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...arrangement may help astronomy break through a size barrier that it reached in 1948, when technicians completed work on the famous 200-in. glass mirror for the Hale Telescope at Mount Palomar; beyond that size, glass mirrors tend to sag and distort un-acceptably, affected both by their own weight and by changes in temperature. The only larger mirror in the world, a 236-in. monolith atop Mount Semirodriki in the Soviet Union, is apparently hopelessly flawed and has done little significant work since being completed in 1974. One solution to the size problem is to make several smaller mirrors...
...weight of family and community hangs over Shame like a doting parent. As Sanghera notes, nobody really knows how many young people in Britain are pressured into matches they don't want. The British government's Forced Marriage Unit deals with more than 250 cases a year, but Sanghera's group, Derby-based Karma Nirvana, alone takes on seven new ones a week. Police in Britain are investigating scores of suspected "honor killings" of women resisting arranged marriages. Tellingly, the suicide rate among young South Asian females is three times the national average...
...Speaking of fat and skinny, how are you keeping the weight...
...Senate. But they have had considerable success in local elections--and not just their stunning successes at the gubernatorial level. Since 2004 they have also won control of the Montana senate and both houses of the Colorado legislature. And the region's Democrats will throw disproportionate weight in the 2008 presidential selection process. Nevada will hold caucuses in the first week of the presidential campaign, having poked its way into the schedule between the traditional battles in Iowa and New Hampshire. A few weeks later, on Feb. 5, there will be a Rocky Mountain regional primary, with three states...
Thanks to its links to China, Hong Kong punches above its weight in international commerce Hong Kong's largest trading partners (2005) Rest of world 27.5% Singapore 4% Taiwan 4.8% Japan 8.2% U.S. 10.5% China 45% Hong Kong's GDP growth rate (2001-06) * Projected [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] Initial publc offerings (2006) Stock exchange Capital raised ($ millions) Total IPOs Hong Kong 41133 54 London 40191 46 New York 28724 67 NASDAQ 17257 1387 Euronext...