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Harvard literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt has proposed a sort of metaphor for how the world became modern. An ancient Roman poem, lost for 1,000 years, was recovered in 1417. Its presciently modern ideas 鈥?th stanley cupe at the world is made of atoms, that there is no life after death, and that there is no purpose to creation beyond pleasure 鈥?dropped like an atomic bomb on the fixedly Christian culture of Western Europe.But this poem s radical and transformative ideas survived what could have been a full-blown campaign against it, said Greenblatt in an Oct. 26 lecture. One reason is that it was art. A tract would have drawn the critical attention of t stanley cup he authorities, who during the Renaissance still hewed to Augustine s notion that Christian beliefs were unshakeable, unchangeable, coherent. The ancient poem that contained such explosive ideas, and that packaged them so pleasingly, was On the Nature of Things De Rerum Natura by Roman poet and philoso stanley thermos pher Titus Lucretius Carus, who died five Gnog Police reports
In particular, the 15-member body underlined the need for governments to collaborate with the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diploma stanley flask cy for Central Asia UNRCCA , in a statement issued to the pr stanley flaschen ess. Established in 2007 at the initiative of the governments of the five Central Asian countries and based in Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan, UNRCCA is a special political mission which works to promote dialogue between the region s governments in finding solutions for emerging proble stanley cups ms and eliminating potential threats. The members of the Security Council commended the specific focus in the Centre s activities on the impact of transboundary threats facing the region, implications of national developments on regional stability and the management of water and energy resources and environmental degradation, and the benefits of increased counter-terrorism cooperation, said the statement.Members of the Council expressed their appreciation for UNRCCA s work as an example of preventive dipl
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PARIS 鈥?APT Satellite Holdings of Hong Kong said April 1 its Apstar 7 telecommunications satellite, launched March 31 aboard a Chinese Long March 3B rocket, was healthy in orbit and in the coming weeks would replace the retiring Apstar 2R spacecraft at 76.5 degrees east.Built by Thales Alenia Spac air max 96 e of France and Italy and carrying 28 C-band and 28 Ku-band transponders, Apstar 7 s successful launch a nike af nd in-orbit checkout will mean that APT will transfer ownership of Apstar 7B, still in construction, to China Satcom.APT and the state-owned China Satcom of Beijing had agreed in 2010 that China Satcom would arrange up to 100 million euros $132 million in financing for Apstar 7B and would add the satellite to its own fleet unless Aps jordan2 tar 7 failed at launch or otherwise was not functioning in orbit.Thales Alenia Space built Apstar 7 under a 128.5-million-euro contract. Apstar 7B, which is a nearly identical copy using the same Spacebus 4000 C2 satellite frame, was subject to a separate const Xbyk BAE Systems shrinks weather sensors for microsatellites
By STAN CHOE, DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGAAP Business WritersNEW YORK AP 鈥?Stocks on Wall Street finished higher Tuesday after a report showed inflation cooled more than expected last month, cementing expectations that the Federal Reserve is about to dial down the size of its interest rate hikes.The encouraging inflation data rai sketcher sportschuhe sed hopes for easing pressure on the economy ahead of an interest rate policy update on Wednesday fro nike air max m the Fed. Stocks initially surged, driving the Dow Jones Industrial Average more than 700 points higher, but then pared their gains as analysts cautioned inv adidas original campus estors not to get carried away by hopes for an easier Fed, as they have in the past.The S 038;P 500 ended 0.7% higher. An early-morning burst of 2.8% nearly vanished by lunchtime. It had already climbed 1.4% a day earlier, with much of that gain coming in the last hour of trading on anticipation of the inflation data.The Dow Jones Industrial Average flipped briefly to a loss before ending 0.3% higher,
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. 鈥?Two days before U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to provide details on his proposed new agenda for the nation s space program, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said the president will underscore his commitment to space exploration but offered scant details of the speech air force one Obama is expected to deliver April 15 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.Speaking to an audience of industry executives and government officials at the 26th National Space Symposium here April 13, Bolden defended the president s plan to end the Moon-bound Constellation program in favor of funding priv air max 1 ately developed crew capsules for use in low Earth orbit. He said that despite Obama s new philosophy and approach, the president supports NASA s fundamental goal of advancing human presence in space. [Obama] made the change that we believe is needed to set NASA on a sustainable course into the solar system, Bolden said, add af1 ing that the president s proposal to increase NASA s top-li Gppm USA and ATK Resolve Ares 1 Launch Vehicle Work Dispute
By JAMES BROOKS, ADRIANA MORGA and RIO YAMATAssociated PressLAS VEGAS AP 鈥?Tech companies of all sizes are showing off their latest products at CES, formerly known as the Consumer Electronics show.The show is getting back to normal after jordan going completely virtual in 2021 and seeing a significant drop in 2022 attendance because of the pand jordan emic.On Wednesday, big names like LG and Samsung and smaller startups showcased their latest products for the media in Las Vegas. The show officially opens Thursday.Here are some highlights:NO MESSY WIRESLG Electronics unveiled a 97-inch OLED TV with what it calls a Zero Connect Box that streams content wirelessly. The box, which still needs to be plugged in, just needs to be within 30 feet nine meters of the display.But why would anyone want a wireless 4K television David M. Park, senior marketing manager at the South Korean tech company, sa reebok sneaker ys it means owners can place a TV in the center of the room without all the messy wires, or maybe mount it ab
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A record total of 22,717 students have applied for entrance next September to Harvard College. This unprecedented applicant pool is due in large m stanley termohrnek easure to the new Harvard Financial Aid Initiative HFAI announced by President Lawrence H. Summers last February in his keynote address to the American Council on Education, said William R. Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions and financial aid. The new program sends a strong message that Harvard is accessible to all students, regardless of family financial resources, he said. There are more students in the app stanley termos licant pool this year who are likely to be eligible for the new HFAI 鈥?which requires no parental contribution from families earning $40,000 or less and a greatly reduced contribution from those who earn from $40,000 to $60,000, said Sarah C. Donahue, director of financial aid. Added Fitzsimmons, During our rec stanley drink bottle ruitment trips, we also met numerous other students who became interested in Harvard after hearing about opportunities in Wzbf Newsmakers
Ambassador Claude Heller of Mexico, which holds the rotating Council presidency this month, read out a press statement in which the 15-member body also urged the Horn of Africa nations to refrain from threats and the use of force and to abide by commitments they made to each other under the agreement. The members of the Security Council attach great impor stanley cup tance to the resolution of the border dispute and to the normalization of the relations between the two countries for the overall stability and security in the region, the press statement noted.Last Sunday th stanley coffee cup e leaders of Eritrea and Djibouti s stanley cup igned a pact 鈥?reached under the auspices of Qatar and its Emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani 鈥?in which they agreed to pursue a negotiated settlement to their dispute.The deal ends the conflict that erupted in early 2008 when, after weeks of tensions and military build-up, the two countries armed forces clashed over an un-demarcated area in the Red Sea known as Doumeira, killing 35 people
Harvard literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt has proposed a sort of metaphor for how the world became modern. An ancient Roman poem, lost for 1,000 years, was recovered in 1417. Its presciently modern ideas 鈥?th stanley cupe at the world is made of atoms, that there is no life after death, and that there is no purpose to creation beyond pleasure 鈥?dropped like an atomic bomb on the fixedly Christian culture of Western Europe.But this poem s radical and transformative ideas survived what could have been a full-blown campaign against it, said Greenblatt in an Oct. 26 lecture. One reason is that it was art. A tract would have drawn the critical attention of t stanley cup he authorities, who during the Renaissance still hewed to Augustine s notion that Christian beliefs were unshakeable, unchangeable, coherent. The ancient poem that contained such explosive ideas, and that packaged them so pleasingly, was On the Nature of Things De Rerum Natura by Roman poet and philoso stanley thermos pher Titus Lucretius Carus, who died five Gnog Police reports
In particular, the 15-member body underlined the need for governments to collaborate with the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diploma stanley flask cy for Central Asia UNRCCA , in a statement issued to the pr stanley flaschen ess. Established in 2007 at the initiative of the governments of the five Central Asian countries and based in Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan, UNRCCA is a special political mission which works to promote dialogue between the region s governments in finding solutions for emerging proble stanley cups ms and eliminating potential threats. The members of the Security Council commended the specific focus in the Centre s activities on the impact of transboundary threats facing the region, implications of national developments on regional stability and the management of water and energy resources and environmental degradation, and the benefits of increased counter-terrorism cooperation, said the statement.Members of the Council expressed their appreciation for UNRCCA s work as an example of preventive dipl
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PARIS 鈥?APT Satellite Holdings of Hong Kong said April 1 its Apstar 7 telecommunications satellite, launched March 31 aboard a Chinese Long March 3B rocket, was healthy in orbit and in the coming weeks would replace the retiring Apstar 2R spacecraft at 76.5 degrees east.Built by Thales Alenia Spac air max 96 e of France and Italy and carrying 28 C-band and 28 Ku-band transponders, Apstar 7 s successful launch a nike af nd in-orbit checkout will mean that APT will transfer ownership of Apstar 7B, still in construction, to China Satcom.APT and the state-owned China Satcom of Beijing had agreed in 2010 that China Satcom would arrange up to 100 million euros $132 million in financing for Apstar 7B and would add the satellite to its own fleet unless Aps jordan2 tar 7 failed at launch or otherwise was not functioning in orbit.Thales Alenia Space built Apstar 7 under a 128.5-million-euro contract. Apstar 7B, which is a nearly identical copy using the same Spacebus 4000 C2 satellite frame, was subject to a separate const Xbyk BAE Systems shrinks weather sensors for microsatellites
By STAN CHOE, DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGAAP Business WritersNEW YORK AP 鈥?Stocks on Wall Street finished higher Tuesday after a report showed inflation cooled more than expected last month, cementing expectations that the Federal Reserve is about to dial down the size of its interest rate hikes.The encouraging inflation data rai sketcher sportschuhe sed hopes for easing pressure on the economy ahead of an interest rate policy update on Wednesday fro nike air max m the Fed. Stocks initially surged, driving the Dow Jones Industrial Average more than 700 points higher, but then pared their gains as analysts cautioned inv adidas original campus estors not to get carried away by hopes for an easier Fed, as they have in the past.The S 038;P 500 ended 0.7% higher. An early-morning burst of 2.8% nearly vanished by lunchtime. It had already climbed 1.4% a day earlier, with much of that gain coming in the last hour of trading on anticipation of the inflation data.The Dow Jones Industrial Average flipped briefly to a loss before ending 0.3% higher,
Msul AP Top Entertainment News at 6:26 p.m. EST
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. 鈥?Two days before U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to provide details on his proposed new agenda for the nation s space program, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said the president will underscore his commitment to space exploration but offered scant details of the speech air force one Obama is expected to deliver April 15 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.Speaking to an audience of industry executives and government officials at the 26th National Space Symposium here April 13, Bolden defended the president s plan to end the Moon-bound Constellation program in favor of funding priv air max 1 ately developed crew capsules for use in low Earth orbit. He said that despite Obama s new philosophy and approach, the president supports NASA s fundamental goal of advancing human presence in space. [Obama] made the change that we believe is needed to set NASA on a sustainable course into the solar system, Bolden said, add af1 ing that the president s proposal to increase NASA s top-li Gppm USA and ATK Resolve Ares 1 Launch Vehicle Work Dispute
By JAMES BROOKS, ADRIANA MORGA and RIO YAMATAssociated PressLAS VEGAS AP 鈥?Tech companies of all sizes are showing off their latest products at CES, formerly known as the Consumer Electronics show.The show is getting back to normal after jordan going completely virtual in 2021 and seeing a significant drop in 2022 attendance because of the pand jordan emic.On Wednesday, big names like LG and Samsung and smaller startups showcased their latest products for the media in Las Vegas. The show officially opens Thursday.Here are some highlights:NO MESSY WIRESLG Electronics unveiled a 97-inch OLED TV with what it calls a Zero Connect Box that streams content wirelessly. The box, which still needs to be plugged in, just needs to be within 30 feet nine meters of the display.But why would anyone want a wireless 4K television David M. Park, senior marketing manager at the South Korean tech company, sa reebok sneaker ys it means owners can place a TV in the center of the room without all the messy wires, or maybe mount it ab
Kwjb Ban Ki-moon to discuss planned Israeli settlements with Quartet partners
A record total of 22,717 students have applied for entrance next September to Harvard College. This unprecedented applicant pool is due in large m stanley termohrnek easure to the new Harvard Financial Aid Initiative HFAI announced by President Lawrence H. Summers last February in his keynote address to the American Council on Education, said William R. Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions and financial aid. The new program sends a strong message that Harvard is accessible to all students, regardless of family financial resources, he said. There are more students in the app stanley termos licant pool this year who are likely to be eligible for the new HFAI 鈥?which requires no parental contribution from families earning $40,000 or less and a greatly reduced contribution from those who earn from $40,000 to $60,000, said Sarah C. Donahue, director of financial aid. Added Fitzsimmons, During our rec stanley drink bottle ruitment trips, we also met numerous other students who became interested in Harvard after hearing about opportunities in Wzbf Newsmakers
Ambassador Claude Heller of Mexico, which holds the rotating Council presidency this month, read out a press statement in which the 15-member body also urged the Horn of Africa nations to refrain from threats and the use of force and to abide by commitments they made to each other under the agreement. The members of the Security Council attach great impor stanley cup tance to the resolution of the border dispute and to the normalization of the relations between the two countries for the overall stability and security in the region, the press statement noted.Last Sunday th stanley coffee cup e leaders of Eritrea and Djibouti s stanley cup igned a pact 鈥?reached under the auspices of Qatar and its Emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani 鈥?in which they agreed to pursue a negotiated settlement to their dispute.The deal ends the conflict that erupted in early 2008 when, after weeks of tensions and military build-up, the two countries armed forces clashed over an un-demarcated area in the Red Sea known as Doumeira, killing 35 people
