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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page China National News.com http://www.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/10/id/89d96798a39564bd/ en-us Fri, 16 May 2008 01:06:29 -0400 Fri, 16 May 2008 01:06:29 -0400 30 Washington, May 15 : Scientists from Durham University in the UK will use robots to explore the depths of the Atlantic Ocean to study the growth of underwater volcanoes that build the Earth's crust. http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/359609/cs/1/ Thu, 15 May 2008 06:00:06 -0400 China National News.com http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/359609/cs/1/ Washington, May 15 : Scientists have determined that poles on Jupiter's moon Europa may have wandered by almost 90 degrees, an extreme shift that suggests the existence of an internal liquid ocean beneath the icy crust, which may host life. http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/359547/cs/1/ Thu, 15 May 2008 04:00:08 -0400 China National News.com http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/359547/cs/1/ Washington, May 15 : A new NASA-led study has shown that human-caused climate change has made an impact on a wide range of Earth's natural systems, including permafrost thawing, plants blooming earlier across Europe, and lakes declining in productivity in Africa. http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/359516/cs/1/ Thu, 15 May 2008 03:00:20 -0400 China National News.com http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/359516/cs/1/ Private investigator Anthony Pellicano was found guilty Thursday of scores of federal charges for conspiring to wiretap and intimidate dozens of celebrities and business executives, including Sylveste... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14860442/ Fri, 16 May 2008 00:21:47 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14860442/ A cutaway image of the Barratt Green House Barratt Developments has unveiled what it calls the first zero-carbon house developed by a volume housebuilder.Barratt's Green House, which has been built ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14860440/ Thu, 15 May 2008 23:14:37 -0400 The Guardian http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14860440/ "It is raining in Wenchuan. The county used to be a paradise on Earth As I flip through the photos taken during a trip last November, all I feel is sorrow."So reads a blog by Dazhedaren abou... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14860441/ Thu, 15 May 2008 22:40:36 -0400 People's Daily http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14860441/ By By Robert Roy Britt Physicists have come up with a way to explain how information could escape from a black hole, an idea that's been debated since the 1970s. But the new proposal leaves the long-h... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14857620/ Thu, 15 May 2008 21:39:37 -0400 MSNBC http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14857620/ on the future of prediction markets - or, to use the CFTC's term, "event contracts." The commission wants to know whether it should be regulating these markets, and if so, what rules should be put in ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14857619/ Thu, 15 May 2008 21:39:37 -0400 MSNBC http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14857619/ Posted on: Thursday, 15 May 2008, 15:00 CDT By DIANA MARRERO Washington -- The House passed a $290 billion farm bill Wednesday by a 318-106 vote, enough to override a likely veto from President Bush.... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14857885/ Thu, 15 May 2008 21:37:17 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14857885/ Posted on: Thursday, 15 May 2008, 18:00 CDT WASHINGTON _ Sen. John McCain predicted Thursday that most U.S. troops would be out of Iraq by the end of his first term, leaving behind a fragile but func... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14857886/ Thu, 15 May 2008 21:37:16 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14857886/ Johnson Space Center has called in extermination experts to keep the pests out of their sensitive and critical systems. The ants have been causing all kinds of trouble in five Texas counties in and ar... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14856673/ Thu, 15 May 2008 21:04:48 -0400 Computerworld http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14856673/ Los Angeles - In a closely watched Hollywood case, private investigator Anthony Pellicano was convicted Thursday by a jury that found that he used illegal methods in investigations for celebrity clien... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14857142/ Thu, 15 May 2008 20:11:10 -0400 Earth Times http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14857142/ Zarya module at 21:36 GMT tomorrow evening. Progress spacecraft are launched every few months to deliver new supplies to the astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the Station. The current crew aboard the ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14852390/ Thu, 15 May 2008 18:52:30 -0400 Wikinews http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14852390/ NASA is expecting delays for the first tests of the rocket that will replace its aging space shuttles after they retire in 2010, agency officials said Thursday. http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14853373/ Thu, 15 May 2008 18:09:19 -0400 Space.com http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14853373/ Posted on: Thursday, 15 May 2008, 12:00 CDT WASHINGTON _ President Bush Thursday used an address to Israel's Knesset to compare some American political opponents to Nazi appeasers and brand them as t... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14849309/ Thu, 15 May 2008 15:10:28 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14849309/ Posted on: Thursday, 15 May 2008, 12:00 CDT JERUSALEM _ President Bush celebrated Israel's 60th anniversary on Thursday by hailing the Jewish state as a beacon of democracy and denouncing calls for t... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14849308/ Thu, 15 May 2008 15:10:28 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14849308/ By By Aaron Gronstal Asteroid and comet impacts on Earth can cause catastrophic extinction events. They can also bring life back, new research shows.Many scientists believe that a massive rock from sp... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14848177/ Thu, 15 May 2008 15:12:26 -0400 MSNBC http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14848177/ To have such a thick crust, "Mars might be colder than we thought," Phillips told SPACE.com. As a result, any liquid water that might be underground has to be buried even deeper than once... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14848742/ Thu, 15 May 2008 14:38:53 -0400 Space.com http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14848742/ This diagram shows a comparison of the sizes and strangely elliptical shapes of the orbits of the pulsar J1903+0327 and its possible Sun-like companion star with the orbit of the Earth around the Sun.... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14848743/ Thu, 15 May 2008 14:38:52 -0400 Space.com http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14848743/ The result will likely cause many astronomers to revise their calculations of the intrinsic brightness of many celestial objects, Driver said. Until now, many astronomers thought stars and galaxies ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14848744/ Thu, 15 May 2008 14:38:51 -0400 Space.com http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14848744/ Earth Buses launches a fleet of eco-friendly luxury limousine buses - first of its kind in Las Vegas. Earth Buses is Las Vegas' first and only environmentally friendly luxury limo bus service run... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14847970/ Thu, 15 May 2008 13:34:48 -0400 PR Web http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14847970/ New strong earth jolts have occurred in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan on Thursday.According to Russian news agency Itar-Tass, the epicenter of the quake was in the city of Inyu, Wenchua... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14839639/ Thu, 15 May 2008 11:54:52 -0400 NDTV http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14839639/ long and rocky road to get this lab to Mars in 2008. In 1996, the Russians lost a lander which splashed down somewhere off the coast of Chile. In 1999, NASA lost the Mars Polar Lander, and then grou... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14841777/ Thu, 15 May 2008 07:07:05 -0400 Space.com http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14841777/ The result of this, perhaps heartening to the astrology-averse, is that you don't really know which of Meridian's cruelly conditioned reflexes you're buying. For example, there is strong support in fi... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14833626/ Thu, 15 May 2008 01:12:10 -0400 Market Watch http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14833626/ The newly crowned Miss Universe Australia Laura Dundovic hopes to follow in Jennifer Hawkins' stiletto steps.The 21-year-old student from Sydney won the crown ahead of 28 other girls at a ceremony... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14833971/ Thu, 15 May 2008 00:57:04 -0400 Seven News http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14833971/ The first Australian in space, Andy Thomas, is hoping to inspire more children into science and technology. Dr Thomas is one of a number of top researchers and eminent Australians who have warned of ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14833970/ Wed, 14 May 2008 23:42:52 -0400 ABC Australia http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14833970/ TIRAVADE/KOLHAPUR: An insolent society would not permit him and his ancestors basic human contact, keeping him in a ghetto outside his village in Kolhapur district for centuries. Fortunately, celest... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14830855/ Wed, 14 May 2008 20:47:22 -0400 Times of India http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14830855/ CAPA CANAVERAL/FLORIDA: Nine months ago, NASA's Phoenix probe blasted off for Mars with an unprecedented mission to sample water on another world. Before that can happen, however, the space age... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14830853/ Wed, 14 May 2008 20:47:07 -0400 Times of India http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14830853/ Korea's first astronaut Yi So-yeon received a warm welcome from President Lee Myung-bak Wednesday, about a month after she returned to Earth from the International Space Station. The two were schedul... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14830854/ Wed, 14 May 2008 20:46:45 -0400 Chosun http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14830854/ mass extinctions on Earth, which suggest we suffer more collisions roughly every 36 million years."It's a beautiful match between what we see on the ground and what is expected from the galactic recor... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14827504/ Wed, 14 May 2008 19:30:17 -0400 MSNBC http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14827504/ The Russian and European space agencies have announced a deal to build a manned spacecraft for near-earth orbits and trips to the moon. Russian news agency reports quote a spokesman for the Russian a... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14826122/ Wed, 14 May 2008 19:26:15 -0400 VOA http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14826122/ Roskosmos said in a statement Wednesday that the space agencies want to conduct the first test flight in 2015 and the first manned launch in 2018. http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14827370/ Wed, 14 May 2008 18:58:45 -0400 Space.com http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14827370/ In practice the web page talks to a web service, which talks to the database. That returns a data set to the service, which punts it up to the web page and the data is displayed on a map retrieved fro... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14826825/ Wed, 14 May 2008 18:38:34 -0400 The Register http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14826825/ Posted on: Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 12:00 CDT By Ryan Alessi, The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky. May 14--While Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton appears poised for a big victory i... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14823573/ Wed, 14 May 2008 16:25:25 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14823573/ The newly discovered remains mark the youngest known supernova remnant in the Milky Way, snagging the record from the previous holder, 330-year-old http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14822920/ Wed, 14 May 2008 15:55:18 -0400 Space.com http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14822920/ Lush staff in Christchurch yesterday publicised the evils of too much packaging by removing most of theirs. Six shop assistants dressed only in aprons distributed leaflets outside the handmade-cosmet... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14822381/ Wed, 14 May 2008 15:30:58 -0400 Stuff http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14822381/ Curtis Wong, left, and Jonathan Fay of Microsoft in front of Microsoft's new website, WorldWideTelescope.org, which allows a person to take a tour of the universe with data fed from different spa... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14822383/ Wed, 14 May 2008 15:11:47 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14822383/ Everybodygreen.com teamed up with Earth Day New York to honor the 38th annual celebration of Earth Day at Earth Fair 2008 outside of New York's historic Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan. The t... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14822267/ Wed, 14 May 2008 14:50:59 -0400 PR Web http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14822267/ Posted on: Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 09:00 CDT Barely 12 days after Cyclone Nargis laid waste vast regions of Myanmar, the poor Asian country faced the threat of another storm churning in the Bay of Be... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14819336/ Wed, 14 May 2008 13:15:23 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14819336/ Posted on: Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 09:00 CDT U.S. President George Bush arrived Wednesday in Israel to kick-start a peace deal between the Israelis and Palestinians as part of a five-day Middle East ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14819337/ Wed, 14 May 2008 13:15:23 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14819337/ Posted on: Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 09:00 CDT By Kristen Wyatt Associated Press ELKTON, Md. -- Starting next year across the country, rape victims too afraid or too ashamed to go to police can undergo... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14819340/ Wed, 14 May 2008 13:15:19 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14819340/ Posted on: Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 09:00 CDT By Associated Press YANGON, Myanmar -- Police barred foreign aid workers from reaching cyclone survivors in hard-hit areas Tuesday, while emergency food s... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14819341/ Wed, 14 May 2008 13:15:19 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14819341/ Posted on: Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 09:00 CDT By Linda A. Johnson Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. -- For the first time, it appears that more than half of all insured Americans are taking prescription ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14819342/ Wed, 14 May 2008 13:15:15 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14819342/ Mr Obama is far ahead in a race for which he needs 2,025 delegates to win. That could happen as soon as next Tuesday when he is expected to win in Oregon. By racking up victories at this late stage, M... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14819338/ Wed, 14 May 2008 13:15:21 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14819338/ Posted on: Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 09:00 CDT By David Espo and Matt Apuzzo Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Hillary Rodham Clinton coasted to a large but largely symbolic victory in working-clas... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14819339/ Wed, 14 May 2008 13:15:20 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14819339/ AUSTRALIAN astronaut Andy Thomas believes it is in this country's economic and scientific interest to start its own space program. The US aerospace engineer and NASA astronaut said yesterday the ele... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14818330/ Wed, 14 May 2008 13:44:28 -0400 News.com.au http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14818330/ Posted on: Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 09:00 CDT New Orleans has never advanced beyond the second round of the playoffs. With one more victory against San Antonio, the Hornets will reach the Western Conf... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14819343/ Wed, 14 May 2008 13:15:11 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14819343/ Posted on: Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 09:00 CDT By Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO -- Barry Bonds was charged in a new indictment Tuesday with 15 felony counts alleging he lied to a grand jury when he de... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14819344/ Wed, 14 May 2008 13:15:10 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14819344/ The incident is one of the more credible in the newly public files because it was reported by air traffic controllers, said David Clarke, a UFO expert who has worked with the National Archives on th... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14818837/ Wed, 14 May 2008 12:44:00 -0400 Space.com http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14818837/ WorldWide Telescope which is software that lets amateur and professional stargazers explore the universe from their PCs. The WorldWide Telescope is a rich Web application that accesses high-resolution... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14817663/ Wed, 14 May 2008 11:23:51 -0400 CNet http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14817663/ Posted on: Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 06:00 CDT By Julius A. Karash, The Kansas City Star, Mo. May 14--Drug-rating site HealthGrades Inc. today is launching a prescription drug rating and comparison too... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14814193/ Wed, 14 May 2008 09:57:12 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14814193/ Posted on: Monday, 12 May 2008, 09:00 CDT Up to 900 students may have been trapped when a high school collapsed in a 7.8-magnitude earthquake in China that killed at least 107 people, officials said.... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14815502/ Wed, 14 May 2008 09:56:52 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14815502/ Posted on: Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 06:00 CDT By Susan Page Hillary Rodham Clinton crushed Barack Obama by more than 2-1 in the West Virginia primary Tuesday -- a victory that was surely personally sa... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14815503/ Wed, 14 May 2008 09:56:51 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14815503/ With concerns about global warming rising along with the planet's temperature, the head of the federal agency in change of weather research and forecasting is proposing creation of a National Climate ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14814674/ Wed, 14 May 2008 08:28:15 -0400 The Seattle Times http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14814674/ Laguna Guitars launches "One Guitar, One Tree" reforestation program and Guitar Center revamps shipping policies in their commitment to earth-friendly sustainability. Westlake Village,... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14814255/ Wed, 14 May 2008 08:25:32 -0400 PR Web http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14814255/ Posted on: Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 03:00 CDT By Brett Martel, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW ORLEANS - Back pain couldn't keep David West from taking the court with aggression. The San Antonio Spurs couldn... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14811845/ Wed, 14 May 2008 06:29:00 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14811845/ Posted on: Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 03:00 CDT By Larry Lage, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - The Detroit Pistons missed 64 per cent of their shots and had a rookie filling in for an all-sta... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14811844/ Wed, 14 May 2008 06:29:01 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14811844/ Phoenix Mars Lander is on its final approach for a slated touch-down on the Red Planet's Arctic region on 25 May amid a certain amount of nail-biting as to whether it will survive the landing. Ed Wei... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14810959/ Wed, 14 May 2008 05:29:06 -0400 The Register http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14810959/ Posted on: Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 00:00 CDT E/The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: How much of an effect, if any, does the carbon dioxide in carbonated beverages have on global warming? - Mich... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14807704/ Wed, 14 May 2008 03:18:11 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14807704/ A British boffin has calculated that text messages are a horrendously expensive method of handling information, costing many times more than it does to access data from the Hubble Space Telescope. "H... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14807687/ Wed, 14 May 2008 02:18:53 -0400 The Register http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14807687/ EDMONTON, Alberta — David Beckham put on a show Tuesday, but it wasn't enough for the Galaxy, as the Vancouver Whitecaps won their friendly match 2-1 Tuesday night. http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14807706/ Wed, 14 May 2008 02:15:37 -0400 Rocky Mountain News http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14807706/ The U.S. space agency announced on Tuesday that NASA Government Invention of 2007 is a heat shield material slightly more dense than balsa wood that is designed to protect spacecraft during their fier... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14804848/ Tue, 13 May 2008 23:14:29 -0400 People's Daily http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14804848/ Canberra, May 13 (ANI): Microsoft has launched a free downloadable software that can turn any computer into mini Hubble telescopes capable of displaying high resolution images of millions of stars, pl... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14804450/ Tue, 13 May 2008 22:51:12 -0400 KeralaNext http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14804450/ Many people say their phone bills are sky high - but now a boffin has proved they really are out of this world. In fact a British academic has worked out it is cheaper to send data to the Hubble spa... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14804850/ Tue, 13 May 2008 22:35:29 -0400 Ananova http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14804850/ . But the payoff for the eyes, ears and mind is high enough to make me think about upgrading my hardware. The last time I caught upgrade fever, the motivation was to watch online video without the co... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14801615/ Tue, 13 May 2008 20:59:02 -0400 MSNBC http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14801615/ Posted on: Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 18:00 CDT Jailed rapper Remy Ma reportedly was left standing at the altar of a New York prison after her fiance attempted to sneak a handcuff key through security. Co... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14802055/ Tue, 13 May 2008 20:56:43 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14802055/ On the shortest day of the year, Discovery touches down on Runway 15 at NASA Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility as the sun sets, concluding mission STS-116 on Dec. 22, 2006. Credit: NASA http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14801500/ Tue, 13 May 2008 20:15:29 -0400 Space.com http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14801500/ Exploring the universe can be as simple as turning on your home computer thanks to a new digital archive filled with views from some of the world's best land- and space-based telescopes. http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14801501/ Tue, 13 May 2008 20:15:28 -0400 Space.com http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14801501/ Orbiting the Earth is not all fun and games. But when it is, the astronauts aboard the space shuttle Endeavour passed the time during their 16-day mission in March to the International Space Station d... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14800754/ Tue, 13 May 2008 19:37:13 -0400 Japan Times http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14800754/ Posted on: Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 15:00 CDT Stephen McPherson, president of ABC Entertainment, said in New York Tuesday the network has ordered new seasons of Eli Stone and Ugly Betty. Other prime tim... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14797740/ Tue, 13 May 2008 17:31:57 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14797740/ Posted on: Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 15:00 CDT By Zachary Gorchow and Naomi R. Patton, Detroit Free Press May 13--The Detroit City Council has just voted to launch a two-track effort to remove Mayor Kwam... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14797738/ Tue, 13 May 2008 17:31:54 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14797738/ "The weather is looking better than it did yesterday," said Brevard County Fire Rescue Chief Bob Furci, "but it is still not a favorable weather system for us. "We had a relatively slow night," Furci ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14797741/ Tue, 13 May 2008 17:31:53 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14797741/ CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Nine months ago, NASA's Phoenix probe blasted off for Mars with an unprecedented mission to sample water on another world. http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14796601/ Tue, 13 May 2008 16:21:58 -0400 Reuters http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14796601/ MDA ) said Tuesday its Montreal operation has won a US$21-million contract from the Boeing Co. to supply communication technology for the International Space Station. MDA said it will provide two... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14791555/ Tue, 13 May 2008 14:24:03 -0400 C News http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14791555/ By Andrea Thompson Astronomers have found a piece of the universe's puzzle that's been missing for awhile: a type of extremely hot, dense matter that is all but invisible to us.Engaging in something l... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14792867/ Tue, 13 May 2008 14:11:43 -0400 MSNBC http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14792867/ The landing site chosen for NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander is much farther north than the sites where previous spacecraft have landed on Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14792735/ Tue, 13 May 2008 13:26:06 -0400 Space.com http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14792735/ The report follows 20 years of studies of 140 trace metals and organic compounds in mussels and oysters in U.S. coastal waters, including the Chesapeake Bay. http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14792208/ Tue, 13 May 2008 12:28:47 -0400 WBAL Radio News http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14792208/ Posted on: Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 09:00 CDT Microsoft Corp. and leading astronomy institutions like the Adler Planetarium in Chicago on Tuesday will offer a free computer program to put the vast reach... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14791490/ Tue, 13 May 2008 12:24:17 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14791490/ MOSCOW, May 13 (RIA Novosti) - The Moscow arbitration court declared the Moscow planetarium company bankrupt on Tuesday after a petition was filed by the receiver, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14792037/ Tue, 13 May 2008 12:07:47 -0400 Russian Information Agency http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14792037/ Adler Planetarium in Chicago on Tuesday will offer a free computer program to put the vast reaches of the cosmos at your fingertips. And with a little luck, the software may help desktop astronomer... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14787565/ Tue, 13 May 2008 11:12:50 -0400 Chicago Tribune http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14787565/ Posted on: Sunday, 11 May 2008, 12:00 CDT By Adam Nagourney and Jeff Zeleny New York Times News Service Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Barack Obama, D-Ill., are already drawing up strategies for tak... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14789125/ Tue, 13 May 2008 10:47:58 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14789125/ In the past, some researchers had suggested that mass extinctions on Earth happened roughly 30 million years apart, and that cosmic impacts also recurred at about that frequency, and that both were... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14788716/ Tue, 13 May 2008 10:02:55 -0400 Space.com http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14788716/ A blue 1999 Saturn SL1 is this week's featured vehicle in Operation: Hot Wheels, the Topeka Police Department's program to recover stolen vehicles. The car was reported stolen May 9 from 3600 N.E. Sa... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14783194/ Tue, 13 May 2008 03:28:25 -0400 CJ Online http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14783194/ Posted on: Monday, 12 May 2008, 15:00 CDT By ANICK JESDANUN USHUAIA, Argentina -- Online photo albums I had prepared for family and friends weren't capturing the essence of my travels to the southern... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14775414/ Mon, 12 May 2008 22:48:24 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14775414/ A data-recovery engineer retrieved information stored on a hard drive that melted, crashed, and burned along with the Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003. The recovery of data stored on the drive has al... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14775861/ Mon, 12 May 2008 21:42:28 -0400 TechWeb http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14775861/ Posted on: Monday, 12 May 2008, 15:00 CDT FRANKFORT, Ky. _ U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton enters the final week before Kentucky's May 20 Democratic presidential primary with a commanding 27 percent... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14772547/ Mon, 12 May 2008 18:23:08 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14772547/ Posted on: Monday, 12 May 2008, 15:00 CDT Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) ["Chinese FM, UN Chief Hold Telephone Talks Over Massive Earthquake"... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14772548/ Mon, 12 May 2008 18:23:01 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14772548/ SILVER SPRINGS, Md. (AP) - Services will be held Friday in Maryland for former space shuttle astronaut Ronald Parise (puh-REE'-see). The Ohio native died last week after a lengthy battle with brain c... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14766422/ Mon, 12 May 2008 13:13:50 -0400 ABC 7 http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14766422/ View larger image LA Galaxy's David Beckham sits on the bench prior to their MLS game against Toronto FC in Toronto on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2007. (Aaron Harris / THE CANADIAN PRESS) http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14766657/ Mon, 12 May 2008 12:57:34 -0400 CTV http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14766657/ ROME (Reuters) - Venus Williams will face Samantha Stosur when she returns this week after more than a month out of action after the Australian beat Michaella Krajicek 6-3 6-2 on Monday to set up a se... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14766095/ Mon, 12 May 2008 12:42:42 -0400 Reuters http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14766095/ By Joe Rao As soon as darkness falls these evenings, step outside and look skyward. What is the most prominent and easiest star pattern to recognize? If you live in the Northern Hemisphere you only ne... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14763315/ Mon, 12 May 2008 10:46:03 -0400 MSNBC http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14763315/ Satellite prime contractor Astrium of Europe is asking an international arbitration panel for 24.5 million euros ($37.8 million) in damages from Conax of Florida, a builder of satellite propulsion ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14763203/ Mon, 12 May 2008 09:57:27 -0400 Space.com http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14763203/ in March. Also along was Rick Linnehan, apparently another believer that aliens are out there somewhere. (Possibly relevantly, Linnehan is a qualified vet.) Linnehan isn't sanguine about the chances ... http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14762665/ Mon, 12 May 2008 09:11:44 -0400 The Register http://story.chinanationalnews.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/14762665/