Questions about GM's future cloud car-shopping

In vehicle showrooms across the country, questions about the future of auto giant General Motors Corp. add to the usual haggling and give-and-take.

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Uncertainty over bailout casts a pall over Detroit

Even amid the festive atmosphere of a downtown ice skating rink, it's impossible to escape the worries the Motor City faces as the U.S. auto industry waits to see whether it will get a lifeline from the federal government.

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Uncertainty aplenty as Web, media leaders convene

When media and technology tycoons convene Tuesday in idyllic southern Idaho for five days of dealmaking and outdoor recreation, the mountain air will carry more than a whiff of uncertainty as most arrive with their businesses in various states of disarray.

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Can Democrats Win in Ohio River Valley?

In the valley where Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky meet, people complain about the state of the nation, voicing as many frustrations as there are turns in the Ohio River.

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How ADHD, anxiety, fear, abandonment issues can push other people away.

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Astronomers have used a high-energy burst of light from a distant galaxy to test the fabric of space and time. The work is the best test yet of attempts to create a 'theory of everything'. More Articles

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KARACHI: Suicides are steadily rising in Pakistan, with an estimated 6,000 to 8,000 suicides per year, according to a study at Aga Khan University (AKU). Almost 34 per cent of the population, mostly under 30 years of age, suffer from common mental disorders and more than 90 per  …

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LIVINGSTON, Montana (CNN) -- Spend a day in this tiny town about 23 miles or so from where President Obama will be holding a town hall meeting on Friday, and it's easy to see why his health-care push is facing big problems in Big Sky country -- even from the people he's trying to …

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Footballers, whose nomination for their national team is uncertain, are substantially more motivated in the months approaching a World Cup or European Championship than players certain of their nomination. Nominated players even perform worse in that time period.

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What is time? No, really, what is it? A dimension of space-time, says relativity, but is it physical? Or just mental? Why does it seem to move forward and not back? Does the universe acknowledge the arrow of time that we experience? How big is time? Does our notion of "now" h …

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..the universe underwent an unimaginably brief but enormous growth spurt immediately after birth. The baby cosmos ballooned from one billionth of a trillionth of a hydrogen atom's diameter to that of a soccer ball within just 10-35 seconds...

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In a nominating letter, Nidhal Guessoum, chair of physics at American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, wrote that d'Espagnat "has constructed a coherent body of work which shows why it is credible that the human mind is capable of perceiving deeper realities."

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.:⋅⋅⋅ SPACE ⋅⋅⋅:. Why is time so hard to comprehend? Should it be easier to comprehend than space?

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Elmer and Chester

Prima Materia - its what alchemists - the transformers of psyche - call the chaos of primordial material. Or feces. Sounds nasty, but in order to escape the curse of Elmer, F.ear, U.ncertainty, D.oubt, the darkness is the first place one can begin to see the light.

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In The Not Too Distant Future...

Associated Press Limited Release

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University of Toronto quantum physicists Jeff Lundeen and Aephraim Steinberg have shown that Hardy's paradox, a proposal that has confounded physicists for over a decade, can be confirmed and ultimately resolved, a task which had seemingly been impossible to perform.

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What Do I Know For Sure Anyway?

The older I get, the less I seem to know for sure. It's not that I lack wisdom, but life is not a clear-cut, fixed matter, but an ever-changing, fluid experience. Each moment is new and is filled with the wonder and mystery of the unknown.

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In the deserted streets of a city in decline, a burst of graffiti near the once mighty General Motors plant sums up the mood. HELP, a vandal declares in red ink. IT DOESN'T EXIST, answers another, in bright green.

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Physicists don't like coincidences. They like even less the notion that life is somehow central to the universe, and yet recent discoveries are forcing them to confront that very idea.

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Basically, Wolpert — building on previous work by Alan Turing — formalized a description of "inference machines," i.e. machines capable of arriving at inferences about the world (human beings are one example of such machines).

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Questions: Zero-Point Energy, Quanta, DSR, c, etc.

I created comment boxes below that correspond to each numbered question/topic.

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The LHC could help scientists look behind the curtain and study the "water" in which we live: the very fabric of the Grid. If that sounds mysterious, it is. Here's an edited Q&A that dives into the depths of the Grid concept... More Articles

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Because of their ability to represent multiple states simultaneously, quantum computers could theoretically factor numbers dramatically faster and with smaller computers than conventional computers. For this reason, they could vastly improve computer security.

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Devotees of the yellow metal -- which they believe protects their wealth against everything from inflation to Armageddon -- have watched in horror as gold has slumped 19% in a month to $790 an ounce.

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Friction of Time

The speed of light is denoted by the symbol c. It is the speed of all electromagnetic radiation in a vacuum. Electromagnetic radiation is a wave/particle that has both electrical and magnetic properties, but no mass.

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An Iraq Tale Vol 15: (Thinking Back)

Recently a lot of my thoughts have been going back to the first days of on ground here in Iraq. The days we spent getting trained on where all the various "yards", fuel points, and other points of interest on the FOB.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush, acknowledging that the country is suffering through a period of economic uncertainty, called on Congress Monday to do more to help people and businesses hurt by the housing slump and credit crunch.

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Uncertainty... Newsvine can you give your $.02?

As many of you may have already figured out, I consider myself a fairly complex individual.

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Many middle-aged and older adults in the U.S., Europe and Asia have serious concerns about their preparedness for retirement, but haven't taken action for a variety of reasons, including a lack of confidence in their financial-planning abilities, according to a new survey.

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