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from BBC NEWS Download heads for history books Crazy by Gnarls Barkley has been tipped to make music history this week by becoming the UK’s first number one single based on download sales alone. Until this month, download sales could only count towards a chart position if it was also available to buy in stores. […]
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from Japanese Fiction Project The Sociological SF of Issui Ogawa Issui Ogawa has written more than a dozen novels and a collection of short stories. Fukkatsu no Chi (Land of Restoration; Hayakawa Shobo, 2004) is a novel in three volumes which, with its setting in the distant future on a remote planet long after the […]
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from Wired News What You’ll Wear in 10 Years Once-revolutionary synthetic fabrics such as polyester, Spandex, Gore-Tex and Ultrasuede are now used in a wide range of apparel and footwear. Recently, hip, Los Angeles-based denim designer Serfontaine Jeans started using DuPont’s Lycra T400, which is made from multicomponent yarns, to create stretch jeans that don’t […]
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from The Observer Murdoch goes all out for cyberspace domination … The plan, so far as it is known, is to turn MySpace into a full-fledged competitor to portals such as Yahoo and MSN. Murdoch plans to add the features that make sites ‘sticky’ – a sticky site is one that attracts more users to […]
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from washingtonpost.com U.S. Planning Base on Moon To Prepare for Trip to Mars For the first time since 1972, the United States is planning to fly to the moon, but instead of a quick, Apollo-like visit, astronauts intend to build a permanent base and live there while they prepare what may be the most ambitious […]
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from Yahoo! News Apple iTunes to sell monthly TV show subscription Apple Computer Inc.’s iTunes music and video store on Wednesday took its first step toward a monthly subscription model with a new service called Multi-Pass that lets users buy TV shows on a monthly basis. The service is being launched by iTunes in partnership […]
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from Metropolis Magazine California Dreamin’ … Those students work harder than oxen. By show time at the end of the term, they’re physically collapsing from their own ambitions. They grieve. They tremble with burnout. They slumber on the library carpets. They change a lot. Designerhood steals over them. It’s like character transformation in a novel. […]
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Water ice was expected in the polar caps, since they represent the largest known reservoirs of water on Mars. Estimates suggest that if they melted, they would cover the planet in a layer of water up to 33 metres deep.
But as it scanned the region around the south pole, MARSIS also turned up an unexpected ice source. It lies near the southern polar cap and is underneath a region of Martian surface that shows no visible signs of ice. The radar signals reveal what appear to be relatively thin layers of underground water ice layers that may contain water of a equivalent to half of that locked up in the entire southern polar cap.
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