Category Archives: Operation

ExxonMobil finalizes PNG LNG sales to TEPCO

By doris | Published: December 7, 2009

Full Story at Reuters.com TEPCO, Japan’s largest utility, has entered a binding agreement with project partners for the purchase of 1.8 million tonnes per year (mtpy) of liquefied natural gas (LNG) for a period of 20 years, Exxon said in a statement. The contracted volume includes the plant’s recently expanded output of 0.3 mtpy, which [...]

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Twitter hit by denial-of-service attack

By doris | Published: August 7, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com It’s unclear if the attacks were coordinated against the social media sites. Twitter says its site’s blackout was caused by a “denial of service attack,” which likely means a hacker used a herd of infected computers to send bad information to the site to overwhelmed it. A post to Twitter’s blog [...]

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Hackers expose weakness in trusted sites

By doris | Published: August 3, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com LAS VEGAS – A powerful new type of Internet attack works like a telephone tap, but it operates between computers and Web sites they trust. Hackers at the Black Hat and DefCon security conferences have revealed a serious flaw in the way Web browsers weed out untrustworthy sites and block anybody [...]

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NASA patches air-purifying system on station

By doris | Published: July 27, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A space station air purifier was working again Sunday after it shut down at the worst possible time, when company was still visiting and had swollen the on-board crowd to a record 13. The repair by flight controllers, albeit temporary, came as a great relief to NASA. [...]

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Surgeon general post is a big job for a big lady

By doris | Published: July 17, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com Since President Obama announced his pick for the nation’s Top Doc, Internet message boards have been atwitter with the observation that Dr. Regina Benjamin is fat. Critics seem to believe it’s ironic that the nation’s top doctor would be overweight, and it’s led the most nattering of nags to conclude that [...]

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Rare eye surgery lets dad see son for first time

By doris | Published: May 12, 2009

Full Story At  msnbc.com Stephen Armitage of Yorkshire, England, was born blind in his right eye, and the bad vision in his left eye went hazy after an infection caused by a contact lens three years ago. But three months ago, the 36-year-old father of two underwent a rare seven-hour surgery that allowed him to [...]

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NASA set for dramatic shuttle rescue

By doris | Published: May 11, 2009

Full Story At  msnbc.com HOUSTON – As NASA prepares for its final service call to the Hubble Space Telescope, it’s also preparing for something never attempted in the history of the shuttle program: a rescue operation so dramatic that Hollywood would be hard-pressed to come up with a more outlandish plot. If the Hubble repair [...]

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Pastry chef receives double hand transplant

By doris | Published: May 9, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com The 57-year-old Augusta, Georgia, resident underwent the first double hand transplant in the United States on Monday at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. On Friday he remained at the transplant intensive care unit. He is “very stable, awake and alert, and he’s talking with us,” said Dr. W. P. Andrew [...]

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Factories dumping drugs into sewage

By doris | Published: April 20, 2009

Full Story At  msnbc.com Federal scientists testing for pharmaceuticals in water have been finding significantly more medicine residues in sewage downstream from public treatment facilities that handle waste from drugmakers. Early results from two pivotal federal studies compare wastewater at treatment plants that handle sewage from drugmakers with those that do not. The studies cover [...]

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Girl, 7, has six vital organs removed

By doris | Published: March 11, 2009

Full Story At  msnbc.com A 7-year-old Long Island girl was released from a New York hospital Tuesday, more than a month after surgeons removed six of her vital organs to tackle a life-threatening tumor. Heather McNamara was doing “fantastic,” said her father, Joseph McNamara, as the Islip Terrace family prepared to return home.

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