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...final revealed the real meaning of the event. "How good it is we have something that takes the world's eyes off our greedy bankers and corrupt politicians," he said. In Britain, where Morgan is still remembered as the former editor of the salacious tabloid newspaper the Daily Mirror - and who was forced to resign after it published faked photographs - his tone of moral outrage might have rung a little hollow. But under the spell of BGT, a vast swath of Britons suppressed their congenital cynicism and concentrated on rooting for their favorites - and for Queen and country. (See TIME...
...tact, however, Boutros-Ghali is not averse to holding up a mirror to the rich nations every once in a while. On the eve of last month's G-20 summit in London, he warned that giant stimulus plans like those announced by the U.S. and the U.K. could lead to a humanitarian catastrophe in the developing world, because borrowing by rich countries would divert funds from the poor. "People are going to die, babies are not going to get the proper nourishment," Boutros-Ghali said. "Poverty is at the doorstep, something needs to be done." (See pictures of poverty...
...This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine or PDF.] HUBBLE WEBB ORBIT 353 miles from Earth 1 million miles from Earth PRIMARY-MIRROR SIZE 7.9 ft. in diameter 21.3 ft. in diameter LENGTH 44 ft. 72 ft. WEIGHT...
...Increasing the amount of information available to HUDS’s customers would also mirror important trends in public health legislation. New York City has adopted calorie-disclosure regulations that force many restaurants to post calorie information wherever the restaurant lists the information that customers use to make their choices. In a New York Times interview, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the city’s health commissioner, remarked “most people underestimate calorie content by a lot” and added that he considered the rules a potent weapon in the crusade against rising obesity rates...
...With its 11.5-ft.-wide (3.5 m) mirror, Herschel will be the biggest telescope in space. Named after the great 18th century British astronomer William Herschel, it will search a vast array of galaxies collecting radiation that emits from protostars, the dust clouds that contract to form stars and galaxies. Unlike Hubble, which is tuned to visible light, Herschel will go after much longer wavelength radiation in the far-infrared and sub-millimeter range. By allowing astronomers to study objects in space not visible in other wavelengths, it should record the formation of protostars for the first time...