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Kibera, the hotbed of anti-Kibaki fury, was otherwise calm on Tuesday, as the capital seemed to be taking a deep breath on New Year's Day. People who had stayed behind closed doors for days finally emerged in search of food at markets that were opening at last. Residents picked through the ashes of a massive outdoor market that had been burned to the ground. Some tied string around the empty plots that were once their stalls; in one, the only recognizable remnants were a stack of charred and smoldering onions...
Astronomers have good news, better news and some bad news about an asteroid known as 2007 WD5. The good news is that this 164-ft.-wide chunk of speeding space rock, discovered in November in an ongoing search for potential threats to Earth, won't hit our planet any time in the foreseeable future. The better news - for eager space-watchers - is that the asteroid, currently about halfway between Earth and Mars, has a plausible chance of hitting the Red Planet at the end of January. If it does, astronomers will be treated to an unprecedented sight...
Percentage of adult Internet users in the U.S. who said in a new survey that they had used Google or a similar search engine to look for information about themselves...
DEFINITION goo-gul zeyt-geyst n. Year-end report on the fastest-rising and most popular searches on Google. The popularity of some search terms was seasonal--the Tour de France saw a surge in June--but users consistently sought out ratatouille recipes as well as information about the iPhone. Some of life's bigger questions were also search-engine staples. The top hits by category include...
...Erian abruptly announced his intention to step down from the helm of HMC after just 22 months in office. He was succeeded last month by Harvard Business School professor Robert S. Kaplan, a former vice chairman at Goldman Sachs who will serve as HMC's interim chief during the search for a permanent leader...