News Predator - Science News Archive 9/22/2008

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Neanderthals Ate Seals and Dolphins (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - The diet of prehistoric Neanderthals living in caves on the Rock of Gibraltar included seals and dolphins, showing once again that the hominids had skills rivaling those modern humans living then, according to a new study.

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9/22/2008 9:19 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

NYC Trade Center dig exposes Ice Age landscape (AP)

AP - Crews excavating the World Trade Center site this summer for the foundations of a new skyscraper have uncovered features carved into the bedrock by glaciers about 20,000 years ago, including a 40-foot-deep pothole.

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9/22/2008 9:10 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Three more blind patients helped by gene therapy (Reuters)

Reuters - Three more patients treated with an experimental gene therapy approach have reported better vision, U.S. researchers reported on Monday in a study that lends further support to the approach.

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9/22/2008 11:27 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Therapy extends life in rats with nerve disease (Reuters)

Reuters - Treatment with genetically modified stem cells helped rats with a paralyzing disease live significantly longer, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a finding that could one day help humans.

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A Few Severe Storms Northern Plains Monday (weather.com)

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India's Reliance vows to boost national energy security (AFP)

AFP - Indian fuel giant Reliance said it would boost domestic oil and gas output by 40 percent over the next 18 months, calling the move a "quantum leap" toward national energy self-sufficiency.

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9/22/2008 1:40 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Monsoon rains kill 119 across India in 3 days (AP)

AP - Helicopters and speed boats tried to reach nearly 570,000 stranded villagers Monday as the death toll from heavy monsoon rains and flooding across India reached 119 in the past three days.

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Flooding Rain for Puerto Rico (weather.com)

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McCain vs. Obama: The Web Sites (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Town hall meetings are important, but the presidential candidates have also campaigned more prominently on the Web this year than ever before.

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9/22/2008 6:45 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Storm flooding kills four in Puerto Rico (Reuters)

Reuters - A tropical disturbance dumped up to 20 inches of rain on Puerto Rico, killing four people and flooding scores of homes, businesses and roads, authorities said on Monday.

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9/22/2008 11:01 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Sun May Be Galactic Hitchhiker (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - Astronomers have long believed that most stars are homebodies which stick close to their birthplaces. But a new simulation supports the suggestion that our sun might have once hitchhiked through the galaxy.

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9/22/2008 7:44 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Senate to vote on extending energy tax credits (Reuters)

Reuters - The U.S. Senate will vote on Tuesday on legislation to extend tax breaks for using renewable energy sources and taking steps to save energy.

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9/22/2008 12:40 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Men With Traditional Views on Sex Roles Earn More Money (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Men who believe in traditional roles for women earn more money than their more forward-thinking counterparts, finds a new study.

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9/22/2008 3:36 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

China's third manned mission to include spacewalk (AP)

AP - China this week launches its most ambitious space mission yet, a sign of rising confidence as Beijing cements its status as a space power and potential future competitor to the United States.

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9/22/2008 6:43 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

UK experts say Stonehenge was place of healing (AP)

AP - The first excavation of Stonehenge in more than 40 years has uncovered evidence that the stone circle drew ailing pilgrims from around Europe for what they believed to be its healing properties, archaeologists said Monday.

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9/22/2008 7:53 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Stem cells open door for studying human disease (Reuters)

Reuters - Advances in stem cell research offer a new way of studying human disease, allowing scientists to move beyond fruit flies and lab mice to see how human cells go awry and how drugs and other therapies might help, U. S. researchers said on Monday.

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9/22/2008 10:56 AM - Views: 0 Rating: -

New Test Shows If You Are a Shopaholic (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - A new shopaholic test could tell if you should you leave your credit card at home when heading out to the mall.

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9/22/2008 3:16 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Chimps Prefer Cooked Food (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - When early humans mastered the use of fire, their immediate rewards were warmth, light, and protection from nocturnal predators.

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9/21/2008 12:20 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Lessons in Corporate Failure From a 5th-Grader (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - There's no one more bitter than a disgruntled employee in a failing business. I heard all about the unfairness and stress of corporate life in our shaky economic times all this week from my fifth-grader. The class assignment was to form small companies that sold the various parts necessary for making paper airplanes, such as paper, glue and glitter. I first heard about this new assignment from a very unhappy 11-year-old who dragged herself off the school bus with the demeanor of someone with a pink slip in her hand...

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9/21/2008 5:55 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Small accidents mean big trouble for supercollider (AP)

AP - Scientists expect startup glitches in the massive, complex machines they use to smash atoms.

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Fish Fingers: Your Digits Used to Be Fins (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - An ancient fish sported something like fingers that were the precursors to our own digits, according to an analysis of a new fossil skeleton. "It's really the last piece of evidence to say fingers are not new. They were really present in fish," said lead researcher Catherine Boisvert, an evolutionary biologist at Uppsala University in Sweden. The fossilized skeleton belonged to Panderichthys, a predatory fish that spanned up to 4 feet (130 cm) and likely dwelled in shallow waters where it inched along the muddy bottom about 385 million years ago...

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9/19/2008 10:16 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Bug Builds Underwater Mobile Home (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - A fear of falling limits most people to Earth's gentler slopes. Yet there are those among us who venture onto cliff faces and stone spires, armed with ropes, harnesses, and anchoring devices, to challenge the unforgiving force of gravity. As soggy-shoed graduate students studying insect behavior in the streams that drain Colorado's Rocky Mountains, we occasionally looked up to marvel at the rock climbers ascending the crags and cliffs of this rugged area.

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9/19/2008 10:38 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

New dwarf planet named Haumea for Hawaiian goddess (AP)

AP - A newly discovered dwarf planet in the solar system has been given a Hawaiian name: Haumea (how-MAY'-ah), after the Hawaiian goddess of earth and fertility. Haumea's name was approved Wednesday by the International Astronomical Union in Paris.

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9/20/2008 8:00 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

France to buy 10 Soyuz launchers from Russia (AFP)

AFP - The European commercial space-launch consortium Arianespace on Saturday signed a deal with the Russian space agency Roskosmos to acquire 10 new Soyuz launchers for around 500 million dollars (347 million euros), a French diplomatic source told AFP.

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9/20/2008 11:35 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Nigerian militants step up 'oil war' with sixth attack (AFP)

AFP - Nigeria's main armed militant group Saturday said it had destroyed a key pipeline run by Royal Dutch Shell in the sixth attack in nearly as many days and vowed to reduce oil exports to "zero".

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9/20/2008 12:18 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

CERN: Damage to new collider forces 2-month halt (AP)

AP - The world's largest atom smasher ? which was launched with great fanfare earlier this month ? has been damaged worse than previously thought and will be out of commission for at least two months, its operators said Saturday.

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Scientists monitor growing Lake Erie algae bloom (AP)

AP - Giant floating fields of algae are back in strength this year on Lake Erie and scientists are trying to figure out why.

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9/20/2008 7:22 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Nearly 250,000 Ohio customers remain without power (AP)

AP - Almost a quarter million homes and businesses across Ohio remained without power Saturday, one week after a huge storm blacked out large swaths of the state.

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9/20/2008 10:36 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Frustrated in Ohio: 5 days without power for some (AP)

AP - Facing a fifth day without power, the residents of a senior housing community in western Ohio took to the street with foam signs to protest the failure of Dayton Power and Light Co. to restore electricity.

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9/20/2008 11:21 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Size Tradeoff: Horns vs. Copulatory Organs (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation.

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9/20/2008 4:29 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

India floods, rain kill at least 32 (AFP)

AFP - Thousands of people were evacuated and at least 16 swept away in eastern Orissa state after four rivers burst their banks and inundated scores of villages, officials said Saturday.

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9/20/2008 5:43 AM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Malaysia to resort to nuclear energy by 2023: minister (AFP)

AFP - Malaysia will turn to nuclear energy to generate electricity by 2023 as supplies of fossil fuel eventually run out, a minister said according to Saturday news reports.

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9/18/2008 9:31 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

McCain, Palin change plans, tour Cedar Rapids (AP)

AP - John McCain and running mate Sarah Palin decided to go the extra five miles after all Thursday when local leaders grew upset that they were flying in and out for an airport rally with no plans to see the flood-damaged city.

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9/19/2008 7:22 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Arabs denounce cleric's fatwa on 'immoral' TV (AP)

AP - Arabs across the ideological spectrum, from secular-minded liberals to Muslim hard-liners, are denouncing a top Saudi cleric's edict that it was permissible to kill the owners of satellite TV stations that show "immoral" content.

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9/19/2008 10:21 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Space shuttle moved to launch pad as rescue ship (AP)

AP - In an unprecedented step, a space shuttle was moved to the launch pad Friday for a trip NASA hopes it will never make ? a rescue mission. The shuttle Endeavour is on standby in case the seven astronauts who go up on Atlantis next month need a safer ride home.

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9/19/2008 3:51 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Skeleton May Be Early TB Victim (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - The skeleton of a man discovered in a shallow grave on what is now a college campus in England could belong to one of Britain's earliest victims of tuberculosis. Radiocarbon dating suggests the man died in the fourth century, around A.D. 302, when Romans ruled the region. He was interred in a shallow scoop in a flexed position, on his right side. The man, aged 26 to 35 years old, suffered from iron deficiency anemia during childhood and at 5-foot, 4-inches, was shorter than average for Roman males...

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9/19/2008 7:00 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Ike helps uncover mystery vessel on Ala. coast (AP)

AP - When the waves from Hurricane Ike receded, they left behind a mystery ? a ragged shipwreck that archeologists say could be a two-masted Civil War schooner that ran aground in 1862 or another ship from some 70 years later. The wreck, about six miles from Fort Morgan, had already been partially uncovered when Hurricane Camille cleared away sand in 1969.

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9/19/2008 7:46 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

More to come in busy Atlantic hurricane season (Reuters)

Reuters - The 10 tropical storms and hurricanes that ripped through the Atlantic and Caribbean during this busy hurricane season savaged Haiti, Cuba and the U.S. Gulf coast, and conditions are now ripe for more.

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9/19/2008 9:43 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

In Montana, coal's future enters governor's race (AP)

AP - Republican Roy Brown has promised a more aggressive energy policy for Montana if elected governor ? with expanded coal mining, a new power plant and fewer barriers to oil and gas exploration.

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9/19/2008 7:12 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Singapore not completely immune from tsunamis: expert (AFP)

AFP - Singapore, one of Asia's wealthiest cities, is not completely immune from a tsunami and should prepare for the possibility, an expert on coastal areas warned Friday.

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9/18/2008 9:26 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Fringe Science and the Secretive Project Stargate (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - One of the most anticipated television shows of the fall season is "Fringe," from J.J. Abrams, the hitmaker behind "Alias" and "Lost."

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One Tysabri PML patient deteriorates, one improves (Reuters)

Reuters - One of two patients who developed a potentially deadly brain infection after taking the multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri is deteriorating, while one is recovering, according to a researcher involved in their care.

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9/19/2008 11:02 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Future Fury: Hurricane Effects Will Only Get Worse (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - The Caribbean and Gulf Coast have seen a spate of devastating hurricanes in recent years that have cost billions of dollars and thousands of lives. As residents recover from the latest hits, they may wonder about the potential for future Ikes and Katrinas.

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9/19/2008 1:57 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Back-up Hubble mission shuttle moved to launch pad (Reuters)

Reuters - A space shuttle that would be launched to rescue a stranded Hubble Space Telescope servicing crew in case of an emergency was rolled out to a spare launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center on Friday.

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9/19/2008 6:11 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

The Long History of the 2008 Financial Mess (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - A history of finance may once have sounded about as exciting as, say, a day spent rolling pennies, but events of late have made this a rather exciting topic.

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9/18/2008 9:01 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

NASA extends Mars lander mission again (AP)

AP - NASA is extending the Phoenix Mars mission again. The three-legged spacecraft has been digging trenches near the Martian north pole since landing on May 25 and its work was supposed to end this month. Phoenix is studying whether the site could have been favorable for microbial life to emerge.

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9/18/2008 9:02 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Mom's Diet Can Alter Genes to Raise Babies' Asthma Risk (HealthDay)

HealthDay - THURSDAY, Sept. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Increasing use of folic acid and other dietary supplements by women may be one reason why the prevalence of asthma has nearly doubled in the past 25 years, U.S. researchers are suggesting.

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9/19/2008 12:49 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Caribbean tropical depression could form soon: NHC (Reuters)

Reuters - A tropical wave in the Eastern Caribbean Sea was slowly moving westward across the Lesser Antilles on Friday and could strengthen into a tropical depression or storm over the next few days, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in its last update.

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9/19/2008 3:31 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Ask AP: Candidate languages, emergency personnel (AP)

AP - If you live anywhere that's susceptible to tropical weather ? even if you just follow the news during hurricane season ? you've heard the plea from mayors and governors: Once the storm arrives, stay indoors and off the roads, so you can be safe and emergency personnel can do their jobs. But what about those emergency personnel ? where do THEY hunker down when a massive hurricane blows through?

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9/19/2008 8:16 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Scientists Predict the Next President (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Two mathematicians have devised what they say is a "surprisingly effective" means to predict the outcome of the U.S. presidential election using median statistics based on voter polling.

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9/22/2008 8:10 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Earth from Space: Arctic Bloom

This Envisat image captures a plankton bloom stretching across the Northeast Passage in the Barents Sea, a rather deep shelf sea with an average depth around 230 m.

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9/22/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

NASA And Air Force Work To Establish Hypersonic Science Centers

NASA and the United States Air Force are looking for university and industry partners as they work to advance hypersonic research.

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9/22/2008 11:01 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Satellite Insurance Rates Driven by Capacity, Not Track Record (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - Insurance underwriters and brokers said the market remains healthy despite the fact that claims slightly exceeded premiums in 2007. They said they discriminate among launch vehicles and satellite designs when they can to reflect manufacturers' different success rates, but that the market remains too small to overturn the general principle that the most reliable designs in effect subsidize the insurability of the less reliable hardware.

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9/22/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 0 Rating: -

NASA's Mars Rover To Head Toward Bigger Crater

NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is setting its sights on a crater more than 20 times larger than its home for the past two years.

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9/22/2008 1:15 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Space X Could Launch Next Falcon Rocket by Sept. 23 (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - WASHINGTON - Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) is making preparations for a Falcon 1 launch attempt that could occur as soon as Sept. 23, according to an update posted on the Hawthorne, Calif.-based rocket company's Web site.

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9/19/2008 10:29 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Russia launches Canadian telecom satellite: report (AFP)

AFP - A Proton-M rocket carrying a Canadian telecommunications satellite took off from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Saturday, the Russian news agency RIA-Novosti reported.

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9/19/2008 9:32 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Explosion From Edge of Universe Seen (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - An explosion originating near the edge of the universe has been seen by an orbiting NASA telescope. The burst of gamma rays is the farthest such event ever detected.

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9/19/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 5 Rating: -

NASA?s Kennedy Space Center Holds Unique Media Event, TCDT

For the first time since July 2001, two space shuttles are on the launch pads at the same time at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

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9/19/2008 8:00 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Critical space technologies for European strategic non-dependence

The European Commission (EC), the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Defence Agency (EDA) have agreed to join forces in order to develop critical space technologies in Europe. The aim is to ensure that Europe can rely on a technical and industrial capacity for accessing space, in particular in the area of the manufacturing of satellites and launchers.

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9/19/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Space Shuttle Endeavour Moves To Launch Pad 39B

For the first time since July 2001, two shuttles are on the launch pads at the same time at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

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9/19/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

NASA's Swift Catches Farthest-Ever Gamma-Ray Burst

NASA's Swift satellite has found the most distant gamma-ray burst ever detected. The blast, designated GRB 080913, arose from an exploding star 12.8 billion light-years away.

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9/19/2008 2:32 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Shuttle Endeavour Moves to Launch Pad as Rescue Ship (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - The space shuttle Endeavour rolled out to a Florida launching pad early Friday to serve as a rescue craft for its sister ship Atlantis in what is expected to be the last time in history that NASA has two orbiters in launch position at the same time.

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9/19/2008 4:19 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Rescue shuttle at launch pad for Hubble trip (AP)

AP - In an unprecedented step, a space shuttle was moved to the launch pad Friday for a trip NASA hopes it will never make ? a rescue mission.

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9/19/2008 7:01 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Most Massive Star in Class By Itself (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - Astronomers have confirmed the weight of the most massive star in the galaxy.

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9/19/2008 8:33 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Dwarf Planet Named for Hawaiian Goddess (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - The International Astronomical Union (IAU) announced the name of a new dwarf planet to join the existing four in the solar system.

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9/19/2008 10:27 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

'Space' looks back at 4 years of programmes

Space is a source of inexhaustible fascination, discoveries and research. For four years 'Space' has reported on a wide variety of extraterrestrial developments. Some of these themes are explored again in a special programme, the 100th edition.

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9/18/2008 10:31 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

NASA Cleans Up Cargo for Hubble Shuttle Flight (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - NASA engineers are preparing once more to move a container filled with new instruments and spare parts for the Hubble Space Telescope to the waiting shuttle Atlantis after cleaning up bits of contamination from inside some of the delicate hardware, space agency officials said Thursday.

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9/19/2008 11:15 AM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Navigating by the Stars (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - Astronomy is the oldest of the sciences, and quite possibly the oldest use of astronomy is navigating by the stars. This craft dates from prehistoric times among humans, and is even practiced by certain animals.

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9/18/2008 1:18 AM - Views: 1 Rating: +1

October launch date for Hubble threatened (AP)

AP - The October launch date of NASA's shuttle flight to the Hubble Space Telescope is in jeopardy because of a problem with insulation on the replacement batteries for the telescope.

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9/17/2008 11:56 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

New education products take human spaceflight into the classroom

ESA has released a new educational DVD and a 3-D Teaching Tool, adding to the suite of human spaceflight related education products available for school teachers to use in the classroom.

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9/18/2008 4:34 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Galveston still too bruised for residents' return (AP)

AP - There's a grocery store open for business on Galveston Island. Cell phone towers are connecting calls. More lights are coming back on at night.

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9/18/2008 12:29 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Mars polar cap mystery solved

Scientists are now able to better explain why Mars’s residual southern ice cap is misplaced, thanks to data from ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft - the martian weather system is to blame. And so is the largest impact crater on Mars – even though it is nowhere near the south pole.

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9/18/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

NASA To Discuss Conditions On And Surrounding The Sun

NASA will hold a media teleconference Tuesday, Sept. 23, at 12:30 p.m. EDT, to discuss data from the joint NASA and European Space Agency Ulysses mission that reveals the sun's solar wind is at a 50-year low.

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9/18/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

NASA Announces Information Technology Contract Extension

NASA has extended the Unified NASA Information Technology Services, or UNITeS, contract with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) of San Diego.

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9/18/2008 4:15 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Nearby Galaxy Nearly Invisible (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - Astronomers have identified the least luminous galaxy known, but it's surprisingly massive. The reason: It is loaded with invisible matter.

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9/18/2008 8:40 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Astronomers looking for life in all the wrong places: study (AFP)

AFP - Astronomers searching for solar systems capable of supporting life may be looking in the wrong places, according to a new study that suggests our sun is far from its origins in the galaxy.

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9/18/2008 8:28 AM - Views: 0 Rating: -

ESA at IAC 2008, Glasgow

ESA PR 39-2008. The 59th International Astronautical Congress is taking place between 29 September and 3 October in Glasgow, Scotland. IAC 2008 is being organised by the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) and the British Interplanetary Society (BIS).

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NASA's Johnson Space Center To Reopen Monday After Ike

NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston is scheduled to reopen Monday, Sept. 22, ending its closure related to Hurricane Ike.

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Johnson space center to reopen next week: NASA (AFP)

AFP - The Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, which was shut down as Hurricane Ike barreled toward the US Gulf Coast, will reopen next week, US space officials said Thursday.

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9/17/2008 9:09 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Fly your picture on the International Space Station

School children aged 6-12 are invited to take part in a competition to design a t-shirt for ESA astronaut Frank De Winne to wear during his mission to the International Space Station next year. The winner, and all their classmates, will get to talk to De Winne in space.

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9/17/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

NASA eClips: A New Approach to Learning

NASA is making available a free Web-based educational product to learners of all ages across the country.

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9/17/2008 8:45 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

New Cargo Ship Arrives at Space Station (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - An unmanned Russian cargo ship docked safe and sound, though a few days late, at the International Space Station on Wednesday after a hurricane on Earth prevented its orbital arrival last week.

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9/17/2008 11:02 AM - Views: 0 Rating: -

NASA Eyes Nuclear Power for Moon Base (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - Nuclear power could make a comeback beyond Earth if NASA goes forward with a proposed a fission reactor in its future moon base.

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9/16/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Arctic Sea Ice Reaches Lowest Coverage For 2008

Arctic sea ice coverage appears to have reached its lowest extent for the year.

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9/16/2008 8:14 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Kopernikus, observing our planet for a safer world

The new name of the European GMES Programme (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) has been unveiled: Kopernikus. The European Commission Vice President Günter Verheugen announced the name today at the GMES 2008 Lille forum.

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9/15/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

NASA Uses Commercial Microgravity Flight Services For First Time

NASA for the first time last week used microgravity research flights aboard commercially-owned aircraft to test hardware and technologies.

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9/15/2008 11:01 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Buyers Bemoan Launcher Prices, Availability (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - Launch-services suppliers found themselves on the defensive the week of Sept. 8 as satellite-fleet operators and satellite manufacturers said rocket reliability and supply was the Achilles heel of the otherwise robust commercial telecommunications satellite market.

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9/14/2008 11:01 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Better hams with space technology

Space technology is now being used to help Spanish ham experts ensure that hams awarded the highly prized ‘jamon’ label are worthy of the name. Technology used to measure the liquid shift that occurs in an astronaut’s body in microgravity has been developed to measure the water retention in cured hams.

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9/15/2008 11:01 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Galaxy Formation: A Clumpy Affair (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - Astronomers have argued for years over whether massive galaxies form from scratch, or by chunking together smaller galaxies.

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NASA Selects Mission to Study Mars Atmosphere

NASA has selected a Mars robotic mission that will provide information about the Red Planet's atmosphere, climate history and potential habitability in greater detail than ever before.

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9/11/2008 11:01 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Hurricane Ike Delays Space Station Delivery (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - The impact of Hurricane Ike has reached out into space and delayed the planned Friday arrival of Russian cargo ship at the International Space Station.

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9/12/2008 2:38 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Saudi: OK to kill owners of 'immoral' TV networks (AP)

AP - Saudi Arabia's top judiciary official has issued a religious decree saying it is permissible to kill the owners of satellite TV networks that broadcast immoral content.

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9/11/2008 8:13 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Hurricane Ike tracked by ESA’s Envisat

Residents along the Gulf Coast are bracing for Hurricane Ike as it travels over the Gulf of Mexico after ripping through Cuba and Haiti. ESA’s Envisat satellite is tracking the storm, which is forecast to make landfall on the Texas coast by 13 September.

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9/11/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

NASA Conducts First Test On New Motor For The Ares I Rocket

Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., have completed first-round testing of a critical motor for NASA's new Ares I rocket.

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9/11/2008 9:35 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Replay undocking Jules Verne ATV

The view from the International Space Station as Europe’s first Automated Transfer Vehicle, Jules Verne, retreats away from the orbital outpost following undocking.

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9/11/2008 3:56 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

ESA looks for a name for its next long-term mission to the ISS

In May 2009, ESA astronaut Frank De Winne, of Belgian nationality and a member of the European Astronaut Corps, will fly to the International Space Station for a six-month mission. ESA is holding a competition to find a name for the mission.

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9/11/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

NASA'S Space Shuttle Endeavour To Move To Launch Pad Sept. 18

Space shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to roll out to Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Thursday, Sept. 18, in preparation for shuttle Atlantis' mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

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9/11/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

NASA'S Johnson Space Center Closes For Ike

NASA's Johnson Space Center will close at noon CDT Thursday and remain closed until the threat of Hurricane Ike has passed.

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9/11/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Hurricane Ike Impact Felt In Space

Hurricane Ike has delayed the scheduled Friday arrival of a Russian Progress cargo ship at the International Space Station 220 miles above Earth.

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9/11/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 0 Rating: -

NASA Astronauts Connect With Lucky Las Vegas School Kids

Students will chat with NASA's Expedition 17 astronauts aboard the International Space Station from 11:15 a.m. to 11:35 a.m. PDT at the Jim Bridger Middle School.

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9/22/2008 11:01 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Premier League: John Carew backs Aston Villa for the long haul

Aston Villa striker John Carew is excited by the squad's strength and sees potential for a successful season ahead

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9/22/2008 11:02 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Boxing: Carl Froch welcomes his super-middleweight title showdown with Jean Pascal

After a frustrating 12 months for Carl Froch, he is to fight the Canadian Jean Pascal for the vacant WBC super-middleweight title

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9/22/2008 11:02 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Clarke: Olazábal should take charge for 2010

Darren Clarke believes the Spaniard is the strongest candidate to captain Europe's Ryder Cup team at Celtic Manor

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9/22/2008 11:02 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Formula one: Lewis Hamilton to hear appeal decision

The verdict on the appeal against Lewis Hamilton's Belgian grand prix penalty is to be delivered in Singapore

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9/22/2008 11:02 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Embarrassed Leeds stay silent with Wigan repeat in mind

Leeds Rhinos have refused to discuss the weaknesses exposed in their 38-10 humiliation at the hands of St Helens

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9/22/2008 11:06 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

A cricketing Eden caught in no man's land

Harold Pinter's love of the game suggests that the names of his characters are more than mere coincidence

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9/22/2008 11:07 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Ryder Cup: Nick Faldo - the captain who failed from start to finish

From his tactical choices to his testy relationship with the press, Nick Faldo's Ryder Cup was an exhibition of poor leadership

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9/22/2008 11:01 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Premier League: Mikel John Obi happy to take on role of Luiz Felipe Scolari's middle man at Chelsea

Mikel John Obi is thriving under his new manager after disappointments with Luiz Felipe Scolari's two predecessors

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9/22/2008 11:09 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Premier League: Talk of crisis at Manchester United is premature but Sir Alex Ferguson has problems to solve

The biggest threat to Manchester United's third consecutive league title comes from the imbalances in their squad

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9/22/2008 11:09 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Ryder Cup: Southern men prove the trump card in Azinger's grand plan

Paul Azinger's decision to bring together Holmes, Weekley, Perry and Furyk made a crucial difference at Valhalla

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9/22/2008 9:19 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Robert Weintraub: US sport stadiums are built to maximise profit

Robert Weintraub: Football matches in the UK are packed, but in the US the effort to maximise sports stadiums' profitability is keeping fans away

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9/22/2008 11:01 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Premier League: Manchester United dissent shows respect for referees is still a long way off

Premier League managers and players have responded poorly to the campaign encouraging respect for referees

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9/22/2008 11:02 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Cricket: Sponsor row intensifies to pile doubt on Stanford Twenty20

A legal battle between the Stanford Twenty20 organisers and telecoms company Digicel has threatened to derail the series

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9/22/2008 11:02 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Golf: Ian Poulter's claim of shoulder-barging adds to post-Ryder Cup rancour

Ian Poulter added to Lee Westwood's criticism of crowd behaviour at Valhalla with accusations aimed at an unnamed US player

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9/22/2008 11:02 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Cricket: Alan Butcher shown the door after season of woe at Surrey

The Surrey coach, Alan Butcher, is understood to have left the club following their relegation to the County Championship's Second Division

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9/22/2008 11:07 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Scouting report: Craig Mackail-Smith, Peterborough United

The Peterborough United striker is a versatile and industrious goalscorer who has improved with each step up in class

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9/22/2008 11:16 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Boxing: Amir Khan hires Freddie Roach in bid to bounce back from defeat

Freddie Roach has said that he is to train Amir Khan for his comeback fight in December

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9/22/2008 11:01 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Premier League: Kenny Dalglish rules out Newcastle return as Mike Ashley's search goes on

Mike Ashley is struggling to find either a buyer or a manager for Newcastle United and Kenny Dalglish will definitely not be filling the latter role

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9/22/2008 11:02 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Ryder Cup: Potent combination of putting and planning outfoxed Europe

The Ryder Cup's tactical contest was like a pub team taking on Manchester United, writes John Huggan

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9/22/2008 11:02 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Rugby union: Premier Rugby draws Scotland's ire by blocking release of players

Scottish Rugby has lodged a report over the unavailability of 10 English-based players for a training camp at Murrayfield

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9/22/2008 11:02 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Cycling: Business as usual as Nicole Cooke prepares to take on world

Victory in Beijing has given Nicole Cooke a spring in her step as she heads to the world road-race championships

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9/21/2008 9:11 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Football: Matt Derbyshire staying patient in pursuit of a regular role at Blackburn

Matt Derbyshire scored a late winner against Fulham, a goal he hopes will help him secure a starting place at Blackburn

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9/21/2008 11:06 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Football: Rio Ferdinand risks wrath of FA as Luiz Felipe Scolari says Manchester United lack respect

Rio Ferdinand could face an FA charge following his outburst against referee Mike Riley

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9/21/2008 11:07 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Golf: Ryder Cup - American interest in the cup runneth over to remove fears for future

The Ryder Cup was sport at its pinnacle and the host's victory has secured the future of the competition in the USA

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9/21/2008 11:07 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Golf: Justin Rose blossoms again as Phil Mickelson wilts under home-crowd pressure

Phil Mickelson failed to live up to the hopes of the home crowd as Justin Rose stayed calm

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9/22/2008 6:37 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Ryder Cup: European captain Nick Faldo insists he has no regrets

Despite saying he wouldn't captain Europe again, Nick Faldo was adamant that he had made the right decisions at Valhalla

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9/22/2008 10:57 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Carling Cup: Injury rules Mido out of Middlesbrough's match with Manchester United clash

Carling Cup preview: Middlesbrough look likely to be without their top scorer for their third round tie at Manchester United

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9/22/2008 11:40 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

La Liga: Sid Lowe on Real Sporting de Gijón's La Liga return

Barcelona's arrival confirmed Sporting's top-flight return and even a hammering couldn't dent the devotion of their fans

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9/22/2008 12:01 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Tom Lutz on the Miami Dolphins' win over the New England Patriots

Tom Brady's injury is looking a lot more costly for New England after their defence was fooled again and again by Miami

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9/22/2008 5:29 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Football: Chelsea suffer double Ricardo Carvalho and Deco injury blow

Ricardo Carvalho could be out for a month with a knee injury while Deco has been ruled out for two weeks

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9/22/2008 7:34 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Red Sox fail to clinch playoff spot (AP)

For one night, at least, Jensen Lewis didn't have to watch the Red Sox celebrate again. Lewis struck out Jed Lowrie with runners on second and third in the ninth inning, preserving the Cleveland Indians' 4-3 win Monday in their first game in Boston since the Red Sox beat them in the AL championship series last year.

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9/21/2008 9:46 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Ryder Cup: Nick Faldo's big gamble misfires as US regain Ryder Cup at a canter

The United States had sealed victory well before four of Europe's strongest players had finished their rounds

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9/21/2008 11:07 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Rugby union: Josh Lewsey the fall guy as Saints kick Wasps into submission

Struggling Wasps lost 24-20 to Northampton to mark the champions' worst ever start to a Premiership campaign

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9/21/2008 11:07 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Rugby union: Red for Blue gives Munster green light to go through to league lead

Munster took advantage of Robin Sowden-Taylor's sin-binning to defeat Cardiff 28-20 and go top of the league

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9/21/2008 11:07 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Golf: Tiger Woods frustrated by armchair role but keeps in touch by text

US Ryder Cup captain Paul Azinger has revealed Tiger Woods' encouragement from afar

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9/21/2008 11:42 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Ryder Cup: Is four-point Ian Poulter the next Colin Montgomerie?

Nick Faldo's decision to pick Ian Poulter ahead of Darren Clarke was vindicated by the Englishman's performance

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9/22/2008 12:09 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Ryder Cup: Dismantling of Sergio García by Anthony Kim the magnificent puts States on track

Spaniard's record and form meant he was never likely to hand Europe bright start

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9/22/2008 9:56 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Eredivisie: Leander Schaerlaeckens on Dutch football's domestic dramas

Disastrous in Europe but exciting at home, the Eredivisie is in danger of becoming dwarfed, writes Leander Schaerlaeckens

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9/22/2008 10:39 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Nascar: Greg Biffle sets the pace in the Chase for the Sprint Cup

Greg Biffle won his second consecutive Sprint Cup race as former favourite Kyle Busch was forced to retire from the race

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9/22/2008 11:30 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Ryder Cup TV ratings: 1.2m watch Europe lose to US

Nearly 1.2 million viewers tuned in to – and then turned off – Sky Sports 1 as Europe lost the Ryder Cup to the US last night, Sunday September 21. By John Plunkett

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9/22/2008 12:17 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Football: Geraint Williams leaves struggling Colchester United

Geraint Williams has left League One Colchester by mutual consent after Saturday's defeat to MK Dons

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9/22/2008 1:59 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Browns considering switch to Quinn at QB (AP)

Brady Quinn hurried from the shower, dressed quickly and hustled out of Cleveland's locker room so he wouldn't be late for Monday's team meeting. "Sorry, guys," he said to reporters after taking only a few questions. Quinn was on the run, and the Browns' popular backup quarterback could soon be moving up the depth chart.

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9/22/2008 2:01 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Ford Jr.: Millen should leave Lions (AP)

Bill Ford Jr. has seen enough of the way team president Matt Millen is running his father's Detroit Lions. The Ford Motor Co. executive chairman spoke to reporters Monday after a Detroit Economic Club meeting. The vice chairman of the Lions said he was disappointed in the team's performance and said fans deserve better.

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9/22/2008 2:03 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Ryder Cup golf: Ian Poulter and other European team members have grumbled about the US team's behaviour

The European Ryder Cup team have complained about the behaviour of some of their American counterparts

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9/22/2008 2:35 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Carmona suspended 6 games, Sheffield 4 (AP)

Cleveland pitcher Fausto Carmona was suspended six games and Detroit slugger Gary Sheffield was penalized four games Monday for their brawl last week. Indians catcher Victor Martinez and infielder Asdrubal Cabrera were suspended three games each and fined an undisclosed amount by Major League Baseball disciplinarian Bob Watson.

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9/22/2008 2:56 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Colangelo inclined to stay with US hoops (AP)

After building an Olympic gold medal-winning team, Jerry Colangelo might make a run at another championship with USA Basketball. "I'm kind of leaning toward continuing, but we still have some things that we're talking through just in terms of organization," Colangelo said Monday at a luncheon benefiting the Special Olympics of Arizona.

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9/22/2008 4:02 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

AL Central showdown: ChiSox, Twins meet (AP)

Neither the Chicago White Sox nor the Minnesota Twins have been playing like contenders over the past month. They're determined to change that during the final week of the regular season. The White Sox will bring a 2 1/2 -game lead in the AL Central over the Twins to a packed-and-loud Metrodome Tuesday for the start of a three-game series that should, finally, define this slow-developing race.

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9/22/2008 4:30 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Championship: Watford and Reading will not replay 'phantom goal' game, says Football League

The Football League has confirmed there will be no repeat of the Championship game between Watford and Reading