News Predator - Science News Archive 11/13/2008

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Weather good for Friday shuttle launch: NASA (AFP)

AFP - Weather conditions have improved for Friday's launch of the space shuttle Endeavour and its seven astronauts on a mission to the International Space Station, NASA meteorologists said Thursday.

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Not giving up the ghost: Mars Spirit rover lives (AP)

AP - Despite a nasty Martian dust storm, Spirit lives.

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Rare dinosaur nest offers look into bird evolution (Reuters)

Reuters - Canadian researchers say they've narrowed down the likely owner of a dinosaur nest, abandoned on a river's edge 77 million years ago, adding the discovery offers a unique look at dinosaur reproduction and the evolution of birds.

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7 rescued as floods wash out Oregon road, culvert (AP)

AP - A woman and two young children were rescued from the top of their SUV as floodwaters swept over the vehicle's roof on a coastal Oregon road.

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11/13/2008 6:19 PM - Views: 5 Rating: -

How Bleach Kills Bacteria (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - For 200 years, chlorine bleach has been the go-to chemical for obliterating germs, but scientists are just beginning to uncover how the caustic stuff kills bacteria and other microbes.

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Wide-hipped fossil changes picture of Homo erectus (Reuters)

Reuters - The fossil of a wide-hipped Homo erectus found in Ethiopia suggests females of the pre-human species swayed their hips as they walked and gave birth to relatively developed babies with big heads, researchers said on Thursday.

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11/13/2008 2:24 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Study: Separate Great Lakes, Mississippi basins (AP)

AP - Connections engineered more than a century ago between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed should be changed to block the advance of invasive species that can cause irreversible damage, an environmental advocacy group says.

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WITNESS: Zero G is like being born (Reuters)

Reuters - Tim Hepher has been a journalist with Reuters for 14 years, with experience covering trade wars and takeover battles, and now specializes in aerospace business in Paris. In the following story, he describes a parabolic flight where he somersaulted weightless with space officials and politicians.

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11/13/2008 2:18 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Secret to Penguin Locomotion Revealed (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Penguins are wobbly on land, but their extreme underwater agility involves the perfection of a twisting wing motion that is just now coming to be understood.

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The Exciting Evolution of ... Rocks (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Every rock tells a story. And some of those stories are about the history of life.

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11/13/2008 8:11 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

From afar, the first optical photos of an exoplanet (AFP)

AFP - After an eight-year quest for images, a US astronomer using a camera aboard the Hubble space telescope has snapped the first picture of a planet outside our solar system.

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Lower heating costs predicted for this winter (AP)

AP - With oil prices plummeting, the government says people will get a break this winter on their heating bills. And next year's gasoline prices should average $2.37 a gallon.

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Lower heating costs predicted this winter (AP)

AP - The dramatic drop in world oil prices means a break this winter in heating costs, especially for the eight million households, primarily in the Northeast, that rely on fuel oil, the government says.

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Frozen Semen Works in Rhinoceros Artificial Insemination (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - A female white rhinoceros has successfully given birth to a calf after being artificially inseminated with frozen semen, researchers announced today.

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Scientists Determine the Fishiest Election Ever (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - A school of fish recently held the aquatic equivalent of a two-party election to choose a leader. There was no electoral college involved, and the outcome wasn't even close.

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Vietnam to grow genetically modified crops: reports (AFP)

AFP - Vietnam plans to test genetically modified (GM) agricultural crops from now until 2010 and then grow them on a large scale, media reports in the communist country said on Thursday.

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UN: Brown clouds over Asia worsen global warming (AP)

AP - A thick brown cloud of soot, particles and chemicals stretching from the Persian Gulf to Asia threatens health and food supplies in the world, the U.N. reported Thursday, citing what it called the newest threat from global warming.

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11/13/2008 9:23 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Ancient Celtic coin cache found in Netherlands (AP)

AP - A hobbyist with a metal detector struck both gold and silver when he uncovered an important cache of ancient Celtic coins in a cornfield in the southern Dutch city of Maastricht.

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First fuzzy photos of planets outside solar system (AP)

AP - Earth seems to have its first fuzzy photos of alien planets outside our solar system, images captured by two teams of astronomers. The pictures show four likely planets that appear as specks of white, nearly indecipherable except to the most eagle-eyed experts. All are trillions of miles away ? three of them orbiting the same star, and the fourth circling a different star.

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Ike-damaged hospital, med school laying off 3,800 (AP)

AP - The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, a teaching hospital severely damaged by Hurricane Ike, will lay off about 3,800 workers ? nearly a third of its work force ? because it is running out of money.

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U.S. considering offshore Virginia drilling (Reuters)

Reuters - The U.S. Minerals Management Service said on Wednesday it has started the process to consider selling leases to drill for oil and natural gas off the coast of Virginia.

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India to take second moon shot by 2012, eyes Mars (AFP)

AFP - Buoyed by the success of its maiden lunar mission, India on Thursday said it will send a second unmanned spacecraft to the moon by 2012.

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Focus on Putting Humans on Mars, Group Argues (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - NASA and other spaceflight programs worldwide should focus on putting people on Mars, not the moon, an advocacy group for space exploration said in a new plan announced today.

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11/13/2008 7:04 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Major Breakthrough: First Photos of Planets Around Other Stars (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - Astronomers have taken what they say are the first-ever direct images of planets outside of our solar system, including a visible-light snapshot of a single-planet system and an infrared picture of a multiple-planet system.

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11/13/2008 9:38 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Long-lost lunar photos get another day in the sun (AP)

AP - The old moon has never looked this good. Mankind's first up-close photos of the lunar landscape have been rescued from four decades of dusty storage, and they've been restored to such a high quality that they rival anything taken by modern cameras.

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Doctors say marrow transplant may have cured AIDS (AP)

AP - An American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukemia, his doctors said Wednesday.

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Raul Castro says Cuban storm losses near $10 billion (Reuters)

Reuters - Cuba has suffered almost $10 billion in damages from the three hurricanes that struck the island this year, President Raul Castro said in a report aired on Tuesday on state-run television.

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Same-sex marriage ban to hit California economy: mayor (Reuters)

Reuters - California's vote last week to ban same-sex marriage will hit the state's economy by making it harder for cutting-edge industries like biotechnology to recruit top talent, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom said on Wednesday.

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Brisk Walk Can Curb Chocolate Cravings (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Assuming you'd want to avoid chocolate, a short, brisk walk could help curb your cocoa cravings, a new study suggests.

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11/12/2008 4:56 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Study: Lots of recoverable frozen gas in Alaska (AP)

AP - Government scientists believe Alaska's North slope has huge deposits of frozen natural gas that current technology could extract, according to an Interior Department report.

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Woolly Rhinoceros Discovery Is Oldest in Europe (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - A woolly rhinoceros was just 12 years old when it died in a pool of meltwater flowing off an inland glacier in Germany. That was 460,000 years ago. Now, scientists have pieced together the skull of this extinct mega-mammal and found it to be the oldest woolly rhinoceros in Europe.

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11/12/2008 9:08 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

The Obama Conspiracies: Truth Will Be Revealed (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Hundreds of thousands of Americans believe - or at least claim to believe - that the next president of the United States is a Muslim, a terrorist, or both.

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Evolution in Action: Lizards Losing Limbs (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Some slender Australian lizards called skinks have gone from being five-legged to legless (like most snakes) in just 3.6 million years, a new study finds. That's a blink of an eye in geologic time.

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Key 'switch' found for popular breast cancer drug (AP)

AP - Scientists have pinpointed the molecular on-off switch that the powerful drug tamoxifen uses to attack breast cancer and which prevents it from working in some women.

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11/12/2008 9:22 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

California starring in massive earthquake drill (AP)

AP - California will star Thursday in a mock earthquake disaster drill ? considered the largest in U.S. history ? with some 5 million people pledging to do everything from ducking for cover to rescuing faux victims.

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Young Musicians Get Smarter, Study Suggests (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Children who study a musical instrument for at least three years outperform children with no instrumental training on non-musical tests of vocabulary and non-verbal reasoning.

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11/11/2008 9:32 PM - Views: 4 Rating: +1

Egypt unveils discovery of 4,300-year-old pyramid (AP)

AP - Archaeologists have discovered a new pyramid under the sands of Saqqara, an ancient burial site that has yielded a string of unearthed pyramids in recent years but remains largely unexplored.

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Icy Slush Chills Blood to Save Lives (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - A bio-compatible ice slurry created by scientists in the Nuclear Engineering Division at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory can be injected directly into the body. The ice slurry can be used to lower the temperature of an organ, reducing its need for oxygen, giving doctors extra time to diagnose and heal.

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StatoilHydro says it will invest $3.4bln in US gas project (AFP)

AFP - Norwegian energy giant StatoilHydro intends to invest about 3.4 billion dollars (2.65 billion euros) in a shale gas project in the United States, it said in a statement on Tuesday.

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Indonesia launches new early warning tsunami system (Reuters)

Reuters - Indonesia launched a new hi-tech system Tuesday aimed at detecting a potential tsunami and providing faster alerts in a region battered by frequent earthquakes.

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11/11/2008 6:10 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Fast Food Loaded with Corn (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - When you eat a burger and fries from a fast food restaurant, you're ultimately chowing down on corn.

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Hawaii switching to digital TV early for the birds (AP)

AP - Hawaii will switch to digital TV faster than the rest of the country to make way for an endangered, volcano-dwelling bird.

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Obama team: No decisions on reversing Bush orders (Reuters)

Reuters - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's team cautioned on Monday he had not yet decided whether to reverse executive orders on topics such as stem cell research and oil drilling imposed by President George W. Bush.

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Ice, snow make travel treacherous on Plains (AP)

AP - Wintry weather across much of the northern Plains caused fatal accidents in Minnesota and left a layer of ice and nearly a foot of snow in parts of Nebraska.

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Oil price dives under 55 dollars per barrel in London (AFP)

AFP - Oil prices sank under 55 dollars a barrel on Tuesday to strike a 21-month low as fresh recession jitters fanned fears about slowing global energy demand, traders said.

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Indonesia launches tsunami early warning system (AFP)

AFP - Indonesia launched a high-tech tsunami warning system Tuesday in a bid to prevent a repeat of tragedies like the 2004 Asian tsunami that killed around 170,000 people in the archipelago nation.

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11/11/2008 4:22 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Cold front could thwart Friday's shuttle launch (AP)

AP - An approaching cold front could thwart NASA's plans to launch space shuttle Endeavour on Friday on a flight to the international space station.

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NASA can't reach Mars lander, ends mission (Reuters)

Reuters - NASA scientists said on Monday they could no longer communicate with the Phoenix Mars Lander and were calling an effective end to its five-month-plus mission on the Red Planet.

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What is the Origin of Veterans Day? (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Veterans day can be traced back to the end of World War I.

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Chinese menus, medicine threatening wildlife (Reuters)

Reuters - Wild animals are climbing back onto Chinese plates after the deadly SARS virus made some diners wary, and booming demand for traditional medicine is also threatening some plants, environmentalists said on Wednesday.

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NASA Restores Historic Lunar Orbiter Image

NASA released a newly restored 42-year-old image of Earth on Thursday. The Lunar Orbiter 1 spacecraft took the iconic photograph of Earth rising above the lunar surface in 1966.

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Lunar spacecraft reaches its final orbit

India’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft successfully reached its final operational orbit around the Moon on 12 November 2008. The spacecraft is now circling the Moon at an altitude of about 100 km.

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Endeavour shuttle ready for Friday launch: NASA (AFP)

AFP - All conditions including the weather are favorable for Friday's launch of the space shuttle Endeavour and its seven astronauts on a "home improvement" mission to the International Space Station, NASA said Wednesday.

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NASA Tests Lunar Rovers and Oxygen Production Technology

NASA has concluded nearly two weeks of testing equipment and lunar rover concepts on Hawaii's volcanic soil.

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11/13/2008 12:34 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Space Shuttle Astronauts Ready to Fly (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Seven NASA astronauts are spending what they hope will be their last day on Earth before launching toward the International Space Station Friday night aboard the shuttle Endeavour.

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11/13/2008 7:57 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Weather improving for Friday night shuttle launch (AP)

AP - NASA grew more optimistic of launching space shuttle Endeavour on Friday on a space station delivery mission as forecasters offered a more promising outlook for the nighttime liftoff.

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NASA's New High-Performance Engine for Ares Rocket Passes Review

NASA's newest high-performance rocket engine, the J-2X, successfully completed its critical design review Thursday at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

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11/13/2008 11:12 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

WITNESS: Zero G -- like being born (Reuters)

Reuters - Tim Hepher has been a journalist with Reuters for 14 years, with experience covering trade wars and takeover battles, and now specializes in aerospace business in Paris. In the following story, he describes a parabolic flight where he somersaulted weightless with space officials and politicians.

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Hubble Directly Observes a Planet Orbiting Another Star

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first visible-light snapshot of a planet circling another star.

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Weather Odds Improve for Friday Shuttle Launch (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The odds are improving for NASA's planned Friday launch of the space shuttle Endeavour as weather concerns dipped slightly today, mission managers said.

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NASA'S Carbon-Sniffing Satellite Sleuth Arrives at Launch Site

NASA's first spacecraft dedicated to studying carbon dioxide, the leading human-produced greenhouse gas driving changes in Earth's climate, has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., to begin final launch preparations.

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11/12/2008 4:14 AM - Views: 5 Rating: -

Shuttle crew to outfit living quarters on space station (AFP)

AFP - The space shuttle Endeavour is set to lift off on Friday with seven astronauts who plan to make repairs to the International Space Station and expand its living quarters for bigger crews.

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11/12/2008 8:17 PM - Views: 5 Rating: -

Mars Rover Spirit Has 'Serious' Problem (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - On Monday, NASA declared the Phoenix Lander sitting in Mars' arctic plains as a rest-in-peace goner. Dust storm activity and the seasonal decline in sunshine at the robot's landing site meant that the craft's solar arrays couldn't churn up enough energizing power â?? an expected outcome after five months of exploration.

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11/12/2008 5:43 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

NASA clears shuttle Endeavour for Friday launch (AP)

AP - NASA cleared space shuttle Endeavour for a Friday night launch to the international space station, but the weather outlook was not too promising.

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11/12/2008 2:21 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

NASA rover low on power from Martian dust storm (AP)

AP - NASA's Spirit rover, which is nearing its fifth year on Mars, is struggling to survive after a dust storm sapped its power, mission scientists said Tuesday.

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NASA begins countdown for space shuttle launch (Reuters)

Reuters - CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) -- Countdown clocks at the Kennedy Space Center began ticking down on Tuesday toward Friday's launch of space shuttle Endeavour on a mission to outfit the International Space Station for an expanded live-aboard crew.

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11/12/2008 6:01 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Space Shuttle Endeavour Go for Friday Launch (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The shuttle Endeavour and seven NASA astronauts are cleared for their planned Friday night launch toward the International Space Station, mission managers said Tuesday.

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NASA Announces Exploration Systems Mission Directorate Leadership Changes

NASA Associate Administrator for Exploration Systems Rick Gilbrech announced Wednesday that he will be leaving the agency for a position in the private sector.

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NASA TV to Air Clean Feed of Endeavour's STS-126 Countdown

NASA Television will provide a continuous clean video feed on its Media Channel of space shuttle Endeavour in the hours before its 7:55 p.m. EST liftoff on Nov. 14.

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11/12/2008 7:48 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

NASA clears shuttle for space station visit (Reuters)

Reuters - NASA managers on Wednesday cleared the space shuttle Endeavour and seven astronauts for launch on Friday on a mission to make the International Space Station a bit more like home.

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11/12/2008 12:17 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Space Shuttle Gears up for Home Improvement in Orbit (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - When NASA's shuttle Endeavour launches toward the International Space Station this Friday, it will be hauling the mother lode of new gear for some orbital renovations.

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Astronaut set to become Japan's first mom in space (Reuters)

Reuters - A Japanese astronaut and mother of one has been picked as a crew member of the space shuttle Atlantis, Japan's space agency said Tuesday, making her the country's first mom to go into space.

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Phoenix probe mission on Mars ends: NASA (AFP)

AFP - NASA scientists have said the Phoenix Mars lander has gone silent because of a lack of sunlight needed to power its batteries, after a five-month mission that produced a mother lode of scientific data from the red planet.

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11/11/2008 9:30 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

ESA’s ‘treasure trove’ on YouTube

ESA is launching its own YouTube site in a new initiative to communicate even more widely with the general public by using the latest social media channels.

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11/11/2008 12:45 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

NASA Surprised by Unexpected Meteor Outburst (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - When NASA meteor expert Bill Cooke arrived at the Marshall Space Flight Center and checked his email Sept. 9, 2008, he was very surprised to learn that he'd slept through a dramatic event.

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Reaching for the moon? Just look at your wrist (Reuters)

Reuters - Forget diamonds -- one Swiss watchmaker is betting on watches made from moon dust, parts of the Apollo 11 space shuttle and bits of spacesuits to capture consumer cash as an economic slow down bites.

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11/11/2008 5:05 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

NASA Watches Weather for Friday Shuttle Launch (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - NASA is keeping an eye on the weather as it prepares the shuttle Endeavour for a Friday night launch toward the International Space Station.

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11/10/2008 11:53 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

NASA says Phoenix Mars mission has ended (AP)

AP - NASA on Monday declared an end to the Phoenix mission, some five months after the spacecraft became the first to land in Mars' arctic plains and taste water on another planet. Mission engineers have not heard from the Phoenix lander in over a week. It fell silent shortly after a raging dust storm blocked sunlight from reaching its solar panels.

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11/11/2008 12:26 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

GENSO - Call for Proposals for new students or teams

The ESA Education Office is currently looking for student teams to fill the following vacancies in the Global Educational Network for Satellite Operations project.

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11/11/2008 12:58 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

NASA loses contact with Mars lander, ends mission (Reuters)

Reuters - The Phoenix Mars Lander, which made history by finding definitive proof of water on the Red Planet, has lost contact with Earth, effectively ending its more than five-month mission, NASA said on Monday.

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NASA Hosts Seminar on Earth's Role in our Carbon Dioxide Future

NASA will host a seminar at 11 a.m. EST, Friday, Nov. 14, to discuss the current state of knowledge about how the "breathing" Earth influences current and future levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

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NASA Teleconference Today about Status of Phoenix Mars Lander

NASA will hold a media teleconference at 4 p.m. EST today, Monday, Nov. 10, to discuss the status of the Phoenix Mars Lander. Phoenix has been operating on the Red Planet for more than five months.

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11/10/2008 9:08 AM - Views: 5 Rating: -

Texas clout takes a hit as Democrats take control (AP)

AP - Had voters re-elected Rep. Nick Lampson to Congress, he would have taken the helm of a House subcommittee that oversees NASA projects and guides its budget.

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11/10/2008 12:21 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Chandrayaan-1 now in lunar orbit

Chandrayaan-1, the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) lunar orbiter, was captured into orbit around the Moon on 8 November. One day later, the spacecraft performed a manoeuvre that lowered the closest point of its orbit down to 200 km from the Moon.

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11/10/2008 8:32 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Step closer to crew selection for simulated Mars mission

The crew selection for a simulated Mars mission moved a step closer to completion recently with ESA's last eight candidates being put through extensive medical screening in Moscow. Two of the European candidates will be chosen to join four Russian crew members on a 105-day study due to start in March next year.

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11/10/2008 5:46 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

On Heels of Campaign Promises, Obama Faces Big NASA Decisions (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - WASHINGTON - As U.S. President-elect Barack Obama prepares to take office in January, he does so having offered more specifics about his plans for NASA than any U.S. presidential candidate in history.

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Mars Phoenix Lander Finishes Successful Work on Red Planet

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has ceased communications after operating for more than five months.

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NASA To Test Motor For Orion Crew Capsule's Launch Abort System

NASA and ATK will conduct the first full-scale test fire of the motor for a new launch abort system.

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11/10/2008 6:49 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Europe space chief seeks 9 bln euros, Mars rover delayed again (AFP)

AFP - European space boss Jean-Jacques Dordain said on Monday he would seek "at least" nine billion euros (11.52 billion dollars) from ministers next month to fund new and existing projects in the coming years.

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NASA Announces Space Shuttle Prelaunch and Mission Web Coverage

A prelaunch webcast, live blogs, podcasts, pictures and videos will highlight NASA's Web coverage of space shuttle Endeavour's STS-126 mission to the International Space Station.

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11/10/2008 12:48 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Satellite Images Help Aid Groups Track Atrocities (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - WASHINGTON - Amnesty International and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) are collaborating on Eyes on Darfur (eyesondarfur.org), a Web site that shows before and after satellite images of areas the Washington-based human rights organization believes are, or could be at risk of, being under siege.

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11/10/2008 2:40 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Romanian NASA hacker gets suspended sentence (AP)

AP - A Romanian computer programmer who hacked into computers used by the U.S. Navy, the Department of Energy and NASA has been convicted on Romanian charges and ordered to pay thousands in damages.

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11/10/2008 8:32 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Vigorous New Space Exploration Plan to be Proposed (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - Look for the Planetary Society to hold a National Press Club briefing in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 13, outlining "a vigorous new space exploration plan" – one designed "to achieve more, cost less, and engage the world."

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11/9/2008 4:45 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Out There: Space Traffic Control System Needed (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - The orbital space around Earth has become a busy thoroughfare of satellites operated by several nations. The region is also littered with dead and dying satellites, plus bits of debris ranging from large and dangerous chunks to potentially deadly nuts and bolts and even hazardous chips of paint.

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11/9/2008 6:20 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

A look at Endeavour's 7 astronauts (AP)

AP - Space shuttle Endeavour's seven astronauts will spend Thanksgiving circling Earth, and one of them ? Sandra Magnus ? will stick around for Christmas and New Year's as well.

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11/9/2008 6:19 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Astronauts head for extreme home makeover in space (AP)

AP - The international space station is about to get all the comforts of a modern, high-end, "green" home: a fancy recycling water filter, a new fridge, extra bedrooms, workout equipment and the essential half-bath.

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11/7/2008 10:33 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

SpaceX Seeks Customers for DragonLab Spaceship (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - WASHINGTON - Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) held an invitation-only meeting at its Hawthorne, Calif.-based headquarters on Friday for potential customers of its new DragonLab, a free-flying version of the reusable Dragon capsule the company is building for International Space Station resupply missions.

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11/7/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Apollo 8 Crew Remembers Historic Mission Live On NASA TV

Almost 40 years after NASA executed the bold decision to send the first human flight of the gigantic Saturn V rocket to the moon, the crew of Apollo 8 will reunite.

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11/7/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

NASA Awards Contract For Space Flight Projects

NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland has awarded a contract to ZIN Technologies Inc., of Middleburg Heights, Ohio, for the definition, design, fabrication, assembly, integration, test and operation of a broad array of space flight projects.

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11/7/2008 12:31 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Doorstep Astronomy: The Autumn Dipper (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - High overhead around the 8 p.m. local standard time is a bright configuration of stars that people unfamiliar with the sky often mistake for the Big Dipper. Big it is, but – at least in an official sense – a dipper it is not.

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11/13/2008 10:16 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

No. 4 UCLA holds off Miami of Ohio 64-59 (AP)

UCLA's five freshmen will have to wait. The Bruins' seniors aren't ready to completely hand over control just yet. With the outcome in doubt Thursday night, Darren Collison made two free throws with 21 seconds remaining and No. 4 UCLA survived a defensive struggle to beat Miami (Ohio) 64-59 in the 2K Sports Classic.

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11/12/2008 10:55 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Carling Cup: Didier Drogba throws coin as Burnley beat Chelsea in penalty shoot-out

Burnley put Chelsea out of the Carling Cup 5-4 on penalties after Ade Akinbiyi's equaliser took the game to extra-time

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11/12/2008 11:11 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Ainslie is yachtsman of the year for a third time

The IOC president, Jacques Rogge, has compared Ben Ainslie's Olympic feat to that of Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt

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11/13/2008 12:06 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Sailing: Alex Thomson likely to pull out of solo race

Severe damage to Alex Thomson's boat, Hugo Boss, means that the odds are stacked against him rejoining the Vendée Globe

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11/13/2008 12:31 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

We would not have bid for Olympic games during recession, says Tessa Jowell

The government would probably not have bid to stage the Olympic games if the decision had come in the midst of the current economic downturn, Tessa Jowell, the Olympics minister, has acknowledged. She insisted her remarks were not an admission that staging the games was a mistake, but said a recession would have made the politics of a bid more difficult."Had we known what we know now, would we have bid for the Olympics? Almost certainly not," Jowell said at a leisure industry dinner on Tuesday night...

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11/13/2008 1:15 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Carling Cup: 'We have problems and I needed to put out this team,' says Scolari

Following Chelsea's Carling Cup exit, their manager defended the six changes he made to the side that beat Blackburn

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11/13/2008 12:08 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Redskins' Portis unlikely to face Dallas (AP)

Clinton Portis' sprained knee showed no improvement Thursday, and the Washington Redskins running back appears unlikely to play in Sunday night's game against the Dallas Cowboys. The NFL's second-leading rusher left Redskins Park during practice, wearing a gray hooded sweat shirt and burgundy sweat pants as he stepped into his Maserati.

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11/13/2008 12:39 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Report: Maradona threatens to resign (AP)

Diego Maradona has reportedly threatened to resign after only two weeks as Argentina coach, upset because the president of the country's football federation won't let him appoint the rest of his coaching staff. Maradona reportedly said he may leave before or after Wednesday's coaching debut in a friendly at Scotland, according to the major Argentine newspapers and TV stations, all citing a private...

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11/13/2008 12:40 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Rugby union: Paul Rees on the new-look England side that will face Australia

When Martin Johnson captained England no one, least of all Australia, doubted what they would be up against. The men in white, in those not so far off days, were direct, confrontational, efficient and clinical. They got opponents in a firm grip and kept on squeezing.The movement that ended up with the experimental law variations started after England had won the 2003 World Cup. Set-piece efficiency had been complemented by the generally unerring kicking of Jonny Wilkinson. England had taken the science of rugby to a new level; artists in the southern hemisphere were appalled...

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11/13/2008 12:47 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Football: Sir Alex Ferguson should coach the Great Britain football team says ex-sports minister Richard Caborn

Richard Caborn believes Sir Alex Ferguson should be offered the job of managing Team GB at London 2012

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11/13/2008 1:06 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Yankees acquire Swisher from White Sox (AP)

Nick Swisher became the first part of the New York Yankees' offseason makeover when he was acquired from the Chicago White Sox on Thursday in a five-player trade. Choosing to address first base before concentrating on pitching when the free-agent market opens Friday, the Yankees obtained Swisher and right-hander Kaneoka Texeira for pitching prospect Jeff Marquez, infielder Wilson Betemit and minor...

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11/13/2008 1:14 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Football: Real Madrid's Ruud van Nistelrooy out for the season

Ruud van Nistelrooy could be out of action for as long as nine months after it was announced that he will need surgery on his right knee

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11/13/2008 2:02 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Jones certain Cowboys will make playoffs (AP)

Jerry Jones "absolutely" believes the Dallas Cowboys will make the playoffs, isn't considering a coaching change and would welcome Adam "Pacman" Jones back to the team if he's reinstated. The Cowboys owner, in an impromptu gathering with reporters during practice Thursday, said he expects his struggling Cowboys to recover.

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11/13/2008 3:17 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Football Weekly Extra: ketchup, knowledge and busted heads

Podcast: The team discuss the Carling Cup, Real Madrid, Hull's night out in Scarborough and much more

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11/13/2008 3:24 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Attorneys: Vick expects return to NFL (AP)

Imprisoned NFL quarterback Michael Vick expects to return to pro football, according to his bankruptcy attorneys who laid out a plan to pay creditors based in part on his anticipated earnings. "The Debtor has every reason to believe that upon his release, he will be reinstated into the NFL, resume his career and be able to earn a substantial living," Vick's attorneys wrote in a disclosure...

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11/13/2008 4:15 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Cricket - India v England first ODI - live over-by-over report!

Can Kevin Pietersen's team get the one-day series off to a flying start? Find out with Andy Bull's over-by-over report

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11/13/2008 7:16 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Poll: What is the best bet in England's semi-final against New Zealand?

Each week we pit Guardian readers against the bookmaker Paddy Power and a former sportsman, this week the Wigan rugby league legend Martin Offiah. Paddy Power provide a free £10 bet each week and donate the balances to charity after the FA Cup final

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11/13/2008 9:25 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Jets beat Pats in OT, take AFC East lead (AP)

Brett Favre and the New York Jets stand alone atop the tight AFC East standings -- barely. Jay Feely kicked a 34-yard field goal on the only series of overtime after New England tied the game on Matt Cassel's pass to Randy Moss with one second left in regulation and the Jets survived a Tom Brady-like comeback with a 34-31 victory Thursday night.

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11/12/2008 10:17 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Rockets win game marked by skirmish (AP)

Tracy McGrady shot out of slump and Shaquille O'Neal shoved his way up the NBA career scoring list. And there was a fracas in the waning seconds of the third quarter that resulted in two ejections and seven technical fouls. One-sided victories seldom have as many story lines as the Houston Rockets' 94-82 rough-and-tumble win over the Phoenix Suns on Wednesday night.

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11/13/2008 12:06 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Tennis: Ebullient Murray trains his sights on Federer

Andy Murray has the chance to put Roger Federer out of the round-robin stage of the Masters Cup if he beats him tomorrow

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11/13/2008 12:07 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Football: Jenas could be fit for Fulham clash

Jermaine Jenas has had a hole drilled through the nail in his injured toe to ease the pressure and pain, and he faces an anxious wait to see whether he will be fit to face Fulham in the Premier League at Craven Cottage on Saturday. The England midfielder missed last Thursday's Uefa Cup win over Dinamo Zagreb because of the injury. Although he returned to play the 90 minutes in Sunday's victory at Manchester City, he needed painkilling injections before the game and two more at half-time, and he was left out of last night's Carling Cup tie with Liverpool...

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11/13/2008 12:50 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

The Gallery: Rory Delap

Stoke's long-throw specialist crops up as Thor, a Mr Man and Paris Hilton's lapdog

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11/13/2008 1:47 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Athletics: Mark Lewis-Francis leaves his coach to join forces with Linford Christie

Linford Christie is to replace Tony Lester as the coach of Mark Lewis-Francis in a bid to rebuild the sprinter's career

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11/13/2008 8:49 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Cricket: Ravi Bopara recalled to join fit Stuart Broad in England's opening ODI line-up against India

Idolatry is something that the greatest Indian cricketers do not lack for and, after a Test series victory against Australia, Mahendra Singh Dhoni is subject daily to such affection that if he closed his eyes and concentrated it would power him heavenwards. One of the first ­questions he fielded in Nagpur today, ahead of the opening one-day international in Rajkot, explained succinctly just how inspirational he was. "Thankyou," he said.Dhoni accepts the praise with humour and good grace, a man intelligent and grounded enough to know that nothing lasts for ever...

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11/13/2008 9:29 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Classic YouTube: thrilling throw-ins, cussing pundits and a very young Mark Hughes

Classic YouTube: This week's round-up features some men who could give Rory Delap a run for his money, floorball and a white man who can jump

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11/13/2008 11:01 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Indians' Lee wins AL Cy Young Award (AP)

Cliff Lee turned a terrible season into something positive: incentive. Lee won the American League Cy Young Award in a runaway Thursday, capping a dominant comeback that made him the second consecutive Cleveland Indians lefty to earn the coveted prize. Demoted to the minors last year, Lee went a major league-best 22-3 this season with a 2.54 ERA.

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11/13/2008 1:09 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Boxing: Evander Holyfield returns at 46 to fight Nikolai Valuev

The 46-year-old Evander Holyfield will return to the ring next month to fight Russia's Nikolai Valuev for the WBA heavyweight title

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11/13/2008 1:12 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Cubs acquire reliever Gregg from Marlins (AP)

The Chicago Cubs acquired right-handed reliever Kevin Gregg from the Florida Marlins on Thursday, a move than means closer Kerry Wood won't return. Wood, the 1998 NL Rookie of the Year who saved 34 games this year, had been the longest-tenured player on the Cubs. General manager Jim Hendry said Wood was deserving of a three- or four-year deal and the Cubs are not prepared to offer him one.

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11/13/2008 3:12 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Barney Ronay on Evander Holyfield's return to heavyweight boxing

Barney Ronay: Does Evander Holyfield's return to the ring demonstrate the tenacity of a champion or the desperation of a fighter - and a sport - in sad decline?

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11/12/2008 10:27 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Carling Cup: Sunderland 1-2 Blackburn

It is doubtful if Roque Santa Cruz will still be a Blackburn Rovers player by the time the Carling Cup final comes round in March but the Paraguay striker certainly helped propel Paul Ince's side into the quarter-finals last night.Within two minutes of stepping off the bench Santa Cruz headed Rovers into a rather unlikely lead before transforming them into a suddenly menacing ensemble. That piece of technical-area inspiration on Ince's part consigned his former Manchester United team-mate and good friend Roy Keane to a fourth straight defeat on an evening when Sunderland were undermined by an amalgam of their own failings and Chris Samba's defensive excellence...

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11/12/2008 10:36 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Carling Cup: Motherwell 0-0 Rangers

Barry Ferguson returned from injury but Rangers lost ground to Celtic as they drew 0-0 with Motherwell at Fir Park

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11/13/2008 12:06 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Digger: Fifa confusion casts doubt over World Cup bids

A senior Fifa executive yesterday admitted that even the world governing body does not know its terms of reference for the World Cup 2018 bid campaign.While England's Football Association has been assembling its World Cup bid company executive, significant doubts were cast over Fifa's plans for the bidding process at its executive committee meeting last month. Fifa had informed candidate nations that it intended to hold a dual tender for the 2018 and 2022 tournaments.But with the vote set for March 2011, a quarter of the 24 executive committee members dissented against that itinerary, saying that to decide the destination of a tournament 11 years in advance was unjustifiable...

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11/13/2008 12:07 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Football: Fabio Capello ready to battle Sir Alex Ferguson for right to manage GB Olympic team in 2012

Managing the GB team at the 2012 Games would 'make another of my dreams come true', Fabio Capello has said

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11/13/2008 12:07 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Styles puts himself in the line of fire at Bolton

Rob Styles has been chosen to referee Bolton's home match with Liverpool on Saturday, the first time he will be taking a game involving Gary Megson's side since controversially awarding a penalty against them at Old Trafford on September 27. Styles incorrectly judged that in the 60th minute the defender Jlloyd Samuel had tripped Cristiano Ronaldo who scored from the resulting spot-kick before Wayne Rooney got another goal 13 minutes later to secure a 2-0 win for Manchester United. Megson and his players were furious with Styles and it appeared then that he would be demoted to the Championship by Keith Hackett, the manager of the Professional Game Match Officials Board, for the mistake...

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11/13/2008 4:07 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Patriots, Jets meet for AFC East lead (AP)

They are 675 pounds of men in the middle, two massive human detour signs that force running backs in another direction. Nose tackles Kris Jenkins of the New York Jets and Vince Wilfork of the New England Patriots are there to make sure much smaller players get stopped soon after they take a handoff. Two huge men -- the relatively svelte Wilfork is about 25 pounds lighter -- with a big job.

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11/13/2008 9:32 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Football: Police open investigation into Didier Drogba coin-throwing incident during Chelsea v Burnley

The Metropolitan police is investigating the incident involving Chelsea striker Didier Drogba throwing an object back at Burnley fans during their Carling Cup tie

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11/13/2008 12:34 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Theus fined $25,000 for comments on refs (AP)

The NBA has fined Sacramento Kings coach Reggie Theus $25,000 for comments he made about the officiating following a loss to Detroit. The league also penalized the Kings $25,000 Thursday for Theus' actions. Theus said it was "ridiculous" that the Pistons took 36 fouls shots to just 17 for the Kings in Detroit's 100-92 victory in Sacramento on Tuesday.

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11/13/2008 1:35 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Randy Johnson files for free agency (AP)

Randy Johnson filed for free agency on Thursday after failing to reach a contract agreement to return to the Arizona Diamondbacks. The 45-year-old lefty is five wins shy of 300 and "hopes to find a team where he can continue to pitch at a high level and contribute to another world championship," agents Barry Meister and Alan Nero said in a statement.

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11/13/2008 3:51 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Football comment: Is the FA Cup ready for a team made up exclusively of retired England internationals?

Once it was considered a contemptuous heresy but now, thanks to Arsène Wenger, fielding an entire team of youngsters is acclaimed as clever. The opportunity to inspect Arsenal's latest crop of whizzkids has become one of the League Cup's unique attractions and now the FA Cup could be about to take us to the other extreme ... by treating us to a whole team of old-timers.Sheffield FC, founded in 1857 and recognised by Fifa as the oldest football club in the world, today admitted having talks about fielding an entire team of retired England internationals in the 2009-10 edition of the planet's oldest club competition...

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11/13/2008 6:08 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Football: Celtic fined £42,430 by Uefa over pitch invader

Celtic have been fined £42,430 by Uefa after a fan appeared on the pitch during their Champions League game against Manchester United