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Business Day
Phantom Pain in Russia's Amputated Limbs
Russia is trying aggressive tactics to keep former Soviet satellites like Ukraine from drifting into Europe’s sphere of influence.
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N.Y. / Region
Behind New York’s New Antismoking Law, a Persistent Councilman
Cancer deaths among relatives stirred Councilman James F. Gennaro of Queens to push, and push some more, for raising the legal age to buy cigarettes to 21.
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Automobiles
Wheelies: The Mexican Sentra Edition
Nissan is ready to begin increasing Sentra production at its plant in Mexico, and Toyota announces a rally model of the Scion FR-S.
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Science
Ocean Drones Plumb New Depths
Research teams are deploying data-gathering gliders to study the Atlantic’s many mysterious underwater movements.
POES Composite
(Daily Sea Surface Temperatures)
Atlantic
Current Image - Java
E Pacific
Current Image - Java
NOTE: More images on the NHC SST page
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutsst.shtml
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT/SST/ATL/20.jpg
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Sports
Two Wins for UConn
Bria Hartley had 20 points to help the No. 1 Connecticut women beat No. 3 Stanford, and in men’s play, Shabazz Napier put up a triple-double to lead the Huskies to a win over Yale.
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N.Y. / Region
New York City Putting Bus Routes Out for Bid
Months after a bitter strike by drivers, the Bloomberg administration said that new contracts for 4,100 school bus routes would save $400 million over several years.
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Opinion
Lives During Wartime, Vol. 4
A collection of reader photographs and remembrances of United States military veterans and their service.
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Business Day
Accounts Differ to F.B.I. and CBS on Benghazi
Conflicting statements given by a security officer to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and to CBS call into question a “60 Minutes” report.
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Business Day
A Recharging Industry Rises
High-voltage, superfast public devices are appearing more frequently, though some are more expensive for drivers than home chargers, or even gasoline.
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Sports
Running in the Dazzle of Neon
Some find the trend obnoxious, but bright shoes and gear are becoming ubiquitous on running circuits around the world.
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Opinion
High-Caliber Cosmic Nothingness
In the search for dark matter, the rest of the story is yet to come.
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Opinion
Treating Mental Illness, in the U.S. and Abroad
Jeffrey B. Freedman, a psychiatrist, and Kathleen M. Pike, a clinical psychologist, respond to an Op-Ed article.
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Business Day
Book About Amazon Is Reviewed on Amazon, by Founder’s Wife
In her lengthy review, MacKenzie Bezos took issue with “The Everything Store,” about Amazon and Jeff Bezos.The reporter always gets it wrong.
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Style
What a 'Paychecks for Pulses' Plan Could, and Couldn't, Do for Families
Swiss activists have proposed a scheme that would offer a guaranteed income to every citizen, no strings attached. Would such a plan help parents in the United States, or offer a distraction from the many ways our policies fail to offer families the support they need?
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Booming
The Blackout That Exposed the Flaws in the Grid
As this Retro Report recalls, 50 million people in the United States and Canada lost power on Aug. 14, 2003. But steps are being taken to reduce the risk of a future large-scale collapse.
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Science
Finding the Higgs Leads to More Puzzles
As scientists try to reconcile the discovery of the Higgs boson with what they thought they knew, one theory suggests that a glitch in the Higgs field could end the universe as we know it.
"As Joseph Lykken, a theorist at the Fermi National Accelerator
Laboratory, and Maria Spiropulu, of the California Institute of
Technology, put it in a new paper reviewing the history and future of
the Higgs boson:
“Taken at face value, the result implies that eventually (in 10^100
years or so) an unlucky quantum fluctuation will produce a bubble of a
different vacuum, which will then expand at the speed of light,
destroying everything.”"
1 followed by ninety zeroes is a very big number.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe
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Time frame for heat death
Main article: Future of an expanding universe
From the Big Bang through the present day and well into the future, matter and dark matter in the universe are thought to be concentrated in stars, galaxies, and galaxy clusters. Therefore, the universe is not in thermodynamic equilibrium and objects can do physical work.[12], §VID. The decay time for a supermassive black hole of roughly 1 galaxy-mass (1011 solar masses) due to Hawking radiation is on the order of 10100 years,[13] so entropy can be produced until at least that time. After that time, the universe enters the so-called dark era, and is expected to consist chiefly of a dilute gas of photons and leptons.[12], §VIA.
With only very diffuse matter remaining, activity in the universe will
have tailed off dramatically, with extremely low energy levels and
extremely long time scales. Speculatively, it is possible that the
universe may enter a second inflationary epoch, or, assuming that the current vacuum state is a false vacuum, the vacuum may decay into a lower-energy state.[12], §VE. It is also possible that entropy production will cease and the universe will achieve heat death.[12], §VID."
No change in timing
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Business Day
In Music Piracy Battles, Lyrics Demand Respect Too
A new push by the National Music Publishers Association will challenge websites that publish lyrics without licenses.
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Opinion
The Francis Era: Synthesis or Civil War?
Can Francis-era Catholicism move beyond its post-Vatican II internal conflicts?
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World
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