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Virtual Telescope Brings Universe Down to Earth
Space.com - By Space.com Staff Exploring the universe can be as simple as turning on your home computer thanks to a new digital archive filled with views from some of the world's best land- and space-based telescopes.
Microsoft's Online Telescope Blasts Google Out Of The Sky CRN
Microsoft Launches WorldWide Telescope For Virtual Stargazing InformationWeek
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Virgil’s Aeneid is no stiff antiquarian pageant. It’s immediate and primal, about love, abandonment, death – and ultimate triumph... more»

 

 * Sloth's lazy image 'a myth'
The sloth's popular image as a lazy creature that sleeps for most of the day
has been called into question.
Full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7396356.stm

 

  Extinction fear for butterflies
Climate change is forcing a mountain species higher up hillsides to find cooler
temperatures, experts say.
Full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7392243.stm

 

  Virtual telescope opens night sky
Microsoft launches a free tool that allows amateur star-gazers to explore the universe
from their computers.
Full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/technology/7397811.stm

 

A North Hollywood kite fighter's lofty dream

By Joe Mozingo

Basir Beria just wants to make kites. But even after a movie brought attention to his sport, the reality of making a living ties him down.

 

 

 

What's also playing at Cannes: real-life tales of burglaries, robberies and assaults at Cannes Film Festival

By John Horn

AT THE Cannes Film Festival, there are tales of cat burglars, violent street fights, car robberies and even a pepper-sprayed mogul. But instead of events experienced on the big screen, they are real-life assaults on festival-goers, who often find themselves pressed to keep it all very hush-hush.

 

 

 

When the box office fire cools, what are actresses like Gwyneth Paltrow and Cameron Diaz to do?

By Rachel Abramowitz

Roles in 'Iron Man,' 'What Happens in Vegas' show careers taking an unexpected path.

 

 

 

Cannes braces for American invasion

By Kenneth Turan

'Indiana Jones' and the U.S. presence loom large at the festival.

 

 

 

Dodge Challenger: A blast from the past

By Dan Neil

As a reborn pony car, the fuel-inefficient Challenger is a retro stallion

 

 

 

 

Seams of Belgium’s Quilt Threaten to Burst

 

 

 

 

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The Art of Reciting a Tale, Across the Generations
New York Times - United States
Mr. Lithgow does tell stories, and eventually acts out his family’s — and his father’s — favorite, PG Wodehouse’s “Uncle Fred Flits By,” in a hilarious, ...
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The doctor will see you now: Who does Vernon Coleman think he is?
Independent - London,England,UK
He enjoyed Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene as a child, and his favourite was PG Wodehouse. "People sometimes turn their noses up at PG," he says. ...
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PG Wodehouse Picnic in Pictures
Londonist - London,UK
Although Bertie Wooster gets into an alarming number of scrapes in PG Wodehouse's Jeeves novels, we can't help but admire his fortitude and stick with it ...
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John Lithgow in Stories by Heart
TheaterMania.com - New York,NY,USA
"When it comes to humor, one man's rose is another man's garlic," John Lithgow intones moments before his extravagantly funny re-enactment of PG Wodehouse's ...
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Lithgow puts "Heart" into old-fashioned storytelling
Reuters - USA
Finally, getting on his feet, he merrily enacts "Uncle Fred Flits By," a 1935 short story by PG Wodehouse that was a Lithgow family favorite and something ...
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