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An artist rendering released by NASA Friday shows four
concepts being considered for the design of the Orbital Space Plane.
A capsule, a lifting body, a sharp
body with wings and a blunt body [...]

Every day I tell myself that I am the luckiest man in
the world to get paid to blog.  Wait a minute - nobody pays me to
blog! But some people do get paid to do what they love……
An ice-ream taster. [...]

Pakistani Shi’ite Muslims parade on a street during a
rally in Karachi, August 31, 2003. The Imamia Students Organization held
the rally to condemn Friday’s car bomb attack in Najaf, Iraq, which killed
some [...]

In the last few years competitive eating has been transformed
into a national circuit complete with television coverage,
prize money and its own governing body, the International Federation
of Competitive Eating.
[...]

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan, South Korea and China are set to agree to jointly develop a new computer operating system as an alternative to Microsoft Corp.’s Windows software, Japanese media reported on Sunday.
Quoting sources close to the matter, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei) said that, if the plan matures, the three nations are likely to [...]

Humans have relied on silk for more than 2,000 years,but
scientists have never been able to unravel the mystery of how silkworms
produced their incredibly strong fibers.
Now, a Tufts team has figured
[...]

SPENCER, MA– Mike and Kathy Warren insist there’s no such thing as
bad publicity. Especially when you make your livelihood training piglets
named Hammy Faye Bakker and Elvis Pigsley to race around a small track
and [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan — The country is fighting an uphill,
”David and Goliath” battle to control opium production, which is being
used to
fund terrorism in some parts of the nation, Antonio Maria Costa, chief
[...]

Iguanas Multiplying
in Florida
In neighborhoods from Key Biscayne to Boca Raton, it is the night,
and day, of the fearsome-looking iguana.
Escaped from captivity, [...]

Norma "Duffy" Lyon from Des Moines creates a full-scale butter
chopper to celebrate Harley-Davidson’s 100th.

100 Years of
Harley Davidson
If you live in the Midwest, that rumble you hear outside your window
[...]

Rush Reviews Standing CPR
Nobody is shocked by Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears "honoring" Madonna
by making out with her at the Mtv Music Awards, but everyone is acting
as if they are. One year, there was none of this sort of [...]