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Archive for October, 2008

Vietnam issues new flood alert, death toll 20 (Reuters)

Reuters - Vietnamese authorities warned of more flash floods in the north of the country Saturday and Sunday as the death toll from a week of heavy rains and floods rose to 20, the government said.

Space Station Trash Plunging to Earth (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - A piece of
space station trash the size of a refrigerator is poised to plunge through the
Earth’s atmosphere late Sunday, more than a year after an astronaut tossed it
overboard.

Judge gives red light to green cabs in NYC (AP)

This Nov. 10, 2005 file photo shows a Ford Escape Hybrid taxicab on the street after a news conference introducing fuel-efficient hybrid vehicles to the New York City taxi industry.  A federal judge blocked the city Friday, Oct. 31, 2008, from requiring all new taxicabs to be fuel-efficient hybrids, saying the regulations were pre-empted by federal law. The preliminary ruling, released a day before deadline, was a setback for Mayor Michael Bloomberg's ambitious goal to make all yellow cabs green by 2012. (AP Photo/Adam Rountree, file)AP - A federal judge blocked the city Friday from requiring all new taxicabs to be fuel-efficient hybrids, hampering Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s ambitious goal to make all yellow cabs green by 2012.

Space Station Trash Plunging to Earth (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - A piece of
space station trash the size of a refrigerator is poised to plunge through the
Earth’s atmosphere late Sunday, more than a year after an astronaut tossed it
overboard.

Sabertooth ‘Tigers’ Were Social Beasts (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Leopards and tigers today are fairly solitary beasts, but the extinct sabertooth cat was likely a social animal that lived and hunted like today’s lions, a new study suggests.




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