misen: Do you think that this will be the end of the rager poxs rule? Well i can tell you that they are trying every trick in the book to stay on. If there is no vibal prime ministerial candidate, the danger of him consolidating power through the military is very real. The oceans are filled with a cacophony of natural sounds, and a whole lot of man made ones too. Now scientists want to add some more, but for good reason. Sounds may soon help to reveal what are currently hidden happenings in the sea's depths.
Demonstrations that eventually ousted the prime minister have cost lives, but the protest mood is not fading: many want every member of the storied Rajapaksa family out of government. We examine an effort to develop undersea GPS and learn why a watery sat-nav would be so useful. And why 1972 was such a formative year for music in Brazil.
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