Messenger's approach this week, only 124 miles above Mercury's surface, was much closer than any previous encounter.
And South Africa's Mercury says the country's Treatment Action Campaign cautions that being circumcised does not mean men are wholly protected from HIV.
The quartet Alt-J, whose "An Awesome Wave" won last year's Mercury Prize as Britain's best album, did much with little on stage as odd two-part vocal harmonies, a gently picked electric guitar, lush synth lines and syncopated percussion coalesced into a distinctive blend that united folk, prog rock, electronica, show tunes and hip-hop.
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Queen have continued to record and perform together occasionally since Mercury's death in December 1991.
The details of Mercury's underperformance between January 1997 and March 1998 are still fiercely debated.
In 1997, Mercury's flagging performance made it an obvious candidate for a takeover.
That, one would have thought, implies ever-closer co-operation between Mercury's and Merrill's fund-managers.
One of the chemical elements in Mercury's atmosphere is sodium, a gas somewhat easy to detect because it reflects sunlight very efficiently.
Angry Aucklanders accuse Mercury's bosses of sacrificing investment in new cables to boost profits to pay for the takeover of neighbouring utilities.
What makes it Vulcanlike, though, is that it circles its star, Kepler-10, once every 20 hours, in an orbit a twentieth the size of Mercury's.
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NASA's Mercury 7 space capsule piloted by Gus Grissom was found and recovered in 1999.
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"My gut feeling is that Duron is going to be comparable" in performance to a Celeron, Mercury Research's McCarron said.
At our meeting, Chair Sutley discussed the importance of EPA's Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, issued last week, that provide both economic and environmental benefits while protecting public health and the Great Lakes.
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It is not just a US phenomenon - new urban stars have won the UK's Mercury Music Prize for the best album of the year for the last two years, while even Prince Charles is getting in on the act, hosting an urban music festival in May.
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The national temperament is changing with the U.S. Congress enacting tougher rules on sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and mercury while the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is beginning to clamp down on greenhouse gases.
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Too much mercury in one's diet from any source can cause loss of coordination, blindness or even death.
For example, nearly 60 percent of all coal-fired boilers that submitted data to EPA are currently achieving the Utility Toxics Rule's proposed mercury standards.
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And while you didn't exactly have to be a rocket scientist to join the original space missions (the U.S. Mercury and Apollo programs recruited many test pilots), if you want to stand a chance against other heavily-qualified applicants, it's certainly an advantage.
Some publishers, such as the San Jose Mercury News and Britain's Guardian newspaper, were quick to set up weblogs.
And sources say there are no new Mercury products in Ford's pipeline after 2009, suggesting that brand's days are numbered.
The music of Queen will come to the London ballet stage in September when a tribute to Freddie Mercury opens at Sadler's Wells.
Two factories are dedicated to building Tauruses and Mercury Sables, the Taurus's mechanical twin.
Now, researchers speculate that it is the first known meteorite from our Solar System's innermost planet, Mercury.
But the new find is a planet just a third the size of that recent record-holder, smaller even than our Solar System's smallest planet, Mercury.
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With summer in full swing, this week Inhabitat watched the mercury rise as the world's largest thermostat burst forth with an array of 72, 000 building-mounted LEDs.
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Queen's deceased frontman Freddie Mercury made a digital appearance.
Northcliffe Media's titles include the Leicester Mercury, Bristol Post and Derby Telegraph.
In January he launched Ford's latest turnaround effort, called the "Way Forward, " which seeks to restore North American profits by 2008 by reducing material costs, shedding excess workers and factories, and sharpening the focus of the company's Ford, Lincoln and Mercury brands.
"That's why we were so happy to be nominated for the Mercury, because we're album people I think, " said the band's keyboard player Gus Unger-Hamilton.
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