"Flat" world is starting to tilt
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Antoine van Agtmael was ahead of the curve in 1981, when he saw the potential rewards of investing in the Third World countries. He also was clever enough to rename those places "emerging markets."
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It may take much longer than scientists have thought for violent turbulence to turn grains of space dust into new planets.
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There is something almost spectral about the vision of the new bridge across the Tarn Valley at Millau. It is almost as though it is not connected to the normal laws of gravity.
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Signs suggest solar power might be reaching a tipping point.
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The Earth's climate is out of balance and warming as a result of human activities, a leading scientific society warns.
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The Guinness Book of World Records has ruled that a church steeple in Germany, not the famous leaning tower of Pisa, is the most tilted tower in the world.
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Earth and Mars are rapidly converging. Relative speed: 22,000 mph. Contrary to  rumor, Mars is not about to swell to the size of a full Moon, but there is something eerie and Martian to look for in the night sky next week.
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Since a Nobel-winning discovery, cosmology has gotten more complicated.
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The realty space is being disrupted.
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"Eventually" the world of homebuilding will turn around; you can't predict the bottom.
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Satellite images of the world in 2007
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By Tom Angleberger   tomangleberger@yahoo.com
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Pundits often opine that America's stature is declining on the global stage. It turns out that Americans -- literally -- are not standing as tall, compared  with the rest of the world, as they used to.
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Blog: No need to reset your watch yet--but redistribution of ocean mass could make days a fraction of a second shorter in the next 200 years.
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That precarious top may be just the beginning.
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People are getting fatter in all parts of the world, with the possible exception of Asia, a global snapshot shows.
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CANNES, France -- It just doesn't seem fair. We're sitting in a bungalow by the Mediterranean with Leonardo DiCaprio, and he's talking about the end of the world. Not necessarily the end of the Earth, mind you. The planetary ecosystem will continue to function (barring collision with a meteor, bu...