By General on 11/25/2008 8:18 AM

By Luuk Koelman 08-May-2008 Poor Jet Bussemaker. The statesecretary of the VWS (Dutch Organisation) told in an interview that the Netherlands spends far to less attention to the role of the Middle-eastern foreigners in the liberation of the Netherlands and Europe during the Second Worldwar. Her argument: in the struggle against the Nazi’s were not only the allied forces active, but for example aslo Moroccan forces. Their part has been ignored. And here we go again. The Dutch right-wing party PVV (party of extreme-right Geert Wilders) has called for a debate in the Dutch parliament and has asked for a clarification of this “multicultural history falsification”. The debate next week will talk about the 19 fallen Moroccan soldiers who are buried on a war cemetery in the Zeeuwse Kapelle in a Dutch province. 19 Moroccan dead, that’s it. Their part is to be discarded says the PVV, as “ which battle in WW2 would have ended differently without these Moroccans?”.

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By General on 11/25/2008 7:20 AM

The sweet discovery was made at the Plateau de Bure observatory in France A simple sugar that is an ingredient of life has been found for the first time in a relatively hospitable part of the galaxy. As molecules go, glycolaldehyde is not an impressive one, but its link to the origins of life make it significant. It can react to form ribose, a key constituent of the nucleic acid RNA. The study, in Astrophysical Journal Letters, is important as it shows organic molecules in a region of space where planets could form. Glycolaldehyde was first discovered toward the galactic centre in 2000. But the extreme conditions there made it unclear if the molecule could form in the rest of the galaxy. To find out, Maria Teresa Beltran of the University of Barcelona and colleagues trained the Plateau de Bure array of radio telescopes on a large star-forming region called G31.41+031, about 26,000 light years...

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