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Indonesia to Use Rain-Making Tech to Stop Fires

Source: Discovery News

Indonesia plans to use weather changing technology to try to unleash torrents of rain and extinguish raging fires on Sumatra island that have cloaked neighboring Singapore in thick haze, an official said Wednesday. The city-state, ...
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Nadal seeded No. 5 for Wimbledon

Source: Sify

'll have to do it the hard way. Fresh from winning his eighth French Open, Nadal is seeded only No. 5 at Wimbledon — setting up the possibility of a quarterfinal match against title contenders Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic ...
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UMass Lowell Student Team Recognized by EPA for Sustainable Environmental Solutions (MA)

Source: Environmental Protection Agency

(Boston, Mass. – June 19, 2013) – A Massachusetts college was among seven university and college teams nationwide that received an award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for innovative solutions to some of today’s to ...
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Burning Girls

Source: Tor: Science Fiction Blog

“Burning Girls” by Veronica Schanoes is a fascinating dark fantasy novella about a Jewish girl educated by her grandmother as a healer and witch growing up in an increasingly hostile environment in Poland in the late nineteenth century. In add ...
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Morning Memo: Rural Center questions continue, First Lady steps out

Source: Under the Dome

TODAY AT THE STATEHOUSE: In committees, a number of contentious measures are being considered for discussion only. The House Finance Committee will review a taxpayer bill of rights, known as TABOR, that would consti ...
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Five Inexpensive Stocks In An Overheated Market

Source: Seeking Alpha

Since the market bottom of March 2009, the S&P 500 index has risen about 140%. Over the past year, we've seen gains of about 26%. It's been an extraordinary four-year run; one of the best in US history, and the past ...
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Mezzo-soprano Cathy Berberian is due for a rediscovery

Source: Los Angeles Times

This year marks the 30th anniversary of Berberian's death from a heart attack at 57 in Rome, where she was about to appear on television to sing the "Internationale" in the style of Marilyn Monroe on the centennial of Karl Marx's death. ...
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The Fab Five, Revisited: Wimbledon 2013 Women’s Contenders

Source: Tennis Grandstand

Serena Williams, about to make lethal look effortless. This companion to a Monday article on the Wimbledon men’s field discusses five key women to watch during the next fortnight. Tennis Grandstand will feature a joint preview on the men’s and women’s dr ...
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NASA sets sights on the Sun

Source: Nature.com

The IRIS telescope will zoom in on the chromosphere, pictured here by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualisation Studio/SDO/NASA For the most part, the Sun gets plenty of attention from astronomers. It ...
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First known monodactyl dinosaur adding knowledge to the evolution and biogeography of alvarezsauroids

Source: PhysOrg.com

Fig.1 Alvarezsauroid theropod Linhenykus monodactylus. Skeletal silhouette showing preserved bones (missing portions shown in grey). (Image by XU Xing) Fig.2 Life reconstruction of two individuals of Linhenykus monodactylus. Credit: Juliu ...
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