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Space has no frontiers for people with money. Richard
Garriott, 47, a
computer game developer from Austin, Texas,
will be the sixth tourist in space, as part of a joint venture between Russia's
Federal Space Agency and the U.S.
firm Space Adventures. Garriott says that the whole "fun" will cost
him $30 million. The shuttle, a Russian Soyuz, will be launched October 12 from
the Central Asian spaceport of Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The previous Soyuzes, one in October of 2007 and one in
April, landed safely, but not before giving the creeps to the passengers....
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Tuesday, a
federal grand jury in Knoxville
indicted David Kernell of Knoxville, Tennessee,
for having accessed Sarah Palin’s Yahoo! account without authorization.
The young man, aged 20, is the son of Mike Kernell, a
Democratic lawmaker of the aforementioned state and the chairman of Tennessee's
House Government Operations Committee.
A statement made by the Justice Department informed that
Kernell had been scheduled to be arraigned before United States Magistrate
Judge C. Clifford Shirley on Wednesday. During the hearing, the man pleaded not
guilty.
David Kernell is an...
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Over 45 million Americans – including over 8 million
children - lack health insurance, while some of the people having insurance struggle
to cope with soaring medical coasts. This is the picture of the US before the
presidential election in November. Given the circumstances, presidential
candidates Barack Obama and John McCain are playing their last card, namely
health care, hoping their plans would bring them people’s support and win the
election.
Until now, the balance appears to favor Obama’s plan that
wants to create a government-operated insurance program, which would...
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What wouldn’t presidential candidates do for media hype?
Tough question. What they would surely do, however, is get big bucks out of
their pockets and buy network primetime. At least this is what the Democratic
presidential nominee did.
The Barack Obama campaign will pay NBC and CBS just under $1
million each so as to air the ad-program it will create for the first 30
minutes of primetime on October 29, according to documents released by the two
networks.
The established prices are far from reaching the standard
fees an usual advertiser would be required to pay for a half-hour...
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European researchers made a huge step in stem cell research
by converting cells from human testicular tissue into stem cells that were further
able to grow into muscle, nerve cells, and other kinds of tissue. The new study
was published online Oct. 8 in the journal Nature.
Stem cell research has been a subject of controversy from
the very beginning as it uses human embryos in order to create stem cells. Critics
of embryonic research include Catholic
Church, US
President George W. Bush and German lawmakers. Bush even banned funding of
research that uses newly...
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Even if Barack Obama, the U.S. presidential candidate, could
have a song or two by rapper Ludacris...
Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong have reunited two decades after
parting ways, since neither of them...
On Wednesday, the results of a thorough investigation of an ancient piece of Greek technology...
Princess Chunky is a 44-pound cat who is just two pounds
away from the 1987 Guinness World Record...
Lance Armstrong and Kate Hudson proved once again that
nothing is what it seems. After three...
Organizers of the 65th Venice Film Festival announced on Tuesday the lineup for this year's event...
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Combining physics with chemistry, scientists have discovered an early Van Gogh picture that was...
An FDA panel voted Tuesday 10 to 1 for the approval of a new drug that fights against rheumatoid...
Taking the mirror’s role, Vanity Fair answered: Michelle
Obama! The wife of the Democratic...
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