The New York Times website has an extensive selection of fabulous close-up scans of the book, along with associated photos. " The Holy Grail of the Unconscious–By SARA CORBETT, New York Times, September 16, 2009 This is a story about a nearly 100-year-old book, bound in red...
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Can there be a more exciting athlete in the competition than Yelena Isinbayeva? First a gold and then two successful attempts at the the world record attempt last set by...Isinbayeva herself at...
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It's the second underground fire in Toronto in a week, and the third in Canada this month after last week's power-cutting Vancouver fire. While this one wasn't nearly as serious, hundreds of people were left...
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Today's power outage in Vancouver has had an impact on business both within the city and far beyond. Hundreds of Internet servers at Vancouver's Harbour Centre lost power, and as a result, websites crashed...
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"More than 10 years ago, serious computer role-playing game fans fell in love with a postapocalyptic role-playing game called Fallout, a game that offered deep role playing, dark humor, and a memorable adventure...
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"OSLO, Norway - Refrigeration units on Friday begin cooling a new doomsday vault dug into an already frigid Arctic mountainside to protect the world's seeds in case of a global catastrophe. Norway blasted...
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"Engineers have begun the two-month process of cooling down a "doomsday vault", which will house seeds from all known varieties of key food crops.
The temperature inside the Svalbard Global Seed Vault will drop to -18C (0F) in order to preserve the seeds.
Built deep inside a...
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"Sept 20 (Reuters) - A vault in a mountainside cavern on Spitsbergen island around 1,000 km (600 miles) from the North Pole is being prepared to store the world's crop seeds in case of disaster."The Survival Vault...
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Perhaps this will help judges make informed decisions on certain porn cases. "A national computer forensics lab for the US has been established in Alabama.
The facility, developed by the US Secret Service and...
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The final design for a "doomsday" vault that will
house seeds from all known varieties of food crops has been unveiled by
the Norwegian government.
The Svalbard International Seed Vault will be built into a mountainside on a remote island near the North Pole.
The vault aims...
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From The Washington Post: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - One of the world's most famous fossils - the 3.2 million-year-old Lucy skeleton unearthed in Ethiopia in 1974 - will go on display for the first time in the United States next year, and is likely to make a stop at the...
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"If ever America needed a wake-up call about the mythology of blogging, we got it this month.
On Aug. 8, Connecticut businessman Ned Lamont defeated U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman in the Democratic primary, a triumph widely credited to the rah-rah racket produced by pro-Lamont...