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This region of super-heated gas, Elvis said, is shaped like a disk in NGC 1365’s quasar and is a source of X-ray radiation...
...Army Lieutenant General Ray Odierno grumbled Friday about the rushed official announcement in a video press conference he did from Iraq with Pentagon reporters. "I know the announcement the other day was probably one that surprised" troops in harm's way and their families, he said. "We would have loved to have let our families know first before it was out in the press, and we wish we had the opportunity to do that and also talk to our soldiers first...
...invites kept coming, I found myself succumbing to the clubhouse mentality that Imus both inspires and cultivates. Sure, I cringed at his and his crew's race-baiting (the Ray Nagin impersonations, the Obama jokes) and at the casual locker-room misogyny (Hillary Clinton's a "bitch," CNN news anchor Paula Zahn is a "wrinkled old prune"), but I told myself that going on the show meant something beyond inflating my precious ego. I wasn't alone. As Frank Rich noted a few years ago, "It's the only show ... that I've been on where you can actually talk...
...course, assessing Imus' show is a subjective judgment, and setting these boundaries is as much an aesthetic call as a moral one. It's arbitrary, nebulous and, yes, unfair. Who doesn't have a list of artists or leaders whose sins they rationalize: Elvis Costello for calling Ray Charles a "blind, ignorant nigger," Eminem for peppering his lyrics with "faggot," Jesse Jackson for "Hymietown," D.W. Griffith for lionizing the Klan or T.S. Eliot for maligning Jews...
...Karni crossing that links Gaza to Israel. At present, some 30 to 40 trucks are manually searched each day, severely restricting the economic viability of export-oriented agriculture and dairy operations in Gaza. A new plan, drawn up by U.S. Army general Keith Dayton, envisages installing the same X-ray machines used to screen trucks at U.S. borders at Karni. By allowing up to 400 commercial trucks to pass from Gaza to Israel each day, the U.S. hopes to stimulate the Palestinian economy...