By JOHN SCHWARTZ : Two NASA astronauts left the International Space Station on Thursday evening to test techniques for repairing delicate shuttle tiles with a kind of orbital spackle.
NASA has been looking for ways to repair the tiles and panels, which protect the shuttle from the heat of re-entry, since the loss of the shuttle […]
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By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD : As early as six million years ago, apparently close to the beginning of the human lineage, an ancestral species had already developed the transforming ability for upright walking, scientists reported on Thursday.
A new, more detailed analysis of a fossil thigh bone found eight years ago in Kenya yielded strong evidence […]
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Art Review | Asia Week : By ROBERTA SMITH This year Asia Week in New York has stretched into Asia Fortnight. The two art fairs that usually coincide on a single weekend have spread out to fall on consecutive weekends. The 10-year-old New York Arts of Pacific Asia Show, traditionally the […]
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By JOYCE WADLER : Rumford, R.I.
THERE is a question that invariably comes up whenever people learn of the firehouse here that has been converted into a home, and respectful of our refined and cultivated readership, it will be addressed at once: the fire poles are gone.
You will not, when visiting Wendy Edwards and Jerry Mischak, […]
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Faster, Higher, Stronger : By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS
RYAN LOCHTE may be the best American male swimmer not named Michael. At the 2004 Olympic Summer Games in Athens, he won a silver medal in the 200-meter individual medley, losing only to that Michael (Phelps, of course).
He also earned a gold medal as part of the 4-by-200-meter freestyle […]
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By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM : Oil, gold and other major commodities fell sharply on Thursday, capping their steepest weekly drop in a half-century, as investors fled what many had believed to be the last safe haven in turbulent markets.
Oil tumbled 6.9 percent in two days of trading, and most other commodities fell by 7 percent […]
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