| Novak Djokovic Rallies Past Stanislas Wawrinka to Win Rome Masters | |
Posted on: Sunday, 11 May 2008, 15:00 CDT By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ROME - Novak Djokovic won the 10th title of his career, rallying Sunday to defeat unseeded Stanislas Wawrinka 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 at the...
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| Amid Disaster, a Referendum Vote |
Posted on: Sunday, 11 May 2008, 09:00 CDT The Associated Press YANGON, Myanmar Myanmar's military rulers held a referendum Saturday aimed at solidifying their hold on power while turning cyclone...
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| Shiites Negotiate Cease-Fire As Attacks Against Al-Qaida Grow |
Posted on: Sunday, 11 May 2008, 09:00 CDT By SINAN SALAHEDDIN By Sinan Salaheddin The Associated Press BAGHDAD Shiite groups brokered a reported cease-fire Saturday with militants fighting U.S. and...
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| Sudanese President Accuses Chad of Instigating Rebel Attack |
Posted on: Sunday, 11 May 2008, 06:00 CDT Excerpt from report by state-owned Sudanese radio on 11 May [Presenter] President of the Republic Umar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir was briefed at the general...
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| Red Bulls defeat Galaxy 2-1 |
Juan Pablo Angel scored his first goal of the Major League Soccer season on Saturday to deliver a 2-1 victory for the New York Red Bulls over David Beckham and the Los Angeles Galaxy.Angel's...
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| Starr to the stars |
LOS ANGELES — Can Kenneth Starr tame Malibu's paparazzi? That's what officials in the seaside Southern California town are hoping as they turn to the independent counsel who investigated...
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| Data on disk drive from Columbia space shuttle survived |
Precious information was found on a melted disk drive from Columbia space shuttle which broke up while returning to the earth on Feb. 1, 2003, media reported on Saturday. The hard drive contained...
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| 'No. 1' A's fall back to Earth Rangers toss 3rd straight shutout |
(05-10) 04:00 PDT Arlington, Texas -- The A's are beginning to get some love. Their winning ways in April carried into May, and they came to Texas with a four-game winning streak and a record that...
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| Pittsburgh Scores Four Goals in First 25 Minutes of Series Opener |
Posted on: Saturday, 10 May 2008, 06:00 CDT By Tom Reed, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio May 10--PITTSBURGH -- Philadelphia Flyers goaltender Martin Biron made his NHL debut 13 years ago in Mellon...
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| Burmese Opposition Media Survey Says Majority to Vote No in Referendum |
Posted on: Saturday, 10 May 2008, 06:00 CDT Text of report in English by Thai newspaper Bangkok Post website on 10 May Despite the crippling damage done by last weekend's devastating cyclone,...
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| Flyers Deal With Emotions, but Not With the Penguins |
Posted on: Saturday, 10 May 2008, 03:00 CDT PITTSBURGH _ Raw emotion is like a shot of adrenaline. It can lift a team for a little while, but sooner or later it wears off. The Flyers were hit with...
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| Marina del Rey 3D City Model Lands on Google Earth |
CyberCity 3D today announced that the 3D City Model of Marina del Rey, California is now available for viewing on Google Earth. Los Angeles, CA...
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| Senator Mikulski and Bill Nye "The Science Guy" to be Honored at Galaxy Ball |
) May 10, 2008 -- Leaders in the Space Community will gather for the Galaxy Ball at the Westin Hotel, Alexandria, VA, on Saturday, June 7, 2008. This year the Federation of Galaxy Explorers will...
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| NASA Scientist Answers Your Questions About Lying in Bed for 90 Days |
our last post on the NASA Bed Rest Study , in which participants spend 90 days lying in bed in exchange for about $5,000 a month. What did participants eat? Could they have conjugal visits? Did they...
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| Shuttle astronauts rehearse launch day |
STS-124 astronauts are scheduled to launch May 31 at 5:02 p.m. ET to deliver the international space station's largest room, the 32,500-pound Japanese Kibo Laboratory. Crewmembers are slated to...
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| Elvis, bin Laden and Hitler Join Mission to Mars |
May 9, 2008 · A NASA spacecraft is headed toward Mars and is expected to land later this month. When it touches down on the dusty red planet, so will "Adolf Hitler" and "Osama bin Laden."...
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| U.S. space shuttle crew practices for launch |
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Seven astronauts climbed inside the space shuttle Discovery on Friday as part of a dress rehearsal for a May 31 mission to deliver a Japanese laboratory to the...
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| NOAA taking public comment on Makah whaling proposal |
The National Marine Fisheries Service has released a draft of the impact statement for the Makah Tribe's request to hunt gray whales. The agency plans public hearings in Port Angeles, Seattle and...
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| Discovery to Deliver Heart of Japanese Lab to Space Station |
Washington -- When Discovery launches on May 31, the STS-124 mission to the International Space Station will carry the centerpiece of Japan's science laboratory complex and reach a milestone in...
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| Fighting Escalates in Lebanon |
Posted on: Friday, 9 May 2008, 12:00 CDT By Nada Bakri New York Times News Service BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Fierce clashes escalated in Beirut on Thursday between Sunni supporters of the government and...
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| Depression, Marijuana Dangerous Mix for Teens |
Posted on: Friday, 9 May 2008, 12:00 CDT By Jennifer C. Kerr Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Depression, teens and marijuana are a dangerous mix that can lead to dependency, mental illness or...
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| Obama in D.C. Trying to Rally Demos |
Posted on: Friday, 9 May 2008, 12:00 CDT By Carl Hulse and David M. Herszenhorn New York Times News Service WASHINGTON -- Sen. Barack Obama began trying to rally the Democratic Party around him on...
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| Myanmar Finally Lets in Large Aid Flights |
Public transportation was slowly coming back to life in the city, with some trains operating, and cars formed lines three miles long to get rations of two gallons of gasoline. The cyclone blew off...
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| Lebanese MPs Interviewed on Beirut Security Developments |
Posted on: Friday, 9 May 2008, 12:00 CDT Within its coverage of the developments in Lebanon, Al-Arabiya Television at 0734 gmt on 9 May carries a live interview with Lebanese Deputy Misbah al-Ahdab,...
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| Officials Begin Assessing Storm Damage |
Posted on: Friday, 9 May 2008, 12:00 CDT By Paul Garber and Bertrand M. Guti, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C. May 9--GREENSBORO -- Authorities began combing through the wreckage today caused by a...
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| Space agency announces four-year deal with MDA for International Space Station |
Federal Industry Minister Jim Prentice announced a major contract Friday between MDA and the Canadian Space Agency. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tom Hanson/ file LONGUEUIL, Que - Only hours after confirming...
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| Magnolia Optical wins NASA subcontract from Kopin |
NASA . The Phase 2 Small Business Technology Transfer grant-funded project will develop indium nitride-based quantum dot solar cell technology. According to Kopin (Nasdaq: KOPN), the goal of the...
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| TableMAX, Galaxy Gaming sign letter of intent |
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- TableMAX Holdings LLC's exciting electronic game platform has changed the gaming industry. Galaxy Gaming's fun game content has changed the way players play....
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| Are the rovers cut out to detect alien life |
Beagle 2 probe.The idea was to see if the instruments could detect signs of living creatures in the rocks. Although the tests were carried out in a lab, the scientists made the conditions as close as...
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| Neptune Industries, Inc. Featured on NBC Local News |
Posted on: Friday, 9 May 2008, 09:00 CDT Neptune Industries, Inc. (OTCBB: NPDI), a next generation aquaculture technology company, headquartered here, said today its waste-to-energy technology was...
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| Nasa supercomputer gets rocket power |
supercomputer support deal with Computer Sciences Corporation, potentially worth $597m over 10 years. Nasa has been operating its Columbia supercomputer since 2004, which at the time represented a...
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| Sen. Bill Nelson Looking For Help To Raise $2 Billion For NASA Employees |
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA is looking for help raising $2 billion to keep jobs on the Space Coast.Senator Bill Nelson has started gathering space experts from across the country. He wants them to...
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| NASA Glenn Contractors Charged With Fraudulent Billing |
CLEVELAND -- Four federal contractors working to decommission a nuclear reactor near Sandusky in northern Ohio have been charged with fraudulently billing the government. Federal prosecutor Bill...
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| NASA, SGI Plan Petaflop ... |
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| 19 Chinese mountaineers leave earth |
Nineteen Chinese mountaineers left the top of Mount Qomolangma at about 10 a.m. Beijing Time Thursday after relaying the Olympic torch on the world's highest peak. They are expected to reach the...
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| 2008 Saturn Vue Green Line | An SUV that gets 28 mpg overall |
Like the Malibu, the 2008 Saturn Vue Green Line is a "single mode" hybrid. The 2009 Vue will be "dual mode," which will mean better fuel economy but likely a higher...
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| Scientists Revisit Mars Sample Return Plans |
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory is headed for 2009 liftoff. The nuclear-powered rover is loaded with scientific gear, including a caching device to collect specimens for possible return to Earth by a...
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| See the Big Dipper |
From northern latitudes, use the Big Dipper to point the way to Polaris and the north celestial pole. Currently, the Big Dipper can be seen at its highest in the northern sky late in the evening,...
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| Scientists discover wave pattern in Saturn |
Scientists have discovered a wavepattern, or oscillation, in Saturn's atmosphere only visible from Earth every 15 years, according to two studies published Thursday in journal Nature. The discovery...
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| Dinosaur-killing asteroid covered Earth with beads |
The dinosaur-killing asteroid that impacted the Yucatan Peninsula 65 million years ago did so with such force it pulverized Earth's crust, creating a veil of airborne carbon beads that blanketed the...
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| Arizona 8, Philadelphia 3 |
Posted on: Thursday, 8 May 2008, 21:00 CDT Chris Young and Chris Snyder drove in two runs each Thursday when the Arizona Diamondbacks beat Philadelphia 8-3 for a four-game split. Young launched a...
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| Al Qaeda in Iraq Leader Nabbed |
Posted on: Thursday, 8 May 2008, 21:00 CDT To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Republican National Committee, +1-202-863-8614 From CBS/The Associated Press WASHINGTON, May 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The...
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| Israeli Prime Minister Denies Taking Bribes As Investigation Deepens |
Posted on: Thursday, 8 May 2008, 21:00 CDT JERUSALEM _ Facing a deepening investigation that threatens his political career, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert late Thursday night held an unusual...
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| Astronauts wanted, must speak Russian |
Did you ever dream of being an astronaut when you were a child? The European Space Agency is now recruiting astronauts for the first time in 15 years.There's just one catch - their requirements are...
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| Astronaut laughs it up for |
American astronaut Garrett Reisman smiles while describing space living with comedian Stephen Colbert during a taping of the 'Colbert Report' from aboard the international space...
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| The Best Mars Landings |
Reaching Mars is a hard and unforgiving endeavor, with little room for error. More than two-thirds of the 36 missions launched toward Mars have been lost due to failed components, rocket glitches or...
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| Olympic Flame Taken Atop Everest |
Posted on: Thursday, 8 May 2008, 09:00 CDT China announced a climbing team, traversing the Tibetan Himalayan route, on Thursday took the Beijing Olympic flame to the summit of Mount Everest. The...
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| After 200-Year Quest, Scientists Finally Unravel the Bizarre Origins of the Duck-Billed Platypus |
Posted on: Thursday, 8 May 2008, 09:00 CDT By Steve Connor Science Editor When the first skin of a duck-billed platypus arrived in England in 1799, the keeper of natural history at the British...
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| Dreadlocked Singer Eliminated on |
Posted on: Thursday, 8 May 2008, 09:00 CDT By ERIN CARLSON By Erin Carlson The Associated Press NEW YORK Simon Cowell once told Jason Castro that his face would save him from elimination. Not this...
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| Civilians Forced to Flee Amid Clashes |
Posted on: Thursday, 8 May 2008, 09:00 CDT By BRADLEY BROOKS By Bradley Brooks The Associated Press BAGHDAD Entire sections of Baghdad's embattled Sadr City district have been left nearly abandoned...
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