News Predator - Science News Archive 10/20/2008

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Mathematician Predicts Rays to Win World Series (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - The Tampa Bay Rays have a more than a 50-50 chance of beating the Phillies in the World Series, a mathematician predicts.

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Geologists discover `dinosaur dance floor' (AP)

AP - Geologists say they have discovered prehistoric animal tracks so densely packed on a 3/4-acre site that they're calling it a "dinosaur dance floor."

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10/20/2008 9:09 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Winter to be mild in eastern U.S.: forecaster (Reuters)

Reuters - Winter will be mostly mild in the big heating fuel market of the eastern United States, with the possible exception of a cold snap in December, private weather forecaster WSI Corp said on Monday.

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10/19/2008 9:55 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Typhoons Bury Carbon in Oceans (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - The torrential rains of a single typhoon can bury tons of carbon in the ocean, two new studies suggest.

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10/20/2008 3:52 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

NASA sends space shuttle back to hangar (AP)

AP - NASA pulled space shuttle Atlantis off the launch pad and sent it back to the hangar Monday to await a trip to the Hubble Space Telescope next year.

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10/20/2008 7:43 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Exelon offers to buy NRG for 6.2 billion dollars (AFP)

AFP - US energy company Exelon has offered to buy its competitor, NRG Energy, for 6.2 billion dollars in a deal which would create a national energy giant worth about 60 billion dollars.

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10/20/2008 11:11 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Volcanoes May Be Original Womb of Life (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Fifty years ago, a chemist named Stanley Miller conducted a famous experiment to investigate how life could have started on Earth.

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10/20/2008 4:11 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Huge Field of Dinosaur Tracks Found (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - More than 1,000 dinosaur footprints along with tail-drag marks have been discovered along the Arizona-Utah border. The incredibly rare concentration of beastly tracks likely belonged to at least four different species of dinosaurs, ranging from youngsters to adults.

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10/20/2008 6:12 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Report: Engineering society needs ethics policy (AP)

AP - A task force is calling on the American Society of Civil Engineers to come up with an ethics policy after critics raised questions about the group's probes of the World Trade Center collapse and the failure of New Orleans levees during Hurricane Katrina.

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Britain releases UFO files, dispels some mysteries (AP)

AP - Alitalia pilot Achille Zaghetti thought it was a missile.

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Latest space tourist gets his money's worth (AP)

AP - The world's latest space tourist, a computer game wizard and astronaut's son who paid $30 million to fly to the space station, said Monday from orbit that he's gotten his money's worth.

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10/19/2008 7:18 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

NASA to launch probe to study edge of solar system (AFP)

AFP - The US space agency is to launch Sunday a space probe that will go into orbit high above earth to study the distant edge of the solar system where hot solar winds crash into the cold outer space.

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10/19/2008 8:19 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

NASA sends probe to study edge of solar system (AFP)

AFP - The US space agency was on Sunday to launch a space probe that will go into orbit high above earth to study the distant edge of the solar system where hot solar winds crash into the cold outer space.

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10/19/2008 6:22 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Sparse plug-ins for electric cars spark creativity (AP)

AP - Owning an electric vehicle requires more than global-cooling ambitions. It takes guile, planning, sharp vision, a silver tongue ? and a 50-foot extension cord.

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10/19/2008 7:55 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

NASA launches probe to study edge of solar system (AFP)

AFP - NASA on Sunday launched a probe into orbit high above earth to study the distant edge of the solar system where hot solar winds crash into the cold outer space.

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10/19/2008 6:37 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

OPEC to cut oil output as prices plunge: analysts (AFP)

AFP - OPEC will Friday announce it is cutting oil output to help lift crude prices that have dived 55 percent since striking record highs in July, as a global economic slowdown slashes demand, analysts said.

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10/19/2008 8:44 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Powerful quake rattles Tonga (AFP)

AFP - A powerful earthquake hit near the South Pacific archipelago of Tonga on Sunday, but there was no tsunami alert and no immediate report of injuries, Australian seismologists said.

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Men's Reactions Peak at Age 39 (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Scientists asked 72 men, ranging in age from 23 to 80, to tap their index fingers as fast as they could for 10 seconds. The researchers also did brain scans to measure in each subject the amount of myelin - a fatty sheath of insulation that coats nerve axons and allows for signaling bursts in our brains.

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Taiwan's bicycle makers riding high amid global financial crisis (AFP)

AFP - For the past six months Wayne Hsu has been cycling 45 minutes to his office every day, which he says gets him off to an energetic start and, more importantly, slashes his monthly petrol bill.

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10/17/2008 10:07 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Omar a hurricane once again in Atlantic (Reuters)

Reuters - Omar regained hurricane strength in the Atlantic Ocean on Friday but did not pose an immediate threat to land after causing little damage this week as it blasted through the northern Caribbean.

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10/18/2008 12:47 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Hubble telescope encounters further problems, delays: NASA (AFP)

AFP - New technical problems on the Hubble Space Telescope, which is currently undergoing repairs, will further delay the resumption of the telescope's regular duties, according to NASA officials.

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10/18/2008 5:45 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Billions of fish, fish eggs die in power plants (AP)

AP - For a newly hatched striped bass in the Hudson River, a clutch of trout eggs in Lake Michigan or a baby salmon in San Francisco Bay, drifting a little too close to a power plant can mean a quick and turbulent death.

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10/18/2008 3:10 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Iran to press for output cut at OPEC meet (AFP)

AFP - Iran said on Saturday that OPEC should cut oil output at its emergency meeting next week amid prospects of reduced demand in the face of the global economic slowdown, the state broadcaster reported.

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10/17/2008 10:25 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

NASA wrestles with more Hubble problems (Reuters)

Reuters - A new glitch has shut down the Hubble Space Telescope, dashing NASA's hopes of a speedy recovery from an earlier computer breakdown, officials said on Friday.

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Foamy Invention Could Save Energy and Lives (LiveScience.com)

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

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10/17/2008 9:12 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Arctic autumn temperature hits record high (AFP)

AFP - Autumn temperatures in the Arctic region are a record 5.0 degree Celsius (9.0 Fahrenheit) higher than normal due the melting of the ice cap, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) report said Friday.

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10/17/2008 9:29 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

NASA satellite to scan solar system's outer limits (Reuters)

Reuters - NASA is preparing to launch a satellite that will study in unprecedented detail the distant regions where the outermost reaches of our solar system collide with the cold expanse of interstellar space.

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10/18/2008 6:58 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Cat championship include Obama, McCain - the cats (AP)

AP - Barack Obama and John McCain will attend a New York cat show this weekend ? Obama the Bombay cat and McCain the American Shorthair, that is.

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10/16/2008 10:09 PM - Views: 6 Rating: -

Strong earthquake off Guatemala-Mexico coast (Reuters)

Reuters - A strong 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck in the Pacific near the Mexico-Guatemala border on Thursday, but there was no tsunami alert and no initial reports of casualties.

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10/17/2008 7:17 PM - Views: 5 Rating: -

Scientists have new clue to mystery of sunken sub (AP)

AP - It's long been a mystery why the H.L. Hunley never returned after becoming the first submarine in history to sink an enemy warship in 1864, but new research announced Friday may lend credence to one of the theories. Scientists found the eight-man crew of the hand-cranked Confederate submarine had not set the pump to remove water from the crew compartment, which might indicate it was not being flooded.

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10/16/2008 9:51 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Palin says God blessed America with oil and gas (AP)

AP - Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin said Thursday that God blessed the nation with oil and gas resources and other forms of energy that should be tapped to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign suppliers.

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10/17/2008 4:32 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

NASA runs into more trouble with Hubble (AP)

AP - NASA's efforts to get the ailing Hubble Space Telescope working again have hit a snag, and engineers are trying to figure out their next step.

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10/17/2008 6:32 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

NASA sees no quick fix for broken Hubble telescope (AP)

AP - NASA's efforts to get the ailing Hubble Space Telescope working again have hit a snag, and engineers are trying to figure out their next step.

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10/17/2008 3:07 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Omar weakens to tropical storm in Atlantic (Reuters)

Reuters - Omar lost hurricane strength on Friday, weakening to a tropical storm in the Atlantic Ocean and posing no threat to land after causing little damage this week in the northern Caribbean.

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10/17/2008 6:04 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Problems crop up on Hubble Space Telescope (Reuters)

Reuters - Science observations aboard the Hubble Space Telescope were on hold on Friday following a pair of problems that cropped up as the observatory recovered from a computer failure, NASA said.

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Plants Cry For Help (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - When injured, plants can cry for help via a chemical phone call to the roots.

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10/17/2008 3:15 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

NASA Hits Snag in Reviving Hubble Space Telescope (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - NASA's attempt to revive the ailing Hubble Space Telescope has hit a snag, leaving the iconic observatory's return to science observations in limbo until two new glitches can be solved, agency officials said Friday.

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Government declares beluga whale endangered (AP)

AP - The beluga whales of Alaska's Cook Inlet are endangered and require additional protection to survive, the government declared Friday, contradicting Gov. Sarah Palin who has questioned whether the distinctive white whales are actually declining.

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10/17/2008 6:11 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Rejection Fosters Intuition (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Rejection can make a person more intuitive. New research suggests individuals who have faced the cold shoulder can more easily spot phony people.

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10/17/2008 6:57 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

NASA to launch probe to map solar system's edge (AP)

AP - A small NASA spacecraft embarks on a two-year mission this weekend to give scientists their first view of the happenings at the edge of the solar system. The Ibex probe, short for Interstellar Boundary Explorer, will study a chaotic region in space where the solar wind from the sun clashes with cold gases from interstellar space.

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10/17/2008 8:55 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Rare White Lions Get Wild (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - A pride of white lions, including two adult males and two juvenile females, has been released into Sanbona Wildlife Reserve in South Africa's Western Cape Province.

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10/17/2008 8:04 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Armyworms attacking pastures, wheat in Texas (AP)

AP - Texas farmers are once again battling armyworms and the voracious creatures are attacking fields and pastures in formidable numbers.

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Animals Stressed Out, Too (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - The economy, the election, and myriad other problems are really stressing out ... pets.

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10/16/2008 11:36 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Scientists say stick bug is world's longest insect (AP)

AP - A stick bug from the island of Borneo measuring well over a foot in length has been identified by researchers as the world's longest insect, British scientists said Thursday.

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Americans Flunk Simple 3-Question Political Survey (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Some news audiences are more politically savvy than others, according to a new poll, with readers of The New Yorker and similar high-brow magazines being the most knowledgeable.

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10/16/2008 12:06 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Ferocious Hurricane Omar swirls out to sea (AFP)

AFP - Hurricane Omar was rapidly losing strength as it headed out to sea Thursday, after pounding the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico as a ferocious Category Three storm.

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10/16/2008 6:59 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Hobbled Hubble Space Telescope revived (Reuters)

Reuters - The Hubble Space Telescope was in the final stages of recovery on Thursday after NASA successfully bypassed a faulty computer and resurrected an 18-year-old spare from orbital hibernation.

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10/15/2008 10:09 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

U.S. oil prices fall more than $1 (Reuters)

Reuters - U.S. crude oil futures fell more than $1 a barrel after Wednesday's settlement, slipping to a 13-month low as traders were concerned over weaker demand linked to a widespread economic slowdown.

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10/16/2008 12:40 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Bizarre Dinosaur Headgear Used For Shouting (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - The ornate headgear worn by duck-billed dinosaurs millions of years ago was used to make eerie, bellowing calls, suggests a new study.

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10/15/2008 11:39 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Dying Lawyer's Son, Clintons Beg Biogen to Use Drug (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg - Oct. 15 (Bloomberg) -- The son of Fred Baron is pleading with Biogen Idec Inc. to let his dying father, the Dallas trial lawyer who served as finance chairman for John Edwards's presidential campaign, use the experimental cancer drug Tysabri.

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10/20/2008 10:24 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Congress cancels novel satellite program (AP)

AP - With a federal budget crunch looming, Congress this month canceled Pentagon plans to buy and launch two commercial imagery satellites to complement its network of classified spy craft, military and space industry officials said.

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10/20/2008 11:31 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Satellite Business Booming in the Middle East and North Africa: Highly Competitive Region Has 13 Operators (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - The 13 commercial satellite-fleet operators active in the Middle East and North Africa showed a 73 percent fill rate on their 41 Ku-band satellites in mid-2008 when measured in booked megahertz compared to total megahertz of capacity, according to a mid-2008 survey of capacity taken from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, by the London Satellite Exchange (LSE) and Euroconsult. The satellites were spread over 31 orbital slots.

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10/20/2008 11:05 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Space tech helps to find natural resources

Using space-based technology developed during ESA’s gravity mission studies, a novel gradiometer is being developed by a UK-based company to help oil and gas companies find the most appropriate locations to drill wells and plan further exploration.

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NASA Returns to the Moon with Instruments on Indian Spacecraft

Two NASA instruments to map the lunar surface will launch on India's maiden moon voyage. The Moon Mineralogy Mapper will assess mineral resources, and the Miniature Synthetic Aperture Radar, or Mini-SAR, will map the polar regions and look for ice deposits.

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NASA Launches IBEX Mission to Outer Solar System

IBEX will build an image of the outer boundary of the solar system from impacts on the spacecraft by high-speed particles called energetic neutral atoms.

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10/18/2008 3:31 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Space Tourist Settles in Aboard Station (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - American space tourist Richard Garriott is settling into life aboard the International Space Station and learning firsthand the lessons learned by his astronaut father.

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10/17/2008 7:00 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

ESA Council meeting at ministerial level: The Hague, 25/26 November 2008

ESA PR 42-2008. The next ESA Council meeting at ministerial level will take place on 25/26 November in The Hague, the Netherlands, at the World Forum, Churchillplein 10, 2517 JW.

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10/17/2008 7:42 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Building a safer space together

The conference ‘Building a Safer Space Together’, taking place in Rome from 21 to 23 October, is an invitation to reflect and exchange information on the essential aspects of space safety on a global basis.

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10/17/2008 1:30 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Viewing the Universe in a different light

European scientists are preparing two new windows on the Universe that will give astronomers an unprecedented look at stars forming, and the aftermath of the 'Big Bang.'

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Hubble Telescope Media Teleconference Today at 4 P.M. EDT

NASA will host a media teleconference today beginning at approximately 4 p.m. EDT, to discuss issues recently experienced with the Hubble Space Telescope.

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10/17/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

NASA Updates Time For Space Shuttle Atlantis' Roll From Launch Pad

NASA managers have adjusted the time for space shuttle Atlantis' rollback from Launch Pad 39A.

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10/17/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

NASA Increases Value of Engineering and Technology Contract

NASA has increased the maximum ordering value of a contract with Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies (SGT) Inc., by $49.2 million to support the Applied Engineering and Technology Directorate at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

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10/17/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Lunar Lander Teams To Compete For $2 Million NASA Prize

Nine teams with rocket-powered vehicles will compete during the 2008 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge.

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10/17/2008 1:44 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Putin tries satellite navigation device on his dog (AP)

AP - Russia was the first to put a dog in space. Now, 50 years later, it has brought space to a dog, and not just any dog but Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's beloved black Labrador.

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10/17/2008 12:21 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Putin's dog gets a satellite collar (Reuters)

Reuters - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's black labrador dog, Koni, Friday was given a collar that will allow her master to track her movements by satellite.

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Student projects fly high in northern Sweden

Students from around Europe have been flying their experiments on high altitude balloons in northern Sweden. It is a unique way to test their theories in an extreme environment, but one that comes with a healthy dose of lastminute drama alongside their scientific successes.

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Europe to Delay Mars Rover Mission (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - PARIS ? European Space Agency (ESA) governments tentatively have agreed to delay the launch of Europe's first-ever Mars rover by a little more than two years, to 2016, as part of a broader effort to rein in project costs and seek deeper cooperation with NASA and the Russian space agency, European government officials said.

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10/17/2008 11:15 AM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Doorstep Astronomy: Mercury in the Morning (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - If there ever was a planet that has gotten a bad rap for its inability to be readily observed, it would have to be Mercury, known in some circles as the "elusive planet."

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10/16/2008 4:45 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Bush Signs NASA Authorization Bill into Law (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - WASHINGTON - U.S. President George W. Bush signed into law the NASA Authorization Act of 2008 (H.R. 6063), a policy bill that endorses U.S. plans to return to the Moon, sets budget targets for NASA programs and requires the agency to conduct an additional space shuttle flight to deliver a multibillion dollar science payload to the International Space Station.

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10/16/2008 8:49 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

GOCE launch postponed

The foreseen 27 October launch date of GOCE has had to be postponed to allow the enquiry board time to conclude its work. A new launch date will be announced here as soon as possible.

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ESA closes in on the origin of Mars’ larger moon

European space scientists are getting closer to unravelling the origin of Mars’ larger moon, Phobos. Thanks to a series of close encounters by ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, the moon looks almost certain to be a ‘rubble pile’, rather than a single solid object. However, mysteries remain about where the rubble came from.

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NASA's Fermi Telescope Discovers First Gamma-Ray-Only Pulsar

About three times a second, a 10,000-year-old stellar corpse sweeps a beam of gamma-rays toward Earth.

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Administrator's Statement on Signing of the NASA Authorization Act

The following is a statement by NASA Administrator Michael Griffin after the signing by the president of the NASA Authorization Act of 2008

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Schmitt Completes NASA Advisory Council Service; Ford Named Chairman

NASA Advisory Council Chairman Harrison "Jack" H. Schmitt announced Thursday he was leaving the council. Fellow council member Kenneth Ford will succeed him as chairman effective immediately.

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NASA: Hubble Space Telescope's Reboot Going Well (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - NASA's long-distance effort to revive the ailing Hubble Space Telescope is going well, with the orbital observatory on track to resume science observations by week's end, agency officials said Thursday.

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NASA to Discuss Mission to Study Sun's Weakening Protective Bubble

NASA will hold a media teleconference on Friday, Oct. 17, at 1 p.m. EDT, to preview the Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, mission.

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NASA Invites Reporters to Observe Lunar Rover Tests in Arizona

NASA is practicing for future lunar road trips, and reporters are invited to observe the activities. The annual Desert RATS, or Research and Technology Studies, field test will be held in Arizona during October, and NASA will host a media day on Oct. 24.

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Animals on climate

Climate change is one of the greatest environmental threats facing the planet and is driving biodiversity loss, affecting both individual species and their ecosystems.

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NASA to Webcast IBEX Spacecraft Launch on Pegasus Rocket Oct. 19

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 will be launched on Sunday, Oct. 19, at 1:48 p.m. EDT, during a launch window that extends from 1:44 p.m. to 1:52 p.m. Called the Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, the spacecraft will conduct extremely high-altitude orbits above Earth to investigate and capture images of processes taking place at the farthest reaches of the solar system.

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NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis Rolls Off Launch Pad Monday

Space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to roll back from Launch Pad 39A to the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Oct. 20, to await launch on its mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Will downturn hit Hollywood? (The Christian Science Monitor)

The Christian Science Monitor - The upward march of ticket prices may halt. The growth of premium movie houses – with their reserve seating and gourmet food – could slow. There may be fewer new movies, and each one may stay for a shorter time in theaters before moving to DVD, cable, and satellite.

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10/14/2008 9:14 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Russian spacecraft docks with orbital station (AP)

AP - An American computer game designer boarded the international space station Tuesday, floating onto the orbital outpost 35 years after his astronaut father circled the Earth on Skylab.

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Infant Stars Caught Feeding (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope has given astronomers their most detailed look at how infant stars feed off the disks of gas and dust that swirl around them as they grow.

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NASA Releases Documentary Celebrating Agency's First 50 Years

In celebration of its 50th anniversary, NASA will premiere the documentary "50 Years of Exploration: The Golden Anniversary of NASA" on NASA Television's Public and Education channels Wednesday, Oct. 15, at 9 p.m. EDT.

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10/14/2008 8:37 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

New crew, U.S. tourist dock with space station (Reuters)

Reuters - A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying U.S. video game developer Richard Garriott docked with the International Space Station Tuesday.

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10/14/2008 11:02 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

New Crew, Space Tourist Arrive at Space Station (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying American space tourist Richard Garriott and a new crew for the International Space Station docked at orbiting laboratory early Tuesday, where three astronauts were eagerly awaiting their arrival inside.

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10/14/2008 6:01 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Astronaut's Son Reboots Dad's Work in Orbit (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - Richard Garriott's approach to the International Space Station (ISS) this morning may have seemed familiar to him, even though this was his first flight in space. That feeling could be attributed in part to the six months of training he underwent for the mission, but it might also have been what happened when he was twelve, or more appropriately, what his father did then.

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10/14/2008 7:45 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

NASA to Begin Hubble Space Telescope Fix (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - NASA engineers hope to begin reviving the ailing Hubble Space Telescope Wednesday with a days-long switch to a backup system after a hardware failure cut off its ability to transmit images back to Earth last month.

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NASA Sets Media Briefing for Crews on International Space Station

The astronauts, cosmonauts and spaceflight participant aboard the International Space Station will participate in a news conference at 12:20 p.m. CDT, Monday, Oct. 20. Reporters at participating NASA centers may ask questions.

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Russian Soyuz carrying US space tourist docks (AP)

AP - A Russian spacecraft carrying an American computer game designer and two crewmates has docked with the international space station.

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10/13/2008 10:45 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

OHB Uses Galileo Bid to Send a Message to Competitors (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - OHB Technology is bidding against a much larger consortium to build 28 Galileo navigation satellites as a signal to European governments that the company should be viewed as a prime contractor, OHB Chief Executive Marco Fuchs said.

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Distant Spacecraft Scans Earth for Signs of Life (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - A new study is underway to search for signs of habitability ... on Earth.

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Space Tourist, Astronauts to Dock at Station (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - An American space tourist and two professional astronauts are closing in on the International Space Station as they prepare to dock at the orbiting lab early Tuesday.

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10/13/2008 6:45 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Giant Cyclones Seen on Saturn (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - Scientists have discovered a giant cyclone swirling on Saturn's north pole, and observed a similar storm on the planet's south pole in detail 10 times greater than before, thanks to new images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

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10/13/2008 7:32 AM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Faint gamma-ray bursts do actually exist

Gamma-ray bursts, powerful glares of high-energy that wash through the Universe once every day or so are, for a brief time, the brightest objects in the gamma-ray sky. ESA’s Integral gamma-ray observatory has observed several low-luminosity gamma-ray bursts, confirming the existence of an entire population of weaker bursts hardly noticed so far.

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

New Crew Blasts Off for International Space Station

A new crew that will live and work aboard the International Space Station rocketed into orbit early Sunday aboard a Soyuz spacecraft.

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

U.S. space tourist set for blast-off (Reuters)

Reuters - U.S. video game magnate Richard Garriott will blast off into space aboard a Russian spaceship on Sunday watched by his father, a NASA astronaut who went into space at the height of the Cold War.

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10/12/2008 7:31 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Former Astronaut's Son Blasts Off Toward Space Station (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - American space tourist Richard Garriott, the son of a former NASA astronaut, rocketed into orbit early Sunday aboard a Russian spacecraft alongside two professional spaceflyers to become the first second-generation American astronaut to launch toward the International Space Station.

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10/12/2008 5:42 AM - Views: 0 Rating: -

U.S. space tourist blasts off in Russian rocket (Reuters)

Reuters - U.S. video game magnate Richard Garriott blasted off into space aboard a Russian rocket on Sunday watched by his father, a NASA astronaut who went into space at the height of the Cold War.

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10/11/2008 12:15 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Space Tourist, Station Crew to Launch Sunday (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - A new crew is poised to launch to the International Space Station early Sunday to help outfit the laboratory for double-sized occupancy.

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10/20/2008 11:09 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Athletics:Europeans are running out of gas as Africans open the throttle

In the face of African and American dominance, European men have not only stopped running but have gone backwards

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10/20/2008 11:07 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Olympics: London 2012 suffers sponsor shortfall

Fresh evidence has emerged that the credit crunch has hit the 2012 Olympics, with no further top-tier sponsors are expected to sign up. By Matt Scott

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10/20/2008 11:07 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Cricket: Matt Prior interview: 'How do you deal with winning or losing this much?'

England wicketkeeper Matt Prior knows that stakes will be high when he plays in the $20m Twenty20 Stanford Series

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10/20/2008 11:08 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Football: Scouting Report: Simon Church, Reading

Three goals for Wales Under-21s against England suggests Simon Church has a bright future ahead of him

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10/20/2008 11:09 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Enforcing engine duplication will silence the symphony

Rules enforcing the same engine configuration for every car have made engineering less ingenuous and cars less exotic

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10/20/2008 11:07 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Formula one: Stay out of trouble and title is yours, Lewis Hamilton is told

Team principle Ron Dennis revealed that Lewis Hamilton and McLaren will play it safe in Brazil finale

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10/20/2008 11:07 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Formula one: Max Mosley will tell teams to cut costs and save formula one

FIA president Max Mosley stated that formula one costs are unsustainable and will meet team principals to arrange cuts

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10/20/2008 11:07 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Rugby union: South Africa deny squad rift over Luke Watson criticism

South Africa denied that several players had threatened to boycott the tour to Europe if flanker Luke Watson is picked

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10/20/2008 11:08 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Horse Racing: Synthetic Santa Anita can lead Breeders' Cup to better future

The image of the much maligned Breeders' Cup could be improved by the venue of Santa Anita

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10/20/2008 11:09 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Frank Keating: Farewell to Stradey: ugly, cherished theatre

A tip Stradey Park may well have been, but it played host to many a memorable sporting occasion

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10/20/2008 11:09 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Homophobia in football faces red card as Peter Tatchell joins FA campaign

Support is growing for action to tackle anti-gay abuse as Peter Tatchell joins an FA campaign against it, writes Mark Gould

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10/20/2008 11:07 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Snooker: John Higgins moves up to sixth after victory in Glasgow

John Higgins' victory in the Grand Prix in Glasgow has moved him to sixth in the rankings

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10/20/2008 11:07 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Horse Racing: Trophy key to Aidan O'Brien's record bid

Aidan O'Brien has set his sights on Bobby Frankel's record of 25 Group One wins in a year

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10/20/2008 11:07 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Cricket: Pakistan's latest regime leaves Geoff Lawson in limbo

Geoff Lawson's contract as Pakistan coach will not be renewed when it runs out in April

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10/20/2008 11:07 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Digger: Tennis hunt for chief executive could thwart FA

The ATP's search for a new chief executive could impinge on the FA's recruitment of the same kind

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10/19/2008 11:01 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Milan offer Beckham a chance to stay in shape

David Beckham has been invited to train with Milan over the winter by the Serie A club's vice-president Adriano Galliani

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10/19/2008 11:02 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Stoke capitalise by pushing up to press home their numerical advantage

David Pleat analyses how Stoke City changed their tactics and make their numerical advantage count against Tottenham Hotspur

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10/19/2008 11:02 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Rugby union: Quins can put their shirts on Care

Harlequins recovered from a bouyant start by Ulster to take control and emphatically run out 41-21 winners at The Stoop

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10/19/2008 11:02 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Motorcycling: Valentino Rossi proves no slower with crown in the bag

Valentino Rossi won the Malaysia MotoGP in Kuala Lumpur in difficult conditions to record his ninth win of the season

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10/19/2008 11:02 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Basketball: Everton Tigers leave Scottish Rocks foundering in the BBL cup

The Everton Tigers beat the Scottish Rocks 88-69 in the BBL Cup while the Leicester Riders won in both cup and league

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10/20/2008 9:00 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Football: Paul Doyle: Structural damage Ramos's problem as White Hart pain continues

Spurs' decision-making has been poor, a fact exemplified by their defeat at Stoke

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10/20/2008 10:16 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Jerry Jones: Pacman in treatment center (AP)

Suspended Dallas Cowboys cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones has entered an alcohol treatment center. The oft-troubled player has checked into a facility "in another part of the country," Cowboys owner Jerry Jones told The Associated Press on Monday. "It's totally done through and by the NFL," Jerry Jones said.

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10/20/2008 2:03 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Poll: Should Spurs sack Juande Ramos?

Should Juande Ramos take the rap for Tottenham's malaise?

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10/20/2008 3:22 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

FA to investigate claims that Didier Drogba wanted to punch Nemanja Vidic in Champions League final

The FA is to study Didier Drogba's comments in his autobiography saying he wished he had punched Nemanja Vidic in the Champions League final

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10/20/2008 3:29 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Formula one: Ferrari boss says they'll fight to the end to defeat Hamilton

Stefano Domenicali says the Chinese GP was Ferrari's worst of the year, but they'll keep fighting to steal the title from Lewis Hamilton

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10/20/2008 4:13 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

The Fiver: Spurs' Start To The Season

STOKING THE FIRES OF REVOLT

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10/20/2008 4:21 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Patriots RB Maroney out for season (AP)

The New England Patriots put running back Laurence Maroney on injured reserve with a shoulder injury on Monday, ending his season. The team also activated offensive lineman Stephen Neal from the physically unable to perform list before Monday night's game against the Denver Broncos and signed cornerback Mike Richardson from the practice squad.

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10/20/2008 4:40 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Sports world can't escape credit crunch

Sports teams and leagues struggle as they shift their focus from the average fan to corporate interests

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10/19/2008 11:02 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Horse racing: Katchit collared by Snap Tie

Katchit, the reigning champion hurdler and 4-5 favourite, was beaten on his seasonal return at Kempton by Snap Tie

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10/19/2008 11:02 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Motor sport: Speedway - Nicki Pedersen burns off rivals to seal third world title

Nicki Pedersen won the seventh heat of the final grand prix at Bydgoszcz to clinch his third world title

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10/19/2008 11:02 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Angelique Chrisafis talks to Max Mosley

In his first newspaper interview since his high court victory, Max Mosley talks to Angelique Chrisafis about why he'll never change his sexual habits, the right to privacy and his notorious fascist parents

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10/20/2008 10:42 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Cowboys form company with Yankees (AP)

Dallas Cowboys and New York Yankees. Jerry Jones and George Steinbrenner. Two of the most recognizable franchises in all of sports -- and two of the highest-profile owners -- are forming a company together. Legends Hospitality Management will handle concession and merchandise sales at the clubs' new stadiums, with the goal of eventually doing the same for other pro teams and college programs.

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10/20/2008 10:50 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Dutch football: Leander Schaerlaeckens on the Eredivisie: Order unravels as minnows take the top spot

NAC's victory over PSV proves that Holland's smaller clubs can still throw up a few surprises

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10/20/2008 10:51 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Marcus Vick pleads guilty to DUI charge (AP)

Former Virginia Tech quarterback Marcus Vick has pleaded guilty to drunken driving and other charges. Norfolk Commonwealth's Attorney spokeswoman Amanda Howie says Vick also was convicted Monday of eluding police and driving on the wrong side of the road. The 24-year-old brother of former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick was arrested in June after fleeing an officer who saw him involved in...

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10/20/2008 12:05 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Browns Hall of Famer Gene Hickerson dies (AP)

Gene Hickerson, the Cleveland Browns Hall of Fame right guard whose blocking helped Jim Brown, Leroy Kelly and Bobby Mitchell make the shrine, died after a long illness. He was 73. Hall of Fame spokesman Joe Horrigan confirmed Hickerson's death. He said Hickerson's son, Bob, received a phone call from the care facility in Olmsted Falls, Ohio, where his father was under care on Monday morning.

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10/20/2008 2:02 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Football: Manchester United defender Patrice Evra to miss Celtic Champions League tie

Patrice Evra will miss the Champions League tie against Celtic with a hamstring injury

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10/20/2008 2:12 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Alms: Audi's Werner and Luhr cap season with Laguna Seca win

The drivers' title champions Marco Werner and Lucas Luhr rounded off the year with victory at the Laguna Seca finale

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10/20/2008 5:30 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

William Hill places stake in software specialist

Gambling company seeks to bolster its underperforming internet operations

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10/20/2008 6:28 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Pats lead Broncos 6-0 after 1st quarter (AP)

Stephen Gostkowski kicked two field goals after Denver backup running back Andre Hall lost two fumbles and the New England Patriots led the Broncos 6-0 after the first quarter Monday night. Hall carried the ball from scrimmage just twice and lost it both times. He had come in for Michael Pittman, who already had 52 yards rushing on nine carries.

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10/19/2008 10:21 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Snooker: John Higgins holds off Ryan Day to claim Grand Prix

John Higgins survived a Ryan Day comeback to win the Royal London Watches Grand Prix in Glasgow 9-7

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10/19/2008 11:02 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Venus thrives on pressure and punishes Pennetta

Venus Williams beat Italy's Flavia Pennetta 7-6, 6-2 to win the Zurich Open yesterday and claim her second singles title of the season

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10/20/2008 7:18 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Rays hold firm to see off Red Sox in decider

The Tampa Bay Rays beat the Boston Red Sox 3-1 to reach their first ever World Series

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10/20/2008 7:58 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Monday's football transfer rumours: a member of Dragons' Den to buy Luton?

David Beckham to Milan | Juande Ramos to be sacked | Amr Zaki off to Manchester City

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10/20/2008 11:51 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Vegas sports books favor Rays in Series (AP)

Las Vegas sports books favor the Tampa Bay Rays to win the World Series over the Philadelphia Phillies and would owe huge payouts if the American League champions prevail. Oddsmakers say enough bettors took the Rays early in the year at long-shot prices to force books to adjust lines to encourage bets on the Phillies.

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10/20/2008 12:23 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Nascar: Jimmie Johnson's Martinsville win brings him closer to Cup

Nascar Sprint Cup leader Jimmie Johnson took his sixth victory of the year in crushing style at the half mile speedway

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10/20/2008 3:55 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Triathlon: Toby Radcliffe tells us what he listens to while training

Ironman triathlete Toby Radcliffe talks us through the tracks on his iPod

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10/20/2008 5:26 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Cricket: England to spend more time relaxing, says Kevin Pietersen

Admitting that Peter Moores' first winter tours were too work-orientated, KP claims England will have more time off in India

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10/20/2008 6:31 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Source: 49ers fire coach Nolan (AP)

The San Francisco 49ers fired coach Mike Nolan on Monday, seven games into his fourth consecutive dismal season with the club, according to FOXsports.com. Assistant head coach Mike Singletary is expected to take over the 49ers (2-5), who got off to a 2-1 start this season before four consecutive losses culminating in Sunday's 29-17 loss to the New York Giants.