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Ronan told the story of Aqbal, a child who was found floating on a board in the middle of the ocean by fishermen two days after the tsunami. He had swallowed mud, was suffering from pneumonia, and had lost both parents...
...kingdom so that it was approximately half the size of the Iberian Peninsula. Yet Al-Idrisi also achieved a new level of accuracy by integrating the knowledge of Muslim mariners with that of Christian scholars, so that Asia was at last separated from Africa by an island-dotted Indian Ocean...
Luckily, only an ocean away, there lies a country without a president and with plenty of entertaining controversies of “leadership” (however ceremonial). The country is Great Britain, and the scandal is as follows...
...General Electric and Pratt & Whitney) instead of the Rolls-Royce engines, they will receive a product that has a large part of its equipment made by U.S. companies. That may not comfort Boeing, but it shows how the commercial-airplane business has links on both shores of the Atlantic Ocean. Wolfgang Schaack Wilhermsdorf, Germany The Peace of Prayer Your story on the new science of sleep [Jan. 24] left no room for God. You mentioned lots of dos and don'ts for getting a good night's sleep, but you never mentioned prayer. All cultures and religions recognize the powers...
...decided to pull the plug on the orbiting telescope. The administration’s recently released 2006 budget sets aside only $93 million for Hubble (out of a total NASA budget of $2.5 billion), $75 million of which will be spent to ensure the telescope safely crashes into the ocean...