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Climate Deal: Less Than Meets the Eye

There may have been a bit of grandstanding going on in Germany--the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, touts a "very successful" agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions...but the U.S. quietly passes on word that it hasn't promised anything. "No one can...

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June 7, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (7)

Terminal Count

The Shuttle Atlantis is already in its countdown; launch of the STS-117 mission is set for 7:38pm EDT Friday. The weather's improved: 80 percent chance of clear skies. It's another Space Station assembly mission; more HERE. Meanwhile, NASA has announced...

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June 7, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (1)

Andrew Speaker's T.B.: Just the "Tip of the Iceberg"?

"We dodged a bullet," said Rep. Bennie Thompson, who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee. Andrew Speaker, the Atlanta lawyer who's become the world's most famous tuberculosis patient, does not appear so far to have made anyone else ill, and,...

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June 6, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (12)

The 'Satellite Crisis'

The false-color image here (click to enlarge) is of Tropical Cyclone Gonu, a storm far from the U.S. but close to a place where the U.S. certainly has interests: the Arabian Sea, just downstream of the Persian Gulf. The picture...

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June 5, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (3)

The Most Dangerous Words on the Web

You run a four percent chance of picking up spyware or a computer virus if you go to site you find on a web search engine. It's getting better, but there's still a lot of nasty stuff out there. This...

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June 4, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (12)