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Over $12 trillion. This leviathan—the new combined total of the federal bailout—is enough to launch over 13 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan or buy about 325 Harvard endowments at the height of prosperity...
...Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said his country, which also hosts a plant owned by PSA Peugeot Citroen, could launch retaliatory measures against Paris. "Calls for such brutal protectionism are not helping anyone," he said. "If one country starts behaving like this, for example France, then we will send Gaz de France home...
...anyone has a reason to be skittish about space debris, it's the people of Texas. It's in Houston, after all, that much of what we launch into orbit is monitored. And it's in rural Texas that much of the flaming wreckage of the shuttle Columbia landed in 2003. Sunday morning, it looked like Texas was in the path of danger again, when police received numerous reports of a sonic boom, a visible fireball and debris descending in various spots around the state. That debris, people figured, had to be space junk reentering from Tuesday's collision between...
...bottles of champagne were broken over laptops, but the man many credit with founding the internet, Tim Berners Lee, was present at the launch, which is not bad considering it's mostly a glorified Facebook page. Why does Her Maj even need a website? She doesn't. As she explains on one of the crackling vintage radio addresses available on the royal YouTube channel, the point of being queen is to serve. It's we regular folk who need the website. In her munificence, she provides it. (See the 50 best websites...
...Gore has yet to respond, according to Action Against Hunger. "We hope that when we launch the U.S. campaign, he'll invite us for a meeting," says Nonzioli. "That would be great." But at his office in Nashville, a spokeswoman for Gore said he was currently busy with stimulus-package discussions. "They want him to put aside climate change and switch to world hunger?" she asked, somewhat incredulously. Informed that the organizers hoped he would add the issue to his list of concerns, she conceded a bit. "It's quirky, but I have to admit it's a good idea...