Condoleezza Rice performed music by Brahms on the piano in an elegant music room at Buckingham Palace, with Queen Elizabeth II listening. Miss Rice was later presented with an audio recording of the recital by the Queen. The top US diplomat met UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband in London, who’s wife accompanied Miss Rice during [...]
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As you may know, the Hubble Space Telescope has been experiencing technical difficulties, and has been operating in safe mode recently. NASA is slowly bringing back modules on the telescope, such as a camera, and are hopeful full operational status can be achieved soon. Some anomalies have delayed the restart that was planned last week. [...]
Unless you have been living under a rock, you’ve heard of the 700 billion-dollar bailout plan (politicians prefer the term “rescue plan”) of the Bush administration to keep major financial institutions from collapsing. Now most of us will agree that the situation requires some dramatic action. Yet we have different opinions on whether it is [...]