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Science: Starquakes offer clues to alien life Astronomers have been listening in to the seismic upheavals deep within the core of Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to us. And, writes Ian Brown, it sounds remarkably like our own Sun
; ...millennium BC appear to be orientated in its direction. Alpha Centauri was known earlier as Rigil Kentaurus, meaning "the foot...observation this summer, tiny oscillations in Alpha Centauri-A were detected by two Swiss astronomers, Francois Bouchy...high in the Chilean Andes, have discovered that Alpha ...
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 "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)")
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Life on Epsilon Indi A.
; ...again, Pluto) are: _ Epsilon Indi A: an orange-red K-type star 12 light-years away. _ Beta Canum Venaticorum: a yellow G-type star 26 light-years away. _ Alpha Centauri B: Start cleaning your rugs for that First Contact. This one is only 4.3 light-years...
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 "Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)")
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POLARIS AND CRUX HELP US FIND OUR WAY.(LOCAL)(CURIOSITIES)(Column)
; ...Crux and another linking the bright stars Alpha and Beta Centauri. Next, draw a line perpendicular to the short line between Alpha and Beta Centauri until it intersects the line from Crux. Those two lines...
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Capital Markets: Team Of The Month - Citigroup SIV Enters Uncharted Space - Citigroup Alternative Investments Last Month Launched A Pioneering Structured Investment Vehicle. It Boosts Leverage To The Subordinated Noteholder Without Really Increasing The R.(structured investment vehicles)
; ...later, but four of its successors (Beta, Centauri, Dorada and Five) operate to this...director Tim Greatorex, who co-led the Centauri project in 1996. He says that present...effectively, says Mr Greatorex. With Centauri and Dorada, the maximum leverage...
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Changing the world, gingerly.(Opinion)
; ...Kamen was receiving guidance from an intelligent source on Alpha Centauri. Less hyperbolic reports indicated that the brilliant millionaire...completely transformed, one said, while sipping a New Coke at the BETA video conference. Sources close to Kamen say the company is...
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In image hierarchy, alpha male has muscle.(FAMILY TIMES)(LIFE AND TIMES)
; ...among dermatologists. The Alpha Centauri male might climb the ranks at...deemed the dean of the proto beta males by Newsweek magazine. Ah, the beta male, that nonthreatening also-r...Jennie Yabroff contends that the beta male is the man of the hour...
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STUFF TO DO, TO BUY, TO TALK ABOUT
; ...again, Pluto) are: Epsilon Indi A: an orange-red K-type star 12 light-years away. Beta Canum Venaticorum: a yellow G-type star 26 light-years away. Alpha Centauri B: Start cleaning your rugs for that First Contact. This one is only 4.3 light-years...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Monarch of the Fens; answers to correspondents.(Column)
; ...semi-brother of Ray Batty, though I am of the S generation beta hybrid string. He was the most human - and I mean that in...structures in the Mare Boreum region of the planet Prometheus beta. Their arrangement and number replicates the constellation...facility for 'jumping' colonists and forces into the Proxima ...
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Mars, other planets, stars, meteors seen in skies this month.(Main News)
; ...horizon. Tthe Southern Cross will be seen in the south pointing to the south pole. On its left side are Alpha, Beta, and Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun approximately 4.3 light years away. Astronomers said August is one of the best months...
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Linux soars, Red Hat merely flies.(News Briefs)
; ...ported from Windows, including Sim City 3000, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, and Myth II: Soulblighter. This shows the ever-growing presence...adobe.com/products/framemaker/fmlinux.html[less than] for a beta version you can download. Also on the desktop, Eazel [greater...
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