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...Oribe Royal Blowout Improve your blowout and cut your drying time with this sheer styling mist from the legendary hair stylist (all the products in the line were tested behind the dressing-room doors of Hollywood A listers...
...America now faces the direst employment landscape since the Depression. It's troubling not simply for its sheer scale but also because the labor market, shaped by globalization and technology and financial meltdown, may be fundamentally different from anything we've seen before. And if the result is that we're stuck with persistent 9%-to-11% unemployment for a while - a range whose mathematical congruence with that other 9/11 is impossible to miss - we may be looking at a problem that will define the first term of Barack Obama's presidency the way the original 9/11 defined George...
...Sept. 1, the U.S. is second only to the host country in ticket purchases--78,328, according to FIFA, almost double that of the next best, England. U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati isn't surprised, crediting the sales to the increasing popularity of the sport domestically along with the sheer size and wealth...
While the sheer number and size of the found animals were extraordinary - and made possible because the volcanic crater's ecology had been virtually undisturbed by humans - the scientific discovery of new species is actually quite routine. In fact, biologists are identifying new species at a torrid rate, about 50 a day; nearly 17,000 new plants and animals were described in 2006 alone, or some 1% of the 1.8 million species that have been recognized so far. (See 10 species near extinction...
...ozone layer is not new, but the Science study is the first comprehensive look at the exact concentrations and consequences of the gas. The investigators found that although N2O is only one-sixtieth as dangerous to the ozone layer as CFCs on a gram-by-gram basis, the sheer amount of N2O - each year nearly 1 billion metric tons of CO2 equivalent are released globally - means that it now poses a more significant threat to the atmosphere. (N2O emissions are calculated in terms of their impact on global warming, and CO2 is used as a kind of base level...