Mars in the Path of Asteroid D Day January 30

clipped from news.aol.com Mars could be in for an asteroid hit. A newly discovered hunk of space rock has a 1 in 75 chance of slamming into the Red Planet on Jan. 30, scientists said Thursday. "These odds are extremely unusual. We frequently work with really long odds when we track ... threatening asteroids," said Steve Chesley, an astronomer with the Near Earth Object Program at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In 1994, fragments of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 smacked into Jupiter, creating a series of overlapping fireballs in space. Astronomers have yet to witness an asteroid impact with another planet. The asteroid, known as 2007 WD5, was discovered in late November and is similar in size to an object that hit remote central Siberia in 1908, unleashing energy equivalent to a 15-megaton nuclear bomb and wiping out 60 million trees. If the asteroid does smash into Mars, it will probably hit near the equator close to where the rover Opportunity has been exploring the Martian plains since 2004.

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Start-Up Sells Solar Panels at Lower-Than-Usual Cost

clipped from www.nytimes.com Nanosolar, a heavily financed Silicon Valley start-up whose backers include Google’s co-founders, plans to announce Tuesday that it has begun selling its innovative solar panels, which are made using a technique that is being held out as the future of solar power manufacturing. The company, which has raised $150 million and built a 200,000-square-foot factory here, is developing a new manufacturing process that “prints” photovoltaic material on aluminum backing, a process the company says will reduce the manufacturing cost of the basic photovoltaic module by more than 80 percent. Nanosolar, which recently hired a top manufacturing executive from I.B.M., said that it had orders for its first 18 months of manufacturing capacity. The photovoltaic panels will be made in Silicon Valley and in a second plant in Germany. Nanosolar has focused on lowering the manufacturing cost Nanosolar claims to be the first solar panel manufacturer to be able to sell solar panels for less than $1 a watt

Would You Marry for Money? (And If So, How Much?)

Tell the truth, would you marry for money?

clipped from blogs.wsj.com Robert Frank’s wealth column ooks at the growing number of men and women who want to tie the knot for assets, rather than love. According to a survey by Prince & Associates, a Connecticut-based wealth-research firm, the average “price” that men and women demand to marry for money these days is $1.5 million. The survey asked people nationwide: “How willing are you to marry an average-looking person that you liked, if they had money?” The column sites an infamous personal ad posted on Craigslist this summer, in which a twentysomething New Yorker who described herself as “spectacularly beautiful” wrote that she was looking for a man who made at least $500,000 a year. She’d tried dating men earning $250,000, but that wasn’t “getting me to Central Park West,” she said. (One investment banker replied that since his money would grow over time but her beauty would fade, the offer didn’t make good business sense.)

Hot Christmas Toys #1 Hannah Montana In Concer

clipped from money.aol.com Analysts expect the Hannah Montana In Concert Collection Doll from Play Along, a division of JAKKS Pacific, Inc., to be at the top of the sales list this holiday season.

A New Way for Doctors to Get Sued?

I would be interested in hearing comments to this one.

clipped from blogs.wsj.com A man taking several prescription drugs passes out at the wheel, drives off the road and hits and kills a 10-year-old boy. Can the boy’s mother sue the doctor who prescribed the drugs? The answer is yes at least according to a ruling made yesterday by Massachusetts’s Supreme Judicial Court, reported in the Boston Globe. The mother’s lawyers allege that the doc failed to warn his patient about the side effects of the medications and the potential danger of driving while taking them. The patient was reportedly 75 years old and had emphysema, high blood pressure and metastatic lung cancer. He had prescriptions from his doctor for a handful of drugs whose side effects include drowsiness, dizziness, and fainting He reported no side effects in the months before his accident In a dissent, Justice Robert J. Cordy wrote that the ruling “introduces a new audience to which the physician must attend — everyone who might come in contact with the patient.”

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Go ahead and laugh. This really works. After seven times you will be amazed at how much stronger and tighter your face feels. The workout will also relax you like you won't believe. It's like the stress just comes right out of you via your face. It takes some getting use to but is more then worth the effort. TRY IT!

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