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...emerged from Sunday's poll as the dominant force in Mexico's 500-seat legislature, and in pole position for the 2012 presidential race. The PAN lost almost 50 seats, leaving it with 146, while the PRI picked up 100 to secure 233. (The leftist Democratic Revolution Party won on ly 72 seats, continuing the downward spiral it began after coming within half a percentage of winning the presidency in 2006.) The PRI's quasi-coalition with Mexico's Green Party, which grabbed 22 seats, gives it a tacit congressional majority that promises to "paralyze" Calderon's presidency...
...Other legislators lay the blame at the Democrats' door. "I believe the word came down from national Democrats to local Democrats to do everything in their power to take her down," says state senator Gene Therriault, a Republican who represents the town of North Pole. "We started seeing a proliferation of ethics complaints against her. It was an orchestrated effort to take her down." Either way, all sides agree that the relationship is irreparable...
...James Calvert, 88, served as commander of the U.S.S. Skate, a 265-ft.-long nuclear-powered submarine. The vessel became the first to surface at the North Pole, a feat that made front-page news amid the tensions of the Cold...
...both Earth and the moon; throughout its flight, it will remain attached to its upper stage rocket, separating from it only during its final approach to the moon. The rocket stage will then speed ahead, aiming for a deliberate crash in one of several craters in the south lunar pole in which the LRO's sensors will have detected signs of water ice. The collision will send a debris plume as high as 6.2 miles (10 km) into space and the LCROSS itself, trailing four minutes behind, will fly through it. As it does, its instruments will analyze the chemistry...
With two games left in this qualifying phase, the North is now in pole position to return to the global stage along with its southern neighbor. Iran, on the other hand, is floundering behind the Koreas and Saudi Arabia, and will need a miracle to make it to South Africa next summer...