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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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Christie Brinkley fights back. The super model has reportedly asked for a restraining order against...
The 20-year-old hacker, David Kernell from Knoxville has
been indicted for cracking the email...
On
Wednesday, a Supreme Court weighed the pros and cons of a federal
judge's decision to limit...
Madrid - The Spanish edition of the internet encyclopedia Wikipedia on Thursday erroneously said...
Thursday,
October 9, French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio was awarded the
Nobel Prize for...
Hit Australian sitcom “Kath & Kim” just moved to Florida,
where Molly Shannon’s...
French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, whose early
works stood out for their rich and...
No kid under the age of four should be given the
controversial cough and cold medicines! At least...
European researchers made a huge step in stem cell research
by converting cells from human...
The third time is said to be the charm. And the third
presidential debate is yet to come. For now,...
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