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- NASA fixes moonship shaking with shock absorbers
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AP - A space-age version of the rusty springs under old pickup trucks will help NASA fix the most pressing technical problem with its high-tech new rocket to send astronauts back to the moon.
- Stem cell advance may help transfusion supplies
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AP - Scientists say they’ve found an efficient way to make red blood cells from human embryonic stem cells, a possible step toward making transfusion supplies in the laboratory. The promise of a virtually limitless supply is tantalizing because of blood donor shortages and disappointments in creating blood substitutes. - Group says climate resolutions increase
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AP - Support for climate-change proposals may be growing among investors in big U.S. companies.
- Researchers say numbers aren’t needed to count
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AP - Answer this without counting: Are there more X’s here XXXXXX, or here XXXXX? That’s a problem facing people whose languages don’t include words for more than one or two. Yet researchers say children who speak those languages are still able to compare quantities. - Face Recognition Varies by Culture
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LiveScience.com - The way people recognize faces might say a lot about what culture they come from, scientists now reveal. - Bush: New Orleans still struggling after Katrina
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AP - President Bush says he sees “hopeful signs of progress” in New Orleans three years after Hurricane Katrina’s devastation, while acknowledging the city is still struggling to recover.
- Rice to sign missile defense deal with Poland
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AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice plans Wednesday to sign a deal to build a U.S. missile defense base on Polish soil, an agreement that has already prompted an infuriated Russia to threaten its former Soviet satellite.
- Whale activists vow to fight Japan despite arrest threat
(AFP)
AFP - Animal rights activists vowed no let-up in their campaign to stop Japan’s whaling as reports Tuesday said Tokyo was seeking further arrests overseas of people who obstructed a hunt.
- US scientists find stone age burial ground in Sahara
(AFP)
AFP - A US-led team of archaeologists said Thursday they had discovered by chance what is believed to be the largest find of Stone Age-era remains ever uncovered in the Sahara Desert.
- Oil prices rise after Venezuela moots output cut
(AFP)
AFP - World oil prices rose in Asian trade Wednesday on fresh supply concerns after key producer Venezuela indicated it could ask OPEC to cut output, dealers said.
