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Have scientists cracked the speed at which the universe is expanding?

Forexfloor.org New York – Yes — and you’ll be pleased to know the magic figure is 73.8 km/sec/megaparsec. So… what the heck does that mean? Scientists discovered in 1998 that not only is the universe expanding, but it’s expanding at a rate that continues to accelerate....

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It really is about regime change in Libya (The Week)

New York – Ignore the president’s hysterical critics. Obama’s aim is to topple Gadhafi — and he knows the stakes are high The commentary on the president’s course in Libya has been instinctively adversarial. Much of the press may be compensating for its cheerleading or supine acquiescence in the fraud of the Iraq War.

Google Books: Shelved for good? (The Week)

New York – A judge rejects Google’s settlement with authors and publishers.

March Madness: By the numbers (The Week)

New York – The annual NCAA men’s basketball tournament is down to 16 teams. Does anyone in America still have a perfect bracket

Libya intervention: US cannot afford to ‘go in search of monsters to destroy’ (The Christian Science Monitor)

New York – From Iran to Algeria and across the Middle East, a generation of young people has demanded that its voice be heard, calling for new or reformed governments.

Evangelical shift on gays: Why ‘clobber scriptures’ are losing ground (The Christian Science Monitor)

Atlanta – In 1987, Jim Bakker’s sex scandal shocked the evangelical world. The husband of mascara-laden Tammy Faye was a super-televangelist with an average viewership numbering over 12 million and ministry contributions estimated at $1 million per week.

Apple’s software guru departs: Is the tech giant going all mobile? (The Week)

New York – Bertrand Serlet, who helped rebuild Apple in the late ’90s, is leaving, and the tech world buzzes over what it means for Steve Jobs and Co. Apple announced on Wednesday that Bertrand Serlet, the software engineer instrumental in the development of Mac OS X, is leaving the company. Serlet, who said in his departure statement that he wants to “focus less on products and more on science,” has worked with Steve Jobs for 22 years, and was the driving force behind the software that helped launch the company back into prominence in 1997

The new oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico (The Week)

New York – A miles-long slick contaminates a stretch of beach hit hard by last year’s massive BP spill.

Newt Gingrich’s Libya ‘flip-flop’: What was he thinking? (The Week)

New York – Gingrich hammered President Obama earlier this month for not intervening in Libya. Now he’s griping, “I would not have intervened.” Huh? Former House speaker and current GOP presidential aspirant Newt Gingrich has done a “complete flip-flop” on his Libya position, says George Zornick at ThinkProgress

Why is the Tea Party silent on Libya? (The Week)

New York – Liberal critics are decrying the war on Moammar Gadhafi, but the right’s notoriously noisy grassroots movement has barely uttered a word. Why

Will Michele Bachmann wreak havoc on the 2012 presidential race? (The Week)

New York – The Tea Party favorite sends a strong signal Thursday that she’s serious about a White House bid. Cue the repercussions… On Thursday, CNN reported that Rep