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Solar Impulse Lands After Successful Night Flight
Thu, 07/08/2010 - 04:45Pilot André Borschberg completes the first night flight by a solar-powered airplane. The Solar Impulse aircraft touches down at 9 a.m. local time in Payerne, Switzerland, after 26 hours in the air, breaking records for the highest and longest solar flight in history.
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Solar Impulse Lands After Successful Night Flight
Thu, 07/08/2010 - 04:45Pilot André Borschberg completes the first night flight by a solar-powered airplane. The Solar Impulse aircraft touches down at 9 a.m. local time in Payerne, Switzerland, after 26 hours in the air, breaking records for the highest and longest solar flight in history.
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Solar Impulse Lands After Successful Night Flight
Thu, 07/08/2010 - 04:45Pilot André Borschberg completes the first night flight by a solar-powered airplane. The Solar Impulse aircraft touches down at 9 a.m. local time in Payerne, Switzerland, after 26 hours in the air, breaking records for the highest and longest solar flight in history.
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Solar Impulse Lands After Successful Night Flight
Thu, 07/08/2010 - 04:45Pilot André Borschberg completes the first night flight by a solar-powered airplane. The Solar Impulse aircraft touches down at 9 a.m. local time in Payerne, Switzerland, after 26 hours in the air, breaking records for the highest and longest solar flight in history.
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Solar Impulse Lands After Successful Night Flight
Thu, 07/08/2010 - 04:45Pilot André Borschberg completes the first night flight by a solar-powered airplane. The Solar Impulse aircraft touches down at 9 a.m. local time in Payerne, Switzerland, after 26 hours in the air, breaking records for the highest and longest solar flight in history.
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Video: Solar Impulse Cleared for Night Flight
Wed, 07/07/2010 - 22:26All systems are go. The flight is on.
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Alberta family's cat found in Yukon
Wed, 07/07/2010 - 20:48A family in Peace River, Alta., will soon be reunited with their cat Weezie, who somehow travelled more than 1,000 kilometres north to Whitehorse over eight months.(author unknown)1660477069995493624500522468460421070544082936652787259117781199207767716927927516703393124225004161
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Chalk River reactor can restart
Wed, 07/07/2010 - 19:22A nuclear reactor in Chalk River, Ont., where medical isotopes are made has received the green light to restart operations after being shut down for more than a year.(author unknown)
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'Climategate' scientists honest: report
Wed, 07/07/2010 - 17:34An independent British report into leaked emails from one of the world's leading climate research centres has largely vindicated the scientists involved.(author unknown)
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24 Hours of Solar-Powered Flight
Wed, 07/07/2010 - 13:27The Solar Impulse aircraft known as HB-SIA is in the middle of its first 24-hour flight including a complete day/night cycle. The aircraft took off from its home airfield in Payerne, Switzerland shortly before 7 a.m. local time on Wednesday (1 a.m. EDT). It will spend the day climbing to an altitude to nearly 28,000 feet (8,500 meters) while charging its batteries.
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Conan O'Brien's Kamikaze Comedy Debacle
Wed, 07/07/2010 - 00:00Comedian Conan O'Brien died for Big Media's sins and then, rose up more powerful than NBC or anyone else could possibly have imagined.
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Dutch take blame for UN climate report error
Tue, 07/06/2010 - 13:50A leading Dutch environmental agency, taking the blame for one of the errors that undermined the credibility of a UN report on climate change, says it has discovered more mistakes and urged the panel to be more careful.(author unknown)
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Tim Hortons cups turned into biofuel
Mon, 07/05/2010 - 18:55Discarded Tim Hortons coffee cups are being turned into ethanol by researchers at the University of Manitoba.(author unknown)07456590950632885318
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Tornado hits Sask. reserve
Sat, 07/03/2010 - 12:42A tornado has touched down on the Kawacatoose First Nation near Raymore, Sask., destroying about a dozen homes and damaging many others.(author unknown)
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Toyota recalls 270,000 cars with engine flaw
Fri, 07/02/2010 - 04:17Toyota says about 270,000 cars sold worldwide - including luxury Lexus sedans - have faulty engines, the latest quality lapse to hit the automaker after massive global recalls.(author unknown)
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Hurricane Alex kills 2
Fri, 07/02/2010 - 03:20Hurricane Alex causes flooding that kills at least two people and forces thousands of others from coastal fishing villages before weakening to a tropical storm.(author unknown)
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Centenarians' genetic secrets revealed
Fri, 07/02/2010 - 02:56Predicting whether someone is genetically predisposed to live in good health to a very old age has moved a step forward.(author unknown)
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Skull of whale-eating whale discovered
Thu, 07/01/2010 - 18:54Scientists have discovered an ancient whale whose bite ripped huge chunks of flesh out of other whales about 12 million years ago - and they've named it after the author of Moby Dick.(author unknown)04487287022025037966
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Bison anthrax outbreak in N.W.T. lowlands
Thu, 07/01/2010 - 18:14Government wildlife teams in the Northwest Territories are working to control an anthrax outbreak about 80 kilometres southeast of Fort Resolution.(author unknown)
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China blocks web search feature: Google
Thu, 07/01/2010 - 13:26A Google search feature was blocked in China, the company said as it awaited Beijing's decision on whether to renew its operating licence amid tensions over censorship.(author unknown)
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