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TEHRAN, Iran ? Iran's internal political battles have reached this point before: Lawmakers demanding that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad become the first Iranian president hauled before parliament for a grilling on government policies.

Each time, Ahmadinejad was given a reprieve by Iran's supreme leader, who apparently wanted to avoid an embarrassing spectacle. But there may be no such easy exit this time for the president.

His ties have frayed badly with supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who for months has been trying to put his upstart protege in his place. And the mood is increasingly cutthroat within Iran's leadership as its factions jockey for parliamentary elections fewer than five months away.

"Iran has always been a place of high political theater," said Shadi Hamid, director of research at the Brookings Doha Center in Qatar. "It's the tone that has gotten more bitter as the stakes have gotten higher."

A scandal surrounding a $2.6 billion bank fraud, the biggest financial abuse case in Iran's history, has given Ahmadinejad's opponents the opportunity to humble the president and his supporters ahead of the parliamentary election. Parliament has begun steps to oust his economy minister, and on Sunday 73 of the 290 lawmakers ? just above the required 25 percent threshold ? signed a petition to question Ahmadinejad on the investigation.

Ahmadinejad is not directly linked to the corruption investigation and faces no apparent danger of being toppled. And it's still unclear when ? or if ? he could be ordered to appear in the chamber.

But a possible Watergate-style inquest in parliament ? what he knew and when he knew it ? would be seen as a crowning moment for his political foes after months of wide-open attacks.

Ahmadinejad is accused by opponents of crossing the ultimate red line in Iran: Trying to expand the powers of the presidency to challenge the near-absolute authority of Khamenei, who heads the ruling theocracy.

Dozens of Ahmadinejad's allies have been arrested or driven off the political map. Ahmadinejad's protege and closest aide, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, has been vilified in state media as leader of a "deviant current" that seeks to compromise the Islamic system.

None of the pressures could have come without approval from Khamenei, who has the final say in all key matters.

In recent months, Khamenei intervened to block several attempts by lawmakers to question Ahmadinejad. The apparent reason was to protect Iran's image and avoid uncomfortable scenes of Ahmadinejad facing angry parliament critics.

But Khamenei could let events take their course this time, some experts say, as his statements suggest a more aggressive stance against perceived threats to the Islamic system.

Earlier this month, Khamenei fired a powerful warning shot at Ahmadinejad ? or any successor ? seeking to siphon off powers from the ruling clerical establishment, saying that Iran could someday scrap the post of elected president if political needs demand. The supreme leader has also called for "cutting off the traitorous hands" of those implicated in the banking scandal.

The ruling clerics could be thinking ahead to Iran's next big test at the ballot box.

A humbling call into parliament for Ahmadinejad could further embolden his political opponents before parliamentary elections in March. The voting is seen by Khamenei's supporters ? including the ultra-powerful Revolutionary Guard ? as an important warm up for the presidential contest in June 2013.

The ruling clerics vet all candidates for both races, suggesting the outcome could further strengthen the hold of hard-liners and the Revolutionary Guard, whose reach extends from the military to most key sectors of the economy.

Ahmad Bakhshayesh, a political affairs professor at Tehran's Azad University, said there is a growing sense that Khamenei now may let Ahmadinejad's opponents in parliament take full aim at the president.

"The financial scandal has intensified the mood," he said. "Lawmakers concluded it was time to use their power."

But first, there is the issue of Economy Minister Shamsoddin Hosseini, who could face an impeachment vote in parliament Tuesday.

A parliamentary investigation concluded that Hosseini, his deputies and managers of the Central Bank of Iran and other banks knew about the massive fraud and failed to take action. The scam, allegedly masterminded by a businessman, involved the use of forged documents to obtain credit from at least two Iranian state banks to purchase state-owned companies.

At least 35 suspects have been arrested.

Ahmadinejad still retains significant support among lawmakers, who could try to stall or derail the petition to bring him for questioning. One of the anti-Ahmadinejad lawmakers, Mohammad Dehghan, said there was heavy lobbying Monday by the president's backers to drop the bid, according to the semiofficial Mehr news agency.

A member of the parliament's presiding council, Hossein Sobhaninia, said the lawmakers plan to question a representative of Ahmadinejad before deciding on whether to call the president before the chamber.

"Nothing in Iran comes out of nowhere," said Mehrzad Boroujerdi, an Iranian affairs expert at Syracuse University, referring to Khamenei's warning over the presidency post.

"Khamenei seems to be a mind to let this go to parliament this time," he added. "It's one way of further reining in Ahmadinejad after reading him the riot act and letting him know, `Look, I can hurt you in so many ways.'"

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Murphy reported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

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??Stepfan Taylor ran for the tying touchdown with 38 seconds left in regulation and the go-ahead score in the third overtime, and Stanford's defense preserved its 16-game winning streak by forcing Curtis McNeal's end-zone fumble to end the No. 4 Cardinal's 56-48 victory over No. 20 Southern California on Saturday night.

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WASHINGTON -- Members of Congress are calling on the Obama administration to end the federal crackdown on marijuana dispensaries in California, citing Attorney General Eric Holder's past promise to maintain a hands-off approach toward pot clinics operating in compliance with state law.

Although most of the nine signatories on a Friday letter to the White House were California Democrats -- including Reps. Barbara Lee, Pete Stark, Lynn Woolsey and Sam Farr -- the group also contained a California Republican, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, who is an outspoken medical marijuana advocate, and a Tennessee Democrat, Rep. Steve Cohen.

"We write to express our concern with the recent activity by the Department of Justice against legitimate medical cannabis dispensaries in California that are operating legally under state law," the lawmakers said.

Federal prosecutors targeted medical marijuana dispensary owners in California on Oct. 7, vowing to shutter state-licensed businesses and threatening landlords with property seizures for violating federal drug laws. Now these House members are pushing back.

"It is our strong position that local and state governments must be allowed to develop, implement and enforce their own public health laws with regard to medical cannabis," the letter stated.

The letter comes just days after hundreds of marijuana activists gathered in downtown San Francisco, where President Barack Obama was attending a fundraising luncheon, to protest the federal crackdown on California's pot clinics.

But the scope of Friday's letter stretched beyond California. The threatening notices sent to landlords by California's four U.S. attorneys follow many months of federal interference in other states that permit medical cannabis, with aggressive federal raids in at least seven, the representatives noted.

They called on the White House to reclassify marijuana as a legitimate controlled substance for medicinal purposes and to adopt the States' Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act, legislation introduced by Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) that would prohibit federal interference in state-run medical marijuana clinics.

"By pursuing the same harsh policies that have been in place for years, we fear that the federal government will push legitimate patients back into the uncertainly and danger of the illicit market," the letter continued.

The White House did not immediately respond to a query about the letter sent by HuffPost after business hours; another to the Justice Department also went unreturned over the weekend.

Read the full letter from members of Congress here.

Late on Friday, the White House did release a response to several online petitions for marijuana legalization submitted by the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws and other groups as part of the White House's "We The People" project, an effort to allow ordinary Americans to gain the attention of policymakers through an online portal at the White House website.

"Like many, we are interested in the potential marijuana may have in providing relief to individuals diagnosed with certain serious illnesses," the White House wrote in its official response. "That is why we ardently support ongoing research into determining what components of the marijuana plant can be used as medicine. To date, however, neither the FDA nor the Institute of Medicine have found smoked marijuana to meet the modern standard for safe or effective medicine for any condition."

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US soldiers walk at the site of a suicide car bomber in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. A suicide car bomber struck a NATO convoy on the outskirts of Kabul on Saturday, causing casualties among the NATO service members and Afghan civilians, the U.S.-led coalition said. Afghan officials said three civilians and one policeman were killed. In the background is the palace of former Afghan King Darul Aman which was destroyed during the civil war (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

CORRECTS DETAILS OF VICTIMS - Ahmad Fawad, 20, who was injured in a suicide car bomber, sits in a hospital bed after receiving treatment, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. NATO says that of more than a dozen people killed when a suicide bomber rammed a military convoy in Kabul included five coalition troops and eight civilian contractors. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which also killed several Afghans, including a policeman. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

US soliders, right, carry a body from the site of a suicide car bomber in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. A suicide car bomber struck a NATO convoy on the outskirts of Kabul on Saturday, causing casualties among the NATO service members and Afghan civilians, the U.S.-led coalition said. Afghan officials said three civilians and one policeman were killed. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)

A NATO helicopter flies above the site of a suicide car bomber in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. A suicide car bomber struck a NATO convoy on the outskirts of Kabul on Saturday, causing casualties among the NATO service members and Afghan civilians, the U.S.-led coalition said. Afghan officials said three civilians and one policeman were killed. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)

US soldiers gather by bodies of victims of a suicide car bomber in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. A suicide car bomber struck a NATO convoy on the outskirts of Kabul on Saturday, causing casualties among the NATO service members and Afghan civilians, the U.S.-led coalition said. Afghan officials said three civilians and one policeman were killed. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? A Taliban suicide bomber rammed a vehicle loaded with explosives into an armored NATO bus Saturday on a busy thoroughfare in Kabul, killing 17 people, including a dozen Americans, in the deadliest strike against the U.S.-led coalition in the Afghan capital since the war began.

The blast occurred on the same day that a man wearing an Afghan army uniform killed three Australian soldiers and an Afghan interpreter in the south ? attacks that show the resiliency of the insurgency and are likely to raise new doubts about the unpopular 10-year-old war and the Western strategy of trying to talk peace with the Taliban.

A spokesman for the fundamentalist Islamic movement, which was ousted in the 2001 invasion for its affiliation with al-Qaida, claimed responsibility for the Kabul attack, saying the bomber had used 1,540 pounds (700 kilograms) of explosives.

The Taliban and related groups have staged more than a dozen major attacks in Kabul this year, including seven since June, in an apparent campaign to weaken confidence in the Afghan government as it prepares to take over its own security ahead of a 2014 deadline for the U.S. and other NATO countries to withdraw their troops or move them into support roles.

Underscoring the difficulties ahead, the brazen assault occurred just hours after top Afghan and Western officials met in the heart of Kabul to discuss the second phase of shifting security responsibilities to Afghan forces in all or part of 17 of the country's 34 provinces. Afghans already have the lead in the Afghan capital.

Heavy black smoke poured from the burning wreckage of an armored personnel carrier, known as a Rhino, in Kabul after the bomber struck. The bus had been sandwiched in the middle of a convoy of mine-resistant military vehicles when it was hit along a four-lane highway often used by foreign military trainers in the southwestern part of Kabul.

The landmark Darulaman Palace, the bombed-out seat of former Afghan kings, was the backdrop to the chaotic scene: Shrapnel, twisted pieces of metal and charred human remains littered the street.

U.S. soldiers wept as they pulled bodies from the debris, said Noor Ahmad, a witness at the scene. One coalition soldier was choking inside the burned bus, he said.

"The bottom half of his body was burned," Ahmad said.

NATO said five of its service members and eight civilian contractors working for the coalition died in the attack.

A U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity to release the information before a formal announcement, said all 13 were Americans. However, Lt. Col. Christian Lemay, a Canadian defense spokesman, told The Associated Press that one Canadian soldier was among the troops killed. The discrepancy could not immediately be reconciled.

It was the deadliest single attack against the U.S.-led coalition across the country since the Taliban shot down a NATO helicopter on Aug. 6 in an eastern Afghan province, killing 30 U.S. troops, most elite Navy SEALs, and eight Afghans.

The Afghan Ministry of Interior said four Afghans, including two children, also died in Saturday's attack. Eight other Afghans, including two children, were wounded, said Kabir Amiri, head of Kabul hospitals.

In all, there were three attacks Saturday against NATO and Afghan forces across the country.

A teenage girl also blew herself up as she tried to attack an Afghan intelligence office in the capital of Kunar province, a hotbed of militancy in northeast Afghanistan along the Pakistan border, the coalition said. Abdul Sabor Allayar, deputy provincial police chief, said the guards outside the government's intelligence office in Asad Abad became suspicious and started shooting, at which point the bomber detonated her explosives, killing herself and wounding several intelligence employees.

Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman Mohammad Zahir Azimi said officials were investigating whether the man who opened fire on a joint NATO-Afghan base in the restive southern Uruzgan province was an actual soldier or a militant in disguise.

The Australian Broadcasting Corp. said the attack occurred during a morning parade at a forward patrol base in southern Kandahar province, and the gunman wearing an Afghan army uniform was later killed. The discrepancy in the location of the attack could not immediately be clarified.

In Canberra, the Defense Department said three Australlian soldiers and their Afghan interpreter were killed in the attack, and seven Australian soldiers were wounded.

"It's a huge loss," said U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker. "Our deepest sympathies go out to their comrades and families, but it will not deter us from our mission. It's a shock, but we will not let these guys win."

Just a day earlier, the Pentagon issued a progress report saying that the number of enemy-initiated attacks in Afghanistan was trending downward. Since May of this year, the monthly number of these attacks has been lower than the same month in 2010, something not seen since 2007, it said.

However, the Pentagon also noted that the insurgency's safe havens in Pakistan and the limited capacity of the Afghan government could jeopardize efforts to turn security gains on the battlefield, primarily in the south, into long-term stability in Afghanistan.

Saturday's attack broke a relative lull in the Afghan capital, which has experienced a number of attacks in recent years that are often blamed on the Haqqani network, an al-Qaida and Taliban-linked movement that operates out of Pakistan.

The most recent attack in Kabul was the Sept. 20 assassination of former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani by an insurgent who detonated a bomb hidden in his turban. The attacker was posing as a peace emissary coming to meet Rabbani, who was leading a government effort to broker peace with the Taliban.

That occurred about a week after teams of insurgents firing rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons struck at the U.S. Embassy, NATO headquarters and other buildings in the heart of Afghanistan's capital, leaving seven Afghans dead.

On Saturday, NATO and Afghan forces sealed off the blast area as fire trucks and ambulances, sirens blaring, rushed in. Coalition troops carried a badly burned body on a stretcher and several black body bags to two NATO helicopters that landed nearby to airlift casualties from the scene.

The Taliban identified the bomber as Abdul Rahman and said he was driving a Toyota Land Cruiser SUV containing 1,540 pounds (700 kilograms) of explosives and targeting foreigners providing training for Afghan police. The Taliban, who frequently exaggerate casualty claims, said that 25 people were killed by the blast.

A similar attack occurred on the same road in May 2010 when a suicide bomber struck a NATO convoy, killing 18 people. Among the dead were five U.S. soldiers and a Canadian colonel.

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Associated Press writers Tarek El-Tablawy in Kabul and Lolita Baldor in Washington contributed.

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TRIPOLI, Libya?? Abdullah Ahmed Belal had all but given up on the sprawling seaside villa his family lost to squatters decades ago because of a provision in Moammar Gadhafi's Green Book saying anybody who lives in the house should own it.

Belal, a 48-year-old naval officer, is one of many Libyans who want their properties back now that the hated dictator is gone.

Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, head of the governing National Transitional Council, has called for such disputes to be settled legally. Belal is willing to be patient, but others have taken matters into their own hands ? a sign of the post-revolutionary fights that threaten to rattle Libya as it transitions from decades of autocratic rule to what its interim leaders say will be democracy.

Armed men have tried to force families out at gunpoint, and neighbors have been caught in the crossfire as they tried to intervene. Even original owners willing to wait have spray painted their names on the concrete walls surrounding the buildings.

"The NTC keeps asking people to postpone trying to get their rights back until a committee is formed and it can be done legally," said Abdullah Belal, a Tripoli contract lawyer and a nephew of Abdullah Ahmed Belal. "They say you've waited 42 years, you can wait another month or two, but some people don't want to wait."

He described one instance in which the original owners came back with machine guns to force a Palestinian family from their home in Souk al-Jumaa, giving them no time to pack more than the belongings they could gather that night.

"We desperately need to get our properties and rights back, but at the same time we don't want anybody to be hurt because in the end the only one to blame is Moammar Gadhafi," the lawyer said.

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The question of legality is murky in a country that was governed by the whims of one man for nearly 42 years.

The Green Book, the slain leader's quirky political manifesto that dictated the lives of Libyans, allowed people to occupy empty houses that had been purchased as rentals or vacated by landlords traveling abroad. High rises and other commercial buildings also were taken, often with no compensation.

It may be hard now to prove original ownership because the building holding property records burned down in 1982 under mysterious circumstances, and those who initially confiscated the property often resold it with new documents.

In some cases, gunmen laying claim to homes were not in fact the original owners.

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In 1977, a colonel in Gadhafi's army is said to have seized a house on a side street in Tripoli's affluent Hay al-Andalous neighborhood.

On Sept. 8, nearly 35 years later, a man armed with a machine gun showed up around midnight to reclaim what he said was his.

Witnesses told The Associated Press that neighbors rushed to the scene and tried to calm him down, saying he should wait until the issue could be resolved in a court of law, but the man was drunk and refused to listen. His friend got out of the car and they both opened fire.

One of the neighbors, Tarek Abu Aisha, 38, was shot and killed, and two others were wounded. Bullet holes still pockmark the pavement as well as the iron door of a four-story apartment building across the street.

Seif Saad al-Jarushi, 36-year-old school bus driver who lives down the street, said the gunmen fled as revolutionary forces arrived.

He said the man currently occupying the house took his family away and only comes home at night.

He and other neighbors said they learned that the colonel who seized the house in the late 1970s had sold it to three different people after the uprising against Gadhafi took root in mid-February. The armed man who came to claim it was one of them.

Al-Jarushi said neighbors are ready to fight if the man comes back to try again.

"Even if he has the right, he should not be trying to get his rights this way. He should do it through legal means," he said, swatting away flies during an interview on a corner near the house.

Verifying ownership
The nationalization of businesses and property was one of the most glaring examples of Gadhafi's efforts to force his version of socialism on the desert nation of 6 million people. With the introduction of the property law in the late 1970s, thousands of landlords lost homes when tenants claimed them as their own. People also were allowed to occupy empty buildings.

Apparently sensing public anger over the issue, the regime late last year offered compensation to Libyans who could prove that they had owned confiscated property ? part of purported reforms initiated by Gadhafi's son Seif al-Islam.

"This decision should have been taken many years ago," said Mustafa Bushaal, a member of the newly established Libyan Association for Justice and Development, which is discussing various ways to resolve the housing problem. He said the process was fraught with corruption.

Some solutions being floated include giving newly evicted families apartments being built by the government on Tripoli's outskirts or offering them compensation so they can find a new place to live.

Bushaal said the Tripoli city government already has asked claimants to present documentation for their property.

"The first thing is to convince the family that it's not their house, then find alternative housing for the other family," he said.

It is impossible to know just how many homes were confiscated by the Gadhafi regime, which destroyed many of the original documents.

Belal, the naval officer, said his father bought the seaside home in 1975 and eventually gave it to him.

Belal said he allowed a foreign company to rent it when he went abroad to study. When he returned to Libya in 1984 to start a family, he found that squatters had moved in after the company left.

He said the police told him the Green Book had given the family the right to move into the house.

Belal, who currently rents an apartment with his family, says he does not want to kick the family out of his original home until they have somewhere else to go. But he said a legal solution must come very soon.

"There are so many people with similar problems," he said. "The government should move very fast to solve this problem or there will be another civil war."

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Marie Sklodowska Curie Immortalized by her researches on radium. Image: Scientific American

From Scientific American, November 25, 1911, Volume 105

FEMINISM very nearly won a great victory in the French Academy of Sciences on January 23rd, 1911, when, in the election of a successor to the deceased academician Gernez, Marie Sklodowska Curie was defeated by two votes. At a joint meeting of the five academies which compose the Institut de France, a majority had opposed the admission of women, as contrary to tradition, but each academy was left to decide the question for itself.

The Academy of Fine Arts had a few women members long ago but the Academy of Sciences has never admitted a woman. It was, perhaps, the opposition of the anti-feminists that induced Mme. Curie to apply as a candidate for the chair in the section of physics left vacant by Gernez, and formerly occupied by her husband and collaborator, Pierre Curie. In the preliminary grading of candidates Mme. Curie was placed alone, in the first grade, while her competitors, five eminent men of science, were assigned to the second grade. Mme. Curie, however, received only 28 of the 65 votes (the Academy consists of 66 members), while 30 votes were cast for Edouard Branly. There were good reasons for this choice, entirely apart from considerations of sex. Branly is a physicist of world-wide celebrity who, unlike Mme. Curie, has received few honors and emoluments. He invented the coherer for the detection of electric waves and to him Marconi?s first wireless message was addressed. Many of the academicians naturally desired to recognize the very important part played by their compatriot in the development of wireless telegraphy. Moreover, Branly is sixty-four years old and this was his third candidacy, while Mme. Curie is only forty-three and had never before applied for admission. It is not customary to admit a candidate on the first application, and Mme. Curie?s chance of living until the next vacancy shall occur is greater than Branly?s.

Who is this remarkable woman who so nearly surmounted these formidable obstacles? The dry and formal account of herself and her work which she submitted with her application, according to custom, is perhaps more eloquent than an exhaustive biography. Marie Sklodowska was born in Warsaw November 7th, 1867. She became a student in the University of Paris where she attained the degrees of licentiate in physics in 1893 and licentiate in mathematics in 1894. In 1896 she received a certificate of fitness for the secondary instruction of girls, and in 1900 became lecturer in physics in the Ecole normale superieure for girls in Sevres. In 1903 she received the degree of doctor of physical science, in 1906 she became lecturer in general physics in the University of Paris, and in 1909 s he was promoted to the professorship of general physics, as successor to her lately deceased husband, Prof. Pierre Curie, to whom she was married in 1895.

She is an honorary or foreign member of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, the London Chemical Society, the American Philosophical Society, the American Chemical Society, the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, the Royal Swedish Academy and other learned bodies, and has received the honorary title of Doctor from the universities of Geneva and Edinburgh. In 1898 Mme. Curie, then thirty-one years of age, received the Gegner prize from the French Academy of Sciences, nominally for her extensive researches relating to the magnetic properties of iron and steel, although the report of the awarding committee also alludes, in terms of the highest commendation, to the researches in radio-activity which she had already begun, in co-operation with her husband, and to their recent discovery of the radio-active element which Mme. Curie named Polonium, in honor of her native country.

The Gegner prize was awarded to Mme. Curie again in 1300, and a third time in 1902, together with the Berthelot medal. In 1903 the Nobel prize for physical science was awarded, half to Mons. and Mme. Curie and half to Henri Becquerel, whose discovery of the spontaneous radio-activity of uranium ore formed the basis of all subsequent researches in radio-activity. Only a few days ago we heard the news that Mme. Curie has been honored with the Nobel prize a second time, on this occasion in the division of chemistry. The list of medals and prizes which have been awarded to Mme. Curie in foreign countries is too long to quote.

In addition to the numerous researches in radioactivity which she made in collaboration with her husband, Mme. Curie has published a great many independent papers, and a volume, ?Investigations of Radio-active Substances,?; in which the results of their co-operative researches, including the epoch-making discovery of radium, are set forth.

Radium and polonium are not the only fruits of this ideal marriage, which was blessed by the birth of two children who already give evidence of inheriting the genius of their parents. After the shocking and untimely death of Pierre Curie, who was killed by a truck on a Paris bridge, in 1906, at the age of fifty-seven, a large majority of his colleagues recommended to the ministry of public instruction the appointment of his widow and coadjutor as his successor. The result is that this gifted woman, the only one of her sex who has ever received this high honor, is now a full professor in the venerable Sorbonne.

All who have seen Mme. Curie at work in her laboratory, or have listened to her lectures, have been impressed by her undemonstrative zeal, her abstraction from external disturbances and her aversion to sensational effects.

The early life of Marie Sklodowska Curie is less well-known to the general public than the later phase, in which she has become famous. And yet there is a peculiar romantic, and indeed pathetic interest attached to the incidents of her youth. Her father was a distinguished physicist, and professor of chemistry at Warsaw, Poland. Her mother died when the child was yet quite young. Marie grew up in her father?s laboratory, imbibing the spirit of scientific research, and acquiring that sureness of eye and skill of hand which is so indispensable to the worker in experimental science. It is no doubt largely to her very early initiation into the technique of laboratory work that her extraordinary ability in this direction must be ascribed. Marie?s apprenticeship was, however, brought to a rather early close by the pressure of necessity. As the daughter of an impecunious college professor, the eighteen-year-old girl set out to earn her own living as governess to the daughters of a Russian nobleman. But Providence had destined her for another fate. In one of those agitations which have been so common in the history of Russia, a patriotic society of students at Warsaw was brought under the scrutiny of the ever-suspicious government, and for fear of being compelled to testify against some of her father?s pupils, Marie migrated from her home country and took up her abode in Paris. There she lived for a time a life of the utmost privation. Her repeated efforts to obtain employment in one of the laboratories seemed to avail her nothing. Finally she was allowed to perform some of the trivial offices in connection with the preparation of laboratory experiments. And once this meager foothold was gained, it was but a matter of days before the extraordinary faculties of the new assistant had attracted the attention and caused the amazement of the head of the department, Prof. Lippmann. The eminent scientist befriended the girl, and incidentally also introduced her to one of his most promising pupils, Pierre Curie, with whom she became associated in research, and later, in the bonds of wedlock. It was she who fanned to new endeavor the fagging spirits of her husband, in those moments of discouragement which are apt to come to all engaged in intense scientific research. And together they gained the undying trophies of fame, when, with the isolation of radium salts, the name of Curie suddenly rose to international renown. And then, not many years later, fell that terrible blow, separating the two who together had faced the hardships of everyday life, and in strangely perfect union had toiled, against much discouragement, to reap the precious harvest of scientific research. While crossing the street Prof.. Curie tripped and fell, and was instantly killed by a passing truck. Thus in an evil hour France was bereft of one of her greatest physicists, the world of a genius, and Madame Curie If her life companion and husband. Her composure, upon receiving the terrible news, is commented upon by the Gaulois: ?Nothing could have been more characteristic of the wonderful Madame Curie, than the coolness with which she received the news of her bereavement. There were no tears, no traces of grief. Over and over she repeated : ?Pierre is dead.??? One fee1s that here perhaps the Frenchman, with his demonstrative temperament, somewhat misjudges this great woman. The deepest emotions are not always those that can find their vent through the common channels of physical expression. To us there seems something infinitely pathetic in the monotonous repetition of that simple and sad formula, as the mind that with the insight of a genius has successfully grappled with some of the most abstruse problems presented to the science of to-day in the realm of inanimate matter, is brought face to face with the great problem of life and death. Here all men are on a level, and impartially fate has dealt to this great genius as to us all life?s share of human sorrow. Yet with unbroken spirit, and with renewed devotion she turns to continue now in loneliness, her great life work, her priceless gift to humanity.

One can not help reflecting on the retribution dealt by fate to the Eastern monarchy-that makes life unendurable to the scholar of independent thought-in taking from her the woman who would have added the brightest laurel to Russia?s wreath of scientific ?attainment.

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Gerard Longuet says that the international community should still help the new Libyan leadership but with a new mandate, focusing on political instead of military support.

NATO last week announced preliminary plans to wind down the bombing campaign Oct. 31, but then on Wednesday unexpectedly postponed a definitive decision amid continuing consultations with the U.N. and the country's interim government.

Longuet said on France-Info radio Thursday, "I don't exactly understand the need" to keep the operation going. He said the mission is continuing surveillance but is already "being dismantled rather quickly."

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Full Name: Zalenetsu
Alias: Zale
Species: Mischief Demon
Powers/Abilities: Each different 'form' of includes the abilities of each of the lesser forms.

Normal Form

Enhanced Dexterity- Zale can react quite rapidly to most actions. Not to say that he dodge or evade every attack but he is more acrobatic say to speak than most. The best example I can think of is the x-men Nightcrawler. (If you switch Nightcrawlers' teleporting skill with leaping instead. Does that make sense? xP) Ex: Jumping higher, running quicker, flipping, ect.
Demonic Strength - Zale has the surprising ability to deal a powerful blow. Despite his small, almost lanky proportions he could for example punch a small; slightly larger than his fist; crater into, say...cement. In terms of humans; enough to break bones.

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Blue Fire - Zale has the ability to produce flames or energy in a sense that can either be propelled towards someone/come in contact with them via physical contact/ or there are occasional circumstances he can't control to well, objects or a person can be temporarily consumed by the fire. It is relatively blinding and absolutely hot. It takes a lot of his energy and or will power to conjure this fire and it can't be done very often without completely exhausting him.
Demonic Regeneration - Zale's body naturally heals major or fatal wounds to his body and ignores most everyday scratches(though those still heal more rapidly than normal). It can take up to a half hour to completely heal a major wound and it obviously inhibits his functioning.

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Demonic Endurance - Zale can take more of a hit than normal. Major and Fatal wounds that would significantly interfere with his movements are more easily ignored as if he's sort of numb or perhaps to stubborn to let it effect him.
Raging Fire - The blue fire that he already has consumed his entire body and the conjuring of it becomes more wild, combusting and thus more dangerous. When ever this fit ends, he is most likely drained of energy and blacks out.

Hope this makes enough sense, let me know if anything needs to be editing or restricted. Also, I don't exactly plan for him to get out of control every other post or anything, just so you know. :)

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"It seems a very long time since the protestors arrived around the cathedral," said Reverend Graeme Knowles, dean of London's St. Paul's Cathedral, on Oct. 21. Reading from an open letter to the Occupy London protest, the dean addressed the camp of nearly 200 tents residing outside the cathedral. "I want to stress at the outset that we have listened to them and indeed developed a conversation with them."

In reality, it hadn't been a week since the occupation had descended onto the cathedral's property. The protest against economic disparity that began on Oct. 15 had initially relied on the good graces of St. Paul's Cathedral to carry on. While the movement had intended to occupy the London Stock Exchange, an injunction and a police barricade had prevented the crowd of more than 1,000 from doing so. Instead, the protesters settled around the steps of the historic church, which stands nearby. That northwest area ? partially owned by St. Paul's and partially owned by the City of London Corporation, the local governing body ? has since been the main base of the protest movement. (See photos from the Occupy Wall Street protests.)

At first, the demonstration prompted hundreds of police officers to circle the cathedral's surrounding area, monitoring the burgeoning occupation. However, after St. Paul's canon, Reverend Dr. Giles Fraser, urged the force to leave and announced that the protesters were welcome, it seemed as if the occupation would continue mostly unimpeded. Clusters of tents were pitched around the side and front of the cathedral, forming a tent city complete with a media tent, a library and portable toilets. Though hundreds of protestors could always be found milling outside St. Paul's, their activities were kept outside the cathedral.

Yet, only six days later, Rev. Knowles, reading his open letter to a crowd of reporters, recounted the fire-and-safety hazards the camp posed to the cathedral. He announced that the doors of St. Paul's would be closing and asked the protesters "to recognize the huge issues facing us at this time and asking them to leave the vicinity of the building so that the cathedral can re-open as soon as possible." (See pictures of Prince William and Kate Middleton's Wedding Day.)

Perhaps the cathedral's dean and chapter (the cathedral's governing body) thought the announcement would be enough to cause the frequently criticized protest to move elsewhere. The decision to close the cathedral, after all, is by no means a small one. The last time St. Paul's shut its doors to the public was during The Blitz in 1940, when bombing forced the cathedral to close for four days. Fast-forward to 2011, with the church and camp at an impasse, the monumental decision to close the cathedral's doors resulted in a public-relations disaster for St. Paul's. As the days went by and the protestors stayed put, the cathedral was not only losing revenue from tourists ? St. Paul's say it is losing around 20,000 pounds a day ? but also garnered unpleasant publicity as many had questions about the decision to shut the doors. Questions that were merely compounded by the dean's perhaps unsurprising announcement late Wednesday that St. Paul's would reopen its doors, although the protestors remained.

The protestors themselves have expressed bafflement at the initial decision to close. Soon after Knowles' original announcement, Occupy London issued a statement maintaining that they'd cooperated with St. Paul's staff and had followed recommendations from London's Fire Brigade. "We have been working so hard since we arrived to accommodate every wish that's been put to us," co-organizer Ronan McKern told TIME. "The fire brigade says there are no problems with our camp." And, indeed, neither the fire brigade nor the City of London's health department has issued official safety concerns; the private recommendations the cathedral received about camp-related safety hazards haven't been released. Suggesting that the cathedral's about-face is suspicious, McKern added, "You have to ask: what are the politics at play?"

Others have been asking similar questions. A Guardian editorial, published on Wednesday, noted that the church's position should be in line with the protestors' fairness-minded point of view. Instead, with the protestors refusing to leave and the cathedral taking such a dramatic stand, the deadlock seems unresolvable unless the camp is forcibly removed ? an option the church may be planning to take. Arguing that the cathedral has taken a nonsensical approach to the occupation, the Guardian maintained that if St. Paul's continues to oppose the protest, "the cathedral authorities will be acting in the service of absurdity and injustice."(Read: "Keep Calm and Occupy On: Protesters in London Continue the Occupy Movement")

There has even been dissension from within the church's clergy. On Thursday, St. Paul's canon Rev. Fraser, the man who initially welcomed the occupation, announced on Twitter that he would be leaving. "It is with great regret and sadness that I have handed in my notice at St Paul's Cathedral," he wrote, though he made no reference to the occupation or the cathedral's decision to close its doors. However, in a statement to the Guardian Rev. Fraser clarified, "I resigned because I believe that the chapter has set on a course of action that could mean there will be violence in the name of the church."

Of course, there had been many voices chiming in on behalf of the cathedral. London's Bishop, Reverend Richard Chartres, said on Wednesday that, "the time has come for the protesters to leave, before the camp's presence threatens to eclipse entirely the issues that it was set up to address." London's mayor, Boris Johnson, echoed that request, saying that it is the protesters who need "to go." (See a profile of Boris Johnson.)

Yet, clearly the pressure fell more heavily on the shoulders of St. Paul's chapter, as plans to reopen the doors demonstrates. In the game of p.r. chicken, Occupy London has clearly come out the winner. The chapter's series of ill-explained U-turns was perplexing and roused suspicions. While the protesters have said they're willing to work with the chapter, they've refused to leave despite the repeated requests. Then again, they are protesters; their willingness to occupy an area where they're not wanted shouldn't come as a surprise.

See "'The Whole World Is Watching': Occupy Wall Street Stares Down the NYPD."

See the top 10 American protest movements.

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