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    Closest Look Ever At Edge Of A Black Hole  Sep 4, 2008
    Future investigations will help answer the question of what, precisely, they are seeing: a glowing corona around the black hole, an orbiting "hot spot," or a jet of material. Nevertheless, their result represents the first time that observations have gotten down to the scale of the black hole itself, which has a "Schwarzschild radius" of 10 million miles. (Science Daily)

    Flushing Meadows holds more than a few aces  Aug 24, 2008
    NEW YORK - When the first tennis ball is served tomorrow at the US Open, people from around the world will once again descend on Flushing Meadows Corona Park to follow the action. This city park is well-accustomed to playing the role of international host. (Boston Globe)

    Solar Eclipse Reports and Pix  Aug 4, 2008
    "With about a half hour to go till totality we could see sunlight sparkling on the water in the distance, so the ship steamed at full power toward it. We reached an area where the cloud cover was thin enough to grant us a spectacular view of the eclipse from just before the start of totality through to the very end. "We saw a beautiful 'diamond ring' as the corona emerged around the Sun along with several electric-pink prominences, most notably a large one at the 1 o'clock position for us ...... (SkyAndTelescope.com)

    Sagittarius is constellation lovers? cup of tea  Aug 3, 2008
    The Saucer is a constellation of its own: Corona Australis, the Southern Crown, called that since ancient times ... To me, Corona Australis goes better as part of the summer tea set. (Boston Globe)

    Total eclipse provides rare delight  Aug 2, 2008
    At the moment of "totality," when the moon's shadow totally obscures the sun, the sun's outer atmosphere -- the solar corona -- becomes visible ... The solar corona extends farther than 620,000 miles from the sun's visible surface and reaches temperatures up to 2 million degrees. (CNN)

    Clear weather for sun eclipse observation  Aug 2, 2008
    Eclipses are scientifically interesting because they allow a rare glimpse of the cooler corona, glowing gases near the sun's surface and solar flares, which are normally not visible because of the brightness of the sun, he said. Editor: Yao. (Xinhuanet, China)

    Total eclipse stirs hearts in Russia  Aug 1, 2008
    Eclipses have long intrigued astronomers, in part because they allow direct observation of the Sun's corona. One eclipse was used to confirm Einstein's theory of general relativity. (CNN -- International)

    Solar Eclipse On The Morning Of August 1st  Aug 1, 2008
    At mid-eclipse, observers within the lunar shadow briefly see totality, where the silhouette of the Moon completely covers the Sun, revealing the beautiful outer solar atmosphere or corona ... (June 26, 2006) The most true-to-life computer simulation ever made of our sun's multimillion-degree outer atmosphere, the corona, successfully predicted its actual appearance during the March 29, 2006, solar. (Science Daily)

    Tips for Eclipse-Watchers  Jul 29, 2008
    Those of you who are able and willing to travel to Russia, Mongolia or northern China can view the more than two-minute-long totality and also see the sun's corona and the moon's deepest shadow (umbra) ... Only in totality, which occurs along the narrow strip that describes the cone vertex of the deepest shadow of the moon on Earth's surface, is it dark enough to see the sun's corona in all its magnificence surrounding the dark disk of the moon. (Scientific American)

    S.F. scientists in China to Webcast solar eclipse  Jul 28, 2008
    Semper and Doherty will start their Webcast feed at 3:30 a.m. PDT Friday by explaining what scientists know about the sun, and during totality at 4:09 a.m. PDT, the team's four telescopes will train on features like the sun's flaring prominences and its brilliant corona. Although total solar eclipses are visible somewhere on Earth roughly every 18 months, they are only visible every few hundred years in the same region. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)

    Rosinter Restaurants Holding Announces the Results of Annual General Shareholders Meeting  Jul 1, 2008
    The Company offers Italian, Japanese, American and Russian cuisine under its proprietary brands IL Patio, Planet Sushi and 1-2-3 Cafe and its licensed brands T.G.I. Friday's and Sibirskaya Corona. Also, through a Joint Venture with Whitbread PLC the company is currently developing Costa Coffee chain in Russia. (PR Newswire)

    Extreme design: SuitSat pushes engineers' limits  Jun 27, 2008
    One of the more interesting considerations when preparing for a vacuum is the Fermi effect, whereby operation at lower oxygen pressure can cause arcing or a corona effect at voltages of around 40 V. To prevent this hazard, Bible said, the enclosures had extra holes to ensure rapid venting to vacuum. While ionizing radiation and its associated bit-flips and latchups were somewhat of a concern, the low-earth orbit at about 400 to 500 km, and the short life expectancy of the satellite, gave this... (EETimes)

    Sun might hold secret of dark matter  Jun 18, 2008
    Hinode JAXA/NASA/PPARCThis X-ray image reveals the sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, taken by Hinode's X-Ray Telescope (XRT) ... "It would be revolutionary for solar and stellar physics to be able to make use of the axions, if real, to see inside the sun," Hudson said, "and also to study the coronal magnetic field via the conversion process [of axions to photons]." Axions could help astrophysicists to make more accurate measurements of the temperature of the sun's core, for instance. (MSNBC -- Technology)

    NASA Plans To Visit The Sun  Jun 17, 2008
    The two mysteries prompting this mission are the high temperature of the sun's corona and the puzzling acceleration of the solar wind. The corona: If you stuck a thermometer in the surface of the sun, it would read about 6000o C. Intuition says the temperature should drop as you back away; instead, it rises ... The sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, registers more than a million degrees Celsius, hundreds of times hotter than the star below. (Science Daily)

    Solar Curveballs: Sun Puts a Twist on Its Pitches  Jun 8, 2008
    They offered their most recent insights on topics ranging from coronal heating to the origin of the solar wind. New observations with the X-Ray Telescope (XRT) on Japan's Hinode solar spacecraft captured an unprecedentedly detailed view of a coronal mass ejection (CME) on ... Scientists believe that the events leading to a CME may also help to heat the solar chromosphere and corona to their anomalously high temperatures. (SkyAndTelescope.com)

    NASA Extreme-Ultraviolet Satellite Powers Down  Jun 4, 2008
    They observed radiation from the Sun's chromosphere and corona as well as the chemical processes provoked by solar EUV radiation in the Earth's upper atmosphere. NASA already has satellites studying the Sun's UV emissions, though, and the agency ultimately denied two new SSL proposals to conduct more detailed data analysis. (SkyAndTelescope.com)

    Warm Coronal Loops Offer Clue To Mysteriously Hot Solar Atmosphere  Jun 3, 2008
    2, 2008) Scientists at NASA reveal a new understanding of the mysterious mechanism responsible for heating the outer part of the solar atmosphere, the corona, to million degree temperatures ... "It has become clear in recent years that coronal heating is a highly dynamic process, but inconsistencies between observations and theoretical models have been a major source of heartburn. We have now discovered two possible solutions to this dilemma: energy is released impulsively with the right mix of... (Science Daily)

    Drug Gang Jungle Fires Threaten Guatemala Ruins  Jun 2, 2008
    US and Guatemalan archaeologists who trekked to the La Corona site in northern Guatemala to map dozens of huge Mayan ruins had to trade their scientific instruments for machetes and buckets of water last week to fight an encroaching blaze ... Drug gangs, and people supporting them who live illegally in the 800,000-acre Laguna del Tigre park, which surrounds the La Corona site, see the archaeologists as a threat ... "At our archaeological base camp we have guards and that creates a problem for... (Planet Ark, United States)

    How Plasma From Superstorms Affects Near-Earth Space  Jun 1, 2008
    Large flares often result in an ejection of material from the solar corona, called a coronal mass ejection (CME) ... Solar activity can wreak havoc in communications systems -- particularly during coronal mass ejections, when plumes of electrically charged particles. (Science Daily)

    Just one question  May 27, 2008
    While Italy's expulsion would not benefit anyone, it may be time to consider the selective withholding of certain subsidies and benefits that Italy derives from EU membership unless it makes its central priority the eradication of Camorra influence in Naples, the 'Ndrangheta in Reggio Calabria, a slightly resurgent Cosa Nostra in Sicily, and the Sacra Corona Unita in Apulia. Simon Armitage, poet asks Glyn Maxwell, poet and playwright. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)

    Daring mission to the sun's corona  May 22, 2008
    Solar Probe, which will fly through sun's corona, will launch around 2015 ... NASA directed the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL) to begin preliminary work on a proposed $750 million last month, with plans to launch around 2015 to fly through the sun's corona and study the stream of charged particles it regularly blasts into space. (MSNBC -- Technology)

    NASA presentations at American Geophysical Union Joint Assembly  May 22, 2008
    Explaining Warm Coronal Loops Time: Thurs ... Scientists reveal a new understanding of the mysterious mechanism responsible for heating the outer part of the solar atmosphere (the corona) to million degree temperatures. (EurekAlert!)

    Choices Make Cinco De Mayo Diet Fiesta  May 6, 2008
    At OTB, the Corona extra dinner, with a chile relle;o, two chicken enchiladas and a beef taco, will top out at more than 2,000 calories. Instead, go for the pico chicken and shrimp, which packs a great flavor punch along with its 790 calories. (Click2Houston, TX)

    Plan To Send A Probe To The Sun  May 3, 2008
    NASA has tapped APL to develop the ambitious Solar Probe mission, which will study the streams of charged particles the sun hurls into space from a vantage point within the sun s corona its outer atmosphere where the processes that heat the corona and produce solar wind occur ... Solar Probe will employ a combination of in-place and remote measurements to achieve the mission s primary scientific goals: determine the structure and dynamics of the magnetic fields at the sources of solar wind;... (Science Daily)

    This Week's Sky at a Glance  Apr 22, 2008
    A third of the way from Arcturus to Vega is the little semicircle of Corona Borealis, the Northern Crown. Two thirds of the way is the Keystone of Hercules. (SkyAndTelescope.com)

    Medical X-ray Technique Unveils The Sun's Corona  Apr 6, 2008
    4, 2008) A medical X-ray technique has been adapted to produce the first detailed map of the structure of the Sun s outermost layer, the corona, created from direct observations ... "This is a breakthrough for scientists trying to understand the corona and the solar wind. We ve been attempting to apply tomography to the solar corona for more than 30 years but it s proved very difficult and very inaccurate until now. The new technique that I ve developed is only in its infancy but shows great... (Science Daily)

    Solar Tsunami Caught Blasting Away At Over a Million Kilometers Per Hour  Apr 4, 2008
    Solar tsunamis are launched by huge explosions near the Sun's atmosphere, called coronal mass ejections (CMEs) ... At temperatures between 1 and 2 million degrees Celsius, scientist can monitor features at varying levels in the solar corona ... As the chromosphere is much denser than the corona, we d expect the pulse there to drag. (Science Daily)

    First film of 'tsunami' hurtling through the Sun's atmosphere  Apr 3, 2008
    In a solar tsunami, a huge explosion near the Sun, such as a coronal mass ejection or flare, causes a pressure pulse to propagate outwards in a circular pattern. Last year's solar tsunami, which took place on 19 May 2007, lasted for about 35 minutes, reaching peak speeds about 20 minutes after the initial blast. (BBC News -- Science)

    New Views On Sun's Startling Magnetic Fountains  Apr 3, 2008
    Huge fountains of hot gas erupt in the atmosphere, or corona, every few minutes, travelling at tens of thousands of km per hour and reaching great heights. Now a team of scientists have used the Hinode spacecraft to find the origin and driver of these fountains - immense magnetic structures that thread through the solar atmosphere. (Science Daily)

    Goodwill galore  Apr 3, 2008
    The 28,000-seat Corona Stadium replaces a 38-year-old stadium of the same name. Separately, Stifel Nicolaus analyst Mark Swartzberg this week upped Anheuser-Busch shares to "buy" from "hold," saying the brewer will get a lift from better sales in the U.S.. (St. Louis Business Journal, MO)

    Cosmic Flock  Mar 21, 2008
    The spacecraft discovered that the sun's magnetic field determines the regions that produce the solar wind, and ruffled more than a few scientists' feathers when it showed that a hot corona produces the fastest solar winds--exactly the opposite of prevailing theories. Ulysses also tracked interstellar dust particles all the way from the sun to Earth, and in so doing helped map the planet's magnetic fields. (Time.com)

    STEREO: The Sun's Corona Unraveled in 3D  Mar 20, 2008
    The coronal loops and streamers are glowing in the light of ten-times-ionized iron atoms ... When you get the spacing of your views just right, this image will lock into a three-dimentional scene with the coronal arches and streamers extending toward you ... Li Feng / Astrophysical Journal Have you ever looked at a picture of the Sun's corona or at the real thing during a total eclipse and wondered what's the actual, three-dimensional shape of this weird structure so rich with detail. (SkyAndTelescope.com)

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    com - Homepage News - STEREO: The Sun's Corona Unraveled in 3D ... STEREO: The Sun's Corona Unraveled in 3D ... The coronal loops and streamers are glowing in the light of ten-times-ionized iron atoms. (SkyAndTelescope.com)

    Newborn Stars: Dark Filaments Observed In Detail  Mar 9, 2008
    To put this method to the test and use it for the first time for a quantitative estimation of the distribution of mass within a cloud, the astronomers who made the original suggestion, together with Kalevi Mattila, made observations in the near-infrared of a filament in the Corona Australis cloud[2 ... Journal reference: The report appears in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics ("A Corona Australis cloud filament seen in NIR scattered light - I. Comparison with extinction of background... (Science Daily)

    Sentencing Hearing For San Jose Mother Continued  Mar 5, 2008
    Jimenez, 38, has pleaded guilty to a number of charges stemming from the brutal fatal beating of her 6-year-old son, Oscar Jimenez Jr. Jimenez has admitted she was present at the slaying of her son, but said she was unable to stop the violent behavior of her boyfriend, Samuel Corona, who has been charged in her son's death ... Ferry portrayed Corona's treatment of Jimenez and her son as torture ... He said Jimenez went into the relationship with Corona as meek and insecure. (NBC 11, CA)

    NASA eyes outer solar system mission  Feb 7, 2008
    Another science mission being planned envisions a spacecraft being launched in 2015 to study the solar corona, a region around the sun where the solar wind originates. "The latter half of the next decade is going to revolutionize our knowledge of how the solar wind is accelerated, the corona is heated, and the inner workings of the star that makes life possible on Earth," Stern said ... "This will be the first mission to ever dive down into the solar corona much, much closer than Mercury... (MSNBC -- Technology)

    Immortality in a glacier, an asteroid, even a snail  Jan 28, 2008
    " Naming conventions vary vastly from field to field, and everlasting nomenclature can be conferred for a variety of reasons: Sometimes as recognition of relevant research, sometimes as homage to unrelated achievement, and sometimes as just a twist of fate. Take Corona's Texas snail tale: In 1984, Corona was a seasonal park ranger at Amistad National Recreation Area, checking fishing licenses and picking up after dirty campers. She volunteered to assist Texas State University professor Glenn... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)

    Atlas comi Tiburn  Jan 27, 2008
    Esta anotacin defini por completo el rumbo de las acciones, pues Atlas no tuvo problema para sobrellevar el cotejo en la parte complementaria en la que Veracruz intent acortar distancias con los ingresos del argentino Santiago Raymonda y Alejandro Corona, que poco pudiero hacer por su causa. El tcnico argentino Miguel Angel Brindisi, decidi darle rotacin a su equipo y debut a su compatriota Emmanuel Centurin, adems de darle minutos a Ulises Mendivil, mancuerna que le dio resultados muy... (ESPN -- Deportes)

    Tecos 1-1 Chivas  Jan 26, 2008
    Jess Corona recibe una tarjeta amarilla ... Omar Bravo tuvo una desagradable tarde al fallar un penalti al minuto 48, mismo que cobr suave y raso para que el arquero local Jos de Jess Corona se quedara con la de gajos ... Fue un primer tiempo trabado por momentos con una lucha en el medio campo, unos Tecos que generaron peligro a velocidad y unos visitantes que asediaron tambin por lapsos el rea del arquero Jos de Jess Corona. (ESPN -- Deportes)

    Sun's Upside-Down Heat Pattern Explained  Jan 23, 2008
    An x-ray jet launching plasma out into the solar system from the Sun's north polar coronal hole ... The magnetic waves called can carry enough energy from the sun's active surface to heat its atmosphere, or corona ... "The surface and corona are chock full of these things, and they're very energetic," said Bart de Pontieu, a physicist at the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory in California. (Fox News)

    What's in a name?  Jan 21, 2008
    Deep within underground springs in southwest Texas glides a blind cave snail carrying immortality for Susannah Corona, these days an assistant curator with the New England Aquarium, but once an eager young park ranger doing grunt work for mollusk researchers ... Take Corona's Texas snail tale ... In 1984, Corona was a seasonal park ranger at Amistad National Recreation Area, checking fishing licenses and picking up after dirty campers. (Boston Globe)

    Pachuca gan a Tecos  Jan 20, 2008
    El argentino Damin Alvarez fue un autntico diablo, quien con su velocidad gener varias aproximaciones de peligro sobre la meta de Jos de Jess Corona, sin que los de Zapopan lograran impedirlo ... En el minuto 37 pudo Alvarez ampliar la ventaja para "Tuzos", cuando ingres entre varios defensas a pared con Cacho, pero cuando tena para fusilar a Corona sac un tiro muy desviado. (ESPN -- Deportes)

    Real Madrid gan y sigue lder  Jan 14, 2008
    Pedro Len inaugur el segundo tiempo con un potente disparo desde la corona del rea que anduvo muy cerca de acabar en el fondo de la red. Instantes despus, el Real Madrid volvi a gozar de una ocasin muy similar a la jugada que salv Courtois en la primera mitad, una jugada embarullada en el rea pequea que esta vez solventaron a medias entre Kujovic y el palo. (ESPN -- Deportes)

    Basics: Tiny specks of misery, both vile and useful  Jan 9, 2008
    Noroviruses, flu viruses, the rhino and corona viruses that cause the common cold, the herpes virus that causes the cold sore, all are active players in the wheezing ambient pleurisy of January. As viruses, all of them are, by definition, infectious parasitic agents tiny enough to pass through a microfilter that would trap bacteria and other microbes, tiny enough to fit millions on board a single fleck of spit. (International Herald Tribune)

    Constellation Brands 3Q Profit Rises  Jan 8, 2008
    The company's 300-plus brands run from jug wines to coveted California reds, beer imports such as Corona and St. Pauli Girl and liquors like Fleischmann's vodka, Skol gin and Black Velvet Canadian whiskey. Based in suburban Fairport, Constellation Brands has been buying up alcoholic-beverage businesses since the late 1980s. (Rapid City Journal, SD)

    Instrument To Make Detailed Measurements Of Sun Activity  Jan 3, 2008
    "That's an awful lot of data,'' Scherrer said. The ultimate mission of HMI (designed in partnership with Lockheed-Martin's Solar and Astrophysics Lab and built at the Lockheed-Martin lab in Palo Alto) and the other two instruments aboard NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite is to hasten the day when accurate weather forecasts for the sun will be readily available. Space travelers, airline pilots, communication satellites, electric lines, pipelines, telephones and radios all can be harmed... (Science Daily)

    Earth's Magnetosphere: On the Ropes  Dec 15, 2007
    Sure, total solar eclipses are rare treats, but during totality the corona just sits there and glows. Auroras glow and dance. (SkyAndTelescope.com)

    Magnetic waves power solar wind  Dec 11, 2007
    Driving the solar wind are so-called Alfven waves -- strong magnetic waves -- that ripple through the plasma of the sun's atmosphere, or corona, transferring energy from the star's surface and into the solar wind, the researchers said ... Another mechanism powering the solar wind involves the sun's chromosphere, the region sandwiched between the solar surface and its corona ... Images from Hinode's Solar Optical Telescope found that the chromosphere is filled with Alfven waves, which when they... (Globe and Mail -- Technology)

    Satellite unravels mystery of sun's atmosphere  Dec 8, 2007
    One big unanswered question for researchers is how the sun's atmosphere, the corona, works. The Hinode scientists report in Science their discovery of electromagnetic field lines which transmit energy high into the sun's atmosphere. (Yahoo News -- Astronomy and Space)

    SECCHI team obtains images of the solar wind at Earth  Dec 8, 2007
    Using the Sun Earth Connection Coronal and Heliospheric Investigation (SECCHI) instruments on board NASAs Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft, a consortium of scientists has seen, for the first time, large waves of solar material sweeping past Earth ... These compression regions are believed to form as high-speed wind from dark areas of the solar corona known as coronal holes run into the low-speed wind in front of it ... Preliminary results suggest that the waves begin... (EurekAlert!)

    Odd Little Star Has Magnetic Personality  Dec 7, 2007
    These flares come from the catastrophic collisions and merging of the magnetic fields in the corona of the star; these actions drive the annihilation of magnetic energy like a giant short-circuits in the fields. The team also observed soft x-ray emission and an x-ray flare. (Science Daily)

    Our reliable sun -- long may it shine  Dec 6, 2007
    Such widely separated cultures as the ancient Egyptians and the Aztecs both had intriguing representations of an eye symbol that appear to represent the sun's corona during a total eclipse. Even the U.S. military Intelligence insignia has a sun. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)

    Goleada humillante  Dec 2, 2007
    Santos, lder general del torneo regular, necesita ahora ganar por una diferencia de tres o ms anotaciones el domingo en el estadio Corona para revertir la difcil situacin, mientras que los auriazules podran hasta perder por una diferencia de dos goles. Pumas es una fiera que puede no jugar bien, pero apret, ara y asfixi a un rival que nunca antes en la campaa se haba visto de esta manera, tan alejado de su mejor desempeo. (ESPN -- Deportes)

    Mquina contundente ante Pachuca  Nov 18, 2007
    MXICO (Notimex) -- Cruz Azul humill 4-0 (6-0 global) a Pachuca, que perdi la corona, para as conseguir su pase a cuartos de final del Torneo Apertura 2007 del ftbol mexicano, aunque la victoria le sali cara luego que el delantero argentino Csar Delgado result lesionado. Los goles del triunfo del partido de vuelta del repechaje disputado en el Estadio Azul, que registr una regular entrada, fueron obra del Chelito Delgado, al minuto 13; de Jared Borgetti (31) y el uruguayo Richard Nez... (ESPN -- Deportes)

    Houston se coron en Conferencia Oeste  Nov 11, 2007
    Houston domin el cotejo y se impuso a los Wizards de Kansas City por 2-0, para coronarse en la Conferencia del Oeste, y ahora van por ttulo. Resumen del Partido. (ESPN -- Deportes)

    Lans gole y se acerca al ttulo  Nov 10, 2007
    Lo concreto es que los granates ya cumplieron con su decimosexto compromiso y dependen de s mismo para obtener la corona. Argentinos Juniors (L), Boca (V) y Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata (L) son los tres escollos que quedan en el camino, pero a Lans cada vez se lo ve ms seguro en la cima. (ESPN -- Deportes)

    Veracruz cierra con victora ante UAG  Nov 10, 2007
    Los "esculos" buscaron de diversas formas llegar al marco defendido por Jess Corona, quien se conviti en el hroe de los tapatos al salvar en varias ocasiones su portera en el arranque del complemento, actuacin que permiti a los visitantes cerrar con todo hacia el final, en busca de rescatar siquiera el empate ... Insistieron los jarochos en retomar la ventaja y tras una falla de De Nigris, quien su testarazo dio en el travesao (28), consigui su cometido a los 41 con un autogol de Juan... (ESPN -- Deportes)

    Toluca venci a los Tecos  Nov 4, 2007
    Y es que luego de un duelo sin definicin en el manejo del mismo, Diablos Rojos hizo el 1-0 al minuto 15 luego que Sinha tom en la media luna un mal despeje de Gerardo Torres, para disparar por abajo y dejar sin oportunidad a Jess Corona. Cinco minutos despus, al 20, Snchez ampli el marcador a 2-0 en jugada que lleg a pase del argentino Ariel Rosada por derecha y al tratar de servir a un compaero, Juan Carlos Leao se barri pero le dej al baln al "charra", quien venci a Corona ...... (ESPN -- Deportes)

    18 comments  Nov 2, 2007
    I was born in Corona, Queens County and I grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan ... Steve, BuckeyeNov 01, 2007 @ 04:28 PMI agree with KW: It's hard to see how she can lose the general election if she wins the nomination, and it's even harder to see how she can fail to be coronated as the Demoncrat candidate. (Human Events Online)

    Analysis Of Solar Wind Helps Illuminate How Our Solar System Evolved  Nov 1, 2007
    Genesis collected samples by deploying different arrays during three types, or flow regimes, of solar wind: low-speed, high-speed and the spectacular coronal mass ejections ... So measuring solar wind means that you are sampling the solar corona, the place at which ions stream out of the sun. (Science Daily)

    Chiapas triunf  Nov 1, 2007
    Alejandro Corona recibe una tarjeta amarilla ... Con la ventaja en la pizarra, Jaguares se plant mejor en el terreno de juego y esper un contragolpe para finiquitar el partido y cerca estuvo de lograr el tercero, pero Alejandro Corona se tard en la definicin y dej escapar la oportunidad ... Por Jaguares mostr cartn preventivo a Daniel Silva, Alejandro Corona y al chileno Ismael Fuentes, expuls con doble amarilla al brasileo Lenilson Batista al 93. (ESPN -- Deportes)

    Hillary a Noo Yawka? Sez Who?  Nov 1, 2007
    I was born in Corona, Queens County and I grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Thirty-Third Street and First Avenue. (Human Events Online)

    Firefighters pounce on Poomacha fire; officials offer aid to victims  Oct 27, 2007
    If the fire was to continue moving along the track it was following, it could threaten Lake Elsinore or Corona. Burn area comparable to HoustonIn a week of terror, at least 54 firefighters and 21 other people have been injured in San Diego County, according to CalFire. (North County Times)

    10/25/2007 - North County Times reporters answer your questions  Oct 26, 2007
    They are so many people in need, specially because they lost everything "some just material, that I guaranty it can be replace, but those who lost their lives, my prayers and condolences to those families. I hope that is a way to get together as a community in Temecula and Murrieta and request to the cable companies to give us more San Diego channels, We just need to make a call, they will listen to enlist 200,000 people don't you think? Thank you So cal, and to all of you who are giving great... (North County Times)

    Balloon launches biggest solar telescope  Oct 26, 2007
    "We need to be able to predict the Sun's magnetic fields better, because they are blasted off into space from the Sun's corona and sometimes make it all the way to Earth where they affect our lives.". A balloon lifted NCAR's Sunrise solar telescope 22 miles above the Earth. (EETimes)

    Whatever happened to...?  Oct 16, 2007
    Cosmic Radiation -- Smoking and Genes -- Shrubs 1, Grasses 0 -- Corona Heat By Charles Choi and Charles Q. Choi ... Just how the sun s atmosphere, or corona, heats up so much has puzzled physicists ... These oscillations, called Alfv;n waves, would transport energy from the surface to the corona, which extends millions of kilometers. (Scientific American)

    Sputnik: The little metal ball that fueled the Cold War  Oct 9, 2007
    Its existence only declassified in 1995, the National Reconnaissance Office was founded almost concurrently with NASA. The earliest experiments in spy satellites, constructed by Lockheed Sunnyvale, were code-named Project Corona. Some space historians have speculated that the uncontrolled landing of a wayward Corona film canister near Roswell, N.M., could have contributed to years of UFO stories. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)

    Santos venci a Pumas  Oct 8, 2007
    Final - Estadio Corona ... Estadio: Estadio Corona, Mxico Asistencia: Hora de inicio: 17:00 ET Arbitro ... TORREN (Notimex) -- Con buen segundo tiempo, Santos Laguna sum 11 fechas sin derrota y se mantiene en el liderato general del Torneo Apertura 2007 del futbol mexicano, al vencer 3-2 a Pumas de la UNAM, en partido disputado en el estadio Corona. (ESPN -- Deportes)

    Menotti impone su estilo y Tecos gole a Monterrey  Sep 26, 2007
    Fue un duelo que los dos queran ganar y desde el arranque dieron un aviso de ello, Rayados por coducto del chileno Humberto Suazo que sac disparo sorpresivo que se impact en el travesao y poste de la meta defendida por Jess Corona ... Los pupilos de Miguel Herrera intentaron reaccionar pero les falt idea para generar peligro sobre la meta local, por lo que recurri a los pelotazos al rea y facilit el trabajo del arquero Jess Corona y su defensiva para salir con la derrota. (ESPN -- Deportes)

    Santos fue el verdugo  Sep 24, 2007
    Final - Estadio Corona ... Estadio: Estadio Corona, Mxico Asistencia: Hora de inicio: 17:00 ET Arbitro ... Los goles del triunfo del duelo que se disput en el estadio Corona fueron obra de los argentinos Matas Vuoso, al minuto 22, de Daniel Luduea por la va penal, al 31; Juan Pablo Rodrguez, al 48, y del tambin argentino Walter Jimnez, al 78. (ESPN -- Deportes)

    Tecos sac un punto ante Rayos  Sep 23, 2007
    AGUASCALIENTES -- Gol del argentino Mauro Cejas y destacada actuacin del arquero Jos de Jess Corona rescataron a Tecos de la UAG de la derrota, al empatar 1-1 ante Necaxa, equipo que desaprovech su dominio en el primer tiempo ... Fue un primer tiempo dinmico con dominio localista y Rayos se qued con una raqutica ventaja por los desaciertos del colombiano Hugo Rodallega, en combinacin con las excelentes atajadas del arquero Jos de Jess Corona ... Al minuto cinco remat con la cabeza,... (ESPN -- Deportes)

    Pumas gan luego de 4 meses  Sep 17, 2007
    El primer gol del conjunto auriazul, al minuto 18, comenz con un servicio de Leandro Augusto que remat Palencia, pero el arquero de Tecos, Jess Corona, desvi el esfrico por la derecha e Ismael Iiguez, que se encontraba en ese sector, contrarremat con potencia ... De las ms claras oportunidades que tuvo Pumas y el mismo argentino Esteban Solari se registr al minuto 35, cuando Leandro sirvi filtrado al jugador "pampero", quien qued solo ante Corona, pero al definir con la derecha envi... (ESPN -- Deportes)

    Real Madrid venci 3-1 al Almera  Sep 16, 2007
    A ello contribuy la ambicin de Corona, tal vez alimentada por esa sustancia propia de los canteranos madridistas que se han buscado la vida en clubes ms modestos, pero con casta ... Con Juanito y Soriano cortando cualquier pase de Diarr, y con Corona y Ortiz rpidos para tejer una jugada con peligro ... Corona super hasta en dos ocasiones a Sergio Ramos y a Cannavaro; la primera, la salv Diarr, y la segunda el bandern de fuera de juego. (ESPN -- Deportes)

    Eclipses in 2007  Sep 15, 2007
    Whether it's the black disk of the Moon set against the ghostly, pearly white corona, the solar prominences gleaming like pink rubies along the lunar limb, or the spectacular diamond-ring effect bursting forth, the image of an eclipse remains forever etched in a viewer's mind. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth lies between the Sun and the Moon, so that Earths shadow darkens the Moon. (SkyAndTelescope.com)

    Santos gole al Amrica y se afirm en la punta  Sep 11, 2007
    Final - Estadio Corona ... Santos Laguna cort de tajo la racha de siete aos sin vencer al Amrica en el estadio Corona al golearlo 4-0 para cerrar la sptima fecha ... Estadio: Estadio Corona, Mxico Asistencia: Hora de inicio: 21:00 ET Arbitro. (ESPN -- Deportes)

    Mystery of Sun's Superhot Corona May Be Whipped  Sep 6, 2007
    Rippling magnetic fields finally spotted in the corona By JR Minkel ... CORONA: Rippling magnetic fields may explain the million-degree heat of the sun's corona (seen here in a 1999 eclipse) ... Although the waves seem to be too tiny to transfer the energy needed to fully heat the corona, researchers say improved measurements may reveal that the waves are larger than they appear. (Scientific American)

    Perdieron 3-0  Sep 4, 2007
    Pese a ello, la rpida llegada al rea defendida por Jos de Jess Corona fue una constante poblana con base en velocidad, ambicin y ganas de triunfar por primera vez en el torneo y en su regreso al mximo circuito ... Luis Miguel Noriega mand centro pasado desde su lado izquierdo, Jos Hiber Ruiz dispar de volea por abajo, Corona rechaz el baln en corto y al centro para un Alvaro cazador que anid la de gajos para su primer gol en el torneo, al 28. (ESPN -- Deportes)

    Scientists Find Elusive Waves In Sun's Corona  Sep 1, 2007
    Scientists for the first time have observed elusive oscillations in the Sun's corona, known as Alfv;n waves, that transport energy outward from the surface of the Sun ... Scientists for the first time have observed elusive oscillations in the Sun's corona, known as Alfv;n waves, by tracking the motions of coronal plasma (charged particles and gas) around the entire edge of the Sun ... In this series of images and animations, NCAR's Coronal Multi-channel Polarimeter instrument, or CoMP, has... (Science Daily)

    Santos sigue invicto  Aug 30, 2007
    Final - Estadio Corona ... Estadio: Estadio Corona, Mxico Asistencia: Hora de inicio: 17:00 ET Arbitro. (ESPN -- Deportes)

    Hinode Helps Unravel Long-standing Solar Mysteries  Aug 27, 2007
    A year after launch, scientists working with Hinode, a Japanese mission with ESA participation, are meeting at Trinity College, Dublin, to discuss latest findings on solar mysteries - including new insights on solar flares and coronal heating ... Highlights include new insights on the workings of solar flares and on the mechanism behind coronal heating ... With its Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS), effectively a solar speed camera, it is now possible to pinpoint the source of... (Science Daily)

    Fueled by generosity, Corona  Aug 20, 2007
    At the Moon, girls wrestled in Jell-O, fueled by generosity and Corona. Much of what happened at the Moon is unprintable in a family paper. (Telluride Daily Planet, CO)

    Chiapas y Monterrey empataron 0-0  Aug 19, 2007
    Alejandro Corona recibe una tarjeta amarilla ... Con llegadas por las bandas del costarricense Oscar Rojas y Alejandro Vela, as como los avances que teji por el centro del campo Alejandro Corona, Jaguares lleg varias veces en el lapso inicial, pero no tuvo la puntera fina ... Las mayores aproximaciones de los felinos se dieron en el primer cuarto de hora, primero un remate de Corona de media vuelta dentro del rea a servicio de Rojas desde la derecha, y despus un caonazo cruzado a cargo de... (ESPN -- Deportes)

    Chivas, segundo empate  Aug 12, 2007
    Jos Corona Rodrguez recibe una tarjeta amarilla ... Los siguientes minutos fueron de asedio del Rebao Sagrado sobre el arquero Jess Corona y en el minuto 79 tuvo Omar Arellano dos disparos francos a portera y el guardavallas hizo excelentes atajadas para mantener el cero ... Amonest por los locales a Omar Bravo y por los visitantes a Jos de Jess Corona, al uruguayo Walter Lpez, el chileno Hugo Droguett y Hctor Altamirano. (ESPN -- Deportes)

    Astrophysics Projects for the Moon  Aug 7, 2007
    A third concept study proposes to place a small radio telescope array on the moon to study particle acceleration in celestial objects such as supernovae, quasars, and the solar corona. It also will serve as a pathfinder for a future possible radio telescope to measure the growth of structure in the early universe. (SkyAndTelescope.com)

    The Sun, Stupid  Aug 7, 2007
    Its corona, which extends millions of miles into space, has temperatures of 1 ... Its corona, which extends millions of miles into space, has temperatures of 1. (Townhall.com)

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