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JP, if you have not replied by clicking on that button in haldav's post, he can still delete and repost in the intended thread. As for post count, you both have still some work to do to overtake me ;P

There are plenty of women in the news, and while some are good role models, many aren't. So where are the role models? Sure, there are high profile heavyweights but what about the women who have blazed trails or championed causes who don't get daily headlines? There are thousands of them out there, yet their names don't often make the nightly newscasts or get mentioned in dinner party conversations. From the first plus-size supermodel to a Nobel Laureate, here is Joanne Bamberger's list of the ten amazing women you've never heard of.

This follows here

Luciano Pavarotti Dies at Age 71

There are quite a few things yet to be mention abt that ....

Kilo prototype mysteriously loses weight

The 118-year-old cylinder that is the international prototype for the metric mass, kept tightly under lock and key outside Paris, is mysteriously losing weight — if ever so slightly. Physicist Richard Davis of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Sevres, southwest of Paris, says the reference kilo appears to have lost 50 micrograms compared with the average of dozens of copies.
"The mystery is that they were all made of the same material, and many were made at the same time and kept under the same conditions, and yet the masses among them are slowly drifting apart," he said. "We don't really have a good hypothesis for it.".....