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Think it's hard counting the census here on Earth? Try it when you're keeping track of the population of the sky. There are more than 70 sextillion - or 70 thousand million million million - stars in the cosmos, and that doesn't include uncountable moons and asteroids and comets and more. With all that, you wouldn't think you could generate much buzz by announcing that astronomers had spotted a few dozen more bodies whirling about out there. But a buzz is just what was created yesterday at a meeting in Nantes, France, when Swiss astronomer Michel Mayor...
...Biederman and Wilens admitted to earning over $1.6 million from pharmaceutical companies last March when Harvard and Mass. General asked the Medical School professors to "take a second look" at the income they received from consulting since 2000. The total was previously reported as a couple hundred thousand dollars, according to the Congressional Record. Spencer also belatedly reported earning at least $1 million...
...different from the janjaweed [who have been accused of genocide in Darfur]. It's no different from Charles Taylor's actions in Liberia, where the militia was responsible for killing, maiming, raping and arson within the rural areas. That's exactly what's happening. Twenty-five thousand people internally displaced, 3,000 people needed hospitalization because of torture, 65 dead, and 200 missing and unaccounted for. So that is a massive scale of deliberate state-sponsored action against unarmed civilians...
...flash, for speed, for scale; we mistake immensity for complexity and subtlety for simplicity. That has very often been our undoing. Shock and awe should win a war, until an insurgency beats it back. An election should be sealed by storming Super Tuesday, until the campaign dies of a thousand little losses. The 2003 Yankees, with their $180 million payroll, should win the World Series, until the $63 million Marlins send them packing...
...when I started this race, I intended to win back the White House and make sure we have a President who puts our country back on the path to peace, prosperity and progress," Clinton told the crowd of several thousand gathered at Washington's National Building Museum. "And that's exactly what we're going to do, by ensuring that Barack Obama walks through the doors of the Oval Office on Jan. 20, 2009." The door swung shut behind Miller and Mahoney...