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United States v. The Progressive was a 1979 lawsuit against The Progressive magazine by the United States Department of Energy (DOE). A temporary injunction was granted against The Progressive to prevent the publication of an article by activist Howard Morland that purported to reveal the "secret" of the hydrogen bomb. The case was brought before Judge Robert W. Warren in the Eastern District of Wisconsin (Federal courthouse pictured). Though the information had been compiled from publicly available sources, the DOE claimed that it fell under the "born secret" clause of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. Because of the sensitive nature of the information, two separate hearings were conducted, one in public, and the other in camera. The defendants would not accept security clearances, and so were not present at the in camera hearings. The article was eventually published after the government lawyers dropped their case during the appeals process, calling it moot after other information was independently published. Despite its indecisive conclusion, law students still study the case, which tested the limits of the presumption of unconstitutionality attached to prior restraints. (Full article...)

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The European Union passes a two-year ban on neonicotinoid insecticides, which are suspected to be the primary cause of colony collapse disorder.

Following the planned abdication of his mother Beatrix, Willem-Alexander (pictured) becomes King of the Netherlands.

The Herschel Space Observatory, a far-infrared space telescope, ends its mission after running out of liquid helium coolant.

NBA player Jason Collins becomes the first active player of the four major men's professional sports leagues in North America to publicly come out as gay.

The Independence Party and the Progressive Party win the most seats in the Icelandic parliamentary election.

The South Sudanese government announces that the rebel South Sudan Liberation Army has laid down its arms.

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On this day...

May 2: Maundy Thursday (Eastern Christianity, 2013); Teachers' Day in Iran; Flag Day in Poland

1611 – Robert Barker, the King's Printer, made the first printing of the Authorized King James Version of the Bible.

1863 – American Civil War: Confederate general Stonewall Jackson was wounded by friendly fire during the Battle of Chancellorsville, leading to his death by pneumonia eight days later.

1969 – The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 departed on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City.

1999 – Mireya Moscoso (pictured) became the first woman to be elected President of Panama.

2003 – Spurred on by the Indian Union Muslim League, a mob of Indian Muslims killed eight Hindu Arayan fishermen in Kerala.

2008 – The current ongoing Chaitén volcano eruption in Chile, the first in 9,500 years, began.

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A diagram showing the chloralkali process, a major industry expected to be worth over $80 billion globally by 2017. At the anode (A), chloride (Cl⁻) is oxidized to chlorine. The ion-selective membrane (B) allows the counterion sodium (Na⁺) to freely flow across, but prevents anions such as hydroxide (OH⁻) and chloride from diffusing across. At the cathode (C), water is reduced to hydroxide and hydrogen gas. The net process is the electrolysis of an aqueous solution of NaCl into industrially useful products sodium hydroxide (NaOH) and chlorine gas.

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