For viewing the total eclipse, the best places on terra firma are in central Africa, where the eclipse will last four minutes or longer -- more than twice as long as the last total solar eclipse in 1999.

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The last annular eclipse appeared in the United States in 1994.

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The whole eclipse will last for a couple of hours as the moon passes in front of the sun, creating a partial eclipse.

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But the last time a supermoon eclipse occurred was in 1982, making Sunday's rare event worth staying up past bedtime.

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With kids still flocking to Toy Story 3 and teens stampeding theaters to see Eclipse, The Last Airbender, from director M.

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Last month I flew the Eclipse 500 at the company's home base, Albuquerque International Sunport Airport.

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The Citroen driver, who won the event for the fourth time last year, dominated the four-day race from the start to eclipse the feats of four-time victors Sandro Munari, Walter Rohrl and Tommi Makinen.

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Rose's sell signal came on April 7, one day before the solar eclipse and represented a change from the astrologically inspired buy signal last Oct. 22.

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So the question naturally arose last week whether Secretary of State MADELEINE ALBRIGHT was nervous that Holbrooke would try to eclipse her, especially since he would like to have her job in a Gore Administration.

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