News Predator - Science News Archive 10/9/2008

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Alaska: State with a long history of take and give (AP)

AP - Alaska is awash in billions of surplus dollars from the current high oil prices and a tax hike on the oil industry, but it remains at the forefront of states feeding at the federal trough.

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Sounds of Volcanic Eruption Recreated (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - In a high-tech version of those baking soda-and-vinegar experiments at science fairs, scientists have simulated a key stage of volcanic eruptions where steam and other fluids rushing through cracks in underground rocks create particular "acoustic emissions."

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Biogen discontinues experimental arthritis drug (Reuters)

Reuters - Biogen Idec Inc said on Thursday it will discontinue development of baminercept as a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis after the experimental drug failed to prove effective in a mid-stage trial.

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BP contract worker dies near Texas City refinery (Reuters)

Reuters - BP Plc on Thursday confirmed that a worker for a contractor died after an accident at a waste disposal area near the company's Texas City refinery.

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Mysterious DNA Found to Survive Eons of Evolution (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Scientists have discovered mystery snippets of mammal DNA that have survived eons of evolution and yet have no apparent purpose. The finding reveals just how much we don't know about the secrets hidden in our genome and that of other animals.

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Google-sponsored satellite sends first image (AFP)

AFP - A Google-sponsored satellite has beamed its first picture back to Earth in a successful test of a camera that will supply images for the Internet giant's free online map and navigation services.

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10/9/2008 7:47 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Tropical species also threatened by climate change (AP)

AP - If you can't stand global warming, get out of the tropics. While the most significant harm from climate change so far has been in the polar regions, tropical plants and animals may face an even greater threat, say scientists who studied conditions in Costa Rica.

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Hurricane Ike produces 76,000 damage claims so far (AP)

AP - More than 76,000 damage claims from Hurricane Ike have been filed with the Texas-backed windstorm insurance association, which expects to pay billions of dollars to policy holders for losses.

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How Brachiosaurs Got So Huge (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Brachiosaurs and other long-necked giants of the dinosaur world weighed as much as 10 African elephants. Researchers now think they know why the tubby vegetarian beasts got so big: They swallowed high-energy foods whole.

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Tropical Storm Odile forms in Pacific Ocean (AP)

AP - The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Odile has formed in the Pacific Ocean.

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Satellite images document South Ossetia destruction (Reuters)

Reuters - Satellite images taken just after a battle between Georgia and Russia over the region of South Ossetia show fresh damage to villages continued for days after the initial clash, researchers and human rights activists reported on Thursday.

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McCain and Obama's energy proposals (AP)

AP - Republican John McCain: Favors increased offshore drilling and building 45 nuclear power reactors by 2030.

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Gene-testing startup's study responds to critics (AP)

AP - A Silicon Valley gene-testing startup is responding to criticism that the tests could spur bad health-care choices by teaming up for a broad study of how the results affect behavior.

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Scientist warns cash woes 'devastating' to science (AP)

AP - Famed scientist Richard Leakey warned that the worldwide credit crisis will be "just devastating" to scientific research in coming years, as endowment interest income drops and companies cut donations.

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Europeans reject animal cloning for food: survey (Reuters)

Reuters - Most Europeans have reservations about cloning animals for food, while 67 percent see cloning as justified if used to preserve rare animal species, a survey that could help forge EU policy in the area showed on Thursday.

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Beaver Dams Boost Songbird Populations (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - The busy beaver's iconic dams do more than hold back streams; they also provide critical habitat to some migratory songbirds, a new study finds.

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Georgia villages "torched," satellite study shows (Reuters)

Reuters - Hundreds of houses in ethnic Georgian villages in South Ossetia were torched in August, after Russian troops took control of the area, according to an analysis of satellite images released on Thursday.

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10/9/2008 6:51 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Big Issue: Energy crisis hitting home (AP)

AP - When oil topped $100 a barrel earlier this year, and gasoline prices soared above $4 a gallon, Americans cried out for relief.

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American Dream and Middle Class in Jeopardy (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - The presidential candidates say they connect with and "get" the American middle-class. And the government's bailout plan for Wall Street has been billed as the best way to help Main Street keep its white picket fences.

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Global warming sending tropical species uphill: study (AFP)

AFP - Global warming is driving tropical plant and animal species to higher altitudes, potentially leaving lowland rainforest with nothing to take their place, ecologists argue in this week's issue of Science.

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Court wrestles with case on Navy sonar, whales (AP)

AP - The Supreme Court appeared divided Wednesday over how to resolve a long-running dispute over whether environmental laws may be used to limit the Navy's use of sonar to protect whales.

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Satellite images document S. Ossetia destruction (Reuters)

Reuters - Satellite images taken just after a battle between Georgia and Russia over the region of South Ossetia show fresh damage to villages continued for days after the initial clash, researchers and human rights activists reported Thursday.

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Babies Know Happy From Sad Songs (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Babies as young as 5 months can distinguish an upbeat tune, such as "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, from a lineup of gloomy tunes.

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Satellites collect data on sea temperatures, reefs (AP)

AP - Satellites are helping scientists expand a virtual network to watch for increases in ocean temperatures that can damage or kill the fragile ecosystems of coral reefs worldwide.

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Future of flagship Mars mission up in the air (AP)

AP - Will NASA's flagship mission to Mars fly next year? The space agency could decide as early as Friday whether to cancel, delay or proceed with plans to launch a nuclear-powered, SUV-size rover to the red planet.

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10/8/2008 9:57 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Hurricane Norbert nears Mexico (AFP)

AFP - Norbert has become a major hurricane with winds near 115 miles (185 kilometers) per hour, as it churns towards Mexico's tourist destination of Baja, California, the National Hurricane Center said Wednesday.

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How Green Gasoline Could Power the Future (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Editor's Note: Each Wednesday LiveScience examines the viability of emerging energy technologies - the power of the future.

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Stem cells from testicles an option to embryos (AP)

AP - Cells taken from men's testicles seem as versatile as the stem cells derived from embryos, researchers reported Wednesday in what may be yet another new approach in a burgeoning scientific field.

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Asteroid Exploded in Earth's Atmosphere (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - A small asteroid exploded over Africa this week following what astronomers said was the first firm prediction of an incoming space rock.

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Expect severe winter in East: forecaster (Reuters)

Reuters - The eastern United States could be on the verge of its coldest, snowiest winter since at least 2003-04, and homeowners should brace for huge heating bills if oil prices stay high, private forecaster AccuWeather said on Wednesday.

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Blood Cell Genes May Signal Heart Disease (HealthDay)

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Oct. 8 (HealthDay News) -- A test that measures the activity of genes in white blood cells might someday help doctors determine the proper treatment when someone complains of chest pain, researchers report.

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10/8/2008 7:54 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Hundreds of new marine species discovered: Australian scientists (AFP)

AFP - Hundreds of new marine species and previously uncharted undersea mountains and canyons have been discovered in the depths of the Southern Ocean, Australian scientists said Wednesday.

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Climate change poised to devastate penguins: WWF (AFP)

AFP - Half to three-quarters of major Antarctic penguin colonies could be damaged or wiped out if global temperatures are allowed to climb by more than two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), according to a report released Wednesday.

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Genetics: Scientists unravel two more strains of malaria parasite (AFP/USDA/File)

AFP/USDA/File - Scientists on Wednesday said they had cracked the genetic codes of a major malaria parasite and a monkey parasite also suspected of spreading the disease, an achievement adding to the sequencing six years ago of Plasmodium falciparum, the greatest malarial threat.

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Bringing Space Down to Your iPhone (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - Bored of checking that stripped-down version of Facebook? Try space instead. NASA will phone home daily views of the infinite cosmos, as long as you're sporting a shiny new Apple iPhone and a neat new software application.

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Death Rituals Reveal Much About Ancient Life (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Cultures around the world and through time have had wildly varying ways of dealing with the dead. And since death weighs so heavy on a culture and is ultimately so mysterious, records of these practices, or "deathways," are often more abundant than other ancient cultural accounts and provide illuminating windows into other cultures.

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Tropical Storm Marco Weakening (weather.com)

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Thousands march against Garcia, corruption in Peru (Reuters)

Reuters - Thousands of protesters denounced Peruvian President Alan Garcia on Tuesday, a day after his energy minister quit in a widening scandal over steering oil concessions to favored bidders.

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Disasters kill more in 2008 than in tsunami: UN (AFP)

AFP - More people died from natural disasters in the first six months of 2008 than in the Asian tsunami of 2004 due mainly to the earthquake in China and cyclone in Myanmar, the United Nations said Wednesday.

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Deep-Diving Fish Set Surpising Record (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Swarms of fish have been filmed swimming in one of the world's deepest ocean trenches, nearly five miles (nearly eight kilometers) below the surface of the Pacific Ocean.

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NASA Chief Thanks Obama for Helping With Soyuz Waiver (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - WASHINGTON ? NASA Administrator Mike Griffin credited Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama for spurring Congress to action on legislation allowing the U.S. space agency to buy the Russian Soyuz flights its needs to send astronauts to the international space station beyond 2011.

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Ohio family finds 7-foot snake under car hood (AP)

AP - Animal authorities in western Ohio have a possible sequel to "Snakes on a Plane": a case of a snake in a car. The Clark County Humane Society is looking for the owner of a 7-foot-long boa constrictor found under the hood of a vehicle in Springfield.

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10/8/2008 5:35 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

University: Stem-cell study used falsified data (AP)

AP - The University of Minnesota has concluded that falsified data were used in a 2001 article published by one of its researchers on adult stem cells. The school is asking that the article be retracted.

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10/8/2008 11:21 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

New Flying Dinosaur Drone to Resemble Pterodactyl (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Pterodactyls may have gone extinct millions of years ago, but a newly designed spy plane could bring the flying reptiles to life, albeit replacing blood and guts with carbon fiber and batteries.

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10/8/2008 3:46 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Fancy a free (electric) car? (Reuters)

Reuters - Plummeting car sales, climate change, high oil prices and the threat of global recession. The answer? Free electric cars.

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10/8/2008 4:56 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Tornado touches down near Fla. park, no one hurt (AP)

AP - Forecasters say a tornado has blown out windows and knocked down trees and power lines near a state park in the Florida Panhandle.

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NRA to settle suit over Katrina gun seizures (AP)

AP - City officials have agreed to return hundreds of firearms that police officers confiscated in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, part of a deal to resolve a lawsuit filed by gun lobbying groups.

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10/8/2008 5:38 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

French banks to merge in bid to weather storm (AFP)

AFP - Two of France's leading banks, Caisse d'Epargne and Banque Populaire, approved plans for a merger on Wednesday in a bid to protect themselves from the global financial tsunami.

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Cassini Probe Sets Sights on Icy Saturn Moon (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - A NASA spacecraft is set to make the closest flyby yet of an icy moon of Saturn on Thursday.

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GAO opens probe into gas, oil drilling in Utah (AP)

AP - Congressional investigators are looking at a federal government agency's quick approvals for oil and gas drilling in Utah, a development applauded by environmental groups but condemned by industry executives as political posturing.

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Adopt a Scientist: Geology of Other Worlds (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - While we yearn to walk on other worlds, SETI Institute scientist Cynthia Phillips strolls the surfaces of distant planets each day at her computer. She's a planetary geologist on a quest to understand how liquids change the surfaces of other worlds. She studies Mars and the icy moons of the outer solar system, mapping the evolution of their surfaces. It's all part of the search for life beyond our home planet, Earth.

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NASA Sets Briefings for Next Shuttle Mission to the Space Station

NASA will hold a series of news briefings on Monday, Nov. 3, to preview the upcoming space shuttle Endeavour mission that will outfit the International Space Station for six-person crews.

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Juno Spacecraft to Study Jupiter (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - For generations, astronomers have argued over how the planets in our solar system were formed. Today, most theories assume that planets were formed in a nebula of gas and dust that condensed around what eventually became our sun, but there is still great disagreement over details, particularly for gas giant planets like Jupiter: Did a small core form first around which each planet condensed, or did instability in the nebula cause pockets to collapse directly into planets?

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10/9/2008 6:29 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

AP IMPACT: GPS could save airlines time and fuel (AP)

AP - A World War II-era air traffic network that often forces planes to take longer, zigzagging routes is costing U.S. airlines billions of dollars in wasted fuel while an upgrade to a satellite-based system has languished in the planning stages for more than a decade.

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NASA to Provide Mars Science Laboratory Launch Update

NASA will host a media teleconference at 3 p.m. EDT, Friday, Oct. 10, to brief reporters after a meeting held by the agency's administrator concerning the Mars Science Laboratory, or MSL.

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Veteran Space Station Crew Ready to Fly (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - An American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut are preparing to blast off from their home planet Sunday to fly to the International Space Station next week.

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NASA Issues Space Shuttle to Constellation Workforce Transition Report

NASA is releasing an updated version of the Workforce Transition Strategy Report, which was delivered to Congress on Wednesday.

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Splashy portrait paints picture of how stars form

Different wavelengths of light swirl together like watercolours in a new, ethereal portrait of a bright, active star-forming region.

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NASA Selects ITT for Space Communications Network Services

NASA has selected ITT Corporation, Advanced Engineering and Sciences of Herndon, Va., to perform telemetry, tracking and command services for near-Earth missions under the Space Communications Network Services contract.

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Despite Waiver, NASA To Stop Using Russian Cargo Vehicle (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - WASHINGTON ? NASA has no intention of paying Russia to help deliver supplies to the international space station (ISS) beyond 2011 despite winning congressional and presidential approval to do so.

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10/8/2008 11:01 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Checkmate: Astronaut Battles Earth in Chess (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - Astronaut Gregory Chamitoff is taking on the world in a galactic chess match from his perch aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

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Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle – new video

In 2012, Vega will carry ESA’s Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle into space. The vehicle will then return to Earth to test a range of enabling systems and technologies for atmospheric re-entry. A new video with computer generated animations of the vehicle and its mission is now available.

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Spinoff 2008 Highlights NASA Innovations In Everyday Life

The 2008 edition of NASA's annual Spinoff publication celebrates the agency's 50th anniversary.

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10/6/2008 9:33 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Arctic Grows Stormier (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - The Arctic has become more stormy in the past 50 years due to the warming climate, which in turn has quickened the pace of drifting sea ice, a new NASA study finds.

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Millions of Names Sent to Space (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - There was a time when the only interaction the general public had with space exploration was passively via the media. Consequently, many people felt indifferent to space missions as they just didn't connect with them on a personal level.

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10/7/2008 8:52 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

2008 ozone hole larger than last year

The 2008 ozone hole – a thinning in the ozone layer over Antarctica – is larger both in size and ozone loss than 2007 but is not as large as 2006.

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10/6/2008 9:45 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Elite Club Lets Space Tourist Cut to Front of Line (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - American billionaire Charles Simonyi snagged his history-making second space tourist trip to the International Space Station next year thanks to an elite club that gives its members first dibs on private spaceflight seats.

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NASA Astronaut Talks With Student Chess Opponents Thursday

NASA astronaut Greg Chamitoff will meet his opponents in the ongoing Earth vs. space chess match Thursday, Oct. 9.

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10/7/2008 2:36 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Digital lifestyle changes NZ inflation barometer (Reuters)

Reuters - The digital age has caught up with New Zealand's inflation barometer, with music downloads and car satellite units replacing old technology television sets and writing paper.

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Collecting 50 Years of NASA Space History (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - At a celebration of NASA's 50th anniversary held outside Washington, DC late last month, a champagne toast was offered in recognition of the five decades of exploration that the agency had accomplished. NASA had put men on the moon, sent probes to the planets, and improved our understanding of life here at home.

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NASA Spacecraft Ready to Explore Outer Solar System

The first NASA spacecraft to image and map the dynamic interactions taking place where the hot solar wind slams into the cold expanse of space is ready for launch Oct. 19.

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Huge Planet Defies Explanation (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - Astronomers have sighted a very dense planet-sized object that orbits its parent star in just four days and six hours.

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Galaxy Diversity Reveals Clues to Cosmic Evolution (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - Astronomers peering out into our cosmic backyard have long understood that the Milky Way's galactic neighbors only seem similar on the surface. Now a detailed survey from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed the diversity of those galaxies as they evolve over time.

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NASA Primes Spacecraft to Probe Solar System's Fringe (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - NASA is gearing up to launch a new spacecraft to probe the fringe of the solar system this month where material from the sun hits the cold expanse of space.

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NASA And The Adler Planetarium Host NASA Future Forum In Chicago

NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale will deliver a keynote address on Friday, Oct. 10, at the Adler Planetarium, Chicago

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Small Asteroid to Streak into Earth's Atmosphere Tonight (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - A very small asteroid will streak into the skies over Sudan tonight, astronomers announced. It is expected to burn up in the atmosphere, creating a show.

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COROT discovery stirs exoplanet classification rethink

COROT has discovered a massive planet-sized object orbiting its parent star closely, unlike anything ever spotted before. It is so exotic, that scientists are unsure as to whether this oddity is actually a planet or a failed star.

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NASA Awards Future Vehicle Aircraft Research Contracts

NASA has awarded research contracts worth a total of $12.4 million to six industry teams to study advanced concepts for subsonic and supersonic commercial transport aircraft that could enter service in 25 to 30 years.

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10/3/2008 10:30 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Comet Capture Capsule Goes On Display (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - A NASA capsule that collected the first samples from a comet has become part of a collection itself.

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Astronaut's diary goes on display in Jerusalem (AP)

AP - Pages from an Israeli astronaut's diary that survived the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia and a 37-mile fall to earth are going on display this weekend for the first time in Jerusalem.

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10/3/2008 8:32 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Space tech helps to reach long-jump world record

German athlete Wojtek Czyz, running with a space-tech enhanced prosthetic leg, set a new world record at the Paralympics 2008 in Beijing, reaching an amazing 6.50 m and beating the previous world record by 27 cm.

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10/3/2008 8:30 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

ATV: the next step

Europe's ATV - the Jules Verne - ended its first mission with a controlled break-up over the Pacific. Its developers are already thinking about the future of Automated Transport Vehicles, and hope to develop a craft that can not only return to earth intact, but can also carry a crew of astronauts.

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10/3/2008 7:45 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

NASA Moves Up November Shuttle Launch (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - The space shuttle Endeavour is set to blast off two days early next month while engineers on Earth continue to study a Hubble Space Telescope glitch that added months of delay to a separate orbiter flight, NASA officials announced Friday.

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10/2/2008 11:00 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Two Companions Found Near Dog-bone Asteroid (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - A team of astronomers led by F. Marchis, PI, at the SETI Institute and at UC-Berkeley, and P. Descamps from Paris Observatory announced recently the discovery of two moons around an intriguing asteroid. The main-belt asteroid 216 Kleopatra has two companions.

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GOCE team gearing up for new launch date

ESA and European industries have updated the planning of the preparatory activities for a new tentative launch date of 27 October 2008 for the GOCE satellite.

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NASA Selects Science Teams For Astrobiology Institute

NASA has awarded five-year grants to study the origins, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe.

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NASA at 50: The Shuttle, Space Station and Beyond (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - One vehicle's operative life is coming to a close, while the other's is still in its formative stages. Their legacies will be inexorably linked: Without the space shuttle, delivery and assembly of the International Space Station's (ISS) key components would have been difficult at best, and probably could not have happened.

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10/2/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

NASA to Discuss Mission to Explore the Edge of the Solar System

NASA will hold a media teleconference on Monday, Oct. 6, at 1 p.m. EDT, to discuss the upcoming launch of the first spacecraft that will image and map the dynamic interactions taking place where the hot solar wind slams into the cold expanse of space.

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10/1/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

NASA Extends International Space Station Contract

NASA has awarded a two-year, $650 million contract extension to The Boeing Co. to continue engineering support of the International Space Station to Sept. 30, 2010.

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NASA TV Coverage Set For Space Station Crew Exchange

NASA Television will broadcast the launch of the next International Space Station crew Oct. 12.

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Listening In: Lander to Record Mars Sounds (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - NASA scientists hope to hear what it sounds like on the surface of Mars for the first time when they attempt to switch on the Phoenix Mars Lander's microphone in the next week or two, mission leaders announced on Monday.

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NASA'S Messenger Spacecraft Returns To Mercury

A NASA spacecraft will conduct the second of three flybys of Mercury on Oct. 6.

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Planck update in pictures

The Planck spacecraft has almost completed its final testing phase and is on its way to being launch-ready. The testing phase began in late March this year, and has taken the spacecraft all over Europe, making it go hot, cold and shaky to test its robustness.

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Hubble enters safe mode

At approximately 02:00 CEST on Sunday, 28 September, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope automatically entered safe mode when errors were detected in the Control Unit/Science Data Formatter-Side A.

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U.S. spacecraft poised to fly past Mercury next week (Reuters)

Reuters - A NASA spacecraft will whiz over Mercury's crater-scarred surface next Monday, getting a look at the third of the planet closest to the sun that has never been seen close-up before.

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9/30/2008 7:44 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Jules Verne re-entry video

Video showing the destructive re-entry of Jules Verne ATV at the end of a successful mission to the International Space Station. The re-entry took place over an uninhabited area of the Pacific Ocean after two deorbit burns. (Credits: ESA/NASA)

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9/30/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

NASA Assigns Crew For Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-129 Mission

NASA has assigned the crew for space shuttle Discovery's STS-129 mission

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9/30/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Cabana to Succeed Parsons as Kennedy Space Center Director

NASA announced Tuesday that William Parsons, director of the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is leaving the agency in mid-October to pursue opportunities in the private sector.

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9/29/2008 9:01 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

NASA extends Phoenix mission as snow falls on Mars (Reuters)

Reuters - NASA extended the mission of the busy Phoenix lander Monday, saying it will operate the lander until it dies in the cold and dark of the Martian winter.

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10/9/2008 11:03 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Cricket: Ricky Ponting proves point with first century in India

Ricky Ponting finally scored a Test hundred in India to add to his previous 35 centuries

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10/9/2008 11:03 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Cycling: New blood test promises doping breakthrough

Anti-doping authorities are on the verge of being able to test cyclists for blood transfusions

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10/9/2008 11:04 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Football: World Cup 2010 Qualifiers: 'Very Nice' is the Borat way to bet but laying Italy is the play for value

Bookies have created markets to drum up interest for England's game against Kazakhstan

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10/9/2008 11:13 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Rugby Union: Fancied Ospreys must get off to a flyer in the Heineken Cup

The Heineken Cup begins tonight but nowhere is the anticipation more pumped up than at the Ospreys

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10/9/2008 11:30 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Rugby Union: Jonny Wilkinson's Six Nations blow after knee prognosis

Jonny Wilkinson's injured knee will keep him out of action for five months and the Six Nations

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10/9/2008 11:03 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Rugby Union: Rampant Northampton make perfect start to European campaign

Toulon were swept aside on home soil by a devastatingly ruthless Northampton side

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10/9/2008 11:03 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Rugby Union: Heineken Cup: Rested and reinforced, Munster look menacing

Munster are one of the teams to look out for in the early stages of the Heineken Cup

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10/9/2008 11:03 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Digger: Chelsea show faith by taking Luiz Felipe Scolari on board

After just three months as Chelsea manager Luiz Felipe Scolari has been appointed to the club's plc board

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10/9/2008 11:04 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Football: Norway result will not make or break George Burley, says Scottish FA

The chief executive of the Scottish FA, Gordon Smith, has confirmed that George Burley's position is not under threat

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10/9/2008 11:12 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Credit crunch chains Ashley to Newcastle

Mike Ashley's hopes of selling Newcastle United quickly have been hit by the worsening global economic situation

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10/9/2008 11:03 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Rugby League World Cup: England put faith in Gareth Hock for warm-up with Wales

Gareth Hock will have a chance to prove his England credentials against Wales

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10/9/2008 11:03 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Boxing: James DeGale considering turning pro

Olympic champion James DeGale may still turn pro despite Terry Edwards staying on as GB coach

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10/9/2008 11:04 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Football: Young England take on Wales and play for Stuart Pearce's future

Stuart Pearce's continued role as England U-21 manager may depend on his charges beating Wales in their European Championship playoff

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10/9/2008 11:03 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Cricket: Paul Collingwood welcomes Michael Vaughan competition

Paul Collingwood has claimed that he would relish competing for his England place with Michael Vaughan

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10/9/2008 11:03 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Small Talk: Gary Pallister on Cantona, chrysanthemums and Fergie's famous hairdryer

The former England and Manchester United defender on Cantona, chrysanthemums and Bryan Robson's 'Tuesday meetings'

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10/8/2008 9:36 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Wizards C Haywood needs wrist surgery (AP)

Wizards center Brendan Haywood will have surgery for a torn ligament in his right wrist, but it was not clear Wednesday how much of the regular season he will miss. Some teammates, including guard Antonio Daniels, who suffers from the same injury in his non-shooting hand, said specialists told him that the recovery could be months.

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10/8/2008 11:05 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Cricket: Sir Allen Stanford hopes England and West Indies Super Series can be saved

England's Twenty20 match with a West Indies All Star team should go ahead despite a legal row

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10/8/2008 11:05 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Rugby League: Tony Smith hands reformed Martin Gleeson the England armband for Wales warm-up

Martin Gleeson has been named England captain for the warm-up match against Wales

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10/8/2008 11:05 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Football: John Terry's back injury forces Fabio Capello to look at his England options

John Terry's back injury is likely to rule him out of England's qualifier against Kazakhstan

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10/8/2008 11:19 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Football: Premier League: Jangle of jewellery in the stands could soon be a distant memory

The current financial climate will halt the corporate expenditure which benefits sport now

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10/8/2008 11:19 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Robinho

Manchester City's Brazilian maestro features as Robin Hood, a lost parachutist, Robin Hood, Stephen Ireland's beach buddy and, well, Robin Hood in this week's Photoshop efforts

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10/9/2008 2:36 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Cricket: The Stanford Super Series set to go ahead with a sponsorship dispute on the verge of resolution

The WICB is on the brink of confirming that the Stanford Series will take place and that the Digicel dispute has been resolved

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10/9/2008 3:25 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Witnesses says Edwards, Harvick fight (AP)

Greg Biffle isn't angry with teammate Carl Edwards for starting a 12-car crash at Talladega Superspeedway.

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10/8/2008 11:05 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Football: Digger: Chelsea's Frank Arnesen still to answer Panorama claims

Frabk Arnesen is yet to be interviewed for allegedly tapping up a Middlesbrough youth player

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10/8/2008 11:05 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Tennis: Ana Ivanovic is latest seed to tumble out of Kremlin Cup

Ana Ivanovic was knocked out of the Kremlin Cup by the unseeded Dominika Cibulkova

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10/8/2008 11:05 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Football: William Gallas admits he needs to improve for Arsenal

Arsenal captain William Gallas has said that his form does not stand up to scrutiny this season

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10/8/2008 11:17 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Rugby Union: In the soap opera that is Toulon, £12m buys hope, hype and horrible failure

The European Challenge Cup starts tonight with Northampton facing the team that sums up the folie of French rugby

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10/8/2008 11:17 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Football: Newcastle's Joe Kinnear needs a programme he can swear by

Perhaps a collection of mild-mannered managers could give Joe Kinnear lessons in charming the press

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10/9/2008 10:33 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Talking Horses

Ron Cox: Aigle d'Or, who narrowly failed to land some hefty bets when touched off by Numide in the Greatwood Hurdle at Cheltenham, can go one better in The Ladbroke at Ascot today on what promises to be a rewarding afternoon for followers of his trainer, Nicky Henderson.From a stable rich in hurdling talent, Aigle d'Or (2.45) ranks highly at Seven Barrows. If he could have ridden the race again, Tony McCoy would probably have made more use of the gelding's stamina at Cheltenham, where Aigle d'Or was beaten a head by Numide, who is now 2lb worse off...

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10/9/2008 10:41 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Football: Jimenez leaves Newcastle United

Newcastle's vice-president (player recruitment) Tony Jimenez has left the club 'to pursue other interests'

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10/9/2008 3:50 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Rays, Red Sox to resume rivalry in ALCS (AP)

The Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays insist they plan to take each other on with bats, not fists. "Bad blood?" smiling Boston slugger David Ortiz said. "There's no bad blood. This is not the WWF. It's a baseball game, bro. "I mean, come on. I walk out there and they're hugging me, and I hug them back. It's a game.

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10/9/2008 4:36 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Football: Former Scotland midfielder Paul Lambert has been appointed Colchester manager

The former Wycombe manager Paul Lambert is the new manager of Colchester United

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10/9/2008 7:28 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Cricket: Stanford Twenty20 game given go-ahead

England's $20m Twenty20 match will take place next month after the row over sponsorship was resolved

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10/9/2008 8:58 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Bulls' Rose scores 10 in preseason debut (AP)

Gerald Green scored 18 points to lead six Dallas players in double figures, helping the Mavericks beat the Chicago Bulls 110-102 in a preseason game on Thursday night. Bulls rookie Derrick Rose, last spring's No. 1 draft pick, played nearly 27 minutes and scored 10 points in Chicago's preseason opener.

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10/8/2008 11:04 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Olympics 2008: Beijing blood samples to be retested for Cera, a new-style EPO

The International Olympic Committee will retest athletes' samples from the Beijing Games looking for a new type of drug

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10/8/2008 11:05 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Football: Sunderland manager Roy Keane says academy system is all at sea

Roy Keane has criticised rules restricting his ability to recruit players to Sunderland's academy

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10/8/2008 11:07 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

London 2012: Olympic village in line for £1bn taxpayer bail-out

The cost of building the athletes' village for the 2012 Olympics could be borne by the public as a result of banking instability

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

Thursday's football transfer rumours: Cassano to Manchester City?

West Brom after Argentinian striker | Big Four chase 'new Ronaldinho | Quashie: the latest news

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10/9/2008 9:58 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Classic YouTube: Sarah Palin mushing, Johan Cruyff backheeling and ploughing

This week's round-up features Ron Greenwood's losers winning, Fergie being frightened by a balloon and Harry Potter nutters taking it far too far

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10/9/2008 12:20 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

David Lengel on the Major League Baseball divisional championships

Can the Phillies pin down the Dodgers? Can the Red Sox batter the Rays? Maybe this time my predictions will be right

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10/9/2008 3:05 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Football Weekly Extra: money matters

James Richardson and the pod ponder how football could be affected by the credit crunch

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10/9/2008 6:30 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Dodgers lead Phils 1-0 after 3 innings (AP)

Manny Ramirez hit an RBI double against Cole Hamels, and the Los Angeles Dodgers took a 1-0 lead over the Philadelphia Phillies after three innings Thursday night in Game 1 of the NL championship series. The NL East champion Phillies played their first NLCS game since winning the pennant in Game 6 against Atlanta on Oct.

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10/9/2008 6:58 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Leafs spoil Wings' banner-raising party (AP)

The Toronto Maple Leafs sat stoically on their bench, watching the Detroit Red Wings hoist the Stanley Cup banner to Joe Louis Arena's crowded rafters. Then, Toronto put a damper on the celebration. Pavel Kubina, Dominic Moore and Nikolai Kulemin scored to lift the Maple Leafs to a 3-2 win Thursday night over Detroit in the opener for both teams.

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10/8/2008 9:51 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Formula one: Lewis Hamilton has switched on a new audience, says Max Mosley

FIA president Max Mosley has described Lewis Hamilton's impact on formula one as changing the sport's public image

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10/8/2008 11:04 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Sailing: Pacific Cup's growth opens door to Ben Ainslie's team

Ben Ainslie's sailing team could be allowed into the Pacific Cup if it expands as expected

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10/8/2008 11:05 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Rugby Union: Six Nations fears for £4m RBS backer

The credit crunch could force RBS to back out of its deal to sponsor the Six Nations tournament

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10/8/2008 11:05 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Cycling: Lance Armstrong cleared for Australian comeback

The UCI has given Lance Armstrong the green light to race in Australia following drug allegations

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10/8/2008 11:05 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Football: Rio Ferdinand focuses on big picture not big win

Rio Ferdinand has said that England's thrashing of Croatia will not lead to complacency

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Football: Premier League teams in debt face ban from Champions League

Uefa could ban teams in debt from Europe in a bid to safeguard football's fiances

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10/9/2008 8:37 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Mets RHP Burgos jailed before trial (AP)

New York Mets pitcher Ambiorix Burgos will be jailed for three months while awaiting trial for a hit-and-run accident that killed two women. The 24-year-old reliever told The Associated Press that a Dominican judge ordered him to remain behind bars Wednesday night out of concerns for his safety. "I am going to come out of this fine because my conscience is clear, and I'm not worried this will...