Carbon-rich worlds contrast sharply with the Earth, whose interior is relatively poor in that element but rich in oxygen.

BBC: Oddballs: The strange worlds beyond our Solar System

Neritan Ceka, the energetic interior minister, has made road travel along main routes relatively safe by daylight and captured a bunch of criminal leaders in the southern port of Vlora, the hub of Albania's mafia.

ECONOMIST: Albania

Although the project's exterior and interior public spaces are Graves-designed, apartment layouts and details are by a relatively obscure contract architect.

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But Obama gradually lost much of the public with the persistent disconnect between his administration's belligerent rhetoric (most notably Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's "boot to the neck" comment) and its relatively anemic actions toward BP and the corrupt regulators at the Minerals Management Service.

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