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  • NASA -The 2009 Leonid Meteor Shower

    Rated 12:08pm 2 reviews space exploration nasa.gov





    This year's Leonid meteor shower peaks on Tuesday, Nov. 17th. If forecasters are correct, the shower should produce a mild but pretty sprinkling of meteors over North America followed by a more intense outburst over Asia. The phase of the Moon will be new, setting the stage for what could be one of the best Leonid showers in years.






  • Heels claim another ACC soccer title - North Carolina -...

    Rated Nov 09 1 review soccer newsobserver.com




    CARY -- North Carolina and Florida State met in the championship match of the ACC Women's Soccer Championship for the third time in four years at WakeMed Soccer Park on Sunday. The game ended just like the others.

    Third-seeded North Carolina beat top-seeded Florida State 3-0 for its 20th ACC tournament title in 22 years. The Tar Heels (17-3-1) have a 57-0-3 record in ACC tournament play.
  • NASA - A Tale of Planetary Woe

    Rated Nov 06 2 reviews astronomy nasa.gov



    An artist's concept of solar wind blowing away the atmosphere of Mars.
    This is just one of several plausible explanations
    for what happened to the Red Planet.




    Mars must have lost its most precious asset: its thick atmosphere of carbon dioxide. CO2 in Mars's atmosphere is a greenhouse gas, just as it is in our own atmosphere. A thick blanket of CO2 and other greenhouse gases would have provided the warmer temperatures and greater atmospheric pressure required to keep liquid water from freezing solid or boiling away.

    Over the last four billion years, Mars somehow lost most of that blanket. Scientists have proposed various theories for how that loss happened. Perhaps an asteroid impact blew most of the atmosphere into space in one catastrophic event. Or maybe erosion by the solar wind... a stream of charged particles emanating from the sun ÃÃ,¢Ã¢,Ã,¬" could have slowly stripped the atmosphere away over eons. The planet's surface might also have absorbed the CO2 and locked it up in minerals such as carbonate.





  • Global Recession, Global Economic Recession, Global...

    Rated Oct 29 1 review economics economy.com




    Global Recession Status




    Moody's Economy.com closely tracks economic conditions in the major economies of the world and summarizes the results on this interactive map. Analysts follow a wide range of indicators to ascertain a country's position in the business cycle. Specifically, we focus on gauges of employment, industrial production and retail sales--high-frequency indicators that capture the breadth of economic activity. Countries where the indicators are dropping are labeled In Recession. Those where declines have slowed are said to be Moderating. Countries where the indicators have begun rising again are Recovering. Economies that have advanced past their previous growth peaks are labeled Expanding.




  • Study Says New Economic Indicators Are Needed - NYTimes.com

    Rated Oct 28 1 review economics nytimes.com




    Emphasis on Growth Is Called Misguided


    Instead of centering assessments on the goods and services an economy produces, policy makers would do better to focus on the material well-being of typical people by measuring income and consumption, along with the availability of health care and education, the report concludes.

    Many of these prescriptions will no doubt resonate with policy makers and ordinary people.

    Indeed, the difficulty comes in turning these general principles into new means of measurement. The report notes that its authors concur on the big picture, but diverge on the methodologies to be employed when it comes to factoring in the value of a better education and cleaner skies.

    The old mode of measurement has taken a beating, and yet the new one, it seems, is still a work in progress.



    The report is more critique than prescription. It elucidates in general terms why leaning exclusively on growth as an economic philosophy may yield unhappiness, and it suggests that the incomes of typical people should be weighed more heavily than the gross production of whole societies.