World Briefing | Africa: Morocco: Prison For Facebook Prince
A 26-year-old engineer was sentenced to three years in prison for creating a fake profile of the king’s brother on Facebook, the Internet social networking site....
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Massachusetts Faces A Test On Health Care
As the Democratic presidential candidates debate whether Americans should be forced to obtain health insurance, the people of Massachusetts are living the dilemma....
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Manufacturers Raise Prices At Record Rate
British manufacturers increased prices at a record rate last month as the sector faced soaring costs of raw materials, although growth was better than expected....
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Wetherspoons Shrugs Off Smoking Ban As Sales Rise
Fears that pub sales might go up in a puff of smoke looked wide of the mark yesterday after JD Wetherspoon reported resilient trading on the back of booming food sales....
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Music Review: Blake’s Text Writ Large And Loud By Bolcom
William Bolcom’s Eighth Symphony writes out the poetry of William Blake in capital letters. Its four movements, as played by the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall on Monday evening, think big...
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Science News

Quantum Teleporting, Yes; the Rest Is Movie Magic
2008-02-06 05:30 - A screening of the movie ?Jumper? at M.I.T. brought Hollywood and scientists together to discuss quantum physics and teleportation.

Pursuing Synthetic Life, Dazzled by Reality
2008-02-06 05:30 - The most profound insights to emerge from the pursuit of synthetic life just may be about real life.

An Altar Beyond Olympus for a Deity Predating Zeus
2008-02-06 05:30 - Archaeologists say they have found the ashes, bones and other evidence of animal sacrifices to some pre-Zeus deity on the summit of Mount Lykaion in Greece.

To Pull a Thorn From the Side of the Planet
2008-02-04 05:30 - Environmentally friendly flowers are a hard sell. After all, most people don?t eat them.

New Zealand: ?No Tears? Onions
2008-02-03 05:30 - A New Zealand concern called Crop and Food Research said on its Web site that it had created a tearless onion.

Motivated by a Tax, Irish Spurn Plastic Bags
2008-02-03 05:30 - The Irish have embraced the use of cloth bags to carry groceries, encouraged by a 33-cent tax on plastic ones.

Peter Staudhammer, Who Designed NASA Instruments, Dies at 73
2008-02-02 05:30 - Peter Staudhammer, a wide-ranging aerospace engineer and executive, helped design instruments and engines used by NASA in landings on Mars and the Moon.

A Green Energy Industry Takes Root in California
2008-02-02 05:30 - Solar power is booming in California, the product of billions of dollars in investment and great enthusiasm.

Lasers Make Other Metals Look Like Gold
2008-02-02 05:30 - In a feat of optical alchemy, researchers have used ultrashort laser bursts to alter how metals absorb and reflect light, changing their appearance dramatically.

Pictures Reveal Mercury’s Tumultuous Past
2008-02-01 06:01 - The Messenger spacecraft that zipped past Mercury two weeks ago found more evidence of the innermost planet’s turbulent past.


 
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