed, eventually forming the infinitely dense node that is a black hole. In SN 2006gy, the sheer mass of the star produced so much core heat and gamma-ray radiation that it created matter and antimatter particle pairs. This blew the star to bits, leaving no cold core behind...
...scientists get their kicks, so they’ll be paid in that way,” Edwards said. Both Edwards and Hanken said that, in addition to Harvard, the three other current “cornerstone institutions” of the project—the Smithsonian, the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, and the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago—would raise $5 million each over the next five years towards the EOL. Several other institutions have expressed an interest in becoming cornerstone institutions with a commeasurate financial responsibility, Hanken added. According to Hanken, each cornerstone...
With Kinsey on second, Reichert had the Quakers’ best chance of the game for a base hit. She blooped the ball over junior first baseman Danielle Kerper, but Kidder ranged into the hole and threw to first...