Barack Obama urges China to get tough with North Korea

Barack Obama has urged China’s president Hu Jintao to condemn North Korea’s military provocations as “unacceptable” as tensions on the Korean peninsular remained high following more South Korean live-fire military exercises. Speaking to Mr Hu by telephone, Mr Obama asked China to “to send a clear message to North Korea that its provocations are unacceptable,”…

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New nanotube material stays rubbery over a more than 1,000 degree temperature range

Silicone rubber is used in many applications in which a material is required to remain rubbery over a wide temperature range, since it retains its properties over the approximate range of -55°C to 300°C. Now a new material made of carbon nanotubes has been developed that retains its viscoelastic properties over a temperature range almost…

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America’s 10 slowest-appreciating housing markets

Despite the historic bust, U.S. home prices are expected to appreciate steadily over the coming decade. Moody’s Analytics projects that real estate values at the national level will increase an average of 3.1 percent a year from 2010 to 2020. But just as the housing crash impacted Las Vegas much differently than Boston, the pace…

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Wikileaks Reveals Tensions Between Pakistan, Saudis

The U.S. appears to have made little headway in seeking closer cooperation between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to block wealthy Saudi sympathizers from funding Islamic conservatives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, senior Western and Arab diplomats have told CBS News after carefully examining some of the State Department documents revealed on WikiLeaks. Pieced together, the leaked…

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Iran Claims Advance With Uranium From Its Own Mine

Iran on Sunday claimed for the first time to have used domestically mined uranium ore to make the material needed for uranium enrichment. It called the step a major advance in its atomic program, sending a defiant message before a new round of talks on Iran’s suspect nuclear activities. Western experts said the progress appeared…

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Tiger Woods won’t regain No. 1 ranking, struggles in Chevron World Challenge

He can’t regain the world’s top ranking and he isn’t the PGA Player of the Year, but Tiger Woods is in position to win a tournament, something he has not done all year. Woods leads the Chevron World Challenge, his Thousand Oaks, Calif., tournament by four strokes going into the final round (3 p.m., NBC)….

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