Aug
27
A Sudanese passenger jet hijacked by unknown assailants soon after it took off from Darfur has landed in Libya.
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There are more than 100 people on board the plane. The Libyan officials are holding dialogue with the unknown number of hijackers while all passengers remained on board. The hijackers, who are believed to be hard-line Darfur rebel group, have asked for jet fuel in order to fly on to Paris.
Jul
11
Citroen takes wraps off new C3 Picasso
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Supermini-MPV targets Renault Modus and family styling is supplied a different twist.
Citroen’s fresh masterpiece appears set to turn rivals blue amongst envy. Auto Express brought you exclusive spy shots of its new supermini MPV endure month. Now, official pictures of the C3 Picasso own arrived - and
it’s most any inch the artistic production its and cr suggests.
The French steady is willing to tempt mortgage holders away out of rivals this kind of as the Renault Modus and Ford’s forthcoming B-Max provided its new car, that is the third to wear the Picasso badge. It shares these types of family aspects as a wraparound windscreen, but as an all-new design, it serves to additionally be different based on what i read in the rest of the C3 line-up. A boldly styled front investing in tapered lights is complemented by a span of sporty features. There’s a deep front bumper, chunky alloys, front foglights and a dual grille. Flared wheelarches and SUV-style roof rails thorough the look.
At the back, high-mounted lights frame a split tailgate provided an independently opening glass section for versatile boot access. The curved A-pillars are similar to individuals on the perfect C4 Picasso.
According to Citroen, at 1.63 metres tall and 1.73 metres wide, the C3 would give out an astonishing total sum of cabin space. And the panoramic glass sunroof - that is the biggest in the superiority - shoots up the airy feel. In addition to the central levelheaded features, Citroen has as well focused on passenger comfort. So the seating position is high, and legroom is maximised - in the back, the bench adjusts by further as opposed to 150mm. It can in addition be folded flat to post 500 litres of storage.
The person is planning to be underpinned by a platform that as well forms the motive of the Peugeot 207 and next-generation C3.
Engine options comprise 1.4-litre VTi 95 and 1.6 VTi 120 petrols, as vastly as the existant 1.6-litre HDi 90 and HDi 110 diesels, as offered providing the 207. Specifications for UK cars experience yet to be finalised, but a production-ready version of the C3 Picasso would debut at the Paris Motor Show in October, alongside the rest
of the exemplary range. Prices are set to begin at about the £9,500 mark when it goes on sell approaching year.
Apr
13
Unusual earthquakes measured off Oregon
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GRANTS PASS, Ore. - Scientists listening to underwater microphones have detected an unusual swarm of earthquakes off central Oregon, something that often happens before a volcanic eruption - except there are no volcanoes in the area.
Scientists don’t know exactly what the earthquakes mean, but they could be the result of molten rock rumbling away from the recognized earthquake faults off Oregon, said Robert Dziak, a geophysicist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Oregon State University.
There have been more than 600 quakes over the past 10 days in a basin 150 miles southwest of Newport. The biggest was magnitude 5.4, and two others were more than magnitude 5.0, OSU reported.
On the hydrophones, the quakes sound like low thunder and are unlike anything scientists have heard in 17 years of listening, Dziak said. Some of the quakes have also been detected by earthquake instruments on land.
The hydrophones are left over from a network the Navy used to listen for submarines during the Cold War. They routinely detect passing ships, earthquakes on the ocean bottom and whales calling to one another.
Scientists hope to send out an OSU research ship to take water samples, looking for evidence that sediment has been stirred up and chemicals that would indicate magma is moving up through the Juan de Fuca Plate, Dziak said.
The quakes have not followed the typical pattern of a major shock followed by a series of diminishing aftershocks, and few have been strong enough to be felt on shore.
The Earth’s crust is made up of plates that rest on molten rock, which are rubbing together. When the molten rock, or magma, erupts through the crust, it creates volcanoes.
That can happen in the middle of a plate. When the plates lurch against each other, they create earthquakes along the edges.
In this case, the Juan de Fuca Plate is a small piece of crust being crushed between the Pacific Plate and North America, Dziak said
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Apr
12
Swarm of earthquakes detected off Oregon
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GRANTS PASS, Ore. - Scientists listening to underwater microphones have detected an unusual swarm of earthquakes off central Oregon, something that often happens before a volcanic eruption - except there are no volcanoes in the area.
Scientists don’t know exactly what the earthquakes mean, but they could be the result of molten rock rumbling away from the recognized earthquake faults off Oregon, said Robert Dziak, a geophysicist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Oregon State University.
There have been more than 600 quakes over the past 10 days in a basin 150 miles southwest of Newport. The biggest was magnitude 5.4, and two others were more than magnitude 5.0, OSU reported.
On the hydrophones, the quakes sound like low thunder and are unlike anything scientists have heard in 17 years of listening, Dziak said. Some of the quakes have also been detected by earthquake instruments on land.
The hydrophones are left over from a network the Navy used to listen for submarines during the Cold War. They routinely detect passing ships, earthquakes on the ocean bottom and whales calling to one another.
Scientists hope to send out an OSU research ship to take water samples, looking for evidence that sediment has been stirred up and chemicals that would indicate magma is moving up through the Juan de Fuca Plate, Dziak said.
The quakes have not followed the typical pattern of a major shock followed by a series of diminishing aftershocks, and few have been strong enough to be felt on shore.
The Earth’s crust is made up of plates that rest on molten rock, which are rubbing together. When the molten rock, or magma, erupts through the crust, it creates volcanoes.
That can happen in the middle of a plate. When the plates lurch against each other, they create earthquakes along the edges.
In this case, the Juan de Fuca Plate is a small piece of crust being crushed between the Pacific Plate and North America, Dziak said.
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Apr
6
Huge job losses set off recession alarms
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WASHINGTON - It’s no longer a question of recession or not. Now it’s how deep and how long. Workers’ pink slips stacked ever higher in March as jittery employers slashed 80,000 jobs, the most in five years, and the national unemployment rate climbed to 5.1 percent. Job losses are nearing the staggering level of a quarter-million this year in just three months.
For the third month in a row total U.S. employment rolls shrank - often a telltale sign that the economy has jolted dangerously into reverse.
At the same time, the jobless rate rose three-tenths of a percentage point, a sharp increase usually associated with times of deep economic stress.
The grim picture described by the Labor Department on Friday provided stark evidence of just how much the jobs market has buckled under the weight of the housing, credit and financial crises. Businesses and jobseekers alike are feeling the pain.
“It is now very clear that the fat lady has sung for the economic expansion. The country has slipped into a recession,” said Stuart Hoffman, chief economist at PNC Financial Services Group. Indeed, there is widening agreement that the first recession since 2001 has arrived. Even Ben Bernanke, in a rare public utterance for a Federal Reserve chairman, used the “r” word, acknowledging for the first time this week that a recession was possible.
Job losses were widespread last month, hitting workers at factories, construction companies, retailers, banks, real-estate firms and even temporary-help agencies. Also mortgage brokers, hotels, computer design shops, accounting firms, architecture and engineering companies, legal services, airlines and other transportation as well as telecommunications companies.
Those cuts swamped employment gains elsewhere, including at hospitals and other heath-care sites, educational services, child day-care providers, bars and restaurants, insurance companies, museums, zoos and parks. And the government, which is almost always up.
In fact, private employers have shed jobs for four straight months, though December showed an overall gain for the economy because the government increase outweighed the private loss.
March’s losses were the most since the same month in 2003, when companies were still struggling to recover from the last recession. Adding to the angst: Revised figures showed losses were actually deeper than first reported for both January and February.
All told, the economy now has lost 232,000 jobs in the first three months of this year.
On Wall Street, investors took the weak employment figures in stride. The Dow Jones industrials lost just 16.61 points, while other indexes edged higher.
All the economy’s problems are forcing people and businesses to hunker down, crimping spending and hiring, a vicious cycle.
“Across the board, businesses have become very, very conservative,” said Joel Naroff, president of Naroff Economic Advisors. More downbeat about their own sales prospects because of cautious consumers, employers are cutting back. “It only makes sense for them to run leaner if we are going into a recession or already in one” as Naroff now believes.
The new employment figures were much weaker than economists were expecting. They were anticipating a drop of 50,000 payroll jobs.
Michael Gregory, senior economist at BMO Capital Markets Economics, said the employment report was “emitting recession signals.”
The national unemployment rate of 5.1 percent, relatively modest by historical standards, is nonetheless the highest since September 2005, following the devastating blows of the Gulf Coast hurricanes.
Some groups are feeling more of the strains from the economy’s current woes. The unemployment rate for Hispanics, for instance, jumped to 6.9 percent in March, the highest in over four years. The rate for blacks climbed to 9 percent, a two-month high.
With the public on edge, Congress, the White House and presidential contenders are scrambling to come up with their own relief plans to stem record-high home foreclosures and stabilize housing - even as they engage in a political blame game.
Democrats want more economic assistance, including extending unemployment benefits. The Bush administration has resisted, saying the government’s $168 billion stimulus package of tax rebates for people and tax breaks for businesses will be sufficient once it kicks in.
“We don’t like to see one job lost, let alone 80,000,” Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said in an interview with The Associated Press. “These are challenging times,” he said. Gutierrez was hopeful the economy would turn around in the second half of this year, given the relief efforts by the government and the Federal Reserve. “We’ll get through this.”
Democrats were skeptical of the administration’s efforts.
“Our economy is spiraling downward,” said presidential contender Hillary Rodham Clinton. “It is time for this administration to put ideology aside and get serious about stemming this crisis.”
Barack Obama said, “Instead of doing nothing for out-of-work Americans, we need a second stimulus that extends unemployment insurance and helps communities that have been hit hard by this recession.”
Republican John McCain said the unemployment news “underlines the need to focus on innovation, which grows the economy and creates an urgent need for effective worker retraining.”
Given the worsening employment situation, the Federal Reserve probably will lower a key interest rate, now at 2.25 percent, later this month.
The Fed has taken a number of extraordinary actions recently - slashing interest rates, providing financial backing to JP Morgan’s takeover of troubled Bear Stearns and opening an emergency lending program for big investment houses. All the actions were aimed at limiting damage to the national economy.
With the pace of hiring slowing, the number of unemployed people increased to 7.8 million in March.
Workers with jobs saw modest wage gains. Average hourly earnings for jobholders rose to $17.86 in March and are up 3.6 percent over the past 12 months. With lofty energy and food prices, workers may feel like their paychecks are shrinking. If the job market continues to falter, wage growth probably will slow, too, making consumers even less inclined to spend, which would further hurt the economy.
Many analysts believe the economy shrank in the first three months of this year and could still be ebbing now. The government will release its estimate of first-quarter economic growth later this month. Under one rough rule, if the economy contracts for six straight months it is considered in a recession. When a determination is made by a panel of experts about when a recession has started and ended - it is usually done well after the fact.
Bernanke and the Bush administration are hopeful the economy will improve in the second half of this year. Even so, Bernanke predicted this week that the unemployment rate would rise further. Some analysts say it could climb to 5.75 percent or higher this year.
Advises Hoffman: “If you’ve got a job, hang on to it the best you can.”
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Mar
31
Al-Sadr calls off fighting, orders compliance with Iraqi security
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on followers to stop shooting and cooperate with Iraqi security forces Sunday, a move Iraq’s government praised as a step toward ending six days of fighting that has left hundreds dead.
A Shiite fighter runs toward an Iraqi Army armored vehicle Sunday after clashes near a TV station in Basra.
“We announce our disavowal from anyone who carries weapons and targets government institutions, charities and political party offices,” al-Sadr said in a nine-point statement issued by his headquarters in Najaf.
The statement was accompanied by demands that the Iraqi government issue a general amnesty to his followers and release any being held. The statement was distributed across Iraq and posted on the Internet.
The move was welcomed by Iraq’s government, whose forces have been fighting al-Sadr’s militia, the Mehdi Army, in six days of clashes with so-called “outlaws” who had taken control of much of the southern city of Basra. U.S. and coalition troops have been supporting the Iraqi offensive.
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who had vowed not to leave Basra until his government reclaimed control of the city, called al-Sadr’s statement a “step in the right direction” and said he hoped it would help to stabilize the region.
“We renew our assurance that the process of enforcement [of] the law in Basra does not target any political or religious group, including the Sadr movement,” al-Maliki said in a prepared statement.
Witnesses reported continued clashes throughout the day in Basra even after Sunday’s announcements. But Iraqi authorities said after al-Sadr’s announcement they would lift an indefinite curfew that had been imposed on Baghdad since Thursday. Watch how the cease-fire affects Shiite vs. Shiite fights »
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The curfew is scheduled to be lifted 6 a.m. Monday (11 p.m. Sunday ET), said Gen. Qassim Atta, an Iraqi military spokesman. But a vehicle ban will stay in place in three Shiite militia strongholds — neighborhoods in the capital, including Sadr City, Kadhimiya and Shulaa, Atta said.
A curfew that was imposed on Basra was lifted Saturday.
Al-Sadr’s statement came after what an aide described as direct talks between al-Sadr’s representatives and the Iraqi government in Najaf that started Saturday night.
Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh denied there were talks with al-Sadr’s representatives, directly or indirectly. But speaking on Iraqi state TV, al-Dabbagh said “A large number of people will listen to Muqtada al-Sadr’s call.”
“Life will return to all of Iraq as before,” he said. “The statement is positive and responsive; we as the government of Iraq believe this effort will be in the common interest and help the security efforts that the government is working to achieve.”
Death tolls are difficult to obtain, but reports from Iraqi and coalition authorities suggest more than 400 people have died since fighting began Tuesday. The fighting has been heaviest in Basra, Iraq’s second-largest city and major oil port, and a U.S. military analysis of the battle indicated the government push was not going as well as American officials had hoped, several U.S. officials said Friday.
In Washington, CIA Director Michael Hayden told NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday that about 70 percent of Basra was under the control of “criminal elements” when the assault was launched. Though the increase in violence was disappointing, he said, the government assault “was something that we all knew we had to go through.”
“This was inevitable. This had to be resolved. You just can’t have the second major city in the country — economically, the most important city in the country — beyond the control of the government,” Hayden said.
Top U.S. officials, including President Bush, have praised al-Maliki’s operation as a sign of a strengthening Iraqi government. But Hayden and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, said the Iraqis did not consult them before launching their offensive.
“We’ll see how well the Iraqi army fought. We’ll see how well it was planned and executed. And we may find that the Iraqi army did not do a very good job of planning and executing this effort,” Graham, a Senate colleague and close ally of Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, told “Fox News Sunday.”
Graham said the militia fighters that Iraqi troops are battling are backed by Iran, which he said was “killing Americans” by arming the militias. But Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed said Iran has close ties to all of Iraq’s Shiite factions, including al-Maliki’s Dawa party and the country’s largest Shiite religious party, the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq.
“The notion that this is a fight by American allies against Iranian-inspired elements is not accurate,” said Reed, a leading Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Al-Sadr’s political movement holds 30 seats in Iraq’s 275-member parliament and was once a partner in al-Maliki’s ruling coalition. The party quit the government in 2007 after al-Maliki refused to demand a deadline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops.
The cleric’s supporters have linked the government offensive to provincial elections slated to take place October 1. Nassar al-Rubaie, an official in al-Sadr’s political movement, said the army and police were being used “for political reasons.”
A high-ranking Iraqi security official said at least 200 people have been killed and 500 wounded in Basra battles since Tuesday. More than 100 had been killed in Baghdad as of Sunday, with another 100-plus killed in clashes in other cities in southern Iraq, Iraqi authorities reported.
U.S. and British forces have supported Iraqi troops with airstrikes and shelling in Basra, as well as reconnaissance and intelligence, coalition military officials have said. U.S. troops have also conducted raids and engaged in gun battles with militia fighters alongside Iraqi troops.
U.S. airstrikes killed at least 15 people in Baghdad neighborhoods known to be Mehdi Army strongholds Sunday morning, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said. And Baghdad’s International Zone — where many Iraqi government buildings and embassies are located — was targeted again Sunday by rockets or mortars, but no injuries or damage was immediately reported, a U.S. Embassy official said.
Also on Sunday, roadside bombings in northern and western Iraq killed two U.S. troops, while attacks on Iraqi police and others left another 19 dead, Iraqi police and U.S. military officials reported.
One roadside bombing killed a U.S. soldier north of Baghdad, while a Marine died in another bombing in the western province of Anbar, the U.S. military headquarters there reported. No details of the attacks were released. The latest attacks bring the U.S. death toll in the 5-year-old war to 4,009.
Other developments
• In northern Iraq, five Iraqi police officers were killed and two bystanders were wounded when gunmen attacked a police patrol in the town of Dhuluiyah Sunday, Samarra police said.
• The U.S. military said Sunday it found a mass grave with 14 bodies near Muqdadiya. The bodies, which showed signs of torture, appeared to have been in the grave for two to six months. They were found 100 yards from where 37 bodies were found buried Thursday, the military said.
• Ten people were killed Sunday when a suicide car bomb struck a checkpoint manned by members of the Awakening Council, Baiji police said. Four members of the council were among the dead. Awakening Councils are largely Sunni security groups that have been recruited by the U.S. military.
• Also in Baiji, a child was killed and seven civilians were wounded when a mortar landed in a residential area Saturday afternoon, Baiji police said Sunday.
• In Samarra, gunmen stormed the home of an Awakening Council member, killing him and his son. His wife and daughter were wounded in the Saturday morning attack, Samarra police said Sunday
Mar
31
Thai temple fights off encroaching tide as world sea levels rise
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KHUN SAMUT CHIN, Thailand (AFP) - Crabs scuttle across the wet floor of the near-deserted Khun Samut temple, the only building left in a Thai village that has disappeared beneath the rising and advancing sea.
Waging a battle against an encroaching tide that has sent all the villagers fleeing inland, a monk in orange robes and faded tattoos meant to ward off evil spirits stalks the newly-built sea wall, planting mangrove shoots.
Somnuek Atipanya points 20 metres (65 feet) out to sea, where electricity pylons poke out of the water, now useful only for resting marine birds.
“The waves attacked here and they will destroy everything,” says Somnuek, chief abbot of this Buddhist temple south of Bangkok which is surrounded by water and accessible only by a concrete walkway.
“I don’t know what happened, but when the experts came they told me it was global warning and melting ice in the North Pole.”
Over 30 years, the sea around Khun Samut Chin village has engulfed more than one kilometre (0.6 miles) of land, World Bank figures show, mostly because fishermen have cut down mangrove forests — the Earth’s natural sea barrier.
Tourism development, sand mining and damming rivers upstream have also taken their toll in an area naturally prone to coastal erosion.
The community have realised their errors and are trying to replant the mangroves, but the situation may soon be out of their hands as global warming sends sea levels rising and powerful storms lashing the coast.
“The process has been occurring over some time and accelerating with land use changes and local human activity,” says Jitendra Shah, the World Bank’s environmental coordinator in Thailand.
“Climate change impacts are likely to accelerate the pace and make things worse in the future.”
Coastal erosion of varying degrees affects 21 percent of Thailand’s coastline, says Greenpeace climate campaigner Tara Buakamsri, citing figures from Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn University.
Along the Gulf of Thailand, seaside areas seriously affected by erosion are receding at a rate of five to 20 metres per year.
Climate scientists say that as global warming heats the Earth up, glaciers and polar ice caps will melt and sea waters will expand, sending oceans rising by at least 18 centimetres (7.2 inches), or possibly a great deal more by 2100.
World sea levels rose 3.1 millimetres per year from 1993 to 2003, the Nobel-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says.
This is not good news for the five monks who remain at Khun Samut temple. Despite their best efforts, they may not be able to save the site from the same fate that befell Khun Samut Chin’s sunken school and homes.
Visanu Kengsamut, 26, has already moved three times in his life, while his mother — the village chief — has fled the crumbling coast and rebuilt her home eight times, and each time the village has paid for its own relocation.
Khun Samut Chin now sits about one kilometre inland from the temple.
“We know that the cause of this is the effects of global warming,” says Visanu.
“This problem, everybody should take responsibility and the government should help. If possible, the international community should come to help because they started the problem.”
As the world tries to work out a new pact to battle the threat posed by global warming, poorer countries — who the IPCC says will suffer the most from climate change — are battling to have their voices heard.
They argue that because the industrialised world was historically most responsible for global warming, they should contribute generously to a fund to help poor countries adapt to the changing world.
The so-called adaptation and mitigation fund will likely be discussed at key United Nations climate change talks in Bangkok from March 31 to April 4.
“Whether or not it is a small contribution or major contribution related to climate change in the past, this community needs to be taken into account when they discuss about the mitigation measure or adaptation fund,” says Greenpeace’s Tara.
“Because they are facing the impact — they are one of the first groups in Thailand that is facing the impact.”
Mar
29
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - His mother suffered dark depressions and tried to dominate his life. His sister and daughter had severe mental problems, his father and wife died young and a beloved uncle committed suicide in his arms.
So what did Peter Mark Roget, the creator of Roget’s Thesaurus, do to handle all the pain, grief, sorrow, affliction, woe, bitterness, unhappiness and misery in a life that lasted over 90 years?
He made lists.
The 19th century British scientist made lists of words, creating synonyms for all occasions that ultimately helped make life easier for term paper writers, crossword puzzle lovers and anyone looking for the answer to the age-old question: “What’s another word for …”
And according to a new biography, making his lists saved Roget’s life and by keeping him from succumbing to the depression and misery of those around him.
“As a boy he stumbled upon a remarkable discovery — that compiling lists of words could provide solace, no matter what misfortunes may befall him,” says Joshua Kendall author of the just published “The Man Who Made Lists” (Putnam, $25.95), a study of Roget’s life (1779 to 1869) based on diaries, letters and even an autobiography composed of lists.
Kendall, in a recent interview, said Roget cared more for words than people and that making lists on the scale that he did was obsessive-compulsive behavior that helped him fend off the demons that terrorized his distinguished British family.
Madness was a regular guest in Roget’s home, Kendall said. One of his grandmothers either had schizophrenia or severe depression, Roget’s mother lapsed into paranoia, often accusing the servants of plotting against her. Both his sister and his daughter suffered depression and mental problems.
Then there was the case of Roget’s uncle, British member of Parliament Sir Samuel Romilly, known for his opposition to the slave trade and for his support of civil liberties. He slit his own throat while Roget tried to get the razor out of his hands.
Unlike a Thesaurus, no one understood Uncle Sam’s last words: “My dear….I wish…”
Indeed, to quote most of the Thesaurus listing for pain, Roget’s was a life filled with grief, pain, suffering, distress, affliction, woe, bitterness, heartache, unhappiness, infelicity and misery.
NOT WHOLLY EVIL
Kendall said, “The lists gave him an alternative world to which to repair.” Many writers have declared their debt to Roget, including Peter Pan’s creator, J.M. Barrie. In homage, he put a copy of the Thesaurus in Captain Hook’s cabin so he could declare: “The man is not wholly evil — he has a Thesaurus in his cabin.
The 20th century poet Sylvia Plath called herself “Roget’s Strumpet” to pay respects for all the word choices he gave her.
But the British journalist Simon Winchester holds Roget responsible for helping to dumb down Western culture because his work allows a writer to look it up rather than think it out.
Roget made his first attempt at a Thesaurus at age 26 but put aside the effort and did not publish his book until 1852 when he was in his 70s and retired. He then kept busy with it for the rest of his life.
It became an instant hit in Britain but did not sell that well when an American edition was published two years later. But when Americans went crazy for crossword puzzles in the 1920s, the Thesaurus assumed its place on reference shelves.
Kendall’s book is written in a style that he calls “narrative non-fiction” which contains a lot of dialogue and descriptions of how Roget and his friends feel and think, all, he says, based on source material.
“I did a lot of work to stitch together a narrative,” he said, adding that all the scenes in the book are based on actual events.
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Mar
16
Rocket lifts off with GPS satellite
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A Delta 2 rocket carrying a GPS satellite for the Air Force is on its way into orbit.
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The rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral early Saturday without a hitch. It momentarily lit up the star-studded sky, despite earlier concerns that thick clouds and rain might postpone the launch.
The third-generation GPS satellite is about 6 feet by 34 feet, a little smaller than an average sailboat. At nearly 4,500 pounds, it weighs about the same as a minivan.
The GPS satellite has a life expectancy of about 8 1/2 years, though the equipment it is replacing is more than 15 years old.
The GPS technology is designed to make navigational applications more accurate for the military and civilians.
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Mar
15
Rocket lifts off with GPS satellite
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The rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral early Saturday without a hitch. It momentarily lit up the star-studded sky, despite earlier concerns that thick clouds and rain might postpone the launch.
The third-generation GPS satellite is about 6 feet by 34 feet, a little smaller than an average sailboat. At nearly 4,500 pounds, it weighs about the same as a minivan.
The GPS satellite has a life expectancy of about 8 1/2 years, though the equipment it is replacing is more than 15 years old.
The GPS technology is designed to make navigational applications more accurate for the military and civilians.
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