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Spacewalking astronauts wire up station’s newest room

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: Two spacewalking astronauts wired up the international space stations newest room Tuesday and, to NASAs delight, kept the next shuttle visit on track for early December.
Commander Peggy Whitson and Daniel Tani spent hours hooking up power and heater cables and fluid lines between the space station and the Harmony compartment that […]

New reports: Fewer HIV cases in India

NEW DELHI (AP) The experts’ consensus was that India had the most HIV cases in the world Д 5.7 million Д and that number could rise if aggressive measures weren’t adopted.
On Friday, that consensus changed dramatically when international AIDS experts and Indian health officials revealed new data showing India to have less than […]

Katrina brought a wave of Hispanics

NEW ORLEANS For proof that Hurricane Katrina is transforming the ethnic flavor of New Orleans Д and creating altogether new tensions Д look no further than the taco trucks.
Lunch trucks serving Latin American fare are appearing around New Orleans, catering to the immigrant laborers who streamed into the city in search of work […]

A Breakthrough on Stem Cells

By Alice Park
Before Dolly, no one thought it was possible to turn back time, especially where biology was concerned. Once a cell started on its march of development, nothing, absolutely nothing, scientists thought, could turn it around again. Dolly, the cloned sheep, proved this biological maxim wrong in 1996, when Ian Wilmut was able […]

China plans new oral care regulations

BEIJING (AP) China is crafting new safety rules for oral care products, state media reported Wednesday, apparently propelled by international alarm over toothpaste producers’ use of a potentially toxic chemical found in antifreeze.
Numerous countries have stopped imports of Chinese-made toothpaste in recent months for containing diethylene glycol, or DEG, which is also used […]