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The Christian Science Monitor is an international daily newspaper published Monday through Friday. Founded in 1908 by Mary Baker Eddy, it's now also a multimedia website, an e-mail edition, a personal digital assistant (PDA) edition, and a downloadable PDF of the print version.
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The United States is scheduled to launch on Friday an orbiting telescope designed to help answer one of the oldest and deepest questions of astronomy: Are we – or at least our planet’s microbes – alone in the galaxy?The Kepler spacecraft will stare at a patch of sky – the same 100,000 stars near the northern constellation Cygnus, all at once – for at least 3-1/2 years. The goal is to detect Earth-...
03-06
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PhiladelphiaBy the time Philadelphia says “arrivederci” to Bella Italia on Sunday, about a quarter million tourists will have stepped through her Roman arches, strolled past her Venetian wedding scene, envied her vegetable gardens, and ogled her opulently laid feasts. Italy is this year’s theme at the Philadelphia Flower Show, the giant redwood of such shows, the Olympic Games of horticulture.Ever...
03-06
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BEIJING – In China, where every political decision is taken behind closed doors, the authorities attach extraordinary importance to the public set-pieces of the political calendar, such as the annual meeting of the National Peoples Congress, China’s putative parliament.Sometimes the NPC pretends to debate issues that matter, even though they have been decided beforehand according to the will of Co...
03-06
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Los Angeles - With bus loads of supporters and protesters watching a live video feed outside the court building in downtown San Francisco, the state Supreme Court heard Thursday oral arguments challenging the legality of Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that state voters approved last November banning same-sex marriage. A central question the court faces is whether Proposition 8 amounts to a v...
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Proposed penalties and fines come in the wake of global concern about the safety of China's food exports.BEIJING - China's proposed food safety law, which promises tough penalties, including possible life imprisonment for makers of dangerous food products, is a good first step, industry officials and analysts said Tuesday. A draft version of the law, released this week, is aimed at raising standar...
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