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damage to property has been reported.
• The Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer, or GOCE, was launched in 2009 to map the Earth's gravitational field.
• ESA says its information is being used to understand ocean circulation, sea level, ice dynamics and the Earth's interior.
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• They're coming for our trans fat --does that mean salt and soda are up next? Not necessarily
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- They are among our most personal daily decisions: what to eat or drink. Maybe what to inhale.
• Now that the government's banning trans fat, does that mean it's revving up to take away our choice to consume all sorts of other unhealthy stuff?
• What about salt? Soda? Cigarettes?
• Nah.
• In the tug-of-war between public health and personal freedom, the Food and Drug Administration's decision to ban trans fats barely rates a ripple.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
Today is Monday, Nov. 11, the 315th day of 2013. There are 50 days left in the year. This is Veterans Day in the U.S., Remembrance Day in Canada.
• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Nov. 11, 1918, fighting in World War I came to an end with the signing of an armistice between the Allies and Germany.
• On this date:
• In 1620, 41 Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower, anchored off Massachusetts, signed a compact calling for a "body politick."
• In 1831, former slave Nat Turner, who'd led a violent insurrection, was executed in Jerusalem, Va.
• In 1889, Washington became the 42nd state.
• In 1909, President William Howard Taft accepted the recommendation of a joint Army-Navy board that Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands be made the principal U.S. naval station in the Pacific.
• In 1921, the remains of an unidentified American service member were interred in a Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in a ceremony presided over by President Warren G. Harding.
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