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CBS/AP WASHINGTON - The U.S. is offering $1 million for information leading to the safe return of a former FBI agent who vanished in Iran five years ago. The case has increasingly frustrated investigators trying to bring him home.The reward announced Tuesday is the latest high-profile effort by the FBI to find a way to determine Robert Levinson s whereabouts. La
stanley quencher te last year, a video of Levinson was released by his family. The short video generated enormous publicity but no concrete leads. In the hostage video, which the family received in November 2010, Levinson pleaded with the U.S. government to meet the demands of the people holding him, whom he did not identify.Family of U.S. hostage pleads for releaseEx-FBI agent who vanished in Iran: Help me The 54-second hostage video showed Levinson looking haggard but unharmed, sitting in front of what appeared to be a concrete wall. He had
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For the first time ever, astronomers have identified a small planet with a ring system. They previously thought that such a phen
stanley cup omenon could only happen on large planets like Saturn and Jupiter. But this special space rock, known as 10199 Chariklo, is a small planet called a Centaur. The discovery came down to the blinking that these kinds of bodies produce when they pass by stars, an effect known as asteroid occultation. We were amazed to see that the star didn ;t just blin
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