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As first reported in June, the new Yahoo Mail beta will feature e-mail caching; message preview; drag-and-drop filing; the capability of quickly searching e-mail headers, body text and attachments; and the ability to view multiple e-mails at the same time in separate windows and scroll through all message headers in a folder rather than one page at a time.

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The reduction in cancer deaths is down to both tobacco control measures and improvements in early detection. Jemal attributes a reduction in the death rate from traffic accidents from 1970 to the early 1990s to the implementation of a 55 mile per hour speed limit during the first energy crisis, in the 1970s.

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Emanuel says the best idea may be to exploit the chaotic features of weather systems to steer them away from populated centres, an idea put forward by Ross Hoffman, a researcher at Atmospheric and Environmental Research, a research and development company based in Lexington, Massachusetts. The idea is based on the so-called butterfly effect - that a small nudge to a chaotic system such as a hurricane could end up having a big enough influence to knock it off course.

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"What makes Hubble worthwhile," Burch said, "is putting in new science instruments that have state-of-the-art detectors to really make the leaps forward…what we call the 'science discovery factor.' Those are the things that are really going to make Hubble a useful and desirable space research vehicle beyond the 2008 time frame." A Hubble Servicing Mission 4 would have the visiting shuttle crew also boost Hubble into a higher orbit, replace a fine-guidance sensor, and place protective material on top of torn insulation.