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[#ctl00_cultureMenu_SkipLink] My language is English Мой язык Русский Моя мова Українська Web Zero News Catalog Rynok Advanced search На русском (9485) Українською (7445) World News Ukraine News Russian News USA News All categories Economics and Finance Bank news Business Real estate Politics and Authority Society Events Crime Science and Technology Computers and Internet Education Auto Health Sports Cinema, Music, Culture Show Business Fashion and Style Today in History Other All categories 15 March, 2012 07:00 USA > Society Press Release: Asteroid 2012 DA14 Discovery Enabled by Planetary Society Grant Planetary Society Daily Almanac FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 15, 2012 CONTACT: Mat Kaplan Voice: 626-793-5100 E-mail: matkaplan@planetaryorg Asteroid Will Pass Closer To Earth Than Many Satellites-- Discovery Enabled by Planetary Society Grant In less than a year, an asteroid that is half the size of a football field will pass within just a few thousand miles of our planet The discovery of this object, dubbed 2012 DA14, was made possible by a Shoemaker Near Earth Object (NEO) grant provided by the Planetary Society Processing method to reveal fast-moving asteroids Credit: Courtesy Jaime Nomen, La Sagra The giant space rock was discovered on February 22, 2012 by La Sagra Observatory in southern Spain One of the observatory's telescopes had recently been upgraded through... News in last 11 hr. 41 min. Fukushima birds may cope with radiation Ash traces hint at cave cuisine 1 million years ago Ladybirds think like an aphid to catch a meal Ants inoculate themselves by licking sick nest-mates Mystery of bird navigation system still unsolved Taking time off can help you learn a language Current news 11 April, 2012 23:05 USA > Education Tongue-tied Britain needs to learn the right lingo Education news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk According to the British Chambers of Commerce, less than 1% of business owners speak Chinese Photograph EPA Vy govorite po-russki? No, thought not If British businesses are to meet George Osborne's target of doubling exports by 2020, then an ability to swap pleasantries, nail down negotiations or even order a taxi from the airport in Russian will... 11 April, 2012 23:00 USA > Fashion and Style Quick Study on Style In our style-obsessed culture, it's fitting that books on the topic range broad and deep The titles that have come across my desk for spring and summer encompass everything from start-up business advice to an academic-worthy study of Kate Moss, from personal grooming to an exploration of the accidents that created a fashion icon "Overdressed: The... 11 April, 2012 22:45 USA > Health Ronaldo hat-trick keeps Real in control HEALTH Print Comment Send this page Real Madrid's Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates after scoring during the Spanish league football match Atletico Madrid against Real Madrid at the Vicente Calderon stadium in Madrid A Ronaldo hat-trick fired Real Madrid to a 4-1 derby win at Atletico Madrid to restore their four-point cushion... 11 April, 2012 22:25 USA > Health Egypt court clears way for Salafist in race for top job HEALTH Print Comment Send this page Egyptian police stand by as Egyptian supporters of Salafist presidential candidate Hazem Abu Ismail take part in a demonstration outside the State Council court in Cairo Ismail looks set to rejoin the presidential race after a court ruled on Wednesday that his mother was not a US citizen, the official MENA... 11 April, 2012 21:57 USA > Other Lottery Commission Reaffirms Contract with Scientific Games Arkansas Business News Story By The Associated Press4/11/2012 4:06:02 PM Change font size LITTLE ROCK - The Arkansas Lottery Commission has reaffirmed a controversial contract with one of its largest vendorsInternal auditor Mike Hyde called for outside legal input Wednesday over the legality of the contract he says has generated $7 million more so... 11 April, 2012 21:57 USA > Other Metropolitan Reports $1 Million 1Q Loss, Under Loosened Agreement with OCC Arkansas Business News Story By Arkansas Business Staff4/11/2012 4:50:25 PM Change font size Metropolitan National Bank of Little Rock on Wednesday reported a $104 million first-quarter loss, an improvement over the $405 million loss it reported during the same quarter last yearThe bank company also said it is now under a new consent order with its... 11 April, 2012 21:40 USA > Other Corn Farmers Vote To Increase Corn Marketing Act Check-Off SPRINGFIELD, Ill – Illinois corn farmers overwhelmingly have approved an increase in the check-off rate they pay when marketing their grain By a vote of 1,137 to 317, they passed a referendum March 28 to raise the rate by 1/4 cent per bushel The referendum result was announced today after the Illinois Department of Agriculture... 11 April, 2012 21:40 USA > Other Simon to bring rural listening tour to Eastern Illinois - Demand for skilled workers, education will top the agenda MATTOON – As chair of the Governor’s Rural Affairs Council, Lt Governor Sheila Simon will host a rural listening post in Eastern Illinois on Thursday evening to collect ideas on how to improve education and employment in non-metro areas of the state The public forum will be held from 6-8 pm in Webb Hall at Lake Land College in Mattoon... 11 April, 2012 21:40 USA > Other Liquor Control Commission March Underage Compliance Report SPRINGFIELD – In March the Illinois Liquor Control Commission (ILCC) conducted compliance checks around the state and visited 201 businesses licensed to sell liquor They cited 29 licensees for violations of liquor control laws Eighty-six percent of the licensees visited complied with Illinois liquor laws and refused to serve underage... 11 April, 2012 21:34 USA > Fashion and Style Modern Art And Kraft Style File Minimalism is in the air Despite Raf Simons’ protestations that he isn’t only a minimalist, the word has hung over his collections and informed the discussion about his taking over at Dior Meanwhile, one of fashion’s most famous minimalists, Jil Sander, is headed back to the house she founded (and Simons vacated) Minimal chic has... 11 April, 2012 21:28 USA > Education UC Davis chancellor blamed over use of pepper-spray on Occupy protesters Associated Press guardiancouk, Wednesday 11 April 2012 2228 BST Article history About this article Close This article was published on guardiancouk at 2228 BST on Wednesday 11 April 2012 It was last modified at 2228 BST on Wednesday 11 April 2012 Lieutenant John Pike, seen dousing the crowd with pepper-spray, was not interviewed by the task... 11 April, 2012 21:25 USA > Health Amateurs Quevilly shock Ligue 1 side Rennes to reach French Cup final HEALTH Print Comment Send this page Quevilly's players celebrate after the French Cup semi-final football match Quevilly vs Rennes at the Michel Dornano stadium in Caen, western France Amateurs Quevilly shocked Ligue 1 outfit Rennes 2-1 on Wednesday to reach the French Cup final for the second time in their history but first since 1927 ... 11 April, 2012 21:19 USA > Other Sleuth Soccer Moms Tackle Bad Guys And Stereotypes In the most vital essay on crime fiction ever written — Raymond Chandler's 1944 apologia "The Simple Art of Murder" — Chandler paid this tribute to his hard-boiled predecessor, Dashiell Hammett: "Hammett took murder out of the Venetian vase and dropped it into the alley" Had Chandler been able to peer into one of those dirty crystal balls used as props... 11 April, 2012 21:19 USA > Other Film Festival Turns Lens To African Homeland The 19th New York African Film Festival kicks off Wednesday, with a wide selection of films exploring ideas of home and homeland Guest host Viviana Hurtado speaks with the festival's founder Mahen Bonetti, and documentary filmmaker Laura Gamse, who is showing her film The Creators about South African artists ... 11 April, 2012 21:19 USA > Other Virginia Author Remembers Nostalgic Summers Poetry and social media join forces in April, as Tell Me More celebrates National Poetry Month with the Muses and Metaphor series We'll feature poems exchanged via Twitter by NPR fans — always in 140 characters or fewer Tweet your poem using the hashtag: #TMMPoetry You can read some of our recent favorites via Storify here, or stop and listen to the... 11 April, 2012 21:19 USA > Other New In Paperback April 9-15 Fiction and nonfiction releases from Mary Gordon, Henning Mankell, Jim Rasenberger, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, Charles J Ogletree Jr and Meghan O'Rourke ... 11 April, 2012 21:19 USA > Other Can Romney Appeal To Women, Minority Voters? With Rick Santorum out of the presidential race, Mitt Romney is focusing his energy on the general election Early polls show Romney trailing President Obama, partly due to his deficit with women and Latinos Guest host Viviana Hurtado speaks with National Review contributor Mario Loyola and Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for America ... 11 April, 2012 21:19 USA > Other Momentum Shifts As Santorum Exits Race Rick Santorum ended his presidential campaign Tuesday It clears the way for Mitt Romney to capture the nomination, though many conservatives have yet to rally around the former Massachusetts governor The Romney campaign now shifts into the general campaign, with a focus on President Obama ... 11 April, 2012 21:19 USA > Other Wireless Industry Tries To Thwart Smartphone Thefts The wireless phone industry has a plan to take the profit out of the market for stolen smartphones At the urging of police chiefs across the country and federal regulators, the industry is developing a database of stolen devices Copyright © 2012 National Public Radio® For personal, noncommercial use only See Terms of Use For other uses,... 11 April, 2012 21:19 USA > Other Fannie, Freddie Weigh Mortgage Write-Downs Hundreds of thousands of homeowners facing foreclosure might get help by having the amount they owe reduced by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac This is a hot topic in Washington, DC, with many Democrats pushing for these so-called "principal reductions" to try to help the housing market On Tuesday, a top federal regulator came a step closer to allowing the... Main in themes 11 April, 2012 16:25 USA > Cinema Music Culture: Disneyland Paris turns 20, with mixed results News and stories on CULTURE, movies, music, literature Print Comment Send this page The entrance of the Disneyland park in Chessy, outside Paris, in March 2012 The sprawling park, served by high-speed trains and home to 57 attractions, boasts Big Thunder Mountain and Space Mountain Mission 2, but also lies beneath a debt mountain that amounted to 187 billion euros last year Mickey poses... 11 April, 2012 20:15 USA > Fashion and Style: Using Your Phone to Turn Voice Into Text WSJ.com: Lifestyle I am writing this paragraph on an iPhone But I am not typing it on the phone's virtual keyboard I am dictating it using a little-known feature that allows you to employ your voice, instead of your fingers, wherever text entry is possible on the device And now, for this paragraph, I have switched to an Android phone Once again, I am composing these... 11 April, 2012 04:01 USA > Today in History: Today in History for 11th April 2012 Today in History | HistoryOrb.com 491 - Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I 672 - Deusdedit III begins his reign as Catholic Pope 1079 - Bishop Stanislaus of Krakow is executed by order of Boleslaw II of Poland 1471 - King Edward IV of England conquers London from Henry VI 1512 - Battle at Ravenna: France under Gaston de Foix beat Spanish Army... 11 April, 2012 21:05 USA > Health: Wigan stun United to give City hope HEALTH Print Comment Send this page Manchester United's English defender Phil Jones reacts at the final whistle after their 1-0 defeat in the English Premier League football match between Wigan Athletic and Manchester United at The DW Stadium in Wigan Wigan won 1-0 Manchester City's Spanish midfielder David Silva (L) chips the ball... 11 April, 2012 17:09 USA > Education: Derek Legge obituary Education news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk Paul Stanistreet guardiancouk, Wednesday 11 April 2012 1809 BST Article history About this article Close This article was published on guardiancouk at 1809 BST on Wednesday 11 April 2012 Derek Legge became the first lecturer in adult education in western Europe Photograph: Graham Wilkinson Derek Legge, who has died aged 95, was one of the... 04 April, 2012 14:18 USA > Computers and Internet: Yahoo to lay off 2,000 employees Tag Internet Print Comment Send this page - Internet - Yahoo US internet firm Yahoo has announced it is cutting roughly 2,000 jobs as it seeks to reduce costs and build a "smaller, nimbler, more profitable" company The lay-offs represent approximately 14 percent of Yahoo's workforce AP - Yahoo is laying off 2,000 employees as... 31 March, 2012 07:00 USA > Society: News: Mars Exploration Rover Update: Opportunity Gets Energy Boost and Works Through Depths of Winter Planetary Society Daily Almanac "They were small gusts, totaling up to an 8% improvement in energy production," added John Callas, MER project manager, of JPL "But we'll take them It's all moving in the right direction We're not out of the winter yet, but the worst power levels do seem to be behind us now" Morris Hill Opportunity took this picture of Morris Hill... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Main Page Yottos | About Yottos | Advertising programs | Add news © 2012 Yot tos