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Food Running Low Aboard Space Station Published Thursday, December 9, 2004 By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Food is running so low aboard the international space station that the two crewmen have been instructed to cut back on calories, at least until a Russian supply ship arrives in a little over two weeks, NASA said Thursday. If anything goes wrong with the Christmas Day delivery, the space agency will have no choice, given the grounding of its shuttle fleet, but to abandon the station and bring the men home in early January. This cargo ship "is very...

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The NYRA has a sponsored protest at the Ithaca Police Department tomorrow. Ithaca as you well know is the most liberal city in the US. The protest will be in response to the Chief (only elected because the more qualified opposition ran against the mayor for the position) removing the US Flag from the uniform. Please come and join, also notify the Media!!!

WASHINGTON - About four miles east of the U.S. Capitol, in an industrial section of town, sits a gas station that looks like any other. But it's not, because on Wednesday it became the first in North America to have a hydrogen dispensing pump. Shell executives, Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham (news - web sites) and District of Columbia Mayor Anthony A. Williams unveiled the technology, which the Bush administration hopes will help reduce the country's dependence on imported oil. "This will be, in fact, the first step toward the real transition in the economy from the carbon-based economies of the...

NEW YORK -- Two Brooklyn men have been arrested in connection with an alleged plot to bomb a subway station in midtown Manhattan, sources said early Saturday. At least one of the men may have an affiliation with a terrorist organization, according to two law enforcement sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The sources said the group in question was not believed to be al-Qaida.

Station pulls liberal show after threats Associated Press SILVER CITY -- A Silver City radio station yanked a liberal talk show off the air because of pressure from advertisers, the station's owner says. "It's a shame that, in America, we can't have someone with an opposing view," said Matt Runnels, owner of KNFT. The one-hour daily show, "Radio Free Silver," hosted by Kyle Johnson, was canceled Monday after running for about six weeks on KNFT. Runnels said 20 to 25 advertisers -- including car dealers, bankers, pizza stores and furniture stores -- threatened to pull their spots from KNFT if...

Oh... What would Bubba EVER do without Hillary's help ...???!!!

Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2004 March 27 Mir Dreams Credit: STS-76 Crew, NASA Explanation: This dream-like image of Mir was recorded by astronauts as the Space Shuttle Atlantis approached the Russian space station prior to docking during the STS-76 mission. Sporting spindly appendages and solar panels, Mir resembles a whimsical flying insect hovering about 350 kilometers above New Zealand's South Island and the city of Nelson near Cook Strait. In late March...

Space Station Air Pressure Dropping By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The international space station is experiencing a slow, steady drop in air pressure, and American and Russian flight controllers are investigating possible causes of the leak. Reuters Slideshow: International Space Station Mission Control notified astronaut Michael Foale and cosmonaut Alexander Kaleri about the leak just before their bedtime late Monday afternoon. "There's no action for you at this time and no immediate concerns," Mission Control assured the two men. "We'll continue to investigate this on the next shift and we may have some actions for...

Spy satellites look for space station damage The Pentagon is using spy satellites to check the International Space Station for exterior damage. It follows a request by Nasa managers who are anxious to avoid a repeat of the Columbia disaster, in which the shuttle burned up on re-entry to the Earth's atmosphere due to damage to the spacecraft. While Columbia was in orbit, engineers had pushed for spy satellite pictures of the shuttle to check for damage from a piece of foam insulation that fell off the fuel tank during lift-off. But Nasa managers refused to ask the Pentagon for...

Iraqi Police May Have Coordinated Attacks 13 minutes ago By JIM KRANE, Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq - There is no evidence that al-Qaida terrorists have taken part in the long string of attacks on U.S. or Iraqi targets, but some U.S.-trained Iraqi police appear to have coordinated some of those assaults, the top U.S. military official in Iraq (news - web sites) said Saturday. AP Photo (AP Video) Latest headlines: · Iraqi Police May Have Coordinated Attacks AP - 13 minutes ago · Iraq's interim leaders review transition plans in face of Shiite poll demandAFP - 36 minutes ago...

An American evangelist's television series on Islam in America was canceled by a Canadian station after the first program because Muslims complained his tone and demeanor was an incitement of hatred. San Antonio-based pastor John Hagee's "tone in his comparison of what Christians believe according to the Bible and what Muslims believe according to the Quran" violated the code of ethics of Toronto station CTS, said Program Manager Rob Sheppard in a letter of apology to a Muslim activist group. Sheppard told WorldNetDaily he believes Hagee's primary intent was not to preach from his religious convictions but to incite hatred....

Israel Targets Palestinian Police Station Sunday October 26, 2003 12:46 AM By IBRAHIM BARZAK Associated Press Writer GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip retaliated late Saturday for a deadly infiltration into a Jewish settlement, blowing up a Palestinian police station and ordering residents out of an eight-story apartment building in preparation for destroying three other structures. In the West Bank, meanwhile, masked Israeli troops raided two Palestinian hospitals Saturday, arresting two suspected militants - including one in critical condition - in a commando-style operation the army said would be replicated in other hospitals where...

KOROLEV, Moscow reg, October 20 (Itar-Tass) - The Soyuz and Progress spacecraft construction financial situation is catastrophic, the Energia rocket and space corporation' s head Yuri Semyonov told a press conference in the Mission Control Centre after the successful docking of the Soyuz TMA-3 with the International Space Station. The corporation has received no finances promised for the second half of this year, but it has taken big loans to be repaid from the funds. The corporation administration did not focus attention on the issue before the blast-off and the docking, but has to inform its partners now that there...

WBAL flip-flops over Limbaugh Station decides to use local hosts in his absence, then changes its mind -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Dan Thanh Dang Sun Staff Originally published October 18, 2003 Amid national chatter about conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh's addiction to prescription drugs, WBAL radio found itself at the center of an industry storm this week after it pulled his syndicated show from its usual time slot and then flip-flopped on that decision. The Hearst-owned news talk station said it decided to move Limbaugh out of the key early afternoon time slot amid worries that substitutes for the top-rated host would not...

Ex-NASA Adviser Warns of Station Accident Serious Accident Is Waiting to Happen on Space Station, Former Member of NASA Safety Panel Says The Associated Press WASHINGTON Sept. 23 — A serious accident is waiting to happen on the International Space Station due to poor communications between American and Russian engineers, says one of the nine members of a NASA safety panel who resigned Tuesday. There have been three separate incidents that could have led to accidents aboard the space station and all were linked to a lack of coordination between the Russians and Americans who operate the orbiting lab, said...

The first commercial subsea power station to harness the tidal currents of the sea was hooked up to an electricity grid on Saturday. The rise and fall of the sea, caused by the moon's gravitational tug on the Earth, could be generating electricity for hundreds of thousands of homes within five years if the new Norwegian power station proves successful. The power station, which resembles an underwater windmill, began generating electricity for the town of Hammerfest. Although still largely a prototype, the generator is the first in the world to harness the power of the sea and be connected to...

SHELBYVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Stymied by mysterious sights and sounds in their own headquarters, cops in Shelbyville called in the ghostbusters. In the still of night, doors rattled and stairwells creaked in the city's police department. In the light of day, a secretary's desk drawer opened on its own. A city worker who toured the building late one night even reported feeling something grab her leg. So the police took the probe to another dimension. "The way I treat it is not that there is a ghost, there's just things that I can't explain," said Officer John Wilson, who contacted...

<p>The space shuttle is unlikely to fly again until at least next summer, a former NASA official said yesterday -- a delay months longer than NASA leaders predicted before this week's critical report on the Columbia tragedy.</p> <p>The sweeping changes demanded by the Columbia Accident Investigation Board will probably push the next shuttle launch back to at least July 2004, said Joe Rothenberg, former NASA space flight director. Earlier this month, the current space flight director, Bill Readdy, said that the shuttle might fly as early as March.</p>

Shaughn Butts, The Journal / Followers look on as Marc Emery smokes up Sunday.   EDMONTON - Wearing a conservative blue suit, B.C. marijuana activist Marc Emery lit up a water pipe in front of Edmonton police headquarters Sunday afternoon and was promptly arrested. The leader of the B.C. Marijuana Party contends poss ession laws no longer exist because of recent Ontario court decisions. Before lighting up, Emery said the fact that people can be political and take action makes Canada "the greatest place on Earth." Two Edmonton police constables stepped into the crowd and led Emery inside, to...