<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/37da2e3a-1113-4eaf-a1ba-5a0b8b4f576d/087C1CE8-0387-4621-9D90-798FAD8D5C60/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6759291.stm" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6759291.stm" style="font-size: 11px;">news.bbc.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6759291.stm"><FONT size="2"><B>Scientists in Brazil are claiming to have established as a scientific fact that the Amazon is the longest river in the world. </B> </FONT><P> <FONT size="2">The Amazon is recognised as the world's largest river by volume, but has generally been regarded as second in length to the River Nile in Egypt. </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2">The claim follows an expedition to Peru that is said to have established a new starting point further south. </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2">It puts the Amazon at 6,800km (4,250 miles) compared to the Nile's 6,695km.</FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6759291.stm"><TABLE width="203" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="right"><TBODY><TR><TD><DIV><IMG width="203" vspace="0" hspace="0" height="152" border="0" alt="Amazon river. Landsat image" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/43055000/jpg/_43055751_riv.jpg" /> <DIV class="cap">The new study puts the Amazon at 6,800km</DIV> </DIV> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><B>Scientists in Brazil are</B></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/087C1CE8-0387-4621-9D90-798FAD8D5C60/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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