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Thousands dead in Chinese quake

Mon, 12 May 2008 14:40:27 GMT

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Between 3,000 and 5,000 people may have been killed by an earthquake measuring 7.8 in just one county of south-western China's Sichuan province, reports say.

Some 10,000 people are also feared to have been injured in Beichuan county.

Desperate efforts are under way to find survivors. One school that collapsed has buried an estimated 900 students.

President Hu Jintao has urged "all-out" efforts to rescue victims of the quake, which hit 92km (57 miles) from Chengdu, Sichuan's provincial capital.

The quake was felt as far away as Beijing, he says, meaning millions of people will feel connected to the disaster and will be watching TV screens closely to see how the government responds.

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Astronauts say there must be life in space

Mon, 12 May 2008 14:44:03 GMT

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TOKYO (AFP) - The human race will find life elsewhere in the universe as it pushes ahead with space exploration, astronauts back from the latest US space mission said Monday.

"If we push back boundaries far enough, I'm sure eventually we'll find something out there," said Mike Foreman, a mission specialist on the Endeavour, which returned to Earth in March.

"Maybe not as evolved as we are, but it's hard to believe that there is not life somewhere else in this great universe," he told a news conference in Tokyo.

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Made Where..?

Sun, 11 May 2008 13:03:33 GMT

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Forbes Clips

Mon, 12 May 2008 05:42:07 GMT

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Forbes Clips

Forbes Clips brings you the latest news and information about everything our writers and editors are reading on the web.

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85,000-year-old finery recovered in Moroccan cave

Sun, 11 May 2008 21:09:31 GMT

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Archaeologists have uncovered shells used for finery by prehistoric communities 85,000 years ago in a cave in eastern Morocco, the country's heritage institute said Tuesday.

A research team, led by archaeology and heritage institute (INSAP) member Abdel-Jalil Bouzouggar and Oxford University's Nick Barton, found the 20 perforated shells in a cave near Taforalt between March and April this year.

According to a statement from the Moroccan Ministry for Culture, the shells are the type prehistoric people would have worn.

"This discovery shows that the making and use of objects of finery is very anchored in the traditions of Morocco's prehistoric people," said Bouzouggar, in whose opinion the country is the original center of artistic and symbolic creation.

Objects of finery discovered in Morocco are "now considered to be even more ancient than those discovered in Algeria, South Africa and in Palestine," said the Culture Ministry.

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allaboutphilosophy.org

Mon, 12 May 2008 12:15:22 GMT

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Philosophy: The Big Questions

Do you want a rational investigation of the truth? Philosophy poses many questions. Where did I come from and why am I here? Why is there suffering? Is there a God? What is my purpose in life? Get started on your trek to find answers to life's most important questions

Systems of Thought

Deism Dualism Existentialism^* Nihilism Postmodernism Agnostic Atheism Communism Cultural Materialism Cultural Relativism Humanism Materialism Moral Relativism Naturalism Secular Humanism

Matters of Thought

Cosmological Argument^* Absolute Truth Creation Vs. Evolution Does God Exist? Evolutionism God God's Love Is God Real? Is There A God? Morality Situational Ethics Why Am I Here?

Great Thinkers

Abd-ar-Rahman III^* Antony Flew Aristotle Blaise Pascal Accomplishments C.S. Lewis Quotes Gilgamesh Great Philosophers Greek Philosopher Plato Life of Confucius Life of King David Life of St. Augustine Nebuchadnezzar Philosophy Quotes Thomas Aquinas

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Vikings: from ram-raiders to fishmongers

Sun, 11 May 2008 21:06:11 GMT

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Archaeologists and scientists have revealed that 1,000 years ago cod was traded extraordinary distances across Europe, from the Norwegian Arctic to England and the Baltic.

The research may force yet another revision of the image of the Vikings, from longship ram-raiders, to mainly traders and colonising farmers, to the fishmongers of Europe. Vikings in York were eating cod caught off the Norwegian coast.

The research, reported in this month's Journal of Archaeological Science, also shows the 1,000-year-old origins of the modern problem of declining fish stocks, as fishing grounds had to supply far more than a local market. The emergence of commercial fishing "may represent the point at which people started to have an impact on marine ecoystems," said James Barrett, of Cambridge University's archaeology department.

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Golden Rules For Living

Sun, 11 May 2008 13:12:07 GMT

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If you open it, close it.

If you turn it on, turn it off.

If you unlock it, lock it up.

If you break it, admit it.

If you can't fix it, call in someone who can.

If you borrow it, return it.

If you value it, take care of it.

If you make a mess, clean it up.

If you move it, put it back.

If it belongs to someone else, get permission to use it.

If you don't know how to operate it, leave it alone.

If it's none of your business, don't ask questions.

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Remarkable Rocks

Mon, 12 May 2008 00:10:35 GMT

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Lawmakers & corporations to earn millions if war continues

Mon, 12 May 2008 01:19:52 GMT

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lawmakers have as much as $196 million “invested in companies doing business with the Defense Department, earning millions since the start of the Iraq war.”

Civilian firms such as PepsiCo and IBM form the backbone of what more accurately can be described as a “military-corporate complex.”

PepsiCo and IBM ranked among the Pentagon’s top 100 contractors, taking in $286,696,943 and $291,825,309, respectively

top 100 suppliers also included such well-known civilian firms as Tyson Foods ($335,239,095), Goodrich Corp. ($344,091,017), Procter & Gamble ($362,461,808), Kraft Foods ($500,799,104), Dell ($636,343,593), ExxonMobil ($1,176,354,936), FedEx ($1,303,032,027) and General Electric ($2,327,705,161)

It’s high time we at least recognize that PepsiCo, IBM, Microsoft, and Johnson & Johnson and just about every other corporate giant

are benefiting not only from our purchases of cola, computers, software and bandages but from our tax dollars, via the Pentagon

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Clouds Over The Earth, Earth Under Clouds

Sun, 11 May 2008 18:05:14 GMT

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27. Earth Rises Over the Moon's Horizon, July 16, 1969
As Seen From the NASA Apollo 11 Spacecraft

1. Beautiful and Impressive View of a Storm Front, With Clouds – One Shaped Like a Long Tube-Ribbon – and the
Sky Painted in a Wonderful Mixture of Pink-Purple Tints, October 4, 2006

2. A Beautiful View of Huge Clouds Over Earth, August 20, 2007 at 22:17:35.634 GMT
As Seen From the International Space Station (Expedition 15)
Latitude (LAT): 51.3 · Longitude (LON):

3. Hurricane Gordon Over the Atlantic Ocean, September 17, 2006 at 18:15:36 GMT
As Seen From Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-115)

4. Rainbow-Colored Cloud, June 2, 2007
Norfolk, Commonwealth of Virginia, USA

5. Hurricane Isabel Over the Atlantic Ocean, September 15, 2003

6. A Detailed View of Hurricane Isabel's Cloudy Eye, Over the Atlantic Ocean

7. A Large Portion of Cloud-Covered Planet Earth Is Reflected In the Helmet Visor of NASA Astronaut Clayton C. Anderson, the
International Space Station (Expedition 15) Flight Engineer,

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9FF GT9 Only 409 km/h

Sun, 11 May 2008 13:44:51 GMT

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09 May
9FF GT9 almost breaks world speed record : 409 km/h

The current world record speed for the fastest production car was set by the SSC Ultimate Aero that topped at 255.83 mph which is 411.71 km/h. Recently the 9FF engineers tried to beat that with their modified GT9 but couldn’t do it. They only managed to make it run at 409 km/h at a track in Papenburg on 10th April.

9FF’s GT9 was based on the Porsche 911 GT3, but lower and longer. The interesting part is that the car has the engine in the middle (not the rear) for better weight distribution. Now that I mentioned the engine, the beast outputs 987 bhp from a 4L flax six twin turbo and a six-speed transmission.
Though they couldn’t beat the world record, 9FF guys can stand proud because they managed to take on the Bugatti Veyron which topped at 407 km/h. The GT9 however, is not as fast as the Veyron : 0 - 60 mph in 4.2 seconds.

Jim Caviezel really walks his talk.....

Sat, 10 May 2008 23:44:42 GMT

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TORONTO (LifeSiteNews) - Jim Caviezel, the star of the blockbuster film The Passion of the Christ, told an interviewer that he had been challenged by a friend who was not pro-life to live up to his professed pro-life convictions and adopt a disabled child.

The friend told Caviezel that if he did that, then he would change to the pro-life position. When Caviezel and his wife, Kerri, went to China to adopt not one, but eventually two orphans suffering from brain tumours, the friend reneged on the deal. Caviezel, however, said, "It didn't matter to me because the joy that we had from (Bo) - he's like our own."

The couple's first child, Bo, had been abandoned on a train, grew up in an orphanage until he was five and was diagnosed with a brain tumour. The Caviezels nursed Bo through his surgeries and he remains today at the centre of the family.

"You have no idea the blessings that you have coming" says Pro-Life Caviezel to parents considering adoption.

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Water, wind, and time

Mon, 12 May 2008 01:37:34 GMT

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(from German Insel, “island,” and Berg, “mountain”), isolated hill that stands above well-developed plains and appears not unlike an island rising from the sea. The early German explorers of southern Africa were impressed by such features, and they dubbed the domed or castlelike highlands inselbergs. Spectacular examples include Ayers Rock and the Olga Rocks in central Australia.

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Three-phase block diagram of pedimentation of an upland in a desert. The process of “scarp” retreat and planation is accomplished by sheet wash on non-vegetated surfaces, but it cannot begin until a local base level of erosion–deposition is established. Streams dissecting the upland cannot cut below the level created where deposition of alluvium begins as runoff dissipates. The long-term locus of that deposition established the datum for lateral stream-bank and valley-wall recession at higher elevations.

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Ayers Rock

Mon, 12 May 2008 04:14:24 GMT

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Situated in Kata Tjuta National Park, it is the world’s largest monolith

Uluru (formerly known as Ayers Rock) is a large rock formation in central Australia, in the Northern Territory. There is something totally awe-inspiring about Uluru.

A huge monolith, 862.5 metres above sea level, 1395 km south of Darwin and 465 km south west of Alice Springs, rising out of the desert. Uluru, which means ‘great pebble’ in the Aboriginal language. Uluru is a 3.6km-long rising 348 metres above the surrounding countryside. It has an area of 3.33 sq. km and a circumference of 9.4 km.

Uluru is notable for its quality of changing colour as the different light strikes it at different times of the day and year, with sunset a particularly remarkable sight. It is made of sandstone infused with minerals like feldspar (Arkosic sandstone) that cause it to give off a red glow at sunrise and sunset.

It is sacred to the Aborigines and has many storied springs, waterholes, rock caves and ancient paintings.

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85,000-year-old finery recovered in Moroccan cave

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Vikings: from ram-raiders to fishmongers

Golden Rules For Living

Remarkable Rocks

Lawmakers & corporations to earn millions if war continues

Clouds Over The Earth, Earth Under Clouds

9FF GT9 Only 409 km/h

09 May9FF GT9 almost breaks world speed record : 409 km/h

Jim Caviezel really walks his talk.....

Water, wind, and time

Ayers Rock

09 May
9FF GT9 almost breaks world speed record : 409 km/h