Adele gets private tour of NASA HQ from astronaut who presented her Brit Award

Edit The Daily Mail 12 Nov 2016
As a performer she is beyond stratospheric. So it was only fitting Adele nabbed herself a private tour of NASA headquarters.The singer was treated to a behind-the-scenes look ... ....

Texas Tech at No. 13 Oklahoma State: Everything you need to know as OSU looks ...

Edit Tulsa World 11 Nov 2016
Oklahoma State and Texas Tech have been part of some shootouts in recent years, so it’s no surprise that the over/under for Saturday’s tilt — 89.5 — is in another stratosphere ... ....

Texas Tech at No. 13 Oklahoma State: Cowboys try to stay in middle of Big ...

Edit Tulsa World 11 Nov 2016
Oklahoma State and Texas Tech have been part of some shootouts in recent years, so it’s no surprise that the over/under for Saturday’s tilt — 89.5 — is in another stratosphere ... ....

V2 rockets strike Britain - archive

Edit The Guardian 11 Nov 2016
There are people who say that they saw “a-silver pencil” hurtle from the sky that evening, and some who report they heard a short, sharp whistle ... The weapon, said Mr. Churchill, flies through the stratosphere, reaching an altitude of sixty or seventy miles, and because of its high speed – out-stripping sound – no reliable public warning can be given ... THE FIRST ROCKET-BOMB ... That first rocket made a crater in the road....

Hang On to Your Butt: Trump Gets to Choose the Next Secretary of Labor

Edit CounterPunch 11 Nov 2016
There’s some bitter irony in the fact that the most compassionate Secretary of Labor in U.S ... Frances Perkins, the country’s first woman Labor Secretary (appointed by Franklin D ... in the post-War era ... Of course, along the way, Chao managed to do what many women “climbers” do; she married a man who could help her career—not only help it, but drop-kick the son of a bitch into the stratosphere....

Can you afford to ignore these FTSE 250 big yielders?

Edit The Motley Fool 11 Nov 2016
Many investors will no doubt be in a state of slight bewilderment as to whether to pile into the housing sector following a stream of contradictory industry datasets since June’s Brexit vote ... Britain’s chronic housing shortage, and subsequent support for stratospheric price rises, has translated into bumper earnings growth for the likes of Bovis Homes (LSE ... The Motley Fool UK has no position in any of the shares mentioned....

Cuba must shun capitalism and seek development solutions from within

Edit The Guardian 11 Nov 2016
Cuba is attempting serious economic reform, influenced in part by the promise of the calamitous US embargo being lifted ... Why would the Cubans jump out of the frying pan of central planning and into the fire of a model of a capitalism that supports stratospheric levels of inequality and mounting deprivation, and which has had to rely on a massive build-up of debt ($152tn; £122tn) simply to keep functioning? ... the cooperative model....

Inside Facebook's Quest to Beam the Internet Via Solar Drone

Edit Wired News 10 Nov 2016
A WIRED exclusive look at how Facebook will beam the internet with Aquila, a stratospheric solar-powered drone equipped with millimeter wave communications technology ... ....

Could Civilization Survive A Nuclear Winter?

Edit IFL Science 10 Nov 2016
In the unfortunate (and, hopefully, still unlikely) event of a ... After the mushroom clouds drift away, it’s believed that the smoke, carbon, and dust that is dispersed from the explosions would rise into the stratosphere....

China’s Sky-High Home Prices Sustainable, Harvard Scholars Say

Edit Bloomberg 10 Nov 2016
China’s stratospheric housing prices can be maintained because of robust demand, provided the government radically curtails new supply, according to four Harvard University scholars. The economic downside of such price stability ... "There does appear to be a feasible path towards price stability," the scholars said ... The stability path comes with significant social costs....

UNC Study: Pollution Emitted Near Equator Has Biggest Impact on Global Ozone (ASPH - Association of Schools of Public Health)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Nov 2016
Since the 1980s, air pollution has increased worldwide, but the pace has accelerated in regions close to the equator ... In the upper atmosphere, or stratosphere, ozone helps protect against the sun's ultraviolet rays; when present in the lower atmosphere, or troposphere, ozone is one of the primary causes of air pollution-related respiratory problems and heart disease. To drive home the point, Dr ... 'The findings were surprising,' said Dr....

Ugly root vegetables yield beautiful dishes

Edit Detroit Free Press 10 Nov 2016
They are the underdogs of the culinary world, the downtrodden and forgotten in a world of shining stars ... They will not achieve the fleeting popularity of quinoa, farro, pork bellies or even kale ... They do not know the joy of growing in the sunshine; they burrow instead into the dirt ... The secret is to begin with a cream base ... Not much of either, but just enough to change the flavor completely and lift the dish into the stratosphere....

Breathing difficult for those in highrises

Edit The Times of India 09 Nov 2016
Families have packed their windows and doors to prevent the heavy air from entering their rooms. TOI found families residing in multi-storey buildings facing a hard time as smog hits their rooms directly for the third consecutive day. The stratospheric collection of smog begins from early morning and around 11am its density takes into its fold fifth floor of buildings, posing health hazard for those living above fourth floor....
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