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Gold rises in Japanese yen PM resigns, raw physics and then increase again bullion Gold rose yesterday in a safe haven due to falling demand markets values after growing concern about the impact of oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and continuing concerns about the spread in the euro area.
Melbourne Victory v Perth Glory 1st Half 16-January-2010

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements $8.40 Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie’s reputation? And why is gallium (Ga, 31) the go-to element for laboratory pranksters?* The Periodic Table is a crowning scientific achievement, but it’s also a treasure trove of adventure, betrayal, and obsession. These fascinating tales follow every element on the table as they play out their parts in human histo…

King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa $2.13 In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten million–all the while shrewdly cultivating his reputation as a great humanitarian….

Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time $0.22 One man’s campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia: in 1993 Greg Mortenson was an American mountain-climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan’s Karakoram. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of a Pakistani village, he promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew …