All buildings will show up in pretty good 3D in the new Google Earth.

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The first paperback printed in the U.S. was an edition of The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck printed by Pocket Books in 1938.

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Familiar characters Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli and Gandalf return to fight for good in the final battle for Middle-earth.

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Buck's most well-known novel, "The Good Earth, " won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and helped earn her the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938.

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Chemicals found in fossils deep down in the samples span the ages and are good indicators of historic temperatures on Earth, Marcott said.

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"You can maintain a good geometry - the Earth and Sun are always in the same direction, " says Martin Hechler who has helped to design the mission path out to L2.

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We ask, therefore, that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility, that we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint, and that we may achieve in our time and for all time the ancient vision of 'peace on earth, good will toward men'.

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So while every global investor knows there is a good long term reason to be invested in emerging, what on Earth is the short term reason?

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Its smaller diameter is also good news, since there is still one chance in 1800 that the object could slam into earth in 2182.

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The threads running through all of this are price and scarcity: a price to signal the relative scarcity of a good such as a rare-earth metal, and that relative scarcity in turn to stimulate innovation.

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