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Ghana's President John Atta Mills Dead at 68
DAKAR — Ghana's president, John Atta Mills, died Tuesday at a military hospital in Accra shortly after falling ill. Officials did not give a cause of death. Vice President John Dramani Mahama was sworn in to finish Mills's term.
President John Atta Mills died five months short of finishing his first term in office and only days after celebrating his 68th birthday. He was set to run for a second term in elections planned for December 7. His death has taken the nation by surprise.
Chad Everett Dead: 'Medical Center' Star Dies At 75
LOS ANGELES -- The star of the 1970s TV series "Medical Center" who went on to appear in such films and shows as "Mulholland Drive" and "Melrose Place" has died. Chad Everett was 75.
Everett's daughter says he died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles after a year-and-a-half-long battle with lung cancer.
His acting career spanned more than 40 years and included guest starring roles on such TV series as "The Love Boat," "Murder, She Wrote" and "Without A Trace." He most recently appeared in the TV series "Castle." His films credits include "The Jigsaw Murders," "The Firechasers" and director Gus Van Sant's "Psycho."
Hue-Man, one of Harlem’s literary landmarks, forced to close
One of the largest independent black-owned bookstores is closing its doors after serving the Harlem community for 10 years. Hue-Man Bookstore and Cafe is going out of business at the end of July due to rising rent and changes in the publishing industry, according to CEO and co-owner Marva Allen.
“Our lease is up. Our rent was going to go up. There is absolutely no question about it,” Allen said. “The rate at which our rent would go up, our bookstore could not absorb that in new sales to be able to pay that.”
Allen says the publishing industry has also changed because of technology and will require the creation of a new model and customer experience.
This niche market bookstore is known for featuring African-American authors such as Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou and Nikki Giovanni. For many of Hue-Man’s customers it is more than just a bookstore, it is a community. One that they all will miss being a part of.
Hue-Man Bookstore and Cafe’s final farewell is on July 31st and will feature the cast of the Broadway musical Fela. Hue-Man joins the increasing list of the hundreds of other black-owned and independent bookstores that have closed over the past few years.
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Greenland Ice Melt, Measured By NASA Satellites, Reaches Unprecedented Level
Unprecedented melting of Greenland's ice sheet this month has stunned NASA scientists and has highlighted broader concerns that the region is losing a remarkable amount of ice overall.
According to a NASA press release, about half of Greenland's surface ice sheet naturally melts during an average summer. But the data from three independent satellites this July, analyzed by NASA and university scientists, showed that in less than a week, the amount of thawed ice sheet surface skyrocketed from 40 percent to 97 percent.
In over 30 years of observations, satellites have never measured this amount of melting, which reaches nearly all of Greenland's surface ice cover.
When Son Nghiem of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory observed the recent melting phenomenon, he said in the NASA press release, "This was so extraordinary that at first I questioned the result: Was this real or was it due to a data error?"
Scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, University of Georgia-Athens and City University of New York all confirmed the remarkable ice melt.
NASA CAPTION: Extent of surface melt over Greenland’s ice sheet on July 8 (left) and July 12 (right). Measurements from three satellites showed that on July 8, about 40 percent of the ice sheet had undergone thawing at or near the surface. In just a few days, the melting had dramatically accelerated and an estimated 97 percent of the ice sheet surface had thawed by July 12. In the image, the areas classified as “probable melt” (light pink) correspond to those sites where at least one satellite detected surface melting. The areas classified as “melt” (dark pink) correspond to sites where two or three satellites detected surface melting. The satellites are measuring different physical properties at different scales and are passing over Greenland at different times. As a whole, they provide a picture of an extreme melt event about which scientists are very confident. Credit: Nicolo E. DiGirolamo, SSAI/NASA GSFC, and Jesse Allen, NASA Earth Observatory
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