time dilation. andrew was gone for two weeks. that went by quick, didn t it having fun. having fun. you look tan and so do you. i don t know why. that s that 75 degree weather. you must have got it on the slopes. maybe a little on the slopes, last week in l.a san francisco. let s take a look at the u.s. equity futures at this hour. last week was a big week for the markets. dow was over by over 400 points a gain of 1.7 for the week dow futures are indicated up another 172 points s&p futures up about 117 points and the nasdaq up by 65. china was a bright spot, stocks surging after a private manufacturing survey showed a surprise surge in march. economists had been expecting a slight contraction that data underscored the official government manufacturing data that was release add day before you can see big gains. the shanghai composite was up by 2.5%, and then the nikkei in japan up by 1.4%. you ll sthee that things are up across the board the dax up by 1.2% you
speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2013, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip each, to five minutes but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11:50 a.m. the chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. lumenauer, for five minutes. mr. blumenauer: thank you, mr. speaker. five years ago if someone asked what a bow tie-wearing progressive democrat from oregon and my colleague, ted poe, a cowboy boot-wearing conservative republican from texas could agree on, you would have said, not much. today we are partners in an issue, however, that makes sense regardless of your politics. ensuring sustainable equitable access of clean water for nearly 80
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered that adding a layer of magnesium improves the properties of tantalum, a superconducting material that shows great promise for building qubits, the basis of quantum computers.