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Town Hall Debate
Last night's presidential debate turned into a prime-time political confrontation, this time including a president fully engaged with a challenger ready for action.
By Warren Olney • • 51m ListenLast night's presidential debate turned into a prime-time political confrontation, this time including a president fully engaged with a challenger ready for action. We hear excerpts and contrasting assessments. On Reporter's Notebook, a new planet has been discovered — orbiting the closest star to the Sun. What are the prospects of life in the system of Alpha Centuri B?
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2 storiesThe Thrilla in Nassau County
In last night's town hall , they circled like prizefighters, pointed their fingers and interrupted each other -- while ignoring the moderator — and trading accusations of lying. It was presidential campaigning as prime-time political drama: as intensely personal as any such confrontation in memory.
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The blockbuster film Avatar featured a planet imagined to be circling Alpha Centauri B, the star closest to our sun. Now astronomers have discovered there really might be a system of planets there. The new planet orbiting Alpha Centuri B is so close to the star that it would not be habitable to life as we know it.
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