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1. The presidential candidates are making their last pitches to voters by mainly attacking their opponent. John McCain is trying to tie Barack Obama to oil companies while Obama spend part of the day saying McCain will keep economy in a ditch. 2. Th

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Astronomers have already discovered hundreds of exoplanets. But make way for the new kid, which is orbiting a kind of star that models say it shouldnt. Researche

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1. The UN Security Council could vote Saturday on sanctions against North Korea in response to the country's reported testing of a nuclear weapon. The US and Japan want a quick vote on the measure, bu

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1. A Florida judge is ordering another DNA sample to be taken from Anna Nicole Smith's body. It comes as the former Playboy playmate's longtime companion Howard K. Stern and her estranged mother fight over Smith's remains. Stern is also fighting Lar

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Still, statistically the probability that there are other thinking beings out there is good. Nobody knows how many stars there are in the Milky Wayestimates range from 100 billion or so to perhaps 400 billionand the Milky Way is just one of 140 billi

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Shanghai is gearing up for F1 Grand Prix 2017 which will begin on Sunday afternoon at 2pm local time. Practice rounds were conducted Friday and Saturday, with various teams conducting maintenance including tyre maintenance after the third practice ro

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