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These people might include, for instance, the readers of the publication and website Beer Advocate, who wrote in to rate the Top Beers on Planet Earth.
FORBES: Czech Mate
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RadioAstron will also examine pulsars and the outer regions of spiral galaxies in order to get more precise measurements on their rate of rotation and distance from earth.
FORBES: Russian Launch: a Bid for Largest Telescope Ever
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Further loss of Arctic ice will see radiation absorbed by darker seawater and snow-free land, potentially warming the Earth's climate at an even faster rate than current observational data indicates.
BBC: Canadian Arctic sheds ice chunk
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He was blessed with a first-rate intellect tempered with down-to-earth common sense.
FORBES: Fact and Comment
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Dr. JONATHAN OVERPECK (Geosciences, University of Arizona): It's going to come a rate much faster than plants and animals on Earth have ever seen in the time they've been on Earth.
NPR: Warming Will Create Micro-Climates, Scientists Say
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By measuring the red-shift of the burst's light (something that depends on how fast it is receding from Earth, and thus because the universe is expanding at a uniform rate how far away it is), it is possible to work out how bright it really was.
ECONOMIST: An illuminating burst
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The research team's temperature analysis showed that summer temperatures in the Arctic, in step with the reduced energy from the Sun (related to an approximately 21, 000-year cyclical wobble in Earth's tilt relative to the Sun), cooled at an average rate of about 0.2 degrees Celsius per thousand years.
CNN: Warmest Arctic temperatures for 2,000 years, says new study
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So we can expect America's population to continue growing at close to the highest rate in the advanced industrial world while Europe remains among the most rapidly aging places on earth.
FORBES: New Geographer
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The high-resolution camera will offer a video image with a frame rate of 3.25 frames per second with a resolution that is comparable to much of Google Earth.
ENGADGET: UrtheCast to stream live HD footage of Earth from ISS, like Stickam for space
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In 2000, when a Harvard Medical School professor working at the World Health Organization developed a complicated formula to rate the quality and fairness of national health care systems around the world, the richest nation on earth ranked thirty-seventh.
NPR: Excerpt: 'The Healing Of America'