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#The LZR Racer, developed by Speedo with the help of NASA scientists is blamed for giving an edge to swimmers and could be banned from the upcoming Beijing Olympics.
# Oscar Pistorius, the double amputee sprinter was banned by IAAF after organizing...
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Did I say car? The new moon buggy conceived by space center engineers is anything but a car or a buggy. Its official name is Chariot, and this, my friends, is a truck. A heavy duty workhorse of a truck.
# For the first time since Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980, Mugabe’s victory is no longer a given.
# The Zimbabwean security chiefs have made veiled threats of a coup if Mugabe should lose.
# Opponents have said Mugabe should be tried, possibly...
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# Anti Koran film by a Dutch lawmaker that accuses the Koran of inciting violence has been released but no Dutch public or commercial television station is willing to broadcast.
# Anti-Koran film serves no purpose other than to cause offense; it...
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# Bhutanese are anxious that democracy could bring in the sort of corruption and mismanagement, as well as ethnic and class divisions that have bedeviled democratic politics in most other South Asian countries.
# In a neighborhood beset by autocracies...
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# An influential Afghan minister has called on the West to allow local communities in Afghanistan to take over the fight against the Taliban to what he calls the ‘Afghanisation’ of security.
# The model of “Afghanisation” of security...
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A U.S. District Judge has found former USA Today reporter Toni Locy in contempt of court for not revealing the identities of people she talked to for a story on the 2001 anthrax attacks.
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# Enforcing the law must, at times, outweigh the need to...
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Recent talks between Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. over how to band together betray increasing unrest at Microsoft over how to compete with Google Inc. and get in step with the booming online-advertising market.
Microsoft and Yahoo discussed a...
A Michigan congressman wants to put a 50-cent tax on every gallon of gasoline to try to cut back on Americans’ consumption.
# A tax on gas can in a way reduce dependence on import oil, reduce traffic congestion along with carbon emissions.
# The...
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A much-heralded H.I.V. vaccine has failed to work in a large clinical trial, dealing another serious setback to efforts to stop the AIDS epidemic.
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# The failure has reinforced the view that H.I.V. is unlike any infection for which scientists can...
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