judicial
The Abu Dhabi government, however,
has denied that it played any role in the verdict
of the court and said its judicial system was unbiased
and independent.
metric
Two hundred metric tonnes of gold would occupy
a cube of a little more than two metres on a side.
India's purchase of that volume of gold from the IMF
last month has had an outsize impact on the markets.
parameter
However, in Greenland, the critical climate parameter
is "global average surface temperature",
which exceeded that of the Roman Warm Period
already 50 years ago.
prejudice
To take advantage of this tool,
some impoverished countries will have to get over
their outdated anti-colonial prejudices
with respect to foreign investment.
probe
Chinais set to launch its second lunar probe
next October in preparation for an unmanned moon
landing by the end of 2012,
space program officials were quoted Friday as saying.
symmetry
Snowflakes - or more accurately snow crystals
are famously unique, though Koop admits scientists
cannot prove that no two alike have ever fallen to Earth.
As different as they are,
all have sixfold hexagonal symmetry.