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Perfect Space Storm Could be Catastrophic on Earth, Study Concludes

A new study from the National Academy of Sciences outlines grim possibilities on Earth for a worst-case scenario solar storm.

New English Contemporary Ballet funding cut catastrophic

New English Contemporary Ballet has been plunged into crisis by the decision of Arts Council England not to grant it funding under its Grants for the Arts scheme.

Pietersen, Moores told time not opportune for "catastrophic" changes to England set-up

Former Sussex captain and friend of English coach Peter Moores, Chris Adams, has said that solidarity is needed after the apparent rift between captain Kevin Pietersen and the coach, urging them to work together.

Pietersen, Moores told time not opportune for 'catastrophic' changes to England set-up

London, Jan 3 : Former Sussex captain and friend of English coach Peter Moores, Chris Adams, has said that solidarity is needed after the apparent rift between captain Kevin Pietersen and the coach, urging them to work together.

'Big Bang' machine to be ready by summer

The £4bn "Big Bang" machine, which suffered a catastrophic malfunction soon after being switched on last September, is expected to be restarted in June.

IBM and Red Hat: A Single, Security-Rich Collaboration and Messaging Platform

Collaboration and messaging are critical applications within every organization. The cost of downtime can be enormous, even catastrophic. IBM and Red Hat have a single, security-rich collaboration and messaging platform that makes it simple, easy, and affordable to improve organizational productivity and effectiveness. It is much more than a Microsoft Exchange/desktop alternative.

Large Hadron Collider to Get Helium Leak Warning System

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is to have an early-warning system installed to guard against a repeat of the catastrophic fault that caused the world’s largest atom-smasher to break down nine days after it was switched on in September.

Fight over dinosaur death flares anew in S.F.

(12-15) 19:25 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- The age of the dinosaurs ended abruptly about 65 million years ago when some catastrophic event drove them to extinction, and now a vehement controversy over their disappearance is emerging anew.

The Day the Earth Stood Still

In Tropic Thunder, Ben Stiller plays beefcake action star Tugg Speedman, who made his name in a film where the earth ceased to turn, causing a catastrophic ice age. "Who left the fridge open?" he quips in his gravelly voice before singlehandedly restoring movement to the planet with megaton explosives and daring journeys to the earth's core. Sadly, this is not that film, but rather a stupendously dull remake of Robert Wise's 1951 sci-fi classic in which a strange alien creature comes to Earth. Keanu Reeves stars, giving the kind of torpid performance that lesser beings can only approximate by necking a hundredweight of Temazepam. The lights are on at the top of the spaceship, but there's no one at the controls.

4 Billion Big Bang Machine Gets Going Again After False Start

Work on a £4 billion machine aiming to recreate the “Big Bang� by smashing atoms together will be stepped up this year after a three-month re-appraisal following a catastrophic malfunction in September.

Bank Losses Are Not as Bad as We Feared

The FDIC now has the scoop on the banking industry's third quarter results. They aren't as bad as I had feared. Not that they are good, but it's not catastrophic. Some key points:

Giant Asteroids and International Security

A panel of international scientists has suggested that the UN start preparing for a global defense against the threat of asteroids on collision courses with Earth. Though a large asteroid collision is extremely unlikely (the panel calculate a likelihood of two or three events every 1,000 years), the consequences of such an occurrence could be catastrophic, with potential to threaten all life on the planet.

LHC: The Return of the Unquenchables

Sneak has decided to return to the subject of CERN's Large Hadron Collider, now that the follow up report about what went wrong on 19 September 2008 has been released. The report goes into a fair amount of technical detail about the incident, but the upshot is - it was a very large 'quench', known in the trade as a 'catastrophic quench', where helium expands explosively due to the previously superconducting wires becoming non-superconducting wires, heating up and boiling off the helium.

Future risks and the challenge to democracy

What makes these WMDs different is the growing ease of acquisition and implementation by those who might actually use them. We live in an increasingly wired and globalized world where access to resources and information has never been easier. Compounding these problems is the rise and empowerment of non-traditional political forces, namely weak-states, non-state actors and disgruntled individuals. In the past, entire armadas were required to inflict catastrophic damage; today, all that's required are small groups of motivated individuals.

Gardens in Autumn

With Gardens in Autumn, as so often in the past, Otar Iosseliani has made a delicately flavoured, gentle, charming movie, with a characteristic surreal tinge, about what happens to us when the perpetual distraction of work is removed from our field of vision. Séverin Blanchet plays a minister in the French government who has the traditional trappings and prerogatives of power: a huge official car and residence, and even an attractive mistress (Muriel Motte), although he is not a married man, having broken up with his fiancee. A catastrophic series of strikes and demos is blamed on him - though the political process by which this happens is not shown - and the minister is forced to resign. After this, he can cultivate the joys of leisure, a little bittersweet, perhaps, but no less delightful for happening late in life: these are the garden

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