judicial

The Abu Dhabi government, however,

has denied that it played any role in the verdict

of the court and said its judicial system was unbiased

and independent.

metric

Two hundred metric tonnes of gold would occupy

a cube of a little more than two metres on a side.

India's purchase of that volume of gold from the IMF

last month has had an outsize impact on the markets.

parameter

However, in Greenland, the critical climate parameter

is "global average surface temperature",

which exceeded that of the Roman Warm Period

already 50 years ago.

prejudice

To take advantage of this tool,

some impoverished countries will have to get over

their outdated anti-colonial prejudices

with respect to foreign investment.

probe

Chinais set to launch its second lunar probe

next October in preparation for an unmanned moon

landing by the end of 2012,

space program officials were quoted Friday as saying.

symmetry

Snowflakes - or more accurately snow crystals

are famously unique, though Koop admits scientists

cannot prove that no two alike have ever fallen to Earth.

As different as they are,

all have sixfold hexagonal symmetry.