Kepler One Hour to Launch
Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:49:58 PM GMT+1300
The launch team is working ..
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anti AIDs
glycerol monolaurate (GML), a fatty acid that has proven safe in many products: It's used as a fiber finish in tampons and also as an emulsifier in many foods and cosmetics. Unlike soap-based microbicides, GML is not a so-called surfactant that aims to disrupt the viral membrane, says Haase. Rather, he was intrigued by its documented ability to dampen the immune responses triggered by vaginal epithelial cells when exposed to toxins.
sciencemag
NZ is Iceland?
At the end of March last year, New Zealand's national debt, as measured by a negative net international investment position, was 86 percent of GDP, second to Iceland in the group of
countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
iht
Palestine
According to a Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) July 2008 report, 200 patients died while waiting to be treated outside Gaza, 45 of whom were children and 75 women. Conditions have now worsened, but even earlier PHR warned of a new GSS policy requiring patients to be interrogated at Erez crossing, asked to provide information or become collaborators for an exit permit
Marx did in foreseeing much of what's happening today:
-- the inevitable monopoly control of production, commerce, and finance;
-- a reserve army of exploited low-paid labor;
-- a class struggle between "haves" and "have-nots;"
-- capitalism's internal contradictions: exploiting and alienating the many for the few;
-- its crisis-prone nature: unstable, "anarchic," ungovernable, self-destructive with booms creating bubbles creating busts, then depressions; and ultimately
-- its inevitable decay and demise because a system so corrupted can't endure; a
socialist revolution (he believed) will replace it based on greater freedom,
inclusion, and equality.
blogspot
F15 in 30 years 107 kills, 0 losses No F15 has ever been
[thats USA F15s, according to Atlantic magazine]
shot down by enemy fire
the USA can afford the F22 y/n ???
ps: Kepler is the correct spelling