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<title>ET: Be My Friend!</title>
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<title>Surviving The Big Bang Machine</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Yes, we're still here! Despite the nay-sayings of the doom-mongers, scientists at Europe's...<p><sub><i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i></sub></p>
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<title>Sandcastle Science</title>
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<title>The Ills of Dolphin Assisted &quot;Therapy&quot;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[&nbsp; A couple of years ago, my local paper ran a heart-warming story about a couple who set...<p><sub><i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i></sub></p>
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<title>Goodbye Arthur C. Clarke – Visionary</title>
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<title>Scrape, scratch and ouch!</title>
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<title>Wait... A laptop for less than US$ 400?</title>
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<title>2008 - Year of the first cyber-war?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The concept of an attack by one nation on another seems on the cusp of being redefined. In...<p><sub><i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i></sub></p>
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<title>What we may believe...</title>
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<title>Gifts for Geeks!</title>
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<title>Monkey Cloning: Are humans next?</title>
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<title>Comet Holmes - A big surprise!</title>
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<title>Scientists and the media: victims or villains?</title>
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<title>50 years: Sputnik, the space race, and what next?</title>
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<title>Do animals have rights?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Caligula, the mad Roman emperor, made his horse a senator. Circus lore recalls tales of...<p><sub><i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i></sub></p>
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<title>Bad news for Microsoft?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week Microsoft lost a long running appeal in the European Court of First Instance. ...<p><sub><i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i></sub></p>
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<title>Farewell to Utopia?</title>
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<title>Is life delicate, or is it strong?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's an extremely odd discovery - a volume almost a billion light-years across and empty not only...<p><sub><i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i></sub></p>
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