"KANDAHAR, Afghanistan | U.S. military officials sent a medical team to a remote outpost in southern Afghanistan this week to take blood samples from members of an Army unit after a soldier in the unit died from an Ebola-like virus."
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"Astronomers have discovered two new satellite galaxies of the Milky Way and one could claim the title of the faintest yet found. In the past two years, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's measurements of stars stretching across a quarter of the sky have enabled astronomers to find several new companion dwarf galaxies for the Milky Way and its near-twin galaxy, Andromeda."
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StumbleUpon top 5 rated websites: Secret knock detecting lock, best photoshop tutorials - Media, News - The Independent - http://www.independent.co.uk/news...
"A look at this week's top-rated websites from StumbleUpon, recorded on November 6. This week's selection includes a website that shows you how a secret knock-detecting lock works, a website that shows how clever dolphins are, a website featuring an article about beauty and perception, a website showing how to make a caramel Apple Cheesecake Pie and a website that hosts the best Photoshop tutorials for July 2009."
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"The Hubble Space Telescope’s new camera is returning incredibly detailed, stunning images of space. This close-up view of an area near the core of the iconic Southern Pinwheel galaxy, or M83, shows very rapid star birth."
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"A police officer and mother of one was hailed a heroine yesterday after it emerged that she almost single handedly ended the massacre at America’s biggest military base. Kimberly Munley does not look as if she would be much of a match for a heavily armed US soldier on a murderous rampage. But the slightly built 34-year-old civilian officer was first on the scene after Major Nidal Malik Hasan began firing on comrades at Ford Hood in Texas as they prepared to deploy to Afghanistan and Iraq. The 39-year-old psychologist killed 13 and left 31 others with serious injuries."
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We had a moment of silence on my ship Friday for what happened at Ft. Hood. Even though this was in the Army, they were my brothers and sisters in the Military.
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For the first time an infant neutron star has been been observed (blue dot in the centre of the image). The neutron star which is located in the "Cassiopeia A" supernova was photographed by the The Chandra X-ray Observatory. It is the latest stunning image to come from this telescope which has lasted twice as long as its original mission run of five years
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"Internet rights campaigners are expressing serious concerns over information leaking out of the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) negotiations taking place in Korea. The ACTA talks are far-reaching international trade talks that have major implications for the internet, but consumer rights campaigners say the talks have been hijacked by lobbyists and negotiators for media heavyweights, such as Hollywood studios and Rupert Murdoch's News International."
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"Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land people in jail. The JCT letter makes clear that Americans who do not maintain “acceptable health insurance coverage” and who choose not to pay the bill’s new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years."
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Messages from Twitter seem to be taking awhile to post. What's with the lag time??????