And when he hasn't been in the fields, he's been on the phones.

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The radiation belt, which contains "two concentric rings of charged particles trapped by Earth's magnetic fields" doesn't affect current astronauts going to and from space because they are moving too fast to be hit by the radiation.

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Backcourt leadership remains a mystery fans are swooning for rookie Iman Shumpert (18 points in second game) but it's hard to imagine he won't hit a wall as last year's rookie pet, Landry Fields, did (Shumpert left in the fourth quarter Wednesday with leg cramps).

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It's also interesting what Chu didn't talk about: increasing oil and gas production from U.S. fields.

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McDonald's declined to comment on the Hudson study, but when the company in September said it would begin posting calorie information nationwide, Jan Fields, then-president of McDonald's USA, said the company hadn't noticed a change in behavior in the cities that already required posted calorie counts.

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So we will have in country, which we don't in every country, on hand experts, U.S. experts in every one of the fields that we discussed here today.

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