"I'm all for reaching for the stars, " Okoro said.

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While the message began its voyage to the cosmos--a 24, 000 year trip to M-13, a cluster of stars in the constellation Hercules, to be exact--visiting dignitaries listened over a loudspeaker while each bit played as a short, high-pitched tone.

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Michael Essien and Stephen Appiah are the kind of players every coach would love to have in his team but I'm sure even they will admit that the current Black Stars are not the most talented.

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The small size of the red dwarf stars, typically with spectral types K and M, gives a greater relative drop in brightness when low-mass planets pass in front of them, making it easier to search for planets around them.

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Bill Cooke, the head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office, said by e-mail that the shooting stars would be visible after about 11 p.m. in each time zone in the United States, with the best viewing time from 3 a.m. until dawn.

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I'm a big fan of their work so I'm keen to see what it's like - as is one of its stars, British actress Tilda Swinton.

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"I'm disappointed with the way it turned out, " said Burgess, one of the stars of Australia's National Rugby League with South Sydney.

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"They could be stars of the future in rugby, both internationally and for Bristol so I'm quietly excited about what we have in store, " said Hull.

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The Master, which also stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, is Phoenix's first feature film since I'm Still Here, Casey Affleck's spoof 2010 documentary which chronicled Phoenix's supposed retirement from acting to launch a career as a rapper.

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