News Predator - Science News Archive 9/23/2008

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Italy returns piece of Parthenon Marbles to Greece (AP)

AP - Greece has finally taken possession of a chunk of the Elgin Marbles, and now holds renewed hopes of regaining the rest.

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9/23/2008 9:23 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

NOAA administrator leaving (AP)

AP - Conrad C. Lautenbacher is resigning as head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, he announced Tuesday.

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US-SCIENCE Summary (Reuters)

Reuters - Deal keeps U.S. on International Space Station

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9/23/2008 9:28 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Sun's wind and output on extended dimmer switch (AP)

AP - The sun has dialed back its furnace to the lowest levels seen in the space age, new measurements from a space probe show.

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Researcher finds tiny dino in world of giants (Reuters)

Reuters - A Canadian researcher has discovered what is believed to be North America's smallest dinosaur, a 70-million-year-old chicken-sized beast that was also unusual for its diet of insects.

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9/23/2008 9:51 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

You Write the Melody, Computer Handles Harmony (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - It might be better than Guitar Hero. A new computer program can generate spot-on music accompaniment tailored to the unique styles of different bands.

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9/23/2008 11:23 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

US astronomers discover inter-planetary collision (AFP)

AFP - Two planets about 300 light years from Earth slammed into each other recently, US astronomers said Tuesday, the first time evidence of such a catastrophic collision has been seen by scientists.

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9/23/2008 9:50 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

House votes to end offshore drilling ban (AP)

AP - The House, responding to growing public demand for more domestic energy, voted Wednesday to end a quarter-century ban on oil and natural gas drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, giving Republicans a major victory on energy policy.

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9/23/2008 9:15 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Oh, My! When Worlds Really Collide (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - Around a distant star, two planets similar to Earth collided and were destroyed, astronomers said today.

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

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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9/23/2008 1:43 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

US ex-astronaut's son to be next space tourist (AP)

AP - As a computer game designer, he's made millions creating fantasy worlds. Now, Richard Garriott will live out his own fantasy of spaceflight. Garriott, 47, will become the first child of a U.S. astronaut to travel to space when he takes his $30 million seat aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule set to lift off Oct. 12 for the international space station.

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9/23/2008 7:27 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

EDF makes new offer for British Energy: source (AFP)

AFP - Directors at French electricity firm EDF on Tuesday approved a new offer for British Energy that the British group urged its shareholders to accept, a source close to the matter said.

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9/23/2008 12:03 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Saturn's rings are older than thought, say astronomers (AFP)

AFP - Saturn's rings are more massive and far older than previously thought, astronomers reported on Tuesday.

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9/23/2008 2:24 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Researchers hope for change on stem cell politics (Reuters)

Reuters - Stem cell experts said on Monday they hope the next U.S. president will end political curbs on embryonic stem cell research but some worry recent comments by Republican candidate John McCain suggest his past support for such research may be waning.

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9/23/2008 6:15 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Winter, repairs stall atom smasher until spring (AP)

AP - Scientists will have to wait until spring to use the world's biggest particle collider for groundbreaking research because repairs to damage will run into the laboratory's normal winter shutdown, the operators said Tuesday.

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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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9/23/2008 12:11 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Little Mars rover that could heads to new crater (Reuters)

Reuters - The aging but intrepid Mars rover Opportunity is set to embark on a two-year mission it may never complete -- a 7-mile (12-km) journey to a crater far bigger than one it has called home for two years, NASA said on Monday.

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9/23/2008 4:37 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Typhoon kills 3 in Philippines, heads for China (Reuters)

Reuters - A typhoon was gathering strength in the South China Sea on Tuesday and heading toward Hong Kong after killing three people in the northern Philippines and trapping 13 people in a gold mine.

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9/23/2008 4:16 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Chocolate Helps Heart Stay Healthy (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - A small square of dark chocolate daily protects the heart from inflammation and subsequent heart disease, a new study of Italians suggests. Milk chocolate might not do the job.

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9/23/2008 5:32 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Tiny Dino Fed on Termites (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Even in the dinosaur world, the small and dainty existed, in the form of a mini-dino that likely didn't terrorize any creatures other than termites.

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9/23/2008 5:45 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Obama Backs NASA Waiver, Possible Shuttle Extension (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - WASHINGTON ? Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is urging Congress to take several steps to ensure the United States can continue to access the international space station beyond 2011.

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9/23/2008 8:27 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Hormone therapy may cut breast cancer risk in some (Reuters)

Reuters - Hormone replacement therapy, which raises breast cancer risk for some women, appears to reduce the risk for those with a certain genetic mutation linked to the disease, researchers said on Tuesday.

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9/23/2008 1:01 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Typhoon Hagupit approaches Hong Kong (AP)

AP - Typhoon Hagupit spun closer to Hong Kong on Tuesday forcing the city to shut schools and halt flights.

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Hong Kong braces for Typhoon Hagupit (AFP)

AFP - Hong Kong braced itself for severe storms on Tuesday as Typhoon Hagupit hurtled towards the southern Chinese city.

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9/23/2008 1:32 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

How to Cheat Death (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - When you add up the risks of dying from all sorts of illnesses and accidents - from the 1 in 5 chance of dying of heart disease, to the remote 1 in 3.7 million chance of being eaten by a shark, to the very real risk of bleeding to death from the ears from listening to too much Yanni - your chances of dying come out to be about 110 percent.

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9/23/2008 2:46 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Shell, Iraq seal $4 billion gas deal (AFP)

AFP - Royal Dutch Shell has formally signed a gas joint venture with an Iraqi state-owned company estimated to be worth four billion dollars, a top government oil official said on Tuesday.

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9/23/2008 6:21 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Now viewing: Long-lost Einstein telescope restored (AP)

AP - Albert Einstein's long-lost telescope, forgotten for decades in a Jerusalem storage shed, goes on display this week after three years and $10,000 spent restoring the relic.

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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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9/21/2008 10:05 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

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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9/23/2008 10:47 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Scientists find sun less blustery than before (Reuters)

Reuters - The sun's winds are less blustery than they used to be, NASA said on Tuesday, revealing data from a solar probe that promises new insights about Earth's local star but poses few if any consequences for humans -- unless you're an astronaut.

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9/23/2008 9:45 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Sun's Wind Is Lowest Ever Recorded (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - A wind of charged particles that stream constantly from the sun is at its lowest level ever recorded in the 50 years since spacecraft have made the measurement possible.

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9/23/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Ulysses Reveals Global Solar Wind Plasma Output At 50-Year Low

Data from the Ulysses spacecraft show the sun has reduced its output of solar wind to the lowest levels since accurate readings became available.

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9/23/2008 2:31 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Mars Rover Sets Sights on Biggest Crater Yet (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - After a two-year stay in Mar's Victoria Crater, NASA's Opportunity rover will be moving on to an even bigger playground.

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9/23/2008 6:46 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Hubble Astronauts Behind in Training for Oct. 10 Launch (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - The seven NASA astronauts preparing to rocket toward the Hubble Space Telescope next month aboard the shuttle Atlantis are a week behind in their training due to the recent Hurricane Ike, making it difficult to keep to the planned Oct. 10 launch, the mission's commander said Tuesday.

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9/23/2008 12:15 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Ulysses spacecraft data indicate Solar System shield lowering

Data from the joint ESA/NASA Ulysses mission show that the Sun has reduced its output of solar wind to the lowest levels since accurate readings have become available. This current state of the Sun could reduce the natural shielding that envelops our Solar System.

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9/23/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

50th Anniversary Gala Event Carried Live On NASA TV and Internet

NASA Television and www.nasa.gov will broadcast a gala event commemorating the agency's Golden Anniversary on Wednesday, Sept. 24, at 8 p.m. EDT.

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9/23/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

NASA to Preview Next Space Station Expedition

The work of the next International Space Station residents will be previewed in a briefing broadcast on NASA Television at 1 p.m. CDT Thursday, Sept. 25, from NASA's Johnson Space Center.

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9/23/2008 3:00 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Emergency support for Jules Verne ATV successfully given by Artemis

Artemis, ESA's data relay satellite, successfully answered the call for emergency services from the ATV Control Centre due to anticipated outages at the NASA Space Centre in Houston, Texas.

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9/23/2008 11:32 AM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Scuttling Shuttle: Big Challenges for NASA's New Spaceship (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - As NASA's 50th anniversary approaches, the agency finds itself at a crossroads between the waning era of the U.S. space shuttle and serious hurdles ahead to build a replacement spaceship while still keeping American astronauts flying.

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9/23/2008 8:15 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

SpaceX Pushes Back Falcon 1 Launch After Static Fire Test (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - WASHINGTON — Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) is now shooting for no earlier than Sept. 28 for the next launch of its Falcon 1 rocket.

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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.

Sports

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9/23/2008 11:51 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

CIS Cup: Celtic 4-0 Livingston

Georgios Samaras scored twice for Celtic against Livingston, as the Glasgow club eased into the next round 4-0

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9/23/2008 10:29 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Carling Cup: Watford 1-0 West Ham United

Gianfranco Zola tasted defeat at West Ham United for the first time as his side went down 1-0 at Watford

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9/23/2008 11:04 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

The Big Debate: Is the shift into Asia the right road for formula one?

Ian Phillips says the sport should go to countries that want to pay for it while Sir Jackie Stewart argues we must put Europe first

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9/23/2008 11:52 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Athletics: Charles Van Commenee offers to 'welcome back' Chambers

The new head coach of UK Athletics, Charles van Commenee, has controversially offered an olive branch to Dwain Chambers

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9/23/2008 10:08 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Carling Cup: Manchester United 3-1 Middlesbrough

Nani helped Manchester United to victory over Middlesbrough, but the match was marred by an horrific injury to Rodrigo Possebon

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9/23/2008 10:22 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Carling Cup: Liverpool 2-1 Crewe Alexandra

Crewe Alexandra almost caused an upset at Anfield, but goals from Daniel Agger and Lucas helped Liverpool through

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9/23/2008 11:30 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Carling Cup: Sir Alex Ferguson furious over Emanuel Pogatetz's 'horrific tackle' on Rodrigo Possebon

Sir Alex Ferguson has condemned Emanuel Pogatetz's challenge that left Rodrigo Possebon with a suspected broken leg

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9/23/2008 11:52 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Formula one: Lewis Hamilton faces fraught title run-in as FIA reject appeal

McLaren's appeal against the 25-second penalty incurred by Lewis Hamilton has been turned down by the FIA

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9/23/2008 11:12 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Business as usual for Betfair backers hit by charges

Greg Wood talks to punters at the Canary Wharf Sports Exchange who are facing up to losing some of their winnings

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9/23/2008 11:51 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Digger: Paul Aldridge may be called in West Ham United appeal

The former West Ham United chief executive, Paul Aldridge, could be called to present evidence in the Carlos Tevez affair

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9/23/2008 9:10 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Football: Hearts promise to pay players' wages by Friday after 'glitch'

Concerns have mounted over cashflow at Tynecastle following the club's failure to pay staff and players their weekly salary

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9/23/2008 10:16 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Carling Cup: Arsenal 6-0 Sheffield United

Carlos Vela scored a hat-trick as Arsenal's youngsters thrashed Sheffield United 6-0

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9/23/2008 10:23 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Carling Cup: Burnley 1-0 Fulham

Burnley's Jay Rodriguez scored a late winner to send Fulham crashing out of the Carling Cup

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9/23/2008 11:04 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Premier League: Top clubs beat the crunch with loyalty and long deals

Despite banking meltdown, big crowds and TV money make the Premier League an industry that can cope

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9/23/2008 11:04 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

The soul of football followers has gone for a song, says Rob Bagchi

Whipping fans of the game into a frenzy with banal songs is a demeaning attempt to turn each of us into Pavlov's dog

guardian.co.uk Sport
9/23/2008 11:12 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Ruthless approach will bring medals, says the new head coach of UK Athletics, Charles Van Commenee

Charles van Commenee talks about the principles he will apply as the new head coach of UK Athletics

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9/23/2008 11:51 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Premier League: West Ham United seek legal way out of Tevez ruling

West Ham may appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport after an independent tribunal ruled against them in the Carlos Tevez affair

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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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9/23/2008 11:15 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Football: Igor Biscan tells Jonathan Wilson about life after Liverpool

Dinamo Zagreb's domestic supremacy spells bad news for their European aspirations, according to Igor Biscan

guardian.co.uk Sport
9/23/2008 11:20 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

The Spin: Lawrence Booth previews the India v Australia Test series

England will be keeping a keen eye on how Australia's inexperienced bowlers perform when they take on India in the four-Test series

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9/23/2008 12:33 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Premier League: The full text of Arsène Wenger's motivational handout

From believing in the team to always wanting more, read Arsène Wenger's motivational memo

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9/23/2008 1:19 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Tennis: Britain to host Ukraine in Davis Cup

Today's Davis Cup draw has handed Great Britain a home tie against Ukraine in May

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9/23/2008 2:32 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Formula one: FIA reject McLaren's Hamilton appeal

McLaren's appeal against the penalty imposed on Lewis Hamilton at the Belgian grand prix has been rejected

guardian.co.uk Sport
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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9/23/2008 3:57 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

18 arrested for stealing pieces of Yankee Stadium (AP)

New York City police say they arrested more than a dozen people for stealing pieces of Yankee Stadium during the 85-year-old ballpark's final game. Police say 18 fans were charged with possessing stolen property. Officers were out in force for the stadium's final game on Sunday to keep souvenir hunters from tearing away pieces of the place.

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9/23/2008 12:25 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Cricket: Steve Harmison and Marcus Trescothick have been nominated for the PCA Player of the Year award

Steve Harmison and Marcus Trescothick are among four nominees for the PCA player of the year award

Yahoo! Sports - Top News
9/23/2008 2:52 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Mangini expects Favre to play Sunday (AP)

Don't fret, Jets fans. Brett Favre's playing streak appears safe. The New York quarterback rolled his left ankle during the third quarter of the Jets' 48-29 loss at San Diego on Monday night, but coach Eric Mangini wasn't overly concerned about Favre's injury. "Brett usually plays," Mangini said Tuesday, "and I would anticipate the same." Favre was limping noticeably after the injury and in the...

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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

guardian.co.uk Sport
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

guardian.co.uk Sport
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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9/23/2008 7:42 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Tuesday's football transfer rumours: Newcastle to Nigeria?

Juande Ramos to leave Spurs | Simon Vukcevic to join Spurs | Robbie Savage to go to anywhere but Derby

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9/23/2008 9:29 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Bundesliga: Raphael Honigstein on Bayern Munich's defeat against Werder Bremen

While it's too early to write Jürgen Klinsmann off, Bayern Munich's heavy loss is a cause for concern, writes Raphael Honigstein

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9/23/2008 10:52 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Football: Platini outburst leaves Wenger 'stunned'

Arsène Wenger says he is stunned by criticisms levelled at him by Uefa president Michel Platini

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9/23/2008 2:36 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Premier League: Michael Owen admits sadness at Kevin Keegan departure from Newcastle

Michael Owen has urged his Newcastle team-mates to shift the gloom around the club following Kevin Keegan's departure

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9/23/2008 4:51 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Football: The Premier League is satisfied that Portsmouth FC is owned by Alexandre Gaydamak

The Premier League has today assured Portsmouth that it is satisfied that the club is owned entirely by Alexandre Gaydamak

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9/23/2008 4:53 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Ryder Cup: Lee Westwood moves to calm accusations of sour grapes

Lee Westwood has spoken out in praise of the American team after comments he made in the wake of Europe's Ryder Cup defeat

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9/23/2008 4:55 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Rays win DH opener, magic number now 3 (AP)

The Tampa Bay Rays keep on reaching milestones, and their latest victory brought them closer to perhaps the most significant accomplishment of a magical regular season. James Shields pitched seven effective innings to earn his 14th win, and the Rays reduced their magic number to win the AL East to three by beating the Baltimore Orioles 5-2 Tuesday night in the first game of a doubleheader.

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9/23/2008 8:13 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Twins rout White Sox, pull within 1 1-2 (AP)

Javier Vazquez has been fighting the label of big-game flopper for his entire career. That fight will only intensify after falling flat in his latest chance with the ball in his hands and a lot on the line. Two days after Ozzie Guillen said Vazquez hasn't been a big-game pitcher during his career, the White Sox right-hander lasted just four innings in a 9-3 loss to Minnesota on Tuesday night that...

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