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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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Next week, Apple is turning its attention to their notebook
line, which has been wanting for a while. The Cupertino, CA
company issued invitations on Thursday to media and analysts for an event to
take place on Tuesday. The invitation, shown to the left, hints that the event
will focus on the Macintosh portable computer line.
It will take place next week, at 10 a.m. PDT in Cupertino. Several select
media personages have been invited to provide live coverage of the event. They
represents websites like Engadget, CNET, VentureBeat,
Digital Daily, Gizmodo, Ars
Technica and several...
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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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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Thursday that only 25 percent of teenagers ages 13 to 17 received the cervical cancer vaccine, Gardasil. Gardasil produced by Merck, hit the market in 2006 and was designed for girls and women aged 9-26 to prevent infections with four strains of the human papillomavirus, or HPV, which causes cervical cancer and most genital warts. The vaccine is administered in a three-dose series. The CDC report was based on a national survey involving about 3,000 girls nationwide. The findings showed that 25.1 percent of the teen girls in the...
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Whether you’re young or old, you need to keep moving! No
matter you’re doing brisk walks, running on a treadmill, bicycling, doing yard
work or even playing a softball game, physical activity should be a vital part
of your life, at least this is the latest message of the US Department of
Health and Human Services made public this week.
The message strongly encourages adults to do 2 1/2 hours of
moderate-intensity aerobic physical activity a week. That should include walking briskly, water
aerobics, ballroom dancing or gardening. When it comes to children, the new
guidelines...
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This year, the Arctic sea ice level might just break the
record set only last September, since...
A powerful earthquake struck this morning off the Vancouver Island. The tremor measured 5.8 degrees...
According to a report released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Wednesday, the number of Americans...
A 27-year-old man from Culver City, Los Angeles, was
arrested Wednesday by federal police on...
Rap mogul Marion
“Suge” Knight was arrested on Wednesday on assault and drug charges after he
was...
The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) has announced
that Arctic sea ice is now below the...
The Venice Film Festival has opened with the premiere of the
much talked about Coen brothers’...
“Golden Boy” jumps directly from the pool and onto the
“Saturday Night Live” stage.
Michael...
Aaron Sorkin, famous Hollywood scribe and creator of “The
West Wing,” is currently in negotiations...
The Democratic National Convention achieved great success in
ratings on Tuesday night as a result...
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