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  • See Alaska -- all of it -- in beautiful space image
    By Becky OskinSpace.comFrom steaming volcanoes to sparkling lakes, almost all of Alaska's marvelous landscapes simmered under hours and hours of sunlight Monday, as seen by a NASA satellite.A scorching Alaskan heat wave caused by a high-pressure system meant few clouds on Monday, so NASA's Terra satellite snapped a rare image of the entire state. The view is similar to spotting the entire United S...
        


  • Obama's nuke-reduction goal is just the start of a slow process
    President Barack Obama says he wants to reduce the number of deployed U.S. nuclear weapons by a third, but even if the Russians agree to do the same, it could be a decade or longer before the 500 or so U.S. warheads under discussion are actually destroyed.A massive backlog at the Texas Pantex plant where nukes are dismantled means warheads removed from submarines and land-based missiles as a resul...
        


  • Egypt's Coptic Christians say they are 'no longer safe'
    CAIRO – Thousands of Egypt’s Coptic Christians are fleeing to Europe, the United States and elsewhere rather than face mounting discrimination at home.Copts, Egypt’s ancient Christian community, are the country’s largest minority, making up nearly 10 percent of its 85 million people. But clashes between Christians and Muslims have become more frequent since the ouster of longtime authoritarian rul...
        


  • Brazil officials reverse subway, bus fare hike
    Leaders in Brazil's two biggest cities said Wednesday that they have reversed an increase in bus and subway fares that ignited protests across the nation. However, many doubted the move would help abate the demonstrations that have moved well beyond the outrage over the fare hikes into communal cries against poor public services in Latin America's biggest nation. "This will represent a big sacrifi...
        


  • Mars beyond reach without NASA budget boost
    By Miriam KramerSpace.comIf NASA continues to be funded at its current levels, a manned mission to Mars could be permanently beyond reach, space industry experts say.When asked how soon astronauts could potentially set foot on Marsunder NASA's current budget constraints, Thomas Young, the former executive vice president of Lockheed Martin, says the outlook is bleak."With the current budget, bear w...
        
 
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  • New Colo. Wildfire Prompts Evacuations
    Homes evacuated as wildfire flares near Denver; blaze one of several across hot, dry West
        


  • 'Sopranos' Star James Gandolfini Dead at 51
        


  • FBI Foils Plot to Build X-Ray Weapon
    A New York man who allegedly wanted to kill President Obama and apparently blamed him for the recent Boston bombings has been arrested for trying to build and detonate a weapon of mass destruction -- an X-ray system that would emit deadly amounts of radiation and could be detonated remotely, according to the FBI.
        


  • Urban Outfitters Pulls Pill Glasses
    Kentucky leaders: Urban Outfitters won't sell shot glasses, flasks that look like pill bottles
        
  • Celebs React to Death of 'Sopranos' Star
    Colleagues and friends of James Gandolfini are paying tribute to the actor in the wake of his sudden death Wednesday in Italy. Gandolfini was 51. David Chase, who created “The Sopranos,” the hit HBO series for which Gandolfini is best known, called Gandolfini “a genius.”...
        
 
 
 
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