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CBS News Correspondent Elizabeth Palmer travels to Afghanistan s Kabul University, where the student body is curious, enthusiastic, and newly co-ed.In spite of the heat, Mohammad Akbar Popal is dressed in a well-cut Western suit and tie. The chancellor of Kabul University sits in a dim office in the administration building, working 15-hours days untangling the bureaucratic snarls of this first post-Taliban semester. Out in the dusty waiting room, next to a metal locker peppered with bullet holes, students sit patiently until they are ushered in to the chancellor s office with requests for course changes or dorm space. But scheduling problems are the least of his worries. We may be the only university in the world without water or electricity, says Popal, an agronomist wh stanley romania o did graduate work at the University of Nebraska. At the moment, we are having to use outdoor toilets, he says. Despite the outdoor toilets for 4,000 students, the green and shady campus is bustling. Almost 20 percent of the students who have registered for courses this year are the young women who, for the past six years, were forced by the Taliban to stay hidden away at home. They stroll in twos and threes, with their blue burquas ndash; the head to toe covering botella stanley that most Afghan women still wear in public ndash; flung back to expose their faces. But when they reach the campus gates, they pull th stanley quencher e burquas forward before they step out onto the street. It has become habit, says Fatima. And we don Lxab New Passport Rule Has No Teeth
No, this isn ;t a picture of our Sun 鈥?it of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our solar system. This new image from Hubble presents it in unprecedented detail. Proxima Centurai is located a mere four light-years away, but it not visible with the naked eye. Its average luminosity is quite low, and it quite small compared to other stars, measuring in at about an eighth of the mass of the Sun. But on occasion, its brightness incre stanley quencher ases. The folks at Hubble Space Telescope explain: However, on occasion, its brightness increases. Proxima is what is known as a flare star , meaning that convection processes within the stars body make it prone to random and dramatic changes in brightness. The convection processes not only trigger brilliant bursts of starlight but, combined with other factors, mean that Proxima Centauri is in for a very long life. Astronomers predict stanley cup becher that this star will remain middle-aged 鈥?or a main sequence star in astronomical terms 鈥?for another four trillion years, some 300 times the age of the current Universe. By the way, Proxima Centurai is part of a triple star system, but its two companions, Alpha Centur vaso stanley ai A and B, lie out of frame. [ Source: Hubble | Image: ESA/Hubble 038; NASA ] AstronomyScienceSpacestars |
