Jan
21
2009
The next-generation system of space vehicles at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been called “Apollo on steroids” because of its resemblance to vehicles from the early days of the United States space program.


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Jan
21
2009
Fiction inches closer to fact as an invisibility generator passes preliminary tests


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Jan
21
2009
What can customer say? “Thank you for recovering my data off that faulty drive you sold me.”


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Jan
21
2009
Board games. Do you remember these? Do you even remember what board games are?


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Jan
21
2009
The Recording Industry Association of America is objecting to the webcasting of pretrial arguments in an upcoming file-sharing trial.The RIAA claims that the re-runs “will be readily subject to editing and manipulation by any reasonably tech-savvy individual.”


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Jan
21
2009
Google CEO Eric Schmidt says despite the political debate, we should consider renewable energy over nuclear because “it’s cheaper.” He goes on to highlight new innovations in wind and solar thermal production.


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Jan
21
2009
Kara Neumann, 11, had grown so weak that she could not walk or speak. Her parents, who believe that God alone has the ability to heal the sick, prayed for her recovery but did not take her to a doctor.


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Jan
21
2009
“I wanted a clock that would play with you,” designer John Taylor says. How steampunkeriffic.


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Jan
21
2009
President Obama’s Inaugural speech included a clutch of promises and observations that will have scientists, medical researchers and environmentalists in the US and around the world breathing a sigh of relief.


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Jan
21
2009
While Americans were watching the historic inauguration of Barack Obama as successor to the deeply unpopular conservative George W. Bush, thousands of Iceland’s citizens were fighting riot police around the Icelandic parliament building Althingi to try to prevent the world’s oldest parliament from meeting.


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