Whatever you might think about the wars, you should know that even some Canadians think the United States has the best military in the world.
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Via Cranach: researchers studying the nature of climate science discover that climate scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration manipulated climate data measurements by selectively eliminating the number of data collection stations:
In a January 29 report, they find that starting in 1990, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) began systematically eliminating climate measuring [...]

Really, it’s stuck in a sand trap technically. After six years of exploring the surface of Mars, five years and nine months longer that it’s original 90 day mission, NASA has now  has now redesignated the Spirit rover a “Stationary Research Platform“. That’s not a bad run for the little twin rovers that could.
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On Tuesday, a massive earthquake hit the nation of Haiti and, as current reports indicate, essentially wiped it out. Tens or hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, and hundreds of thousands or millions of people are now without basic necessities like food, water, shelter, and clothing.
Nations around the world are sending aid to [...]

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Starting today, the Transportation Safety Administration will enact a whole bevy of new security regulations the agency claims will prevent terrorism on board aircraft. While the regulations will make traveling to the United States more unpleasant for people coming from certain countries, I doubt that they will go very far toward [...]