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Two Indian schoolgirls have discovered an asteroid which is slowly shifting its orbit and moving toward Earth. Radhika Lakhani and Vaidehi Vekariya, both studying in 10th grade, were working on a school project when they discovered the asteroid, which they named HLV2514. The girls, from the city of Surat in the western Indian state of Gujarat, were participating in a Space India and NASA project, which allows students to analyze images taken by a telescope positioned at the University of Hawaii. Aakash Dwivedi, senior educator and astronomer at Space India, told CNN that students across India were taught how to...

Saddam Surat #1 - Today the Pasadena Pundit begins a series of posts of excerpts from Con Coughlin's book Saddam - His Rise and Fall. In Arabic a series or row of revelations is called a surat (surah, sura). So we will call these excerpts Saddam's Surats. Here is the first Surat which is the beginning paragraph in Coughlin's book: Saddam Surat No. 1 "Shortly before a carefully orchestrated series of terrorist attacks devastated the eastern seaboard of the United States on the morning of September 11, 2001, several Western intelligence agencies received an intriguing report to the effect that...