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    The first ScienceDebate2008 question asks, "What policies will you support to ensure that America remains the world leader in innovation?" Not surprisingly, the candidates took the not-so-bold stance of being for innovation. Full Article at Popular Science
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  1. A woman places a rose into part of the former Berlin wall, Monday Nov. 9, 2009, following a commemoration ceremony for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989, at the wall memorial "Bernauer Strasse" in Berlin, Germany.
  2. Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, gestures as he leaves after delivering Buddhist teachings at Tawang, in the northeastern Indian state of Arunchal Pradesh November 9, 2009. Thousands of Buddhist monks and supporters welcomed Tibet's exiled spiritual leader on Sunday to a remote Indian region also claimed by China, a trip that has renewed tensions between the Asian giants. The visit, as well as reports of border incursions in recent months, has triggered tensions between the world's two most populous nations, whose relations remain hostage to mutual suspicion lingering from a brief 1962 border war.
  3. Pope Benedict XVI views the font where Pope Paul VI was baptised as an infant at a museum in Concesio, near Brescia November 8, 2009. Pope Paul VI was born as Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini in 1897 and served as pontiff from 1963 to 1978. Picture taken November 8, 2009.
  4. Defendant Alex W. is brought to the courtroom of the district court in Dresden, November 9, 2009. The trial of a man accused of killing a pregnant Egyptian woman in a German courtroom entered a third week on Monday amid tight security, in a case that has incensed many in the Islamic world. The stabbing in July of 31-year-old Marwa El-Sherbiny, pregnant and a mother to a 3-year-old, prompted accusations that Germany tolerated xenophobia and anti-Islamic views and caused protests in Egypt and Iran. The killing happened in a court in Dresden where the attacker, a German of Russian origin, was appealing a conviction for insulting El-Sherbiny by calling her an "Islamist", "terrorist" and "slut" when she asked him to make room for her son to play on swings in a playground. The killer also stabbed El-Sherbiny's husband and to make matters worse, German police then shot the husband in the leg, having mistaken him for the attacker.
  5. Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, gestures as he leaves after delivering Buddhist teachings at Tawang, in the northeastern Indian state of Arunchal Pradesh November 9, 2009. Thousands of Buddhist monks and supporters welcomed Tibet's exiled spiritual leader on Sunday to a remote Indian region also claimed by China, a trip that has renewed tensions between the Asian giants. The visit, as well as reports of border incursions in recent months, has triggered tensions between the world's two most populous nations, whose relations remain hostage to mutual suspicion lingering from a brief 1962 border war.
  6. European Commission Chairman Jose Manuel Barroso (L) welcomes UN Food and Agriculture Organization Director-General Jacques Diouf on November 9, 2009 before their meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels.
  7. France's Rugby Union national team head coach Marc Lievremont gives a press conference, on November 09, 2009 in Marcoussis, south of Paris, to announce who will play with on the French team for next November 13 friendly match against South Africa. French team will also play against Samoa on November 21 and New Zeland on November 28.
  8. People gather behind the back wall (east side, looking west) of a preserved segment of the Berlin wall during a commemorative event to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the wall in Berlin November 9, 2009.
  9. Pope Benedict XVI views the font where Pope Paul VI was baptised as an infant in Concesio, near Brescia November 8, 2009. Pope Paul VI was born as Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini in 1897 and served as pontiff from 1963 to 1978. Picture taken November 8, 2009.
  10. European Commission Chairman Jose Manuel Barroso (L) welcomes UN Food and Agriculture Organization Director-General Jacques Diouf on November 9, 2009 before their meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels.
  11. Traders are pictured at their desks in front of the DAX board at the Frankfurt stock exchange November 9, 2009.
  12. Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama (3rd L) plants a sapling upon his arrival at Yid-Gha-Choezin for a prayer ceremony in Tawang, in the northwestern corner of Arunachal Pradesh state on November 9, 2009. The Dalai Lama held a mass audience with tens of thousands of devotees November 9 on a 'non-political' visit to a region near India's border with Tibet that has drawn shrill protests from China.
  13. A man dressed as an East German soldier poses on November 9, 2009 in front an original, 10-panel section of the Berlin Wall at an event to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall on Wilshire Blvd in Los Angeles. On the night of November 9, 1989, following weeks of pro-democracy protests, the Stalinist state's authorities suddenly opened the East German border. After 28 years as prisoners of their own country, euphoric East Germans streamed to checkpoints and rushed past bewildered guards, many falling tearfully into the arms of West Germans welcoming them on the other side.
  14. A line of APEC banners outside the Suntec Convention Centre in Singapore on Monday, Nov. 9, 2009. President Barack Obama and other Asia-Pacific leaders, meeting at a summit this week, will push for a new global strategy to reduce the crippling imbalances in the world economy blamed for the severe financial crisis.
  15. Elwy Ali Okaz, husband of Marwa al-Sherbini, who was fatally stabbed in court, waits for the start of the ninth day of hearings at a courtroom in the district court in Dresden, Germany, Monday, Nov. 9, 2009. Defendant Alexander Wiens, a 28-year-old Russian-born ethnic German, is accused of fatally stabbing al-Sherbini on July, 1. The sentence is expected for Nov. 11.
  16. A pedestrian walks past a line of banners outside the Suntec Convention Centre in Singapore on Monday Nov. 9, 2009. President Barack Obama and other Asia-Pacific leaders, meeting at a summit this week, will push for a new global strategy to reduce the crippling imbalances in the world economy blamed for the severe financial crisis.
  17. Members of Japan's national soccer team, wearing new uniforms designed for 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, appear on red carpet installed at a picture gallery during its public unveiling event in Tokyo, Japan, Monday, Nov. 9, 2009.
  18. Pedestrians walk under a giant APEC banner outside the Suntec Convention Centre in Singapore on Monday, Nov. 9, 2009. President Barack Obama and other Asia-Pacific leaders, meeting at a summit this week, will push for a new global strategy to reduce the crippling imbalances in the world economy blamed for the severe financial crisis.