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Aug 20, 2007 at 04:59 PM |
Mexicans in the easter Yucatan Peninsula are bracing themselves for a potential category five hurricane that is registering winds of 150mph (240km/h).
The storm has so far claimed six lives in the eastern Caribbean, though the Carman islands came off surprisingly unscathed on Monday.
In Jamaica, a country which many said was unprepared, it caused awful damage to housing but human injuries are though to be low.
“We’re leaving. You don’t play around with nature,” said Maclovio Manuel Kanul, who owns a beachfront fishing shack near Cancun in Mexico, according to AP.
“We still haven’t been able to recover from Wilma, and now this is coming,” he added.
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Last Updated ( Aug 20, 2007 at 05:58 PM )
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Aug 07, 2007 at 06:17 PM |
The ongoing search for planets orbiting other stars has recently stumbled across "TrES-4", "the largest known exoplanet" according to Georgi Mandushev, who heads the planet hunting team at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, USA.
TrES-4 has been found as part of the Transatlantic Exoplanet Survey (TrES), an ongoing project which hopes eventually to be able to refine its technical capabilities in order to detect small, Earth like planets, which are much harder to spot. This is because the primary method of planet finding - the deduction of a planet's presence and characteristics from its distortion of the light from its star - would require as-yet unobtainable access to telescopes powerful enough to observe the much smaller effect on a star's light which an earth-like planet, by necessity, would exert.
The TrES team came across the planet in orbit around the star GSC02620-00648, located some 1500 light years distant from our sun, while scanning the Hercules constellation.
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Last Updated ( Aug 29, 2007 at 10:39 AM )
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Jun 20, 2007 at 10:09 AM |
John A. Rizzo, the C.I.A's top lawyer, is no stranger to controversy. A graduate of Brown University and the George Washington University Law School, he joined the agency in 1976, when the Church Committee of the Senate had just unearthed the agency’s involvement in assassination plots.
Since becoming senior deputy general counsel, in 1995, Mr. Rizzo has often filled in as acting general counsel. In this time he was involved in deciding the legality of many of the CIA's most controversial actions.
In an August 2002 memo, written by a senior Justice Department lawyer, said that for an interrogation technique to be torture, it must inflict physical pain that is difficult to endure.
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Last Updated ( Jun 20, 2007 at 10:12 AM )
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