Final frontier's golden spike

Source: collectSPACE

May 26, 2012 / 6:10 p.m. CT (2310 GMT) : Don Pettit, who became the first to enter the Dragon on Saturday, compared the arrival of the private cargo spacecraft at the International Space Station to the golden spike that was used ...
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Günter Grass attacks Merkel for Athens policy

Source: The Independent

The 84-year-old's latest work, "Europe's Disgrace", was published in the daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung. It comes less than two months after Grass triggered a storm of criticism with another intervention on a political issue – a prose ...
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We shouldn't be lecturing euro states, says Cable

Source: The Independent

Speaking at the end of a trade visit to Germany, the Business Secretary said he had been struck by the absence of "a sense of crisis", telling cabinet colleagues that hectoring from across the Channel is "ba ...
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Chuka Umunna: 'It is plain, Camerkozy austerity is not working'

Source: The Independent

Now Mr Umunna is inviting the coalition's Business Secretary to join Labour in opposition: "It's clear to me that Vince should leave government and join us. He and I could then work together on an industrial strategy to ...
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Change in whistleblowing law 'will put lives at risk'

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Plans to reform whistleblowing laws will put lives at risk by deterring workers from coming forward to expose wrongdoing, critics warned yesterday. Business ministers propose changing legislation – the 1998 Public Interest Disclosure Act (Pida) – by intr ...
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Parliamentary coverage: cancelled due to lack of interest

Source: Guardian Unlimited

Assorted politicians troop into Leveson's Strand courtroom and complain that they are mild-mannered public servants who bear neither private malice nor vitriol (of the "Ed Balls is a poisonous influence" variety, as Peter Mandelson once told ...
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End of rates relief ‘won’t save £18m’

Source: The Scotsman

THE Scottish Government has rejected calls to change course on its plans to cancel empty property rates relief as experts warn it will fall far short of its expected £18 million annual contribution to Government coffers. Peter Muir, a rat ...
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Tony Blair's moral decline and fall is now complete | Nick Cohen

Source: Guardian Unlimited

If you wanted to see why Tony Blair is finished as a force for good in politics, you should have been at the discreet, if extortionately expensive, Haymarket hotel, off Trafalgar Square. Portland Communications, publicists for what ...
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The Adventures of Julius Chancer: The Rainbow Orchid, Volume Three by Garen Ewing – review

Source: Guardian Unlimited

What to do when you have read – and read – all of the Tintin books? Well, why not try The Rainbow Orchid, the first Julius Chancer adventure? The story comes in three volumes, the third and final of which has just been published, and I couldn't like i ...
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