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Diagram of Shenzhou 5 – “Divine Ship”

GOBI DESERT, China Oct. 14 China launched its first manned space mission
on Wednesday, sending an astronaut hurtling toward orbit and becoming the
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What a difference
a day can make.  Yesterday after the game I was cackling maniacially,
skorfing down a bloody burger and
a Bloody Mary, watching Monster Truck Mashup on cable and searching through
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Under pressure from administrators at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a tenured physics professor has shut down a Web site he created to make information available about the unaccredited distance-learning institutions often referred to as “diploma mills.”
The physics professor, George Gollin, says administrators ordered him to remove his site from the university [...]

Fortnum
and Mason have launched a range of edible treats for Halloween including
real worms, ants and scorpions.
The creatures used in the white chocolate ants, toffee scorpions and barbeque
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Photo by Daisy Lin

Last week I took my class to Harvard’s Peabody Museum.  Their
assignment was to choose one object or exhibit in the museum and write
a detailed physical description of it.  I told [...]