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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Canada Standard.com http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/10/id/89d96798a39564bd/ en-us Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:28:55 -0400 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:28:55 -0400 30 NASA is preparing to mark its 50th birthday in a somewhat sober mood, and even the official date for the legal creation of the space agency - July 29 - will take a back seat to larger celebrations planned for October. http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/385760/cs/1/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:01:51 -0400 Canada Standard.com http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/385760/cs/1/ Washington, July 24 : A team of scientists has proposed that magnetic fields of ancient galaxies like ours were just as strong as those existing today, prompting a rethinking of how our galaxy and others may have formed. http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/385868/cs/1/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:00:36 -0400 Canada Standard.com http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/385868/cs/1/ London, July 24 : A moonwalk astronaut has claimed that aliens do exist - and they're just like E.T. http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/385734/cs/1/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:00:39 -0400 Canada Standard.com http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/385734/cs/1/ 7 Enterprise Management Tools That Cost Less Than $10,000 A study published in the July 17 issue of Nature shows that large ancient highlands of Mars contain clay minerals, which needed water to ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16400286/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:08:08 -0400 Information Week http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16400286/ looks like it will be held in pakistan because the icc needs 7 votes to 3,and the asian nations plus zimbabwe and the windies will vote for the trophy to stay in pakistan. http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16400287/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:21:38 -0400 Sportal http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16400287/ China's three taikonauts will wear one of two types of spacesuits - one made in China and one made in Russia - during their spacewalk mission scheduled for October, a scientist said on Tuesday.Zhao Ch... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16400285/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:10:08 -0400 People's Daily http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16400285/ Posted on: Wednesday, 23 July 2008, 21:00 CDT WILKES-BARRE, Pa. _ With Barack Obama in the Middle East, John McCain returned to the battleground state of Pennsylvania on Wednesday, focusing on energy... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16397104/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:41:49 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16397104/ Posted on: Wednesday, 23 July 2008, 21:00 CDT The Brett Favre drama has officially moved to the next stage and the floor is open to anyone who would like to make a bid for the retired quarterback. Bu... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16397105/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:41:45 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16397105/ (Left to right) Lynette Belivanis, Air China; Irmgard Goetjis-Pedersen, SAS; Stacy Baiderston, Austrian Airlines Last night Star Alliance hosted a gala dinner for 80 partner airline sales representati... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16396229/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:04:44 -0400 Travel Blackboard http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16396229/ "Suddenly there was all this data being collected about the star,' Read says. 'For variable star work like this, the contribution of the amateur community can be at least as important as that from the... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16391773/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:43:54 -0400 MSNBC http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16391773/ It's not easy to find comfortable places to stay elsewhere in the solar system. However, Geoffrey Landis, a scientist at NASA's Glenn Research Center, suggests that Venus might be a good place to l... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16391638/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:19:56 -0400 Space.com http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16391638/ NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is one step closer to analyzing a sample of the rock-hard layer of ice underneath the Martian dirt where the spacecraft touched down two months ago. http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16391637/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:19:55 -0400 Space.com http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16391637/ Posted on: Wednesday, 23 July 2008, 12:00 CDT U.S. President George Bush, saying the measure's positives outweigh the negatives, said he wouldn't veto the housing bill expected to win approval in Con... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16386180/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:59:47 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16386180/ Posted on: Wednesday, 23 July 2008, 12:00 CDT U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Wednesday described as positive talks in Singapore on North Korea's nuclear program. Rice, speaking with reporte... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16386176/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:59:46 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16386176/ Posted on: Wednesday, 23 July 2008, 12:00 CDT By Dom Amore, The Hartford Courant, Conn. Jul. 23--NEW YORK -- The Mets like to say they are past the agony of last September. Yet somehow they keep reli... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16386178/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:59:45 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16386178/ Posted on: Wednesday, 23 July 2008, 12:00 CDT By Katie Strang, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Jul. 23--In the ninth inning of last night's game, the Mets flinched with a three-run lead and the Phillies were... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16386179/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:59:44 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16386179/ Mustard on the moon? NASA scientists are suggesting that before sending humans back to the moon, we should launch plants there and watch them grow. Dr. Chris McKay, my former astrobiology mentor at ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16383932/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:39:24 -0400 Wired News http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16383932/ NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander monitors the atmosphere overhead and reaches out to the soil below in this artist's depiction of the spacecraft fully deployed on the surface of Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL/UA/Lo... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16385330/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:33:14 -0400 Space.com http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16385330/ Company to Select Retail Partners for Comfortable EcoMemoryFoam Mattresses That Meet Consumer Demand for Earth-Friendly Products CORONA, Calif. ( http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16383646/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:33:01 -0400 PR Web http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16383646/ Only the size of a suitcase, the Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite (NEOSSat) has a 5.9-inch (15-cm) telescope and weighs about 143 pounds (65 kg). But it's designed to hunt for threatening spac... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16379659/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:48:42 -0400 MSNBC http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16379659/ London - A strikingly "real" waxwork model of troubled British soul singer Amy Winehouse, complete with her trademark beehive hairdo and sailor tattoos, was unveiled at Madame Tussauds in London Wedne... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16378250/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:32:59 -0400 Earth Times http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16378250/ The largest feature on the Martian moon Phobos is the impact crater Stickney, with a diameter of 9 km, taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in April 2008. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16379495/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:20:35 -0400 Space.com http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16379495/ NASA wants to move up launch dates for its next two shuttle missions to ensure the second can be sent up before a window of opportunity closes in late November, officials said Tuesday. http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16379494/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:20:34 -0400 Space.com http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16379494/ A date has been announced in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan for the long awaited coronation of King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck. He took over after his father abdicated in 2006 as part of moves t... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16378878/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:17:50 -0400 BBC http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16378878/ AJMAN: A small company based in the United Arab Emirates owned by an Indian that produces raw materials for the paint industry is among this year's list of winners of a top nanotechnology award. Th... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16378880/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:14:42 -0400 Times of India http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16378880/ Posted on: Wednesday, 23 July 2008, 03:00 CDT By Emily Ramshaw, The Dallas Morning News Jul. 23--ELDORADO, Texas -- Six men from a West Texas polygamist community -- including incarcerated sect leade... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16374685/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:12:21 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16374685/ File this one under "E" for "Ewww factor. " NASA has used human cadavers to test the new Orion space capsule that is supposed to take astronauts... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16373564/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:52:15 -0400 The Seattle Times http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16373564/ Posted on: Tuesday, 22 July 2008, 18:00 CDT By RICHARD DOWN GOOGLE Street View, the pioneering eye level mapping project, has arrived on Merseyside amid invasion of privacy fears. The internet giant ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16367864/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:37:21 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16367864/ Posted on: Tuesday, 22 July 2008, 21:00 CDT By Christopher Sherman McALLEN, Texas - Residents along the Texas-Mexico border kept a watchful eye on Tropical Storm Dolly on Monday, stocking up on plywo... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16369639/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:37:20 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16369639/ Posted on: Tuesday, 22 July 2008, 21:00 CDT AMMAN, Jordan _ Barack Obama has months to go before voters decide whether or not he will become president, but on Tuesday he adopted much of the pageantry... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16369641/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:37:17 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16369641/ Posted on: Tuesday, 22 July 2008, 21:00 CDT MOSCOW. July 22 (Interfax) - Russia regards the arrest and possible extradition to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) of ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16369640/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:37:19 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16369640/ Metro Detroit designer Joe Faris watched his "Project Runway" debut at home last week "with one eye closed" from the back of a room filled with family and friends. Faris, who is one of 15 remaining co... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16367860/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:34:04 -0400 The Detroit News http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16367860/ NASA has decided there was no intentional wrongdoing by former NASA administrator and LSU Chancellor Sean O’Keefe concerning allegations of inappropriate use of travel. While no illegalities we... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16368446/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:59:11 -0400 WBRZ http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16368446/ Mike Weir Rarely does a city have such an embarrassment of sporting riches as Toronto has this week. Tennis greats Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, soccer icon David Beckham and popular gol... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16368443/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:29:39 -0400 The Globe And Mail http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16368443/ Miss Universe 2008 Dayana Mendoza, from Venezuela, answers a question during an interview in New York, Monday July 21, 2008. Mendoza, 22, beat out 80 the world's most beautiful women competing in Viet... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16368445/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:44:08 -0400 ABC http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16368445/ London-listed Neptune Minerals has filed an application to mine the Pacific seabed 300 kilometres east of Auckland, inside New Zealand’s exclusive economic zone. The Australian controlled miner... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16362907/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:17:15 -0400 Stuff http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16362907/ The first official image of a Russian-European manned spacecraft has been unveiled. It is designed to replace the Soyuz vehicle currently in use by Russia and will allow Europe to participate direc... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16363313/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:36:54 -0400 BBC http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16363313/ certainly hope so: They've struck a sponsorship deal that will give ample exposure to DKNY's fashion brand on the league's flight suits and one of the rocket racers. It's one more example showing how... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16351826/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:59:55 -0400 MSNBC http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16351826/ Posted on: Tuesday, 22 July 2008, 09:00 CDT By JOHN PORRETTO By John Porretto The Associated Press HOUSTON As giant oil companies such as Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips get set to report what will pr... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16353308/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:57:55 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16353308/ Posted on: Tuesday, 22 July 2008, 09:00 CDT By Dusan Stojanovic Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia -- Former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic, accused architect of massacres and the politician ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16353313/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:57:50 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16353313/ Posted on: Tuesday, 22 July 2008, 09:00 CDT By Mike Melia Associated Press GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- The judge in the first American war crimes trial since World War II barred evidence on Mo... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16353314/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:57:49 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16353314/ Germany's SAR-Lupe 5 radar reconnaissance satellite launches into space atop a Kosmos 3M rocket from Russia's Plesetsk Cosmodrome. Credit: OHB-System AG. http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16352583/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:35:17 -0400 Space.com http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16352583/ Having wrestled the box-office title from Spider-Man with a $158.4 million opening, Batman, as well as the Man of Steel and the rest of DC Comics' storied league of superheroes, want you to join them ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16350993/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:40:40 -0400 USA Today http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16350993/ Survivors Reflect on Israel Dozer Rampage Yohanan Levine, 16, was on King David Street at the time of the attack, on the way to his house nearby. "The first thing I heard was a baby crying, and then ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16351357/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:17:08 -0400 ABC News http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16351357/ Posted on: Tuesday, 22 July 2008, 09:00 CDT By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Back in the United States, Republican rival John McCain said he hoped Obama's visit would open his eyes to the danger of withdrawal... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16353309/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:57:54 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16353309/ Posted on: Tuesday, 22 July 2008, 09:00 CDT An Air Force B-52 bomber crashed off Guam yesterday morning, killing at least three airmen and leading to an intensive ocean search for the remaining three... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16353311/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:57:52 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16353311/ Meteors appear as streaks zipping across the night sky, like the one seen in this photo taken at Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Arizona. The background stars look like short, bright lines becau... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16352770/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:59:55 -0400 MSNBC http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16352770/ Nolberto Solano could be set to link up with David Beckham at Los Angeles Galaxy. The Peruvian winger's agent claims MLS side LA Galaxy are keen on signing the former Newcastle ace.Solano is lookin... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16351829/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:28:33 -0400 Sky Sports http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16351829/ — That evocative "earthy" scent of the soil returning to life in spring -- and nasty earthy tastes and odors in fish and drinking water -- actually results from two substances released ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16351827/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:12:23 -0400 Science Daily http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16351827/ WATCH: Cool Discovery on Mars In the popular imagination, Mars has been a goal of U.S. space exploration since the days of controversial rocket expert Wernher von Braun, the leader of the team that d... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16351577/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:22:00 -0400 ABC News http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16351577/ Posted on: Tuesday, 22 July 2008, 03:00 CDT By David Brown, The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Jul. 22--John McCain showed strength of character as a prisoner of war that qualifies him to lead the nation,... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16347778/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:55:34 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16347778/ The XMM-Newton team looked up three possible celestial candidates as at this location, including a normally faint star known only by its catalog number USNO-A2.0 0450-03360039. Acting quickly, Andy ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16347403/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:26:50 -0400 Space.com http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16347403/ According to a report in The Daily Telegraph, NASA officials and scientists have said that the proposed return to the lunar surface could happen in the decade after NASA retires the space shuttle in 2... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16346865/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:25:37 -0400 New Kerala http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16346865/ Using Spitzer telescope of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a team of U.S. astronomers have identified a zone without organics around Pinwheel galaxy, NASA reported Monday. The fl... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16346886/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:15:11 -0400 People's Daily http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16346886/ NASA and its international aeronautical cohorts have some serious explaining to do before they start rocketing folks to the moon again. They better convince the public why it's so important for our s... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16346866/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:10:06 -0400 The Register http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16346866/ During NASA's scheduled moon landing in 2020, astronauts won't be able to use a global positioning system (GPS) because the moon lacks satellites, said Li, acting professor of civil and environmental ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16342932/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:12:48 -0400 New Kerala http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16342932/ NASA has 10 missions remaining for the shuttle fleet, which President Bush ordered to retire by Sept. 30, 2010. The schedule announced Monday includes five flights this year, five in 2009 and three in... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16342933/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:12:09 -0400 Tampa Bay Online http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16342933/ has formally expressed its interest in buying Germany's Hapag-Lloyd to create what would be the world's third-largest container shipping firm, two sources briefed on the deal said on Tuesday. http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16342089/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:31:09 -0400 CNBC http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16342089/ Power Crunch gets expert feedback on a different workout routine every week. This week, Marc Garneau, former astronaut and Liberal candidate, shares his exercise regimen. Marc Garneau, 59, is a forme... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16342930/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:36:48 -0400 The Globe And Mail http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16342930/ radio receivers can detect and weigh individual gold atoms, according to a new study from the University of California, Berkeley. Researchers say that the sensors could one day be used to detect ind... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16342931/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:29:36 -0400 Better Humans http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16342931/ Metschan believes that the Ares rocket has strayed from its original Congressional mandate, set in 2005, to recycle as much technology from the shuttle as possible to keep costs low, the space workf... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16342446/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:29:33 -0400 Better Humans http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16342446/ NASA said on Monday the news reports that it is negotiation with Japan's space agency to purchase a Japanese spacecraft as the successor to its space shuttles is "inaccurate." "Contrary... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16342671/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:14:48 -0400 People's Daily http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16342671/ By By Clara Moskowitz As humans look farther into the universe and discover more and more planets beyond the sun, many wonder how typical our own solar system is. Often astronomers in the planet-hunti... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16339523/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:45:16 -0400 MSNBC http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16339523/ — NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission has released stereo images of the Martian surface near the Phoenix lander. The images in the new 3-D Gallery combine views from the left and right "eyes" o... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16338134/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:03:09 -0400 Science Daily http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16338134/ AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) -- Russian and American spacecraft landed at the LBJ Library Saturday. A huge crane was required to lift the spaceships into the museum. One is the Freedom Seven Mercury capsule A... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16338300/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:54:53 -0400 KXAN 36 http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16338300/ Singer Carrie Underwood arrives at the American Idol Season 7 Grand Finale held at the Nokia Theatre on May 21, 2008 in Los Angeles, California. (Kevin Winter, Getty Images) 50 Cent and Carrie Under... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16339010/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:49:04 -0400 Inside Baltimore http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16339010/ Princeton Security Technology Inc.'s (OTC BB: PSGY.OB) wholly owned subsidiary, Princeton Gamma-Tech Instruments, announces expanded capabilities in silicon drift detectors for X-Ray Spectroscopy; lar... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16338457/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:32:38 -0400 PR Web http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16338457/ Posted on: Monday, 21 July 2008, 08:44 CDT Iran must comply with international demands regarding its nuclear program or face sanctions, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said. Speaking Monday ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16325208/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:46:00 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16325208/ Posted on: Monday, 21 July 2008, 08:44 CDT TORONTO and NAPLES, Fla., July 21, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Activist investor Eric Jackson, founder of activist hedge fund Ironfire Capital, announced his r... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16325209/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:45:54 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16325209/ "Padraig played brilliantly. He performed beautifully like a true champion, but I can walk away from here with my head held high because I hung in there. "I had a couple of lip-outs on some ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16325210/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:45:53 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16325210/ The Yomiuri Shimbun said Sunday the U.S. space agency wants to buy several H-2 Transfer Vehicles, a series of unmanned cargo craft, from its Japanese counterpart to eventually replace its own shuttle ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16323764/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:30:18 -0400 KeralaNext http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16323764/ On Wednesday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the Pentagon is "working very hard ... to send additional forces sooner rather than later."'Dire' risks in defeat, retreat Such talk reflect... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16325206/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:46:03 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16325206/ -- People marched through Golden Gate Park Sunday in the 22nd annual AIDS Walk San Francisco and helped raise $4.5 million, a tad shy of the organization's largest single-day fundraising record that ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16324118/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:03:41 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16324118/ — Several snowmobiles navigated speedily over arctic ice and snow in Alaska's outback in late June. This scene might seem ordinary except that the recently unveiled snowmobiles are unmanned, auto... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16324116/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:03:25 -0400 Science Daily http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16324116/ — The combined average global land and ocean surface temperatures for June 2008 ranked eighth warmest for June since worldwide records began in 1880, according to an analysis by NOAA’s Nati... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16323174/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:03:17 -0400 Science Daily http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16323174/ Posted on: Monday, 21 July 2008, 08:44 CDT Zimbabwe's main opposition party is expected to sign an agreement with the country's ruling party in advance of another round of peace talks, officials said... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16325204/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:45:56 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16325204/ may inspire a new class of strong, lightweight materials (Image: C Broomell)" title="The jaws and pincers of the burrowing worm Nereis virens may inspire a new class of strong, lightweight materials (... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16324119/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:58:19 -0400 New Scientist http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16324119/ SRSR ) is pleased to announce the assay results from chip samples taken from the adit into the main D Zone deposit carried out in June, 2008, on its 100% owned Nemegosenda carbonatite project locate... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16324114/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:40:38 -0400 Market Wire http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16324114/ TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - July 21, 2008) - NOT FOR RELEASE OVER US NEWSWIRE SERVICES Cineplex Galaxy Income Fund (TSX:CGX.UN) announced today its cash distribution of $0.105 per unit for the m... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16324115/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:38:50 -0400 Market Wire http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16324115/ WASHINGTON - A dwarf planet orbiting beyond Neptune has been designated the third plutoid in the solar system and given the name Makemake, the International Astronomical Union said on Saturday.The red... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16320289/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:15:28 -0400 MSNBC http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16320289/ If all goes as planned, it will detect events closer to the Big Bang, explore the "cosmic web" of galaxies and intergalactic gas that make up the large-scale structure of the universe and reveal much ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16319864/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:53:30 -0400 Courier-Journal http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16319864/ A wide range of satellite data and voice services exist in the United States with more to come in two to three years, but options are reduced from last year due to gaps in voice service from one of... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16320233/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:50:11 -0400 Space.com http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16320233/ 0 posts As part of the Agency's user-driven approach to preparing new Earth Explorer missions to advance our understanding of the Earth system, six candidate missions will be presented to the science ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16319830/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:41:52 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16319830/ Researchers in New Zealand have made the initial measurements of the smallest planet found outside the solar system, the New Zealand Press Association reported on Saturday. Using the new MOA-II telesc... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16319867/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:39:51 -0400 People's Daily http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16319867/ Weather forecasting NASA and several other international organizations have joined forces to launch into space a "crystal ball" to give scientists an extended satellite data record. The data... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16319866/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:29:28 -0400 Science Daily http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16319866/ JULY 17, 2008. Cypress Hotel & Spa, the leading designer and manufacturer of luxurious bathrobes, towels, slippers, and sheets for the hospitality and spa industry for over 25 years, today announc... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16319865/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:12:27 -0400 Hospitality Newswire http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16319865/ Everybody recognises the earthy smell of a field that's been freshly tilled, but how this smell forms has so far remained a mystery. A team at Brown University has now identified the bacterial genes r... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16315529/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:41:33 -0400 New Scientist http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16315529/ telescopes far more powerful than our own , it might look a lot like what the Deep Impact spacecraft recently saw from its vantage point 50 million kilometres away. Over the course of one Earth day ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16315530/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:41:11 -0400 New Scientist http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16315530/ CARSON, Calif. (AP) -Svetlana Kuznetsova withdrew from the East West Bank Classic because of a leg injury, joining Venus Williams and Lindsay Davenport on the sideline.``I am so sad not to be able to ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16315528/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:28:07 -0400 Gadsden Times http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16315528/ In the popular imagination, Mars has been a goal of U.S. space exploration since the days of controversial rocket expert Wernher von Braun, the leader of the team that developed the V-2 ballistic miss... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16312288/ Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:15:13 -0400 USA Today http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16312288/ Urine is the No. 1 need right now for some of the builders of the United States' next spaceship, lots of urine. Space program contractor Hamilton Sundstrand is seeking urine from workers at the Johns... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16312289/ Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:59:17 -0400 China Daily http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16312289/ It will not strike the planet. But scientists want to learn more about binary asteroids because one day they might find one headed our way. Deflecting a binary off course could be considerably more ch... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16312285/ Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:58:57 -0400 China Daily http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16312285/ Los Angeles Galaxy's David Beckham acknowledges the crowd at the end of their MLS soccer match against the New York Red Bulls in East Rutherford, New Jersey on Saturday. http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16312287/ Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:33:50 -0400 eTaiwan News http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16312287/ MONTREAL - Canada, which is part of a group working to bring samples of Mars back to Earth, has helped the mission exploring the Red Planet to get more bang for its buck, says a key American scientist... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16306777/ Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:34:06 -0400 C News http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16306777/ Posted on: Sunday, 20 July 2008, 06:00 CDT By Jim Souhan, Star Tribune, Minneapolis Jul. 20--Amid the obvious questions about the Packers/Favre/Vikings imbroglio -- Where will Favre end up, and was G... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16303459/ Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:29:22 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/16303459/