Pierre Aidenbaum, who personally welcomed the participants and encouraged their discussion of this topic - one made all the more urgent in light of the recent, destructive riots in the French capital and elsewhere in the country during the Fall of 2005 and violent manifestations of rising anti-semitism in Western Europe.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center co-sponsors international conference

Active galaxies emit jets of light - up to trillions of times more energetic than the light we see - and a blazar is one with a jet pointing toward the Earth.

BBC: Blazar Markarian 421's flare-up is cosmic coincidence

One recent study of more than 450 Sun-like stars within about 325 light-years of Earth indicated most had high iron content in their photospheres, or on their surfaces - again, evidence the stars had gorged themselves on planetary material.

BBC: Star 'eats' a planet

As congestion builds on one street relative to another, it adjusts traffic-light cycles to give more green time to the congested lanes.

FORBES: Photograph: Tim Rue

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He reiterated the United Nations' commitment to continue to work in collaboration with the government and CSOs particularly in the context of devolution and in the light of the One Programme II (2013-2017) to develop more context specific solutions for the people of Pakistan.

UNESCO: Office in Islamabad

Jones admitted the fight would be his last as a light-heavyweight and that he was hoping to line up just one more fight - with Mike Tyson.

BBC: Jones (right) edged out Tarver in a close bout

The area's aging factories are prized for their clear, light-filled interiors, but this one is lighter and clearer than most, with more windows and none of the internal columns that clutter up the floors elsewhere.

WSJ: Donald Judd's SoHo Haven