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Say goodbye to your old standard garden hose and get one that expands
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (The Original Pocket Hose)
Mon Jun 17 18:22:40 2013
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Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:22:17 -0700
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Pocket Hose Fits In A Pocket But Grows To A Full Size Hose
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NASA's $690 million Fermi space telescope was nearly hit by the dead
Russian spy satellite Cosmos 1805 on April 3, 2013. This NASA graphic
depicts the orbital paths of the two spacecraft.NASA's Goddard Space Flight
CenterArtist's illustration of NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.NASAThis
NASA graphic depicts the amount of space junk currently orbiting Earth.
The debris field is based on data from NASA's Orbital Debris Program
Office. Image released on May 1, 2013.NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/JSCA
high-tech NASA telescope in orbit escaped a potentially disastrous collision
with a Soviet-era Russian spy satellite last year in a close call
that highlights the growing threat of orbital debris around Earth.NASA's
$690 million Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope which studies the most powerful
explosions in the universe narrowly avoided a direct hit with the
defunct 1.5-ton Russian reconnaissance satellite Cosmos 1805 on April 3,
2012, space agency officials announced Tuesday, April 30. The potential
space collision was avoided when engineers commanded Fermi to fire its thrusters
in a critical dodging maneuver to move out of harm's way.- NASA's
Fermi project scientist Julie McEneryNASA created a video of Fermi's near
miss with space junk to illustrate how high the risk of a
space collision really was. [Space Junk Photos & Cleanup Concepts]Fermi
mission scientists first learned of the space collision threat on March
29, 2012 when they
PARIS The son of Iran's toppled shah has a new job
as spokesman for a nascent movement to press for free and fair
elections in his homeland.Reza Pahlavi said Thursday that his Paris-based
collective, the Iranian National Council, brings together tens of thousands
of pro-democracy people from both inside and outside Iran.He said the council
"is calling for a major boycott" of Iran's June presidential vote but
that "is not enough." He also said a civil disobedience campaign should
follow if elections aren't free and fair.Pahlavi says "we are challenging
the regime."Iran's 2009 presidential vote led to major protests that were
brutally repressed.
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<p style="font-size:xx-small;">On the night of the Benghazi terror attack, special operations put out
multiple calls for all available military and other assets to be moved
into position to help -- but the State Department and White House
never gave the military permission to cross into Libya, sources told Fox
News.The disconnect was one example of what sources described as a communication
breakdown that left those on the ground without outside help."When you are
on the ground, you depend on each other -- we're gonna get
through this situation. But when you look up and then nothing outside
of the stratosphere is coming to help you or rescue you, that's
a bad feeling," one source said.Multiple sources spoke to Fox News about
what they described as a lack of action in Benghazi on Sept.
11 last year, when four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, were
killed."They had no plan. They had no contingency plan for if this
happens, and that's the problem this is going to face in the
future," one source said. "They're dealing with more hostile regions, hostile
countries. This attack's going to happen again."Under normal circumstances,
authorities in Benghazi would have fallen under the chief of mission, one
source said -- the person in charge of security in the country
who in this case was Stevens. But once Stevens was cornered and
members of his security detail pushed his distress button, that authority
would have been transferred to his deputy. However, that deputy
particularly on border security, could
help Obama sell the immigration overhaul in the U.S., particularly to wary
Republicans. GOP lawmakers have long insisted the U.S. must focus its efforts
on securing the border before addressing the legal status of the more
than 11 million immigrants in the country illegally.The immigration bill
being debated in the Senate would strengthen border security, allow tens
of thousands of new high- and low-skilled workers into the country, require
all employers to check their workers' legal status and provide an eventual
path to citizenship for most of the immigrants in the U.S. illegally.More
than half of the immigrants in the U.S. illegally are from Mexico,
according to the Pew Research Center.Following a speech Friday to Mexican
entrepreneurs, Obama will travel to Costa Rica, his first visit as president
to the Central American nation. In addition to meetings with Costa Rican
President Laura Chincilla, Obama will attend a gathering of leaders from
the Central American Integration system. The regional network also includes
the leaders of Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama.On
Saturday, Obama will attend a business conference aimed at fostering economic
cooperation between the U.S. and Central American nations. The president
is due back in Washington Saturday night.
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