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Photo Proof: Super Stars of the Universe Have Humble Beginnings

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—The first close-up picture of a nascent super massive star and its surroundings has shown that the highest mass stars in the universe form just like their smaller counterparts. They are born from swirling disks of gas and dust, rather than from violent stellar collisions. 

“How these high mass stars form has been a debate for 20 years,” said Stefan Kraus, a research fellow in the University of Michigan Department of Astronomy who is first author of a paper on the findings published July 15 in Nature.

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Report Names IBM No.1 in Global Middleware Software Market

ARMONK, N.Y.: IBM announced, on July 16, that industry analyst firm International Data Corporation (IDC) has ranked it the worldwide leader in the middleware software market.   

According to IDC, IBM was the leading worldwide application deployment software vendor with 31.9 percent market share based on revenue, nearly double that of its closest competitor.  

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China UFO

Well, till to-date UFO was sole property of the West, mainly U.S.’s. 

But now they are changing their strategy.

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Football Saves Spain’s Economy from Decline

The victory of the Spaniards over the Dutch in the World Cup will help the economy, experts say.  

The euphoria of the victory improves the mood of the population, and the population in a good mood begins to spend more money and shop more frequently.

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Brooding Russians: Less distressed than Americans

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy portrayed Russians as a brooding, complicated people, and ethnographers have confirmed that Russians tend to focus on dark feelings and memories more than Westerners do.  

But a new University of Michigan study finds that even though Russians tend to brood, they are less likely than Americans to feel as depressed as a result.

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