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Okay, so maybe we aren’t actually launching the Atlantis, but in a round about way, we’ll be there as American astronaut of Mexican heritage, José Hernández, piggybacks our Mexican flag and corn tortillas into space with him on...
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Rupert Murdoch says he will remove stories from Google’s search index as a way to encourage people to pay for content online.
In an interview with Sky News...
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Mikhail Gorbachev supports a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The former president of the Soviet Union spoke to CNN’s John King Sunday on State Of The Union...
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Prosecutor Michael Loucks remembers clearly when lawyers for Pfizer Inc., the world’s largest drug company, looked across the table and promised it wouldn’t break...
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A 15-year-old girl who was raped, robbed and beaten by multiple attackers outside of her high school homecoming dance was found by police after 18-year-old Margarita...
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A special award for hypocrisy and phony outrage has to go to the Anti-Defamation League. The organization exists ostensibly to combat anti-Semitism, but is now nothing...
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There isn’t a more prominent voice amongst the American Eastablishment than New York Times columnist Tom Friedman (I personally have very low regard for the man)....
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I don’t ever recall being so jaded and skeptical when I was growing up. Something terrible would happen and the initial shock and outrage turned to sadness. I...
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The following link gives the story of the shooting in American military base, Ft. Wood. The American nation is in such a trauma, that they are censoring the news, a...
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The Ft. Hood massacre is a national tragedy. Unfortunately, the United States is all too familiar with shoting rampages. Just yesterday, an unemployed man shot and...
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Amid the ongoing financial regulation overhaul, the banking industry is hoping to pull off a quiet power grab that has eluded its grasp since the Great Depression, by...
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The Anti-Defamation League is one of the most phony organizations in the world. Ostensibly committed to fighting bigotry, it has become a bigoted organization. Its sole...
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Yesterday I was driving to work when I heard about the standoff between three unidentified gunmen and the US army. This was happening not at some university, hospital,...
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Arlington Cemetery is the closest thing to holy ground in America. A national monument it is the nation’s most important military burial ground.
A new book - On...
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For the first time in a decade, the U.S. is reviewing the endangered status of the humpback whale, prompted by evidence that these acrobatic leviathans — once...
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One of the leaders of a polygamist sect was convicted Thursday night of sexually assaulting an under-age girl whom the church elders had assigned to him as one of his...
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Reporting from Washington - As President Obama struggles over a new military strategy for Afghanistan, his advisors are trying to satisfy sharply divergent demands:...
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Jennifer Smith, a Texas real estate agent, remembers when she considered her car an office, her cellphone a professional lifeline. If it rang, she picked it up. If she...
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Who is Nidal Malik Hasan?
What’s in a name? Very, very little—particularly when it comes to divining the motivations of the perpetrator of a violent crime. But that...
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No Zionist cause is too extreme and violent for mainstream support in America. Generic pro-Israel fundraisers are one thing, but support for illegal Israeli settlers on...
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President Barack Obama came to office with great enthusiasm to finally end the Israeli occupation of Palestine and bring about a two-state solution: Peace.
The...
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Nasa is charged with spotting most of the asteroids that pose a threat to Earth, but doesn’t have enough money to
complete the task, according to a new report.
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Oleg Batishchev, a research scientist at MIT’s department of aeronautics and astronautics, has developed the Mini-Helicon Plasma Thruster, a compact, economical...
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John Kennedy set the task of going to the Moon in 1961 and little more than 8 year later NASA’s Apollo program accomplished one of the greatest fests of mankind....
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First it was the spectacular “Eye of GOD”… now it’s “Hand of GOD”. The amazing image was taken by NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatory, which is orbiting...
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The occasionally acrimonious debate about the planet’s climate has been missing a key component: accurate measurements of how much carbon dioxide is in the air...
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After 10 years and spending $100bn, the world celebrated International Space Station’s 10th anniversary yesterday, November 20th 2008. Sixteen countries joined hands...
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Washington - In an unprecedented discovery, Nasa’s Phoenix Mars Lander has found snow falling from clouds on Mars.
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The protective bubble around the sun that helps to shield the Earth from harmful interstellar radiation is shrinking and getting weaker, Nasa scientists have warned.
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We watched earlier in the year the progress of the twin Mars rovers’, Opportunity and Spirit, as they trundled across the Martian surface.
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Scientists and industry have been working together to create a global surveillance network. It naturally weights itself to provide greater coverage for greater...
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In this diagram, the sun’s oblateness has been magnified 10,000 times for easy visibility. The blue curve traces the sun’s shape averaged over a three month...
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No matter how often we hear about the developed world becoming more like Big Brother every day, it’s not until you see images like these from NASA that you get...
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Mankind’s very survival depends on the future exploration of space, said NASA chief Michael Griffin, marking the 50th anniversary of the US space agency. Unlike...
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Doctors working with NASA scientists believe that they may have a way to combat one of the greatest health dangers of space travel: bone loss.
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NASA is about out of options for keeping U.S. astronauts in space after 2011.
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Next April, for a grand total of 8 minutes, NASA astronomers are going to glimpse a secret layer of the sun.
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Are you having trouble with funding? Is your research unable to attract major media attention? Just add Terror ™! That’s what Dr Stoica of NASA’s...
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The Space Cube is designed for use in space, where it can communicate with NASA, ESA, and JAXA, the space agencies of the U.S., Europe, and Japan, respectively. Credit:...
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FILE - This April 8, 2009 file photo shows John Holdren talking about his role as President Obama’s science adviser during an interview with The Associated Press, in Washington. Holdren has said that crucial decisions on whether to continue with George...
