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...Live, the Los Angeles-based entertainment company behind the concerts, invested more than $20 million to bring about "one of the greatest musical events in history," replete with 22 sets, high-wire acrobatics and elaborate pyrotechnic lighting. Just last week, producers revealed that Swarovski would crown Jackson, his costumes and the sets with 300,000 pieces of crystal, adding even more glitter to the massive 20,000-seat O2. (See pictures of people around the world mourning Michael Jackson...
...orbiting nearby. Each time those moons pass, they give Enceladus a gravitational tug, which causes it to flex slightly. Do that enough times - and the 4 billion years the solar system has been around is more than enough - and the pulsing moon heats up in much the way a wire hanger does if you bend it repeatedly back and forth. That explains both why the water stays liquid and why it's repeatedly squeezed up through cracks and into space, where it flash-freezes into icy mist...
...groups tormenting his supporters "brothers." It seemed impossibly moderate, almost unreasonable amid all the reports of how his green-garbed backers were suffering via water hoses and acid-like liquid dropped from helicopters. Protesters indicated they were being bludgeoned by Basiji with everything from cudgels and sticks to cable wire. Gunfire broke out. Stones littered the streets. And there were reports of people literally being thrown into fires. Or so said blog posts on sites like TehranBureau.com and tireless Tweeters like Oxfordgirl and Dominiquerdr. (See the top 10 players in Iran's power struggle...
...Financial Times reports that "Iran on Tuesday banned journalists working for foreign media from leaving their offices to cover protests in the capital." Wire services also announced that due to the ban on their photographers' covering the demonstrations, they were forced to relay only images from official Iranian sources...
...Bertrand were sent as boys. In fact, at the place that commemorates this camp, there is a photograph in which we can see a 16-year-old Elie in one of the bunks along with the others. We saw the ovens of the crematorium, the guard towers, the barbed wire fences, the foundations of barracks that once held people in the most unimaginable conditions...