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Mozilla Firefox. Scientists baffled by unusual upper atmosphere shrinkage. Shuttle Endeavour is silhouetted against Earth's atmosphere as it prepares to dock with the space station in February. Decreased solar activity, increased CO2 levels affect Earth's outer atmosphereThose factors, however, can't explain this much of a contraction, researcher saysChanges in thermosphere won't affect life on the surface but can affect satellitesThe thermosphere has already begun to rebound, but monitoring will continue (CNN) -- An upper layer of Earth's atmosphere recently shrank so much that researchers are at a loss to adequately explain it, NASA said on Thursday. The thermosphere, which blocks harmful ultraviolet rays, expands and contracts regularly due to the sun's activities. As carbon dioxide increases, it has a cooling effect at such high altitudes, which also contributes to the contraction.
"This is the biggest contraction of the thermosphere in at least 43 years," John Emmert of the Naval Research Lab was quoted as saying in NASA news report. Three new weight-loss drugs: Will they work? Weight-loss drugs are appropriate only as an addition to -- not a replacement for -- diet and exercise, doctors say. 3 new diet drugs in the pipeline: Qnexa, lorcaserin, ContraveAll have different mechanisms from previous diet drugsDrugs intended only for obese people, or overweight with health problemsSide effects likely to be focus of FDA panel's debate (Health.com) -- Here's the good news: Three new weight-loss drugs are on the horizon that could help overweight and obese people shed pounds.
A Food and Drug Administration panel is meeting on Thursday to discuss one of the drugs, Qnexa, and the panel is scheduled to consider two more drugs, lorcaserin and Contrave, in the coming months. The potential problem? It's unclear whether the new drugs are more effective than existing weight-loss drugs, but all three use novel mechanisms that are designed to avoid the serious side effects that have undone weight-loss pills in the past. Health.com: How carbs help you lose weight. EVE Online - Home.
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Home Distillation of Alcohol. Electric & Gas Companies. Liz Phair's 'Funstyle': Interesting, even to hate | Pop & Hiss | And the conversation went something like this: I heard it's terrible.You can download it for $5.99. It's terrible, It's all over Twitter and you should read the comments on Jezebel! I hear she raps on the song that's streaming on her website. It's her first new album in five years. I'm sure it's terrible. I think I'll go take a walk and listen to it.
Tell me how it is. Sigh...... Hating Liz Phair is fun, almost as fun as turning the pop-fashion tide away from M.I.A. by doubting her motives behind having a child with a wealthy man, or dissecting the ways Sarah McLachlan was stupid in her attempts to revive the Lilith Fair. It's a little sad that Phair has grown so defensive that she's included not one, but three joke songs in which she depicts herself as exactly the kind of desperate would-be Hollywood A-lister her former devotees fear she's become. I thought of another longtime master of satire while listening to Phair's funny stuff: Dr. -- Ann Powers. Top 40 Arduino Projects of the Web.