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Comet capsule to produce light show
Jan 8 2006 11:21PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - When a NASA capsule hauling comet and interstellar dust plummets through the Earth's atmosphere this weekend, residents in large sweeps of the West will witness a cosmic spectacle.
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NASA to return comet samples to Earth
Jan 8 2006 10:23PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Comets have long lit up the sky and the imaginations of scientists. Now these icy bodies from the beginnings of the solar system are finally ready for their close-up.
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Environmentalists worry on China's kangs
Jan 8 2006 7:20AM (CT)
HUACHUAN, China (AP) - Li Xiulan says that for all of her 73 winters in China's frigid northeast, her best weapon against the biting cold has been a pile of bricks. Like millions of northern Chinese, Li wakes up every morning on a kang _ a traditional brick sleeping platform heated from below by burning straw or coal during the long, dark winter months.
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