NASA - NASA's Kepler Discovers Its Smallest 'Habitable Zone' Planets to Date

NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone"

El Congreso iniciará en junio el debate sobre la reforma inmigratoria – CNN en Español – Ultimas Noticias de Estados Unidos, Latinoamérica y el Mundo, Opinión y Videos - CNN.com Blogs

 El Congreso de Estados Unidos comenzará en junio la discusión del proyecto de reforma inmigratoria que un grupo bipartidista de ocho senadores acordaron en las pasadas semanas, anunció el senador Charles Schumer.
La propuesta incluye un camino para que unos 11 millones de inmigrantes indocumentados obtengan la ciudadanía, y refuerza la seguridad fronteriza. Recibirá durante abril y mayo sugerencias de otros legisladores para reparar “un sistema inmigratorio quebrado”, dijo el senador John McCain.

Daily chart: Poor little rich countries | The Economist

Daily chart: Poor little rich countries | The Economist

 THE outlook for economic growth in the West is bleak, according to the IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook, released on April 16^th. Worldwide output is expected to grow at just over 3% in 2013, but rich countries will lag behind, expanding at 1.2%. Growth in emerging markets, by contrast, will exceed 5%, with Asia and sub-Saharan Africa motoring along at 7% and 5.6% respectively.

NLCI | Bring Rodrigo Home – Kids For Kids! -

Rodrigo Guzman was a happy fourth grade kid at Jefferson Elementary School in Berkeley, California. He loved playing baseball, video games, and eating pizzas just like any other 9 year old. He was a funny kid who cheered up his friends whenever they were sad and always insisted that games played during recess should be fair and equal. He also was one of the smartest kids in his class.

However, on January 10, 2013 Rodrigo’s nightmare began. He was returning home with his parents from a family visit in Mexico and stopped off in Houston, Texas. Their family was detained while his father was questioned by the Immigration Control Enforcement (ICE). They held the family for more than 20 hours and told them that they had expired visas. Therefore they were refusing them entry back to Berkeley. They also could not reapply for another visa for five years. They were not made aware of their options, not allowed to take care of storing their possessions nor say goodbye to their family and friends in Berkeley.

That's when his classmate, Kyle Kuwahara came home upset over the fact that his friend Rodrigo wasn't coming back to school. Kyle thought this was unfair and he told his mom and his twin brother, Scott that he wanted to do something to help Rodrigo come home. His classmates were studying Martin Luther King, Jr., and Rosa Parks at school and how they fought injustice. He told his mom the next day that his classmates wanted to go on a hunger strike or have a rally to bring Rodrigo home.

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