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They found water on the moon!!
Yeah, too lazy to put it here. So here's the link. hahaha

Splash! NASA moon crash struck lots of water

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20090927

Roman Ploanski finally arrested on underage sex charges
(CNN) -- Filmmaker Roman Polanski has been arrested on an
arrest warrant stemming from a decades-old sex charge, Swiss police
said Sunday.
Roman Polanski attends a film premiere in Paris, France, in June 2009.
The Academy Award-winning director pleaded guilty in 1977 to a single
count of having unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, acknowledging
he had sex with a 13-year-old girl, but...

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20090904

California wildfire declared arson, homicide
A huge wildfire burning in the mountains above Los Angeles, now the largest ever in the county, was started by arson and will be investigated as a homicide, authorities said on Thursday.

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The so-called Station Fire has killed two firefighters, destroyed 64 homes and torched an area the size of Chicago in the nine days it has roared across the rugged San Gabriel Mountains overlooking Los Angeles.

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20090904

Study finds potential way to make an AIDS vaccine
The discovery of immune system particles that attack the AIDS virus may finally open a way to make a vaccine that could protect people against the deadly and incurable infection, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

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They used new technology to troll through the blood of 1,800 people infected with the AIDS virus and identified two immune system compounds called antibodies that could neutralize the virus.

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20090829

China, U.S. may cooperate on world's biggest telescope
Astronomers from China and the United States may cooperate on building the world's largest telescope aimed at providing deeper insight into the very early stages of the universe, Xinhua news agency reported on Friday.

The Thirty-Meter-Telescope (TMT), conceived and headed by the University of California and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), is expected to be completed in 2019, the official Chinese news agency said.

"It is a big undertaking...

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20090828

Iranian president: Prosecute opposition leaders
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer Ali Akbar Dareini, Associated Press Writer

–8 mins ago

TEHRAN, Iran – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
on Friday called for the leaders of the opposition to be prosecuted
over Iran's postelection turmoil, stepping up pressure against the
pro-reform movement that says he won the election by fraud.
It
was the first time Ahmadinejad has made such a call, publicly siding
with hard-line politicians and clerics and commanders of the powerful Revolutionary...

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20090817

China: The new Big Oil
The country is snapping up oil fields from Africa to South America to the Middle East. Soon it may be able to rival the Western giants.

China is on an oil buying binge.

Over the past few months, the Chinese government -- or its big government-controlled oil firms -- have closed or floated a slew of deals in countries all over the world. These deals have expanded the nation's oil reach and may one day position the nation to match the skills of western oil...

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20090814

Missing ship attacked by pirates seen in Africa
A missing cargo ship attacked by pirates as it approached the English Channel has been spotted off the coast of Senegal, say French and Russian officials.

Arctic Sea ship, missing in the English Channel - picture: Henrik Hilli

The Arctic Sea was due to dock in Algeria on August 4

The Arctic Sea, a Maltese-registered ship, was said to have been sighted by coastguards some 500 miles off one of the Cape Verde islands.

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20090814

Britons defend their health care from US criticism
Source: Yahoo

By MEERA SELVA, Associated Press Writer Meera Selva, Associated Press Writer

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Fri Aug 14, 8:02 am ET

LONDON – Britons reacted with outrage Friday at American criticism of the country's health care system and defended their cradle-to-grave medical coverage on Twitter, television and in the tabloids.

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20090814

US tests system to beat web censorship in China and Iran
The US government is covertly testing technology in China and Iran that will allow citizens to by-pass internet censorship set up by their governments.

By our foreign staff and agencies in Boston
Published: 11:01AM BST 14 Aug 2009

The "feed over email" (FOE) system will deliver news using a technology that evades web-screening technologies employed by restrictive regimes.

According to a senior official at the Broadcasting Board of Governors,...

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20090813

Canada's Health System Informs U.S. Health Care Debate
Source: Fox News
When it comes to the health care reform debate, Canada's single-payer system often is held up as an example of success
by supporters -- and by opponents as a warning of the pitfalls.
Answering questions at the Summit of the Americas on
Monday, President Obama seemed ambivalent about Canadian health care.
"I don't find Canadians particularly scary, but
I guess some of the opponents of reform think that they make...

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