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New York (AFP) Aug 23, 2007New York's taxi drivers on Thursday said they would mount a two-day strike in early September if authorities did not scrap plans to introduce satellite positioning systems in the city's yellow cabs. "We are ready to go on strike on September 5 and September 6," Bhairavi Desai, executive director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, which represents some 8,400 of New York's 26,000 cabbies ... more Drawing A Living On Lunar 
Hampton VA (SPX) Aug 24, 2007A new NASA contest encourages university art and design students to partner with science and engineering departments to create art representative of living and working on the moon. The goal is for students in the arts, science and engineering to collaboratively engage in NASA's mission to return humans to the moon by 2020, and eventually journey on to Mars and other destinations in the solar system ... more NASA and Internet Archive Team To Digitize Space Imagery 
San Francisco CA (SPX) Aug 24, 2007NASA and Internet Archive of San Francisco are partnering to scan, archive and manage the agency's vast collection of photographs, historic film and video. The imagery will be available through the Internet and free to the public, historians, scholars, students, and researchers. Currently, NASA has more than 20 major imagery collections online. With this partnership, those collections will ... more AKARI Makes Observations Of Asteroid Itokawa 
Tokyo, Japan (ESA) Aug 24, 2007The space-borne infrared observatory AKARI, observed asteroid Itokawa last month with its Infrared Camera. The data will be used to refine estimates of sizes of potentially hazardous asteroids in the future. The data collected by AKARI, a JAXA mission with ESA participation, complements that from JAXA's asteroid explorer Hayabusa in late April this year. ... more Shuttle Brings Space-Grown Strep Bacteria Back For Study 
Galveston TX (SPX) Aug 24, 2007When the space shuttle Endeavour touched down at the Kennedy Space Center August 21, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston microbiology and immunology department chairman David Niesel was waiting by the runway, looking forward to a reunion with some of its passengers. The space travelers Niesel was meeting weren't astronauts. They were Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria, members ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Aug 23, 2007The United States on Thursday urged Austria to move beyond "Cold War thinking" after Vienna charged that Washington's plans to deploy a missile defense shield in Central Europe against Russia's wishes were a "provocation." "We view the Cold War as being over. Such comments are not helpful and we now face a new strategic environment that requires us to move beyond Cold War thinking," ... more Russia unveils pilotless 'stealth' bomber 
Moscow (AFP) Aug 23, 2007Russia unveiled on Thursday the mock-up of a pilotless bomber plane that its constructors say will be even better than the famous US stealth fighter at evading enemy radars and anti-aircraft fire. NTV television showed a full-sized model of the bat-like plane known as Skat, which means "stingray," at an airshow just outside Moscow -- the first public glimpse of the project run by Russia's MiG ... more General Dynamics NFIRE Satellite Completes First Missile Defense Experiment 
Gilbert AZ (SPX) Aug 24, 2007The Near Field Infrared Experiment (NFIRE) satellite, built by General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, today successfully completed its first experiment for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA). In the experiment, NFIRE collected images of a boosting missile launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., that flew within 3.5 kilometers of the on-orbit satellite. Data collected during ... more BMD Focus: Barak prioritizes BMD 
Washington (UPI) Aug 23, 2007 A dispute has been raging in the Israeli military and government about how much funds should be diverted to ballistic missile defense and how rapidly they should be approved. Security officials in Tel Aviv informed the daily newspaper Yediot Aharonot Sunday that BMD funding would take top priority among all the pressing needs for modernization and upgrades of the regular Israeli Defense ... more Operationally Responsive Space Is Moving Forward 
Los Angeles AFB (SPX) Aug 24, 2007Just a few months after its May 21 stand-up, the joint service Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) Office is moving forward on the guidance to focus its efforts on a tiered approach to enhance responsiveness of space capabilities to joint force commanders. This three-tiered approach will improve the ability to develop, acquire, field and employ space capabilities in shortened timeframes a ... more |
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Madison WI (SPX) Aug 24, 2007Climate change, a recent "hot topic" when studying the atmosphere, oceans, and Earth's surface; however, the study of another important factor to this global phenomenon is still very much "underground." Few scientists are looking deep enough to see the possible effects of climate change on groundwater systems. Little is known about how soil, subsurface waters, and groundwater are responding to ... more Underwater Robot Taken On Black Sea Expedition 
Newark DL (SPX) Aug 16, 2007Using a novel underwater robot, University of Delaware marine scientists will help reveal the mysteries of the Black Sea's geology and maritime history, including ages-old shipwrecks, during an international expedition that is now underway. The Institute for Exploration and the Institute for Archaeological Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography are leadi ... more Wave of refugees quits Peru quake ruins 
Pisco, Peru (AFP) Aug 22, 2007The giant quake that wrecked this Pacific coastal town last week has set off a wave of refugees, driving up to 40 percent of its people to quit their ruined homes and move away, the Peruvian government said Wednesday. "Between 30 and 40 percent of the inhabitants have been forced to leave" Pisco, which formerly had a population of 130,000 people, Social Development and Women's Affairs ... more Dean's death toll rises with new deaths in Mexico 
Puebla (AFP) Aug 23, 2007A couple and their two children were killed in central Mexico Thursday by a landslide caused by driving rains blamed on the remnants of hurricane Dean, raising to at least 25 the death toll from the storm's rampage. The four were killed when a chunk of mountainside buried the path on which they were walking in Xochitlaxco, according to Puebla state Governor Mario Marin. ... more Renewable energy can save East Asia two trillion US dollars in fuel costs 
Singapore (AFP) Aug 23, 2007Shifting to renewable energy could save countries in East Asia as much as two trillion US dollars in fuel costs over the next 23 years, or more than 80 billion dollars annually, environmental group Greenpeace said Thursday. A shift from oil and coal could also reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 22 percent in the same period, it said in a report released to coincide with a meeting of Associat ... more
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