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THE heart-stopping moments when Neil Armstrong took his first tentative steps onto another world are defining images of the 20th century: grainy, fuzzy, unforgettable. But just 37 years after Apollo 11, it is feared the magnetic tapes that recorded the first moon walk - beamed to the world via three tracking stations, including Parkes's famous "Dish" - have gone missing at NASA's Goddard Space Centre in Maryland. A desperate search has begun amid concerns the tapes will disintegrate to dust before they can be found. It is not widely known that the Apollo 11 television broadcast from the moon was...

CARRBORO, N.C. -- A Carrboro alderman wants to make his city the first in North Carolina to let noncitizens vote. At a meeting Friday between the Board of Aldermen and the Orange County legislative delegation, John Herrera asked the state lawmakers to take the topic to the General Assembly. Herrera, a U.S. citizen who is a native of Costa Rica, said allowing future U.S. citizens and legal residents to vote in municipal elections will put them on the path to citizenship. "In Carrboro, we would really like to be the pilot project in this," Herrera said. Sen. Ellie Kinnaird and...

Silver Spring, MD (AP) - A U.S. Postal Service worker was arrested Saturday in a bomb threat that forced the evacuation of two charter buses and the closure of the Capital Beltway for 90 minutes. The woman, whose name was not released, called a passenger aboard a charter bus carrying other postal workers from Merrifield, Va., to Atlantic City, N.J., and said there was a bomb aboard the bus, said Sgt. Russell Newell, a Maryland State Police spokesman.