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August 19, 2008

gleans at 7:00 AM MT, 8/19

 

18 New Charter Schools to Open in September, Bloomberg Announces By ELISSA GOOTMAN  The new schools — the largest number to open in the city in a single year — will bring the number of charter schools in the city to 78, serving 24,000 students.

 

The Struggle to Measure Cosmic Expansion By DENNIS OVERBYE  Astronomers have made the most precise measurements yet of the Hubble constant, which measures how fast the universe is growing.

 

Blyton voted UK's favourite writer Shakespeare, Jane Austen and Charles Dickens left trailing in Costa Book Awards

 

Environment, science & technology

James McAvoy and Angelina Jolie in Wanted 

Symmetry wows the opposite sex New study suggests we may gauge a person's reproductive fitness from the symmetry of their body

 

Comics: Bawdy Spanish update of Tintin pulled after pressure from estate

Browsing for children's books

News: Graphic sex scenes in new Antonio Altarriba comic draw criticism from Hergé estate

 

 

 

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