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Obama recently criticized the Mccain-Palin duo a few days back, pointing out that the change rhetoric Mccain was attempting to pull was, in fact, nothing more than a cheap bluff. Ironically, what in the end became more controversial were the words 'lipstick on a pig' which resonated throughout the entire campaign trail, leaving some Republicans fuming while sparking off widespread debates.
Now to be honest, Mccain should have seen this coming ever since he stole his opponent's catch-phrase during the RNC last week. After all, Obama certainly wasn't going to sit around idling after his opponents had adopted his slogan of change as their own.
In fact, the illinois senator already started ruffling feathers on Tuesday when he begun
News about the Large Hadron Collider was certainly ubiquitous today, hitting the front pages of the mainstream media all over the world. It was only after reading some of the featured articles, however, when I realized (to my horror) that it would probably take about one full year for the LHC to warm up before the actual experiment occurs.
New to the LHC?
Check out the previous articles first to understand what it's all about:
09/09/2008: Will The World End Tomorrow?
01/09/2008: The LHC: Of Black Holes and God Particles
More updates on Hurricane Ike. I know people near the Gulf of Mexico are worried.
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Hurricane Ike Smashes Through Carribean Towards Florida Keys
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Hurricane Kills at Least 4 in Cuba (HEADING TOWARDS TEXAS)
By ANAHAD O'CONNOR
The New York Times
Published: September 9, 2008
Hurricane Ike continued its rampage across Cuba on Tuesday, killing four people, prompting more than a million others to flee and sending jitters through those living along the already battered shoreline of the Gulf Coast.
After the storm pummeled Haiti, killing at least 58 people, Ike made landfall in Cuba late Sunday night with Category 3 winds of 111 miles an hour and greater. The storm weakened slightly as it traveled east across the island, but moved so quickly that it claimed its first lives before the government could evacuate about 1.2 million people in its path.
One woman died when her home collapsed, a man was killed by a tree, and two others died while removing equipment from a roof, The Associated Press reported, citing state television. Ike has battered some of the same areas that were walloped in late August by a Hurricane Gustav, which was more powerful. But no one in Cuba was killed by Gustav because hundreds of thousands of people had been safely evacuated.
As of 11 a.m. eastern time on Tuesday, Ike was about 55 miles away from Cuba's capitol, Havana, the largest city in the Caribbean, and dropping as many as 20 inches of rain in some areas while spreading rip tides and hurricane winds over a distance of 35 miles. With Ike flooding streets, downing trees, and flattening several hundred frail, stone buildings - many of them homes - in rural areas, millions fled Havana for government shelters and safer structures. The capital came to a near standstill as schools, businesses and offices closed, and many people across the island were left without power.
According to forecasters at the National Hurricane Center, Ike was generating large swells at sea that have created massive waves and life-threatening conditions in the Florida Keys. They said isolated tornadoes and waterspouts could crop up over the Keys and other parts of south Florida throughout the day.
After heading west over the island at roughly 13 miles per hour throughout the day on Tuesday, Ike was expected to follow a path that could take it straight into the Gulf of Mexico,
Fourteen years, countless debates, and ten billion dollars later, CERN's gargantuan LHC is finally ready to go and set to fire it's first beam tomorrow on 10th September 2008. Through it, scientists hold modest goals of recreating the conditions of the universe just moments after the Big Bang in order to unravel fundamental secrets of nature that has thus far eluded mankind. It's admittedly ambitious, but with a particle accelerator this big, few - if any - are doubting they will succeed.
[ Don't understand the hype or what this is all about? More information of the Large Hadron Collider and the debate surrounding it is available in this earlier article ]
