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Cameras captured the moment the earthquake hit at 2:46 on Friday afternoon in Japan. The nation's lawmakers felt the power of the magnitude 8.9 force. And the cameras rolled here in a Sendai newsroom about 90 miles from the quake. It set off this hug

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After the storm, the rain hitting the parts of the UK that really don't need it. C shore is perhaps best known for its floods, yet again parts of the town are swamp, a victim of its own geography. Where rivers converge, it's a familiar but frustratin

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The Lowest Note in the Universe 宇宙中的最低音 It's coming from a black hole in the Perseus Cluster, about two hundred fifty million light years away. A black hole？And outer space？That makes sound? Whats happening out there is that interga

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