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Saturday, May 26, 2012
New telescope to be in South Africa, Australia
In this time exposure photo taken Monday, April 2, 2012, the moon and stars are seen above telescope dishes near the Karoo town of Carnarvon, South Africa, which is announced Friday May 25, 2012, as the site of the proposed Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope project. A giant radio telescope made up of some 3,000 separate 15-meter (49-foot) diameter dishes and intended to help scientists answer fundamental questions about the make-up of the universe will be built and based in both Australia and South Africa, the international consortium overseeing the project announced Friday. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam) EDS NOTE: TIME EXPOSURE CAUSING BLUR AS TELESCOPE DISHES MOVE
In this time exposure photo taken Monday, April 2, 2012, the moon and stars are seen above telescope dishes near the Karoo town of Carnarvon, South Africa, which is announced Friday May 25, 2012, as the site of the proposed Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope project. A giant radio telescope made up of some 3,000 separate 15-meter (49-foot) diameter dishes and intended to help scientists answer fundamental questions about the make-up of the universe will be built and based in both Australia and South Africa, the international consortium overseeing the project announced Friday. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam) EDS NOTE: TIME EXPOSURE CAUSING BLUR AS TELESCOPE DISHES MOVE
This photo taken Tuesday, April 3, 2012, shows telescope dishes near the Karoo town of Carnarvon, South Africa, which is announced Friday May 25, 2012, as the site of the proposed Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope project. A giant radio telescope made up of some 3,000 separate 15-meter (49-foot) diameter dishes and intended to help scientists answer fundamental questions about the make-up of the universe will be built and based in both Australia and South Africa, the international consortium overseeing the project announced Friday. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)
In this time exposure photo taken Monday, April 2, 2012, stars are seen above telescope dishes near the Karoo town of Carnarvon, South Africa, which is announced Friday May 25, 2012, as the site of the proposed Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope project. A giant radio telescope made up of some 3,000 separate 15-meter (49-foot) diameter dishes and intended to help scientists answer fundamental questions about the make-up of the universe will be built and based in both Australia and South Africa, the international consortium overseeing the project announced Friday. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam) EDS NOTE: TIME EXPOSURE CAUSING BLUR AS TELESCOPE DISHES MOVE
In this time exposure photo taken Tuesday, April 3, 2012, stars are seen above telescope dishes near the Karoo town of Carnarvon, South Africa, which is announced Friday May 25, 2012, as the site of the proposed Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope project. A giant radio telescope made up of some 3,000 separate 15-meter (49-foot) diameter dishes and intended to help scientists answer fundamental questions about the make-up of the universe will be built and based in both Australia and South Africa, the international consortium overseeing the project announced Friday. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam) EDS NOTE: TIME EXPOSURE CAUSING BLUR AS TELESCOPE DISHES MOVE
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) ? Australia and South Africa will share hosting of a giant radio telescope made up of thousands of separate dishes and intended to help scientists figure out the make-up of the universe, the international consortium overseeing the project announced.
South Africa led an African consortium that included Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia and Zambia, and telescopes will be erected in all its partners. In South Africa, dishes will be added to a remote site in the arid Karoo desert where a smaller radio telescope project already is underway.
South Africa and Australia, which partnered with New Zealand in bidding for the project, had competed fiercely. South Africa claimed victory Friday, saying it got two of the projects three major components.
"We may feel slightly disappointed that we didn't get the whole thing. But I think one should emphasize that we did get most of it," said Justin Jonas, the chief South African scientist on the project. "Two-thirds of the biggest instrument in the world is still the biggest instrument in the world."
South Africa's science minister Naledi Pandor and scientists who had prepared the country's bid celebrated with an Africa-shaped cake at a news conference in South Africa's capital.
"This marks a real turning point in Africa, where we are becoming a destination for science and engineering, and not just a place where there are resources and tourism opportunities," Jonas added.
Australia also welcomed the split decision.
"It is an outstanding result for the Australia-New Zealand bid after many years of preparation and an intensive international process," said Sen. Chris Evans, Australia's science minister.
The Square Kilometer Array telescope will be 50 times more sensitive and scan the sky 10,000 times faster than any existing telescope. It requires huge open spaces with very few humans.
John Womersley, chair of the consortium's board, said the telescope will help scientists answer key questions: "Where do we come from? Where are we going? What is this universe we live in?"
"We don't understand what 96 percent of our universe is made of," he said.
The organization said dividing construction of the telescope will "maximize on investments already made by both Australia and South Africa."
Womersley said that splitting construction between the two nations will likely add around 10 percent to the ?350 million ($439 million) cost of the first phase of building the giant telescope. But he said there would be a payoff for astronomers.
"It delivers more science in phase one. The capabilities of this instrument are greater than the original design," Womersley said.
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Associated Press writer Mike Corder contributed from Amsterdam.
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Friday, May 25, 2012
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Beckham's England career to be honored at Wembley
By ROB HARRIS
AP Sports Writer
Associated Press Sports
updated 3:45 p.m. ET May 24, 2012
LONDON (AP) -David Beckham's England career will be honored at the team's final European Championship warmup match, with the former captain receiving an award from the continent's governing body for players who have at least 100 international appearances.
The 37-year-old Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder, who made the last of his 115 appearances for England in 2009, will receive a commemorative cap and medal at halftime of the June 2 exhibition against Belgium at Wembley, the English Football Association told The Associated Press.
The award will also be presented to 1966 World Cup-winning forward Bobby Charlton, who played 106 times for England, and retired goalkeeper Peter Shilton, who made a record 125 appearances.
Family members of 1966 World Cup captain Bobby Moore and Billy Wright, a defender in the 1940s and `50s, will receive the award from FA chairman David Bernstein.
The ceremony was introduced by Michel Platini, the president of the Union of European Football Associations, to celebrate players who have played in at least 100 national team games.
Despite never winning any honors with England, Beckham established himself as the biggest star English soccer has produced.
"Throughout my career I've been pretty successful," Beckham said last week. "I've played for some pretty big teams. I've played for my country quite a few times and for managers without sentiment ... I'm very proud of the fact and I have always found it an honor that people want to buy my shirt, that fans turn up to watch the team I am playing in or to see myself. I've always found that a huge honor."
After beginning his career at Manchester United in 1992, Beckham made his England debut against Moldova in September 1996.
The low point of his international career came at his first World Cup, in 1998, when he was sent off for petulantly kicking out at Argentine midfielder Diego Simeone. Some England fans hung effigies of Beckham after the second-round loss.
Beckham managed to bounce back and his injury-time goal on a free kick against Greece clinched a World Cup berth. He then captained the team at the 2002 World Cup under coach Sven-Goran Eriksson.
Beckham tearfully relinquished the England captaincy after the 2006 tournament, when England reached the quarterfinals for the second straight time. He was then dropped from the squad by new coach Steve McClaren, but was restored in the ultimately unsuccessful 2008 European Championship qualifying campaign.
Beckham's international career survived initially in 2010 World Cup qualifying under McClaren's replacement, Fabio Capello, who coached him at Real Madrid.
But Beckham was injured three months before the World Cup in South Africa and went only in a non-playing role as an unofficial coach.
Despite returning to fitness after the tournament, Beckham was dismissed by Capello as being too old for a role in team, meaning that his appearance as a second-half substitute against Belarus in October 2009 earned him his 115th and last international cap.
Beckham's focus now was securing a spot in Britain's soccer team at the London Olympics.
He has been included in coach Stuart Pearce's 80-man shortlist that will be whittled down to 18 shortly to form Britain's first Olympic squad since 1960. If chosen, he would be one of the three players over age 23 allowed on each roster.
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Robert Pattinson all grown up in "Cosmopolis"
Director David Cronenberg, left, and actor David Cronenberg pose during a press conference for Cosmopolis at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Friday, May 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
Director David Cronenberg, left, and actor David Cronenberg pose during a press conference for Cosmopolis at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Friday, May 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
From left, producer Paulo Branco, actors Sarah Gadon, Robert Pattinson and director David Cronenberg pose during a photo call for Cosmopolis at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Friday, May 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
Actor Robert Pattinson, left, and director David Cronenberg pose during a photo call for Cosmopolis at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Friday, May 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)
Actor Robert Pattinson listens to questions during a press conference for Cosmopolis at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Friday, May 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
Director David Cronenberg, left, and actor David Cronenberg pose during a press conference for Cosmopolis at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Friday, May 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
CANNES, France (AP) ? Going back to what he does best, David Cronenberg takes a visceral day-trip inside the cushioned limousine of a tycoon who cares little for the bloody, populist riots that explode outside his car in "Cosmopolis."
All the young multi-billionaire Eric Packer ? played by a steely-eyed Robert Pattinson ? wants is a haircut.
Packer spends the entire film, which premiered Friday in Cannes, crossing town to get one but is waylaid when the U.S. president's visit to the city causes traffic chaos. Yet when he eventually makes it to the barber, his haircut is interrupted and he leaves in futility, half-shaven.
For Cronenberg, a master of provocation, the significance of this probably goes beyond a debate on the quality of haircuts at barber shops ? though judging by Pattinson's slick red-carpet hair, it is probable he opted for a stylist.
In the surreal "Cosmopolis," ? full of long, introspective dialogue ? the portrayal of cold, moneyed arrogance is a warning against the perceived greed of current times.
The oversexed, 28-year-old Packer has made his billions as an asset manager in a dystopian Manhattan and is so self-obsessed he barely registers the violent protests against capitalism around him. The only time Packer seems worried is after a doctor tells him, in one of the movie's many comic moments, that he has an "asymmetrical prostate" ? with prostate-gazing an obvious synonym for navel-gazing.
Pattison ? who is most famous for playing a vampire in the teen "Twilight" series ? said he was nervous about the complex role.
"I spent two weeks in my hotel room worrying," he said, joking that "actors aren't meant to be intelligent."
But the ego and cynicism stretch beyond his character and infect the whole landscape.
The film starts with a quote: "a rat becomes the unit of currency," that turns out to be true for the movie's characters, who all seem to be part of a individualistic "rat race" each struggling to get his or her 15 minutes of fame.
The last scene sees a claustrophobic 22-minute face-off between Packer and a crazed man trying to assassinate him, played with standout brilliance by Paul Giamatti. The two talk on a couch, separated by a screen that Cronenberg said conjures up images of a Catholic confessional, exploring how selfish the world is.
Pattinson, whose past public appearances have caused mobs of teens to swoon, said he identified with the role, joking that he sometimes thinks "people are trying to kill me."
The film was based on a 2003 book by Don DeLillo, who was at the Cannes Film Festival alongside Cronenberg and said the film's dialogue was directly lifted from the novel. Still, at many points, the drawn-out dialogue seemed to have more elements of a play and the movie dragged.
At the post-screening press conference, Cronenberg justified with aplomb the film's introspective qualities. "For me, the essence of cinema is a person, a face, speaking."
Pattinson said he loves Cronenberg's other films ? which include the 2011 "A Dangerous Method" ? but the Canadian director said "I always had the feeling he'd never seen any of my movies."
The film has drawn inevitable comparisons to current financial woes and the timeless themes of greed vs. poverty and populist anger, but Cronenberg said any link to current affairs was accidental. Still, the shooting did coincide with global anti-capitalist protests that began in late 2011.
"(After filming) in the evenings, to read about the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, it seemed at points that we were working more on a documentary," he said.
DeLillo said he wrote "Cosmopolis" after being struck by the massive gap between rich and poor in Manhattan.
"New York City streets at the turn of the century seemed suddenly filled up with white stretch limousines," he said.
People come to Cannes to dream, and this gritty, cynical film was seen by some Cannes revelers as a downer. So where was the hope?
"The hope is embodied in the fact that the movie got made in the first place," Cronenberg said with a dry smile. "It's not an easy movie to get financed. In Hollywood, $200 million is spent on movies that are extremely conservative, not-edgy. The hope is in the art."
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Senate grills Secret Service on 'pattern of misconduct'
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