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... s known as yellowcake powder and then converted to a gas. Uranium oxide contains two main parts, or isotopes: uranium-235 and uranium-238. To make an atomic bomb or power a nuclear power plant, the uranium needs to contain more of the uranium-235 than the uranium-238. That ...
... supporters, have raised fresh questions about who gets to represent the United States abroad. SEN. MARCO RUBIO, R-Fla.: Mr. Mamet, have you been to Argentina? NOAH BRYSON MAMET, U.S. Ambassador to Argentina-Designate: Senator, I haven't had the opportunity yet to be there. GWEN IFILL: That response ...
... $780 billion a year, as of Wednesday's announcement), investments are flowing out of risky areas. Some of these countries are facing absolute crises, with Argentina's currency plummeting by more than 20 percent in under one month. That means investments in Argentina are worth 20 percent less in dollar ...
... July 2013, when the pontiff stated that homosexuals shouldn't be marginalized "if they accept the Lord and have good will." Aguilar's comments could make for bad press for a church that has only recently begun to sway public opinion in its favor under Pope Francis. According to Gallup ...
... It essentially means that as long as coercion is not being enacted, I have no issue with what is happening. So that would, I guess, make me a philosophical libertarian. Paul Solman: Not an anarchist? Jonathan Mohan: No. no. Paul Solman: And so what have you discovered as you've ...
SILVINA IAZURLO, Argentina (through interpreter): I'm worried. It seems to me that her head is her biggest asset. She is someone who's very intelligent, and having to have an operation, regardless of how simple it is, always has it risks. I'm very worried that there won't ...
... acts between adults and minors. The justices did not comment in rejecting that argument Monday. The court also declined to hear, at least for now, Argentina's appeal of a ruling that orders it to pay hedge funds that bought up some of the country's unpaid debt from its ...
... our outer solar system. The first and most distant was captured 23 years ago by NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft from a nearly 4-billion-mile distance -- the famous Pale Blue Dot. Cassini also snapped an image in 2006 from 926 million miles away. This panoramic view of Saturn was ...
Rep. Ed Markey faces Rep. Stephen Lynch in Tuesday's Democratic primary. Photo by Freddy Wheeler/WEBN-TV via Flickr. Six months ago, Massachusetts voters were in the middle of one of the fiercest Senate battles of the election season. They ousted Sen. Scott Brown, the Republican who had surprised the nation and delighted the tea party, in...
President Obama and Vice President Biden meet with families of victims killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings at the White House before delivering remarks on the Senate's failure to pass a plan to expand background checks. Official White House photo by Pete Souza. "So all in all, this was a pretty shameful day...
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