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More Victory Ensures More Justice Says United Nations...

... it's a right-wing headline.

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...The united nations? Victory?

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Many Very Eloquent Men Just Shut Up Needlessly

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Maraschino Velvet Entices Many Jeweled Sinners Unto Naughtiness

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In Brazil the government will only substitute the public schools books from 2008 onwards (they said it was too huge a cost to substitute for books already bought and printed)...

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I would think most decent textbooks printed in the last decade would have at least a passing mention of the ongoing discussions about Pluto's status. It's really a non-issue. I guess if the teacher is incompetant and unable to teach without reading rote from the textbook it might be a problem. But if that's the case the students aren't getting a decent science education anyway.

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Well, future generations may be comfortable with the new definition. But I grew up during the 1960s, and was taught that Pluto is a planet. It's hard for me to think of it as anything but.

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Pluto demotion draws protest

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I heard this on Nova. That if Pluto were in Earth's orbit it would have a tail. "Now what kind of behavior for a planet is that?"