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It propagates and searches for sources of nutrients and when it finds such sources it branches out in a series of veins of protoplasm.';qwip[4]='The unexplained motion has hundreds of millions of stars dashing towards a certain part of the sky at over eight hundred kilometers per second.';qwip[5]='What Cuba has, and is uniquely able to deliver under the framework of the TCP-ALBA, is a massive surplus of skilled physicians that the socialist country has been sending abroad since its first medical mission to Algeria in 1963.';qwip[6]='Blackwater was guilty of using child prostitutes at its compound in Baghdad\'s fortified Green Zone and that owner Erik Prince knew of this activity and did nothing to stop it. ';qwip[7]='Prior to 1886, corporations were referred to in U.S. law as "artificial persons." but in 1886, after a series of cases brought by lawyers representing the expanding railroad interests, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations were "persons" and entitled to the same rights granted to people under the Bill of Rights. ';qwip[8]='Environmental liabilities estimated at $530 million were left with the old GM, which has only $1.2 billion to wind down.  ';qwip[9]='There are dangerous currents running through America\'s politics and the way we confront them is crucial ';qwip[10]='The failure to begin to deal with our bloated military establishment and the profligate use of it in missions for which it is hopelessly inappropriate will, sooner rather than later, condemn the United States to a devastating trio of consequences: imperial overstretch, perpetual war, and insolvency, leading to a likely collapse similar to that of the former Soviet Union. ';qwip[11]='Today, you can find the full syllabi, lecture notes, class exercises, tests, and some video and audio for every course MIT offers, from physics to art history.';qwip[12]='With an annual production of more than 2.5 billion tons, conventional Portland cement is responsible for an estimated 5 percent of global CO2 emissions, more than the airline industry. ';qwip[13]='The intricate chemistry involved in photosynthesis, the process where plants use sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into sugar, is the most effective solar energy conversion process on Earth. ';qwip[14]='Europe\'s largest high-speed rail operator has predicted that domestic air travel in the UK will lose millions of passengers to a 250mph train service if an ultra-fast network becomes a reality. ';qwip[15]='Hoping against hope that Kerlikowske is going rogue, the Drug Policy Alliance has started a letter-writing campaign to the President asking him to reassert the progressive views he had previously endorsed, and to rein in his recalcitrant Drug Czar.';qwip[16]='Hawaii Medical Service Association, denied her coverage for a liver transplant she needed to survive because three toxicology tests showed trace amounts of cannabis in her system. ';qwip[17]='Arrests for possessing even tiny amounts of marijuana and other drugs are subsidized by the U.S. government. Up to a billion dollars a year has been going to states, prosecutors and police departments through the Byrne Grant Program to "fight" drugs and crime.';qwip[18]='A Vote Hemp legislative assistant said Capitol Police seized his samples of industrial hemp fiber on Monday at a Rayburn Building checkpoint. ';qwip[19]='In June, a Minnesota jury awarded the four majors $1.9 million in damages, finding that single mom Jammie Thomas-Rasset had used the peer-to-peer file-sharing network Kazaa to illegally download and share 24 songs. ';qwip[20]='The company is researching ways in which DNA can arrange itself into patterns on the surface of a chip, and then act as a kind of scaffolding on to which millions of tiny carbon nanotubes and nanoparticles are deposited.';qwip[21]='Without a significant increase in funding &#8211; unlikely with the federal deficit approaching $1.3tn &#8211; Nasa will almost certainly have to scrap the next-generation Ares I rocket that has already cost more than $9bn to develop. ';qwip[22]='Those 1,100 books probably weigh about 400 or 500 pounds. They may be replaced with a device that weighs 10.2 ounces and, trust me, the price is going to be smaller, too.';qwip[23]='The T2K Open Supercomputer, located at the University of Tsukuba\'s Center for Computational Sciences, reaching 2,576,980,377,524 decimals in an approximately 73 hours and 36 minutes long calculation';qwip[24]='They also charge that Prince and other Blackwater executives destroyed incriminating videos, emails and other documents and have intentionally deceived the US State Department and other federal agencies.';qwip[25]='After explaining the difference between what she does and doesn\'t know first hand, she went on to explain: "I have information about things that our government has lied to us about.';qwip[26]='I can\'t log onto it - and neither can you, assuming you\'re not a senator, representative, or somebody who works for one. But guess what? If you\'re a lobbyist, you can buy your way in.  ';qwip[27]='In the wake of the biggest economic calamity in 80 years that reputation has taken a beating. In the public mind an arrogant profession has been humbled.';qwip[28]='Lamberth also questioned the credibility of current CIA Director Leon Panetta, saying that Panetta\'s testimony in the case contained significant discrepancies, and rejected an Obama administration request that the case continue to be kept secret.';qwip[29]='The organisms excrete the fuel, which can then be collected using conventional chemical-separation technologies. ';qwip[30]='Five men moved earlier this year to build houses and plant crops, the first step in the relocation of 1700 people in the next five years.';qwip[31]='Bundanoon is the first town in the world to stop all sales of bottled water. ';qwip[32]='But here\'s what I don\'t get: How is it that we are so eager to watch other people browning beef cubes on screen but so much less eager to brown them ourselves? ';qwip[33]='At the heart of the new weapon will be a compact airborne antenna, which will be steered electronically and be capable of generating multiple beams, each of which can be aimed while on the move.';qwip[34]='The study was only a small proof-of-principle test, and its approach is not practical on a large scale. However, it shows that scientists may finally be on the right track to developing an effective vaccine against one of mankind\'s top killers.';qwip[35]='Japan\'s rise literally from rubble into an industrial powerhouse is one of the great economic stories of the 20th century. But a slow response to the bursting real-estate and stock bubbles of the 1980s consigned the country to a decade of economic slumber from which it has yet to fully awake. ';qwip[36]='The human body literally glows, emitting a visible light in extremely small quantities at levels that rise and fall with the day, scientists now reveal. ';qwip[37]='Controversy has swirled around the map since it came to light in the 1950s, many scholars suspecting it was a hoax meant to prove that Vikings were the first Europeans to land in North America -- a claim confirmed by a 1960 archaeological find. ';qwip[38]='For years, buildings have been erected for lords and nobles for the display of wealth and power, and with that power comes the ability to possess an architectural marvel that has stood through centuries of war and dispute. ';qwip[39]='"Legalization is not in the president\'s vocabulary, and it\'s not in mine," he said. ';qwip[40]='Advocates, juror agree that sick people should decide how much pot is appropriate ';qwip[41]='The new law sets up a state-regulated program for farmers to grow industrial hemp';qwip[42]='Tellingly, his most celebrated and significant moment... was when he stood up and announced that Americans shouldn\'t trust the statements being made about the war by the U.S. ';qwip[43]='The United States reported in January that it had 1,198 delivery vehicles, and the Arms Control Association estimates that it deploys 2,200 warheads. Russia reported 816 delivery vehicles, and the association estimates that it deploys 2,000 to 3,000 warheads. ';qwip[44]='Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh raised eyebrows back in March when he told an audience at the University of Minnesota that Dick Cheney ran a secret hit squad that he kept hidden from congressional oversight. ';qwip[45]='As personal stories of terror and brutality fill the courtroom for the first time, even the defendant, Kaing Guek Eav, or Duch, has at times dropped his hard mask and broken down in tears. ';qwip[46]='Johnson actually said that even for those detainees to whom the Obama administration deigns to give a real trial in a real court, the President has the power to continue to imprison them indefinitely even if they are acquitted at their trial.';qwip[47]='"It\'s a clerical mutiny," said one Iranian analyst. "This is the first time ever you have all these big clerics openly challenging the leader\'s decision."';qwip[48]='The death toll for U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan reached 5,000 in June. An additional 80,000 Americans have been wounded or injured since the war in Iraq began. More than 300,000 of our troops have required medical treatment, and Army statistics show that more than 17 percent of our returning soldiers suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. ';qwip[49]='the United States is the only developed country in the world, the whole population of which is not covered by one or another form of health insurance. Close to 50 million Americans, or 16 percent of the population, are purely and simply left on their own. ';qwip[50]='"We were in international waters on a boat delivering humanitarian aid to people in Gaza when the Israeli Navy ships surrounded us and illegally threatened us, dismantled our navigation equipment, boarded and confiscated the ship,"';qwip[51]='The author decides to ask the people involved--the silent, shell-shocked traders of the A.I.G. Financial Products unit--and finds that the story may have a villain, whose reign of terror over 400 employees brought the company, the U.S. economy, and the global financial system to their knees. ';qwip[52]='Long after the horror of Vietnam was over, McNamara would concede, in remarks that were like salt in the still festering wounds of the loved ones of those who had died, that he had been "wrong, terribly wrong" about the war. I felt nothing but utter contempt for his concession. ';qwip[53]='Charging the US Chamber of Commerce with supporting only the "interests of Fortune 500 companies," small business owners this week sharply criticized the business group for refusing to endorse the Fairness and Transparency in Contracting Act';qwip[54]='In the case of sea-level rise, it is happening at an even greater rate than projected - largely due to rising ocean temperatures causing thermal expansion of seawater. ';qwip[55]='Plans for the world\'s largest wind farm in the Texas Panhandle have been scrapped, energy baron T. Boone Pickens said Tuesday, and he\'s looking for a home for 687 giant wind turbines. ';qwip[56]='In Bhopal, and across much of northern India, a late monsoon and the driest June for 83 years are exacerbating the effects of a widespread drought and setting neighbour against neighbour in a desperate fight for survival. ';qwip[57]='A second, and more damaging, effect comes from the U.S. emphasis on curtailing the supply abroad rather than lowering the demand at home. The consequence: a transfer of power from governments to criminals in a growing number of countries. ';qwip[58]='Mayor Don Yarber said Monday the city\'s Board of Aldermen unanimously approved a resolution last week urging state legislators to legalize medical marijuana for Missourians who have a doctor\'s approval. ';qwip[59]='For a majority of Americans, the failure of our militant anti-drug policy has now become self-evident. Recent polling found that more than 75 percent of people in this country think the drug war has not worked and will not work in the future.';qwip[60]='"We think this is what the pharma companies have been waiting for," he said today in a telephone interview. "We\'ll be bringing a new customer to the market that\'s potentially the biggest customer for DNA sequencing."';qwip[61]='Quantum photonics is a particularly attractive field to scientists and engineers alike in that it could, once some core issues have been resolved, allow for the production of integrated circuits that operate on the basis of photons instead of electrons';qwip[62]='"This 1,600-year-old manuscript offers a window into the development of early Christianity and first-hand evidence of how the text of the Bible was transmitted from generation to generation,"';qwip[63]='"At first, evolution proceeded by natural selection, from random mutations. This Darwinian phase, lasted about three and a half billion years, and produced us, beings who developed language, to exchange information."';qwip[64]='So often, the premise of media discussions of torture is that "torture" is something that was confined to a single tactic (waterboarding) and used only on three "high-value" detainees accused of being high-level Al Qaeda operatives.  The reality is completely different.  ';qwip[65]='The Honduran Congress and Supreme Court had ruled to stop the poll from going forward during the past week. Last Wednesday, Gen. Romeo Vasquez refused to involve the army in conducting the poll and President Zelaya fired him. The next day, President Zelaya and supporters stormed the base where the ballots were being kept and removed them. ';qwip[66]='Bush told Blair the US had drawn up a provocative plan "to fly U2 reconnaissance aircraft painted in UN colours over Iraq with fighter cover". Bush said that if Saddam fired at the planes this would put the Iraqi leader in breach of UN resolutions. ';qwip[67]='If Obama were to tell the truth now about what went wrong in the financial system, he would face a far larger political problem trying to clean up the mess. Instead, he has opted for smooth talk and some fuzzy reforms that effectively evade the nasty complexities of our situation. ';qwip[68]='While there may be no winners in the current economic crisis, there are losers, and among the big losers is support for American-style capitalism. This has consequences we\'ll be living with for a long time to come. ';qwip[69]='They also by their chants tied Moussavi to Imam Hosain, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, who was killed by the repressive Umayyad government in 680 CE. The implication is that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is the equivalent of the Umayyad Caliph Yazid, who is despised by Shiite Muslims as the author of the martyrdom of Imam Hosain.';qwip[70]='His research began a flutter of activity in academic circles and by 2005, the United Nations produced a much higher estimate for how many women could be "missing": 200 million. ';qwip[71]='During the last week, deep in the Peruvian Amazon, confrontations between nonviolent indigenous protesters and police have left up to 100 people dead. The vast majority of the casualties are civilians, who have been conducting peaceful demonstrations in defense of the Amazon rain forest. ';qwip[72]='Starting on July 1, the A.P. will deliver work by the Center for Public Integrity, the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University, the Center for Investigative Reporting, and ProPublica to the 1,500 American newspapers that are A.P. members, which will be free to publish the material. ';qwip[73]='Ocean acidification or diseases that thrive in acidified, oxygen-depleted seawater could be responsible for oysters not reproducing in Washington state';qwip[74]='Wind power may be the key to a clean energy revolution: a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science finds that wind power could provide for the entire world\'s current and future energy needs.  ';
