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10/25/2008 3:10 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Italian satellite launched from California (AP)

AP - A rocket carrying an Italian Earth-observation satellite blasted off Friday evening from the California coast.
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10/25/2008 5:49 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Appeals court to take up GOP effort in Indiana (AP)

AP - A divided Indiana Supreme Court on Friday rejected a effort by Republicans to shutter satellite early voting sites in three largely Democratic cities near Chicago, but an appeals court later agreed to expedite the case and set oral arguments for five days before the general election.
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10/25/2008 11:16 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

OPEC set to meet regularly as world recession looms: analysts (AFP)

AFP - OPEC could meet regularly over the coming months to announce further cuts in oil output as a worldwide recession weighs on energy demand and crude prices, analysts said.
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10/25/2008 12:05 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

The Biological Clock's Incredible Influence Revealed (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation.
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10/25/2008 4:27 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

No guarantee gas pipeline will be built (AP)

AP - Contrary to Gov. Sarah Palin's campaign promises to "build a pipeline quickly," the massive project to send natural gas south is still no sure thing.
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10/24/2008 11:03 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Scientists ID 3 New Candidate Genes for Schizophrenia (HealthDay)

HealthDay - FRIDAY, Oct. 24 (HealthDay News) -- American and Dutch researchers believe they may have identified three genes tied to the development of schizophrenia.
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10/25/2008 11:36 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

More than 60 killed in fierce Yemen storms (AFP)

AFP - Aid operations swung into higher gear in Yemen on Saturday after floods killed at least 58 people and six more died from lightning strikes during two days of fierce storms.
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10/25/2008 3:23 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Hawaiian Cave Reveals Ancient Secrets (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - From the moment we saw it, we knew the place held many great secrets. We had been looking for new fossil sites on the south side of the Hawaiian island of Kauai in 1992 with our colleagues, Helen F. James and Storrs L. Olson of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., along with their children, Travis and Sydney, and our own, Mara and Alec.
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10/25/2008 12:54 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

NASA unveils new lunar rover built for endurance (Reuters)

Reuters - NASA unveiled a new lunar rover on Friday which aims to transform space exploration by allowing astronauts to roam large distances without cumbersome spacesuits when they return to the moon by 2020.
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10/25/2008 8:36 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Researchers: 7 orcas missing from Puget Sound (AP)

AP - Seven Puget Sound killer whales are missing and presumed dead in what could be the biggest decline among the sound's orcas in nearly a decade, say scientists who carefully track the endangered animals.
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10/25/2008 7:39 AM - Views: 0 Rating: -

At least 47 dead in Yemen storms (AFP)

AFP - At least 41 people were killed in floods and six more died after being struck by lightning in Yemen, officials said on Saturday.
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10/25/2008 8:00 AM - Views: 0 Rating: -

OPEC to cut oil production by 5 percent (The Christian Science Monitor)

The Christian Science Monitor - The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Friday announced a slash in oil production of about 5 percent, or 1.5 million barrels a day, in order to shore up rapidly plummeting prices in a grim global economic environment.
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10/23/2008 11:13 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Tiny dinosaur on verge of swearing off meat (Reuters)

Reuters - A rare juvenile skull of a 190 million-year-old dinosaur may help explain when an important group of plant eaters branched off from carnivorous cousins, U.S. and British researchers said on Thursday.
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10/24/2008 4:30 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Cold viruses activate killer genes, study finds (Reuters)

Reuters - The common cold virus activates dozens of immune system genes in the lining of the nose, including some natural antivirals that might be used as the basis of new drugs, researchers reported on Friday.
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10/24/2008 8:00 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

USA (The Christian Science Monitor)

The Christian Science Monitor - Mary Schapiro, President-elect Obama's new pick to head the Securities and Exchange Commission as its effectiveness is being questioned, would become the first permanent chairwoman of the agency if confirmed. She served six years as an SEC commissioner and now is the CEO of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the securities and brokerage industry's self-policing organization.
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10/24/2008 9:39 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

OPEC 'slashes output by 1.5m barrels per day' (AFP)

AFP - OPEC decided to cut its oil output by 1.5 million barrels per day from November 1 at an emergency meeting here on Friday, Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Nuaimi told reporters, as the cartel seeks to support plunging crude prices despite a looming worldwide recession.
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10/24/2008 4:11 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Roots of Voodoo: Why Sarkozy is Getting Skewered (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - A controversial voodoo doll is proving to be quite the pain in the side of French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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10/24/2008 12:22 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Tiny Skull Sheds Light on Strange Dinosaur Diets (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - A juvenile dinosaur weighing less than two sticks of butter was a toothy hodgepodge equipped with fang-like canines to tear into small mammals, reptiles and insects, as well as flat molars for plant munching.
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10/24/2008 5:01 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Space Tourist, Station Cosmonauts Land Safely (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - A Soyuz spacecraft has returned safely from the International Space Station, touching down with an American space tourist and two Russian cosmonauts in a picture perfect landing that followed two flawed descents on similar vehicles.
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10/24/2008 11:12 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

At least 24 dead in Yemen floods (AFP)

AFP - At least 24 people died in Yemen when floods caused by heavy rains swept through the southeastern province of Hadramaut, which has been declared a disaster zone, officials said on Friday.
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10/24/2008 4:03 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Common Cold Virus Alters Body's Genes (HealthDay)

HealthDay - FRIDAY, Oct. 24 (HealthDay News) -- It may not be the cure for the common cold, but it may set the stage for a cure.
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10/23/2008 10:29 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Greek dig unearths Neolithic household gear (AP)

AP - A 6,000 year-old set of household gear, including crockery and two wood-fired ovens, has been found in the buried ruins of a prehistoric farmhouse in northern Greece, officials said Thursday.
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10/24/2008 2:07 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Iran's Rafsanjani blames finance 'tsunami' for low oil price (AFP)

AFP - The influential former president of OPEC's second largest oil producer Iran on Friday called the world financial crisis a tsunami which has dragged down oil prices and caused a huge loss of revenue.
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10/24/2008 2:53 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

European science satellite launch delayed until at least February (AFP)

AFP - The much-delayed launch of a European satellite designed to monitor Earth's gravitational field is unlikely to take place before February, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Friday.
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10/24/2008 3:54 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Russians, plus American tourist, return from space (AP)

AP - Soon after he touched down Friday, American space tourist Richard Garriott got a pat on the head and an admiring question from his astronaut father. "How come you look so fresh and ready to go?" 77-year-old Owen Garriott asked his son, who was sitting in an armchair on the steppes of Kazakhstan after being pulled from the gumdrop-shaped Soyuz capsule.
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10/24/2008 4:38 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

American, Russians return from space station (AP)

AP - A Soyuz capsule carrying an American and two Russians touched down on target in Kazakhstan on Friday after a descent from the international space station, safely delivering the first two men to follow their fathers into space.
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10/24/2008 1:15 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Bizarre Tactic Drives Worms Out of the Ground (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Fishermen have long known that you can drive earthworms to the surface with a strange technique called worm grunting.
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10/24/2008 3:35 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Who let the crocs out? (Reuters)

Reuters - Wildlife experts in Cyprus are trying to verify reports a crocodile smuggled to the island is on the loose in a nature reserve popular with visitors.
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10/24/2008 7:45 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

UN humanitarian chief moved by Haiti hurricane destruction (AFP)

AFP - UN emergency relief coordinator John Holmes said Friday he was overwhelmed by the damage wrought on this seaside city in the north of Haiti when Hurricane Hanna struck last month.
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10/23/2008 9:13 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

US sees deeper woes, global governments step up response (AFP)

AFP - US officials warned Thursday of a rise in unemployment stemming from the credit crisis while France unveiled plans for a sovereign wealth fund to protect key industries from turmoil as debate raged over the cause of the global maelstrom.
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10/23/2008 10:10 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

NASA traces glitches that stopped Hubble (Reuters)

Reuters - NASA engineers have traced two glitches that shut down the orbiting Hubble space telescope and said on Thursday they rebooted one of the computers involved.
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10/24/2008 3:40 AM - Views: 0 Rating: -

OPEC slashes oil output, triggering Western backlash (AFP)

AFP - OPEC said Friday it will slash oil output by 1.5 million barrels a day from November 1 as it seeks to shore up crude prices, triggering a verbal backlash from recession-threatened Britain and the United States.
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10/24/2008 11:39 AM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Stephen Hawking to retire from prestigious post (AP)

AP - Cosmologist Stephen Hawking will retire from his prestigious post at Cambridge University next year, but intends to continue his exploration of time and space.
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10/24/2008 4:14 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

European satellite launch delayed until at least Feb (AFP)

AFP - The much-delayed launch of a European satellite designed to monitor Earth's gravitational field is unlikely to take place before February, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Friday.
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10/23/2008 6:09 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

OPEC should cut oil output by two million barrels a day: Iran (AFP)

AFP - Iran's oil minister on Thursday said that a drop in demand meant OPEC should decide to cut production by two million barrels per day when it meets for a meeting here on Friday.
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10/23/2008 9:44 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Scientists try to stop hunger with retooled foods (AP)

AP - Want to lose weight? Try eating. That's one of the strategies being developed by scientists experimenting with foods that trick the body into feeling full.
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10/23/2008 4:06 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Greenspan says 'credit tsunami' to wipe out spending, jobs (AFP)

AFP - Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said Thursday the United States is swept by a "once-in-a-century credit tsunami" that will hit consumer spending and jobs.
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10/23/2008 5:34 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Potent Greenhouse Gas More Prevalent than Thought (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - A potent greenhouse gas is at least four times more prevalent in the atmosphere than was previously estimated, a new study reports.
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10/23/2008 6:36 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Mich. ad likens stem-cell work to Tuskegee study (AP)

AP - A television ad created by opponents of a ballot measure that would allow embryonic stem-cell research in Michigan likens such work to the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study.
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10/23/2008 7:49 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

NASA tries again to get ailing Hubble working (AP)

AP - NASA is trying again to wake up the sleeping science computer on the Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble hasn't been able to take pictures since late September because its computer couldn't collect and transmit photos. NASA tried to wake up a backup system last week, but ran into new problems that shut the computer down again.
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10/23/2008 8:33 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Mexican energy reform passes Senate (AP)

AP - The Mexican Senate has passed a controversial energy reform meant to revitalize the nation's flagging oil industry.
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10/22/2008 10:34 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Charges filed against 6 in Iowa pig abuse case (AP)

AP - Six farm employees were charged with animal abuse and neglect Wednesday in connection with a video obtained by an animal-rights group that showed workers abusing pigs.
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10/23/2008 7:31 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

OPEC chief foresees oil output cut despite economic crisis (AFP)

AFP - OPEC's president said the oil cartel will lower output at an urgent meeting on Friday as hardline members pushed for sharp cuts despite warnings that a resulting price rise could worsen economic hardship.
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10/23/2008 11:33 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Out of Thin Air: How Money is Really Made (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Making money in 2008 looks like a grim proposition, but not because U.S. government printing presses can't create enough dollar bills.
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10/22/2008 9:46 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Blue Bananas Surprise Scientists (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - When a banana ripens, it turns yellow - unless you look at it under a black light, in which case, it appears bright blue, a new study has found. The banana's blue glow was discovered by scientists at the University of Innsbruck in Austria and Columbia University in New York, the first team to look for this phenomenon in bananas. ...
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10/22/2008 10:17 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

New Space Station Crew Takes Charge (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - Two Russian cosmonauts turned over control of the International Space Station to their replacements Wednesday as they prepare to return to Earth with an American space tourist.
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10/23/2008 12:17 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Oil powerhouse Venezuela struggles to keep lights on (Reuters)

Reuters - Despite having some of the world's largest energy reserves, Venezuela is increasingly struggling to maintain basic electrical service, a growing challenge for leftist President Hugo Chavez.
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10/23/2008 12:48 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Oklahoma State projects affected by donor's losses (AP)

AP - Oklahoma State University officials cheered when oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens gave a record-setting gift of $165 million to his alma mater two years ago for athletic programs and then invested it in his BP Capital hedge fund so that it would grow even more.
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10/23/2008 11:28 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Kuwait says OPEC must consider global crisis (AFP)

AFP - Kuwait's Oil Minister Mohammad al-Olaim said on Thursday that OPEC should act over crude prices but that any measure must take into account the global financial crisis.
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10/23/2008 3:30 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

US working on plan to help homeowners refinance (AP)

AP - Federal regulators told Congress Thursday they're working on a plan that could help many distressed homeowners escape foreclosure in a global financial crisis that Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan warned will get worse before it gets better.

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10/24/2008 9:15 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

What a View! Space Bubbles Would Thrill Tourists (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - The Rocket Racing League is teaming up with a private aerospace company and the state of New Mexico to build a new fleet of suborbital spacecraft designed to give space tourists a view of the Earth unlike any other.
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10/24/2008 9:15 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Meteor 'Fireball' Caught on Video (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - A team of astronomers has caught on video a fiery meteor as it fell toward Earth.
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10/25/2008 12:31 AM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Ind. Supreme Court won't rush early voting tiff (AP)

AP - A divided Indiana Supreme Court on Friday rejected a effort by Republicans to shutter satellite early voting sites in three largely Democratic cities near Chicago, but an appeals court later agreed to expedite the case and set oral arguments for five days before the general election.
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10/24/2008 3:00 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Successful first test for Vega’s Zefiro 9-A solid-fuel rocket motor

Yesterday, the Zefiro 9-A motor successfully completed its first firing test at the Salto di Quirra Inter-force Test Range in Sardinia (Italy). This was the penultimate firing test for the engine prior to the Vega launcher’s qualification flight, scheduled to take place by the end of 2009.
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10/24/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Potent Greenhouse Gas More Common in Atmosphere Than Estimated

New research indicates a powerful greenhouse gas is at least four times more prevalent in the atmosphere than previously estimated.
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10/24/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

NASA TV To Air Station Crew Messages On Voting, 10th Anniversary

NASA Television will broadcast two special messages from International Space Station crew members.
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10/24/2008 6:29 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

No money, no spacecraft, Russian producer warns (AFP)

AFP - Russia's spacecraft producer Energiya will not provide any more Soyuz vessels for trips to the International Space Station unless funds could urgently be found, Energiya's president and general constructor warned on Friday.
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10/24/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Expedition 17 Crew Returns From International Space Station

Spaceflight participant Richard Garriott and two members of the 17th crew to live and work aboard the International Space Station returned to Earth at 10:36 p.m. CDT, Thursday.
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10/24/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

NASA To Release Science Results, Images From Second Mercury Flyby

NASA will hold a Science Update at 1 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Oct. 29, to announce findings and release new images from the Oct. 6 flyby of Mercury
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10/24/2008 8:49 AM - Views: 0 Rating: -

GOCE launch delayed until 2009

The Russian authorities responsible for the Rockot launcher that shall carry ESA's GOCE Earth Explorer satellite into orbit have completed the investigation of a failure in the guidance and navigation system of the launcher's Upper Stage (Breeze KM).
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10/23/2008 10:13 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

COROT directly sees ‘Sun-quakes’ in other stars for the first time

Sounding the Sun through a technique similar to seismology has opened a new era for understanding the Sun’s interior. The COROT satellite has now applied this technique to three stars, directly probing the interiors of stars beyond the Sun for the first time.
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10/23/2008 1:01 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Space Tourist, Cosmonauts to Land Tonight (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - Two Russian cosmonauts and American space tourist Richard Garriott are set to cast off from the International Space Station tonight for the return to Earth, and they're hoping for a smooth ride home.
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10/23/2008 5:51 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

India eyes larger slice of satellite launch sector (AFP)

AFP - India's first moon mission not only makes it a serious player in space exploration but also holds the prospect of a bigger slice of the lucrative satellite launch market, analysts say.
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10/23/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

NASA's Next Moon Mission Begins Thermal Vacuum Test

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has begun environmental testing in a thermal vacuum that simulates the harsh rigors of space.
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10/23/2008 7:45 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Shuttle Endeavour Swaps Launch Pads for November Liftoff (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - The space shuttle Endeavour moved to a new launch pad Thursday to gear up for a supply run to the International Space Station next month.
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10/22/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Next Hubble Telescope Media Teleconference Thursday, Oct. 23

NASA will provide an update to reporters on the current efforts to restore Hubble Space Telescope science observations during a media teleconference on Thursday, Oct. 23, at 2 p.m. EDT.
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10/22/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

NASA's Shuttle Endeavour Moves to Launch Pad, Practice Liftoff Set

Space shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to move from Launch Pad 39B to Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., as early as 8 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 23, as preparations for the STS-126 mission move forward.
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10/22/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

NASA And The Challenger Center Announce Naming Contest

NASA And The Challenger Center Announce Naming Contest
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10/22/2008 3:45 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

India Celebrates Launch of First Moon Probe (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - PARIS - India's first space mission beyond Earth orbit was launched successfully Wednesday (Local Time) when an upgraded version of India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) placed the Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter into an elliptical transfer orbit, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) announced.
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10/22/2008 5:00 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Chandrayaan-1 successfully launched – next stop: the Moon

Chandrayaan-1, India’s first mission to the Moon, was successfully launched earlier this morning from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SHAR) in Sriharikota, India.
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10/22/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

NASA Invites Reporters to Tests of Moon Tools in Hawaii Nov. 13

Media are invited to observe tests of NASA equipment and rover concepts that will demonstrate how astronauts might prospect for lunar resources and make their own oxygen for survival on the moon. The tests will take place Thursday, Nov. 13, starting at 9 a.m. HST outside Hilo, Hawaii.
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10/22/2008 7:26 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Ky. campus lockdown ends; no evidence of gunfire (AP)

AP - Western Kentucky University was locked down for several hours Wednesday after reports of gunmen on campus, but officials said they could find no evidence that shots had been fired or that anyone had a weapon.
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10/21/2008 5:31 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Congress Withholds Funding for Spysat Program (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - WASHINGTON - Congressional appropriators have canceled funding for a joint U.S. military-intelligence program to field two commercial-class satellites to collect medium-resolution imagery, government and industry sources confirmed today.
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10/21/2008 8:00 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

All set for Chandrayaan-1 launch

Final preparations are under way for the launch of India’s first mission to the Moon, Chandrayaan-1. The spacecraft is due to take off early tomorrow morning, 22 October 2008, on India’s own Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SHAR) in Sriharikota, India.
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10/21/2008 10:15 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Planets Thought Dead Might Be Habitable (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - Astronomers have long talked about a "habitable zone" around a star as being a confined and predictable region where temperatures were not to cold, not to hot, so that a planet could retain liquid water and therefore support life as we know it.
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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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10/20/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 0 Rating: -

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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10/19/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 0 Rating: -

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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10/17/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

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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10/17/2008 1:30 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

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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10/17/2008 6:45 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

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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10/16/2008 8:52 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

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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10/16/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 0 Rating: -

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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10/16/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 0 Rating: -

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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10/16/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 0 Rating: -

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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10/16/2008 7:45 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

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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10/25/2008 11:09 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Sailing: Cup of good cheer?

An agreement over the modernisation of the America's Cup could occur before the final day in court
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10/25/2008 11:10 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Eddie Butler: Welsh shout poo, Australia wave goodbye

There can be no advance in rugby without retreat, no progression without recession. What happens off the field might, in a kind world, be viewed as a replica of the ebb and flow of play on it. To view things with a wearier eye, you have people looking ahead and then you have Wales. This has to be brief. After four years of being stultified by the issue of player-release in England, there are only so many seconds left in an onlooker's life for the same in Wales. Except to say that if ever a country could look at two Six Nations Grand Slams in three years and say that they were possible because of a logical, unwritten understanding between the regional feeder teams and the national side, it was Wales...
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10/25/2008 11:04 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Redknapp takes Spurs job after Ramos is sacked

Harry Redknapp has agreed to take the Tottenham Hotspur job after Juande Ramos was sacked
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10/25/2008 11:09 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Anglo-Welsh Cup: Harlequins 17-32 London Irish

There is rarely a dull moment when these two come together and here was another lively contest. Neither side had much more than a theoretical chance of progression in EDF Cup, a fact reflected in the teams they had selected, so the game lacked the bite to make it truly satisfying. Nevertheless, Shane Geraghty played a full part, and that will have pleased one of his mentors, the watching England backs coach Brian Smith. Satisfaction all round, then, for the Exiles, who refused to panic when it had looked as if Harlequins might run away with it...
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10/25/2008 11:09 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Anglo-Welsh Cup: Gloucester 25-20 Newport Gwent Dragons

This was a forgettable victory for Gloucester. Better than last week's memorable loss at Cardiff, but not a performance to ease the anxieties at Kingsholm. Gloucester are spluttering along. Expectations on the way to this match were modest. This Anglo-Welsh Cup appears to have more detractors than advocates. But for a while those expectations exceeded the reality. The start was horribly scrappy; Gloucester were tentative, nervous even, and the Dragons had most of the territory and the possession...
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10/25/2008 11:10 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Vic Marks: Aussie bowling stock in a spin

So where do your priorities lie? Two catches are in the air, one to defeat the Stanford Superstars, another to win the Ashes, but only one of them can be held. Which do you choose? For 99.99 per cent of the population it's a no-brainer, but for England cricketers, their families and close friends it is an altogether trickier dilemma. Beat the credit crunch in a trice even though you may be remembered forever more - like poor old Fred Tate (it was only 106 years ago that he put down that catch at Old Trafford) - as the man who dropped the Ashes? Tempting...
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10/25/2008 11:08 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Nick Mathiason: The Games thrilled. Now it's 'whatever'

There was a time, not so long ago, when vainglorious politicians and neurotic bureaucrats saw to it that grand projects in Britain routinely failed. Think of the Millennium Dome and the national joke that was the Football Association's rebuilding of Wembley.So the idea that London should even consider staging the 2012 Olympics seemed mad. But what sold it to me was a once-in-a-generation opportunity to inject serious investment into the East End of London, where I live. True, billions of pounds of taxpayers' cash created the spectacular yet soulless Canary Wharf office development in the Eighties and Nineties...
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10/25/2008 11:02 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Ruiz helps Phillies to wild Game 3 win (AP)

This was midnight madness, and then some, at the World Series. "Freak things kind of happened there," Eric Bruntlett said after scoring the winning run for the Philadelphia Phillies at 1:47 a.m. Carlos Ruiz finished off a wacky ninth inning with an infield single with the bases loaded, and the Phillies outlasted the Tampa Bay Rays 5-4 early Sunday in Game 3 for a 2-1 lead.
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10/25/2008 11:09 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Andy Bull: Profiteering vulgarity - just like cricket used to be

Forget ideals, the pursuit of money has always been at the heart of the game
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10/25/2008 10:44 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Sanchez, Trojans hold off Arizona 17-10 (AP)

Mark Sanchez threw for 216 yards and a touchdown, and No. 6 Southern California used its dominant defense Saturday night to hold off Arizona 17-10 and keep its national title hopes alive. The Trojans' stalwart defense throttled the potent Wildcats, who had averaged 40.4 points per game, ninth in the nation.
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10/25/2008 11:08 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Formula one: Lewis Hamilton's instinct may short-circuit his title challenge

Lewis Hamilton spent most of Tuesday on the site of a former farmyard in Surrey believing he was in Brazil while preparing to win the world championship. Mizens Farm has long since made way for the McLaren Technology Centre (MTC), the only similarity between such widely divergent trades being a finished product that can be affected by the weather.The chances of high temperatures influencing the outcome of next Sunday's Brazilian Grand Prix will have been programmed into detailed preparations that included Hamilton lapping the Interlagos circuit while sitting in a simulator 6,000 miles away...
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10/25/2008 11:09 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

League review: Furious Dave Jones slams Nottingham Forest fans over taunts

Cardiff manager Dave Jones reacted angrily to chants directed at him by Nottingham Forest supporters
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10/25/2008 11:09 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Anglo-Welsh Cup: Cardiff 23-9 Leicester

Having entertainingly engaged Gloucester seven days ago in an indoor Heineken Cup romp in the Millennium Stadium next door, the Cardiff Blues found themselves more open to the Arms Park elements in the EDF Cup, but more closed in terms of style. Leicester do not readily do fancy dress.The visitors reintroduced Seru Rabeni to the wing - the Fijian had had a suspension for eye-gouging lengthened after appearing in a sevens tournament while suspended - which might have suggested a willingness to pass the ball, but they also gave an outing to Derick Hougaard at outside-half...
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10/25/2008 11:09 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Boxing: Show will go on if one Howard Eastman proves better than Andrew 'Six Heads' Lewis

No sport delivers its participants more contrasting emotions than boxing: elation, fear, relief, pride, despair. And no boxing brothers, surely, have experienced those feelings with as much relentless intensity as have Gilbert and Howard Eastman. A little over a week ago, Gilbert was a fit, proud, professional boxer. Today, his career finished, his life saved by the genius of doctors and nurses at the Royal London Hospital, he will be happy, at 35, that he is able to move and to talk. Howard was always the 'big brother' - protective, confident, assertive...
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10/25/2008 11:10 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

TV football's best team: Murray, Stan and wee Pat

Football, football, football, football, football, football... that's one football for every 'big European match' screened last week. These gluts are fortnightly now: the price of English success is excess. There are eight teams in eight different qualifying leagues and the pressure for coverage is relentless. It makes for an awful lot of meaningless football. Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United were always going to, and all will, qualify for these leagues. The 24 matches they play exist purely to raise funds from supporters who may soon feel they have paid enough...
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10/24/2008 11:02 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Stanford Super Series: How much will the losers get? What happens if it rains? Will the Barmy Army be there?

The Twenty20 extravaganza begs a series of questions, 20 of them: Mikey Stafford provides the answers
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10/24/2008 11:02 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Rugby union: Mike Ruddock returns with his tale wagging behind him

Just when Wales are embroiled in a legal row with their regions over player release, their national coach warning that he might "consider his position", another ghost from the recent turbulent past is about to get an airing with the publication of a book that promises to name names involved in the departure of Mike Ruddock, another Six Nations-winning coach.On February 14, 2006, less than 12 months after becoming the first Wales coach for 27 years to win a grand slam, the Welsh Rugby Union parted company with Ruddock in circumstances that have never been totally explained, partly because of the terms of his departure...
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10/24/2008 11:03 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Twenty20: Lalit Modi wants English players in IPL but 'there is a big catch'

Lalit Modi has said that the involvement of ECB players in the IPL is dependent on the reciprocal release of players to the English Premier League
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10/24/2008 11:06 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Football: fuming Arsene Wenger set to fine William Gallas after defender is caught smoking

Arsène Wenger has revealed that he was once a smoker but his liberal attitude is not expected to spare William Gallas, the Arsenal captain, from a club fine after he was photographed in the small hours of Thursday morning leaving a London nightclub with a cigarette in his mouth. Wenger will check the authenticity of the pictures and speak to Gallas to remind him of his responsibilities. The French defender was among a host of celebrities at the reopening of the Movida club, which was also attended by the Chelsea players Florent Malouda and Mikel John Obi...
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10/24/2008 11:06 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Football: Luka Modric adds to dissenting voices as pressure on Ramos mounts

As Tottenham prepare for three Premier League matches in six days that will shape their future, another forlorn voice can be heard from the gathering of dissenters that passes for a dressing-room these days. It is that of Luka Modric, the £16.5m Croatian midfield player who was one of the substitutes against Udinese on Thursday night."I did my best but I was all alone in the middle," he said. "I couldn't do any more. I was disappointed to start on the bench but it was the coach's decision...
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10/24/2008 11:06 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Football: Martin O'Neill to check claims John Carew partied on eve of Villa match

Martin O'Neill is to investigate claims that John Carew was in a lap-dancing bar on the morning of Aston Villa's Uefa Cup tie against Ajax on Thursday. It is alleged the Norway international was in the nightclub until the early hours and, if so, is guilty of breaking Villa's pre-match curfew. If the allegations are proved he is likely to be fined two weeks' wages, which equates to about £100,000.Although O'Neill omitted Carew from the squad that faced Ajax, the Villa manager was not aware of the allegations that he had visited The Rocket Club in Birmingham's Broad Street and was instead responding to the forward's claims earlier in the week that he was suffering from fatigue since returning from international duty...
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10/25/2008 1:19 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Football: Manchester United drew 1-1 with Everton at Goodison Park

A second-half header from the Everton midfielder Marouane Fellaini frustrated Manchester United as they played out a compelling 1-1 draw at Goodison Park
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10/25/2008 4:19 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Moreno leads No. 9 Georgia by No. 11 LSU (AP)

Georgia coach Mark Richt once called the Tiger Stadium crowd the loudest he'd ever heard. Knowshon Moreno may remember Death Valley more for the hush he caused with his tackle-breaking 68-yard touchdown run. Moreno's long score late in the third quarter gave ninth-ranked Georgia a three-touchdown lead, and the Bulldogs held on for a 52-38 victory over No.
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10/25/2008 5:47 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Premier League: Sunderland 2-1 Newcastle United

Football is always a game of risk but this Wear-Tyne derby was suffused with some exceptional gambles. None seemed bigger or backfired more than the decision to enforce minimal segregation between rival supporters - except, perhaps, the failure to offer Joey Barton greater protection when the Newcastle United substitute, and black sheep, warmed up.So 29 arrests were made on a day which ended with a number of home fans spilling on to the pitch before scuffling with a small group of Toon Army rivals...
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10/25/2008 6:44 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Hurricanes' Ward makes 57 saves in win (AP)

Cam Ward made 57 saves and Chad LaRose scored twice to help the Carolina Hurricanes beat the New York Islanders 4-3 on Saturday night. Rod Brind'Amour and Eric Staal also scored for the Hurricanes in their third straight victory at Nassau Coliseum. Freddy Meyer, Sean Bergenheim and Mark Streit scored for New York.
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10/24/2008 11:02 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Athletics: Paula Radcliffe stirs her competitive juices in Big Apple warm-up

Paula Radcliffe is set to line up in the Great South Run in Portsmouth tomorrow ahead of her New York Marathon title defence
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10/24/2008 11:02 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Rugby league World Cup: England confident they can wrestle with new challenge

The issue of grapple-tackles has dominated the build-up to the opening weekend of the Rugby league World Cup
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10/24/2008 11:17 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Football: Iain Dowie sacked as Flavio Briatore flexes his muscles in QPR boardroom

Flavio Briatore reasserted his authority in the Queens Park Rangers boardroom yesterday by sacking Iain Dowie as manager. There has been turmoil behind the scenes at the Championship club, where the chairman, Briatore, clashed with the vice-chairman, Amit Bhatia, after the latter released a personally signed statement pledging to reduce ticket prices at Loftus Road.Briatore telephoned Gianni Paladini to accuse the club's sporting director of undermining him and promised he would be sacked. Paladini, though, was spared at a meeting on Thursday attended by all the major powers and Briatore instead turned the knife on Dowie...
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10/24/2008 11:42 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Duncan Fletcher: The $20m verdict: this simply can't be good for the game

The amount of money involved in the Stanford Series poses a genuine threat to dressing room morale and the standard of play
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10/25/2008 12:36 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Football in brief: Scolari helps Ballack keep Löw profile

The Chelsea manager appears to has stymied Joachim Löw's attempt to summon Michael Ballack to Berlin
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10/25/2008 7:23 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Football: Fulham manager Roy Hodgson eyes first away point at Fratton Park

After three away defeats Roy Hodgson believes Fulham can repeat last season's victory at Fratton Park
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10/25/2008 9:45 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Premier League: Sunderland v Newcastle - as it happened

Kieran Richardson's howitzer of a free-kick gave Sunderland a first home win over their neighbours for 28 years
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10/25/2008 12:56 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

No. 5 Gators rip depleted Kentucky 63-5 (AP)

Tired of sluggish starts in early games, the Florida Gators woke up at 6:30 a.m. Saturday and had music blaring a short time later. They got dressed earlier, ate earlier and started their pre-game routine earlier. The changes worked to perfection as the fifth-ranked Gators put away Kentucky earlier than any other opponent else this season.
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10/25/2008 3:18 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Tennis: Andy Murray beat Fernando Verdasco in the semi-final of the St Petersburg Open

The British No1 Andy Murray eased into the final of the St Petersburg Open today with a 6-0, 6-3 semi-final victory over Fernando Verdasco, a repeat of last year's final, which Murray also won. Murray will now face Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan in tomorrow's final, as he attempts to win back-to-back tour titles after his victory in the Madrid masters last week. Golubev, ranked 150th in the world, beat Romania's Victor Hanescu in the other semi-final.Murray showed no signs of fatigue after a testing quarter-final against Janko Tipsarevic and easily took the first set 6-0...
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10/25/2008 4:12 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

No. 1 Texas overcomes McCoy's mistakes (AP)

Colt McCoy made rare mistakes. The Texas defense got pushed around and the Longhorns watched their big lead and momentum gradually disappear. Suddenly, the No. 1 team in the country looked vulnerable. Yet here they are, still unbeaten, and with still more tough games to play. McCoy passed for 391 yards and two touchdowns Saturday but the Longhorns defense needed to come up with two huge stands in a...
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10/25/2008 4:21 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Breeders' Cup: day two - live!

Preamble: Good morning again from Santa Anita, California, where the coffee is hot, the tea is undrinkable and the beer is very cold. I'm taking that last bit on trust, of course, as even I've got limits. It's 8.27 in the morning here, for goodness sake.That's not stopping the paying punters, though, as they prepare for nine of the highest-quality flat races anywhere on the planet (OK, eight and the Marathon if you want to be picky). The first ones were here before dawn, and by the time your correspondent arrived at 7...