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  • Israel stunned by Hawking snub Israel stunned by Hawking snub

    It is an event "of cosmic proportions", said one Palestinian academic, a befitting description of Stephen Hawking's decision to boycott an Israeli academic conference slated for next June. It was also a decisive moral call which was communicated by the Cambridge University, where Hawking is a professor, on May 8. Hawking is a world-renowned cosmologist and physicist. His scientific work had ...

  • Wireless signals can stunt plant growth

    A Danish science experiment by a group of 9th-graders has gained worldwide interest, after they showed that wireless signals can stunt plant growth. Five girls from Hjallerup Skole, a primary education school in Denmark, began the experiment after noticing that when they slept with their cellphones near their heads overnight, they had trouble focusing the next day, according to Danish News site ...

  • Spanish art gets privileged space in New York museum

    New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has reopened its European paintings galleries after a two-year renovation, giving a privileged space to Spanish masters Velazquez, El Greco and Goya. Prior to the overhaul, the Met's large collection of works by Velazquez, Goya, Ribera, Murillo and El Greco had been distributed in different galleries organized either by artistic movement or ...

  • Russia plans four spacecraft launches in 2014

    Russia's Energia Rocket and Space Corporation will make four launches next year from the Pacific Ocean-based Odyssey platform under the Sea Launch programme, an official said. Corporation president Vitaly Lopota said that after 2014, Energia will be able to make five or more launches a year. Next year's launches will be the first since one of Sea Launch's Zenit vehicles carrying an Intelsat-27 ...

  • Watch 3 planets form triangle in sky

    If skies are clear, you'll be able to see Venus, Jupiter and Mercury appear to group together just above the western horizon shortly after sunset on Sunday, May 26th. It is an optical illusion; the planets won't be close. But the grouping -- which will resemble a triangle -- will be distinct, and there won't be anything quite like it again until January 2021. The best time to look ...

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) [Blu-Ray]

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) [Blu-Ray]

Over the past decade, at least since the Michael Bay-produced remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), we have been inundated at the multiplex with remakes of horror classics. This is not necessarily a new development, as the horror genre has ... ...

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  • UPDATE 3-Two freight trains collide in Missouri 7 injured

    Sat May 25, 2013 12:07pm EDT May 25 (Reuters) - Two freight trains collided at a rail intersection in southeastern Missouri on Saturday, triggering the collapse of a highway overpass when several rail cars derailed and struck a support pillar, authorities said. None of the seven people hurt - two aboard the trains and five people who had been in cars on the two-lane overpass - suffered ...

  • Group discusses safety of space tourism

    The spacecraft SpaceShipTwo, center, carried by cargo aircraft WhiteKnightTwo, circles over Spaceport America Monday, Oct. 17, 2011 in Upham, N.M. Space-industry watchers expressed concern this week that the emerging space tourism sector is not being candid enough about the safety risks for travellers. (AP Photo/Matt ...

  • RBC Code of Conduct a welcome step Steelworkers

    RBC denies it's replacing staff with foreign workers The United Steelworkers, Canada's largest union, congratulated the Royal Bank of Canada for promising not to hire foreign workers to replace Canadians and not to outsource jobs. RBC announced a Supplier Code of Conduct Friday, saying that "this principles-based Code sets out RBC's expectations of suppliers to ensure their ...

  • Pictures Ethiopia’s Extreme Salt Mines

    The colorful and extreme Afar is also home to a valuable commodity: salt. For centuries the Afar people have mined rich salt deposits left behind from Red Sea floods in the ...

  • Travel Writer Paul Theroux’s Last Trip to Africa

    Paul Theroux has been traversing continents--often crammed into an overcrowded bus or wedged into a packed train car. His international wanderings began as a Peace Corps volunteer in Malawi in 1963, and in 1975 he published his first travel ...

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