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AP Top News at 3:28 am ESTThe Associated Press -56 minutes agoWASHINGTON (AP) — Congress passed a long-stalled bill inspired by the Virginia Tech shootings that would more easily flag prospective gun buyers who have …AP Top News at 7:27 pm ESTThe Associated PressAP Top News at 6:03 pm ESTThe Associated PressAP Top News at 11:35 [...]

The sun’s corona can reach a steamy 3 million-or-so degrees Celsius, but scientists struggled to explain how until earlier this year: By high-speed Alfven waves roiling in solar magnetic fields.The Japanese Hinode spacecraft, launched in 2006, snuck another peek at the weird waves. The detailed results confirm previous observations made by the Sacramento Peak Observatory [...]

This today from the Daily Mail:Pope Benedict XVI has launched a surprise attack on climate change prophets of doom, warning them that any solutions to global warming must be based on firm evidence and not on dubious ideology.Huh?Read below that exaggerated lead [full story], and you’ll see that the Pontiff actually pontificates more circuitously:“It is [...]

CNN Student News Transcript: December 19, 2007CNN -6 hours agoCARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: It's a new day and a new edition of CNN Student News.We're glad you're spending part of your Thursday with us. …

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Strike News: Shifting New ShowsNew York Times, United States -5 hours agoBut with no talks scheduled between the writers and the studios, ABC “decided that there may never be any new episodes this season – and it risked …

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Bombardier lands deal for Montreal rail carsToronto Star,  Canada -23 hours agoBombardier Transportation has won a contract worth $386 million from Quebec's provincial government to supply 160 multilevel commuter rail cars for …Bombardier obtains car fleet contracts in Canada, UKProgressive Rail RoadingBombardier wins $381 million Montreal train orderReutersBombardier to Supply 160 Multilevel Commuter Rail Cars in [...]

If you have trouble finding your cat at night, perhaps a designer fluorescent cat would be the pet for you.South Korean researchers say they’ve cloned cats by manipulating a certain gene that happens to deal with some otherwise inhibited fluorescence. The side effect: the cats “glow in the dark when exposed to ultraviolet beams.”Other than [...]

MPC Computers Launches New MailFRAME Email Archiving ApplianceBusiness Wire (press release), CA -20 hours agoNAMPA, Idaho–(BUSINESS WIRE)–MPC Computers, a wholly-owned subsidiary of MPC Corporation (AMEX:MPZ), today announced the launch of its new MPC MailFRAME, …MPC Rolls Out Email Archiving Producttechrockies.comall 4 news articles

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Kenya: 30 Computers for Youth in Digital VillagesAllAfrica.com, Washington -Dec 18, 2007Speaking while issuing the computers, Youth Affairs permanent secretary Kinuthia Murugu said Information and Communication Technology (ICT) will play a …Kenya: ICT Sector Set to Create 4000 Jobs in 4 YearsAllAfrica.comall 4 news articles

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Those weird features on Mars recently surveyed by NASA’s super-powerful Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have uprooted Arthur C. Clarke’s view that vegetation might be at work on the red planet.Back in 2001, I reported that Clarke saw in Mars Global Surveyor snapshots “extraordinary features” that couldn’t be explained. The noted science fact/fiction writer said signs of [...]