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Astronauts allowed extra hour of sleep
Sep 16 2006 9:47PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - With their hardest tasks behind them, space shuttle Atlantis' six astronauts got time to relax Saturday after almost a week of nonstop work adding a new 17 1/2-ton addition with wing-like solar power panels to the international space station.
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Dutch moving wind turbines offshore
Sep 16 2006 9:26PM (CT)
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - For centuries, Dutch windmills have pumped water out of the low-lying country, and old-fashioned wooden mills are as closely linked with the Netherlands' international image as its dikes and bikes.
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Researchers work to save rare songbird
Sep 16 2006 9:21PM (CT)
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) - As dusk shrouded the summit of Whiteface Mountain, Juan Klavins aimed his headlamp at the bird in his left hand, its head between his fingers and its wing extended to expose a crimson vein.
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Iranian-born woman to be space tourist
Sep 16 2006 1:06AM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Since long before leaving her native Iran as a teenager in 1984, Anousheh Ansari stared at the stars and dreamed of traveling closer to them. Now at age 40, after an improbable journey that's included learning a new language, earning an engineering degree and starting a telecommunications company that made her rich, this Dallas businesswoman will become the first female space tourist on a Soyuz spacecraft that lifts off Monday.
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