He is Chinese's new leader.
他是我们的领导人。

"In a stroke of cosmic luck, astronomers for the first time witnessed the start of one of the universe's most fiery events: the end of a star's life as it exploded into a supernova.

""It's like winning the astronomy lottery," said lead author Alicia Soderberg, an astrophysics researcher"

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hT7G33VHJN6oLnujTdsiNS7ScP6gD90QIRL00

"The Bush administration relied on a flawed study to conclude that research on a highly infectious animal disease could safely be moved from an isolated island laboratory to sites on the mainland near livestock, congressional investigators concluded"

"The GAO report listed six other accidents between 1971 and 2004.

"These incidents involved human error, lack of proper maintenance, equipment failure and deviation from standard operating procedures," the GAO said. "Many were not a function of the age of the facility or the lack of technology and could happen in any facility today." "

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080522/ap_on_go_co/animal_disease

"Senators OK $1 billion for online child porn fight

A U.S. Senate panel has unanimously approved a bill that would encourage federal, state, and local police to use and create special software designed to nab child pornography swappers on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks."

"An amendment adopted Thursday also adds new sections to the original bill that would rewrite existing child pornography laws. One section is designed to make it clear that live Webcam broadcasts of child abuse are illegal, which the bill's authors argue is an "open question." Another change is aimed at closing another perceived loophole, prohibiting digital alteration of an innocent image of a child so that sexually explicit activity is instead depicted."

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9945915-7.html

"Strong, versatile little "nanotubes" made out of carbon are considered future stars in nanotechnology research in medicine and industry. Now a study finds that longer threads of the stuff mimic the toxic qualities of asbestos, renewing questions about how carbon nanotubes can be used safely.

Researchers with British institutes and the U.S.-based Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies injected mice with asbestos and with commercial samples of carbon nanotubes of varying sizes. When they examined the lining of the rodents' abdominal cavities, the researchers observed that longer nanotubes behaved like asbestos, provoking inflammation and lesions."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080520/ap_on_hi_te/nanotechnology_asbestos

>>	Junior Field Reporter 08/05/21(Wed)06:44 No.6596   File: 1211377496210.jpg -(706154 B, 2080x1600) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. >>6594 And another property of carbon nanorods - they're harder than Diamond. So there's another meme DESTROYED. Pic related.

"Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer scrambled for cover from an egg-hurling protester during a talk at a Hungarian university Monday.

Unlike his boss, Chairman Bill Gates, who was hit in the face with a cream pie a decade ago, Ballmer managed to dodge the eggs.

Ballmer was delivering a speech entitled "You can change the world" to a group of business and technology students at Budapest's Corvinus University when the incident occurred"

"A young man in glasses stood up, pointed at Ballmer and loudly demanded that Microsoft return money it had stolen from the Hungarian people. Then he calmly threw three eggs at Ballmer."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080521/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_ballmer_egged
video: http://www.youtube.com/v/4ifKbS3OFvU

"4 days ago
MOSCOW (AFP) — The final members of a Russian doomsday cult on Friday quit the cave where they had been waiting six months for the end of the world after the stench of rotting corpses threatened them with intoxication"

"they decided to leave because there was "a real threat of poisoning from toxic corpse fumes" of two deceased cult members rotting in the cave.

The sect members were part of an ultra-Orthodox splinter group led by bearded guru Pyotr Kuznetsov, who instructed them to go underground last November in wait for the world's end."

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j-fk0oiTkVbrBP-1nq8y94PxViZg

"BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — It wasn't exactly pistols at 30 paces, but police say a security company supervisor and a restaurateur shot each other with Tasers in a "bonehead" confrontation over parking."

"Both men drew Tasers.

"They shot each other," Police Sgt. Pat Wyton told the Camera newspaper. "It was just kind of a bonehead deal.""

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gnuZ6BEgYJpDeEGSq6836Fz_Ac5wD90OT0NG0

" TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico - A donkey is doing time in southern Mexico for assault and battery.

The animal was locked up at a local jail that normally holds people for public drunkenness and other disturbances after it bit and kicked two men near a ranch in Chiapas state, police said Monday.

Officer Sinar Gomez said the donkey will remain behind bars until its owner agrees to pay the men's medical bills."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080520/ap_on_fe_st/odd_mexico_jailed_burro

"Many states leave behind education law"

"More than 20 states have procrastinated in meeting the No Child Left Behind law's requirement that all students reach grade-level proficiency by 2014 and will be hard-pressed to make needed improvements before the deadline, a report released today shows."

""The essence of it is that unless Herculean efforts are made, the goal of reaching proficiency for all children will not be met," said Jack Jennings, president and chief executive officer of CEP, a national independent group that advocates for effective public schools. He compared the states' situation to "a mortgage payment that is about to balloon far beyond [a homeowner's] current ability to pay.""

http://washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080520/NATION/766555380/1002