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Ellen Jaskol / For The Times
From the Los Angeles Times
Shroud of Turin stirs new controversy
A Colorado couple researching the shroud dispute radiocarbon dating of the alleged burial cloth of Jesus, and Oxford has agreed to help them reexamine the findings.
By DeeDee Correll
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
August 17, 2008
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. — The tie that binds […]
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Andy Manis for The New York Times
John Schwartz of The New York Times tested a jetpack with its inventor, Glenn Martin, left, and Ray Thomsen guiding him. The device was unveiled Tuesday at an air show in Wisconsin.
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
Published: July 29, 2008
OSHKOSH, Wis. — To rise off the ground wearing a jetpack is to […]
Instant-Messagers Really Are About Six Degrees from Kevin Bacon
Big Microsoft Study Supports Small World Theory
By Peter Whoriskey
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, August 2, 2008; A01
Turns out, it is a small world.
The “small world theory,” embodied in the old saw that there are just “six degrees of separation” between any two strangers on Earth, has been largely […]
During the 1950s, the United States Air Force ran countless upper atmospheric tests. Testing showed that television stars generally possessed the physical and psychological traits best suited for these formidable experiments. The Nation owes a debt of gratitude to these men and women pioneers.
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Kent Couch leaves his gas station in Bend, Ore., on Saturday, […]
Phoenix makes picture-perfect Mars landing
After touchdown, first images show unfurled solar panels, arctic horizon
MSNBC staff and news service reports
updated 1:20 a.m. ET, Mon., May. 26, 2008
PASADENA, Calif. - NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander survived a risky plunge through the Red Planet’s atmosphere and touched down in Mars’ northern polar region on Sunday, sending back pictures of […]
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New Weapon Against Terror: A Flashlight?
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Brandi Hitt
LOS ANGELES (CBS13) ― It looks like a normal flashlight, but Homeland Security has paid close […]
Weather Channel Founder Blasts Network; Claims It Is ‘Telling Us What to Think’-
TWC founder and global warming skeptic advocates suing Al Gore to expose ‘the fraud of global warming.’
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By Jeff Poor
Business & Media Institute
3/3/2008 6:11:04 PM
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The Weather Channel has lost its way, according to John Coleman, who founded the channel in 1982.
Coleman told an audience […]
February 21, 2008
Officials Review Weather to Plan Shooting Down of Satellite
By THOM SHANKER
WASHINGTON — The many moving parts of a mission to shoot down a dying spy satellite with an antimissile interceptor lined up Wednesday after the space shuttle Atlantis returned to Earth, officials said.
Military officials reviewed the weather in the Pacific Ocean to determine […]
Reuters
Thu Feb 7, 5:06 PM ET
Scientists make unique knee-brace power generator
By Will Dunham Thu Feb 7, 9:18 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Talk about a knee-jerk reaction. Scientists in the United States and Canada said on Thursday they have developed a unique device that can be strapped on the knee that exploits the mechanics of human […]