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TOKYO - A Japanese space probe is heading back toward an asteroid for a second landing attempt after failing to touch down over the weekend, space agency officials said Monday. Communications between the Hayabusa probe and Japan's space agency, JAXA, have returned to normal after the vessel inexplicably stopped just yards from the asteroid Itokawa on Sunday. The probe, which also botched a rehearsal earlier this month, is on a mission to briefly land on the asteroid, collect material, then bring it back to Earth. Officials will analyze data from the probe Tuesday to find out what went wrong in...

Microsoft is going to present the XBOX 360 tonight on MTV. But some, most notably Sony, have criticized the Xbox effort as being an "xbox 1.5" and not truely a next generation system. The rumored specifications on the XBOX 360 include a 3 core Power PC processor. Think of a three core chip being like having 3 processors in the unit, enabling the maching to handle multiple tasks in real time. (Ever put a scratched, hard to read CD in your computer and have it hog your processor time up? This won't happen on multi core machines.) Some have criticized...

I'm writing a paper on National Review for a conservatism class... i remember reading a piece on NRO a few days ago that said how many stories there were about bush's war record, vs. how many there were about kerry's medal flap. can anybody lead me to this article? PLEASE HELP