Hurricane Isaias is blamed for at least two deaths, after the storm made landfall on the Florida coast and ran through Alabama. The are numerous reports of downed trees, with hundreds of thousands of people without power.
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Most of us recognize basic phases of matter and their properties: solids maintain their shape, liquids flow freely with constant volume, and gases expand to fill their container. Quantum phases, on the other hand, are much harder to categorize, overturning traditional notions of what a phase eve...
Alphonse Le Grande became only the second horse in history to win the Club Godolphin Cesarewitch twice when coming with a late rattle to foil a major gamble on Sea Lantern at Newmarket.
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"Thus the fiscal pressure caused largely by France’s very generous government pension plan has led to cutbacks in other spending, notably on education.