Category Archives: Travel

Space hotel says it’s on schedule to open in 2012

By doris | Published: November 2, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com Barcelona – A company behind plans to open the first hotel in space says it is on target to accept its first paying guests in 2012 despite critics questioning the investment and time frame for the multi-billion dollar project. The Barcelona-based architects of The Galactic Suite Space Resort say it will [...]

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Astronomy fans left disappointed after much-touted lunar impact

By doris | Published: October 10, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com “We saw nothing,” he said. Samuels is vice president of the Fremont Peak Observatory near Monterey, California, which had invited members of the public to watch Friday’s NASA mission through its telescopes. The lunar strike happened shortly after 4:30 a.m. on the West Coast (7:30 a.m. ET). NASA had encouraged everyone [...]

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Airport workers accused of smuggling migrants

By doris | Published: September 7, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – A federal grand jury in the U.S. Virgin Islands has indicted two ticket agent contractors who worked for Delta Airlines and an airport employee on charges of conspiracy to smuggle illegal immigrants into the U.S. The ticket agents, identified as Diana Telemaque, 33, and Felicia Browne, [...]

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Stress of war takes mental toll on military kids

By doris | Published: August 14, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com The years-long U.S. commitment in Iraq and Afghanistan is taking a significant toll on the children of service members, who are 2½ times more likely to develop psychological problems than American children in general, new research indicates. The study, published this week in the Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, found [...]

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Newfound planet orbits backward

By doris | Published: August 12, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com Planets orbit stars in the same direction that the stars rotate. They all do. Except one. A newfound planet orbits the wrong way, backward compared to the rotation of its host star. Its discoverers think a near-collision may have created the retrograde orbit, as it is called. The star and its [...]

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Ohio bus driver was on phone when man killed

By doris | Published: August 9, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com CLEVELAND – An Ohio bus driver who had been fired and reinstated after an earlier accident was on her cell phone when her bus struck and killed a pedestrian in March, according to investigators. Angela Williams, 49, of Cleveland, was indicted Thursday on a felony charge of aggravated vehicular homicide. If [...]

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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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Lady Liberty’s Crown Reopens

By doris | Published: July 5, 2009

Full Story at CBS News (AP) The first visitors allowed into the Statue of Liberty’s crown in nearly eight years made the arduous climb Saturday on an Independence Day journey laden with symbolism of freedom, national pride – and for one couple, romance. Aaron Weisinger, 26, got down on one knee on the crown’s small [...]

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President faces a Kennedy decision on space

By doris | Published: June 24, 2009

Full Story At msnbc.com CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – When the Soviet Union was beating America’s pants off heaving cosmonauts into orbit, a young president named John Fitzgerald Kennedy called a handful of top space experts in and decided Americans would walk on the moon. Kennedy wanted to win the space race with the Russians — [...]

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Swine flu: Your questions answered

By doris | Published: May 1, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com 1. Hasn’t swine flu been around for a while? Yes. Swine flu was first identified in 1930 when researchers isolated the virus in a pig. In 1976, more than 200 soldiers at Fort Dix, New Jersey, got swine flu. From 1976 until 2005, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [...]

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U.S. warship nears boat carrying pirates

By doris | Published: April 9, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com Also nearby was the Maersk Alabama — which had been seized early Wednesday off the Horn of Africa. All 20 of its remaining crew members were in good physical shape, said Ken Quinn, second officer of the ship, in a satellite call placed by CNN. “There’s four Somali pirates, and they’ve [...]

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King: Bus routes to be closed; stimulus money can’t help

By doris | Published: March 29, 2009

Full Story At CNN.com BALLWIN, Missouri (CNN) — For Stuart and Dianne Falk, it is a two-bus, 45-minute trip into downtown St. Louis to head to the gym and to volunteer at a theater group. And it is a lifeline that ends Friday. “To be saddled, to be imprisoned, that is what it is going [...]

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Treasure: Somali Pirates Snag $3.2M Ransom

By doris | Published: February 6, 2009

Full Story At CBS News (AP) Somali pirates freed an arms-laden ship after a 4 1/2-month standoff Thursday, speeding off in small boats with a $3.2 million ransom. The U.S. Navy stood by helplessly, unable to accost the pirates because they still hold nearly 150 other seamen hostage. The pirates counted the cash after it [...]

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Obama set to ride rails to historic inauguration

By doris | Published: January 17, 2009

Fulll Story At  CNN.com (CNN) — President-elect Barack Obama looks to President Abraham Lincoln for his inspiration, so it’s only fitting that the president-elect would retrace Lincoln’s 1861 trip from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Washington, D.C., to assume the presidency.President-elect Barack Obama’s inaugural train ride replicates his hero Abraham Lincoln’s. President-elect Barack Obama’s inaugural train ride [...]

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Flying car takes high road to Timbuktu

By doris | Published: January 14, 2009

Vidio Full Story At  CNN.com A car that also flies? 2:39Flying cars have been a long held, technological fantasy. As CNN’s Phil Black reports, Skycar makes them a reality.• Technology – Computers, Internet and Personal Tech News from CNN.com Source: CNN | Added January 13, 2009

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Somali pirates free tanker after ransom

By doris | Published: January 10, 2009

Full Story At CNN.com NAIROBI, Kenya (CNN) — Pirates holding a Saudi-owned oil supertanker off the coast of Somalia have set the vessel free after receiving a ransom payment, a piracy monitor in neighboring Kenya and the U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet said Saturday “The supertanker VLCC Sirius Star is currently under way to safe waters,” [...]

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Passengers escape burning jet in Denver; 38 hurt

By doris | Published: December 21, 2008

Full Story At Yahoo! News DENVER – Passengers expecting a flight to Texas instead had to flee their burning airliner, sprawled in a smoke-filled ravine off a runway with the fuselage partially buckled and one engine and part of its landing gear ripped off. There was no official word yet Sunday on the possible cause [...]

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Pirates to receive millions in ransom for release of arms ship

By doris | Published: December 19, 2008

Full Story At  CNN.com WASHINGTON (CNN) — Pirates holding a ship full of tanks and ammunition off the coast of Somalia are likely to be paid millions of dollars in ransom within days, senior U.S. military officials said.Somali pirates holding the MV Faina stand guard on the merchant vessel’s deck on October 19. Somali pirates [...]

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Technology helps Santa make magic, scientist says

By doris | Published: December 16, 2008

Full Story At Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Ever wondered how Santa Claus can travel around the world in just one night on his reindeer-pulled sleigh and deliver toys to all the children? “He exploits the space-time continuum,” says Larry Silverberg, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at North Carolina State University. Santa’s magic may [...]

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Cargo crew marooned on ship for months

By doris | Published: December 14, 2008

Full Story At  Reuters BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Fourteen crew and officers, mostly from the Philippines, have been stranded for three months in an Argentine river on a cargo ship abandoned by its owner, surviving on charity donations of food and water. The Philippine consulate was working to help the crew, who had not been [...]

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