Posted Friday July 11, 2008, 12:57 am, Over one day old
AFP - Two Russian cosmonauts at the International Space Station spent six hours in space Wednesday to retrieve an explosive bolt believed the cause of the Soyuz spacecraft's dangerously high-speed descent and landing on two recent missions, NASA said.
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Posted Friday July 11, 2008, 12:57 am, Over one day old
Reuters - President George W. Bush urged
Congress on Friday to act before its August break to open new
areas for oil exploration in the United States to help ease
record high oil prices.
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Posted Friday July 11, 2008, 12:57 am, Over one day old
LiveScience.com - Marijuana-like substances made by the skin are necessary for a healthy complexion, a new study concludes.
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Posted Friday July 11, 2008, 12:57 am, Over one day old
AP - Bermuda has issued a tropical storm watch as Hurricane Bertha approaches.
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Posted Friday July 11, 2008, 12:57 am, Over one day old
AP - In a daring spacewalk, two space station astronauts cut into the insulation of their descent capsule Thursday and removed an explosive bolt that could have blown off their hands with firecracker force.
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Posted Friday July 11, 2008, 12:57 am, Over one day old
AP - She suckled Rome's legendary twin founders and fed Benito Mussolini's ambitious dreams of renewed imperial glories.
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Posted Friday July 11, 2008, 12:57 am, Over one day old
AP - The frozen remains of two woolly mammoths — long extinct Ice Age elephants — went on display Friday in Taiwan.
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Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 3:55 am, Over one day old
AFP - Japanese auto giant Toyota said Thursday that it plans to start assembling its fuel-sipping Prius hybrid car in the United States with production slated to begin in late 2010.
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Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 3:55 am, Over one day old
AP - Perhaps Johnny Nash should be singing, "I can see energy now."
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Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 3:55 am, Over one day old
Reuters - Two cosmonauts floated
outside the International Space Station on Thursday to remove a
so-called explosive bolt from their Soyuz capsule in hopes of
fixing a problem that led to rough landings for two previous
crews.
Read Cosmonauts on risky spacewalk in bid to fix Soyuz
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