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May 8, 2002
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UK Eases TV Ownership Rules

Tony Blair's new best friend
London (AFP) May 7, 2002
 Britain on Tuesday unveiled plans to overhaul media ownership rules in a move that could pave the way for Australian media tycoon Rupert Murdoch's empire to take over terrestrial broadcaster Channel 5. The reform of ownership regulations will also enable a single company to take control of ITV, the country's largest independently-owned television network.
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    SPACE TOURISM
    Have Space Suit Have Souvenir
     Star City (AFP) May 7, 2002
     "Afronaut" Mark Shuttleworth, the world's second space tourist, will be returning to his native South Africa with his spacesuit but not the capsule in which he returned to earth, he told a press conference in Moscow Tuesday.
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    CONSTELLATIONS
    Iridium Signs Deal With Telstra In Bid To Win Aussie Outback Market
     Arlington - May 6, 2002
     Iridium Satellite has signed a service partner agreement with Australia's largest telco Telstra Corp to market and sell Iridium services. The multi-year deal enables Telstra to retail Iridium services and equipment to strengthen rural and remote communications throughout Australia.
    TERRORWARS
    Is It Time To Vaccinate Everyone Under 30 Against Smallpox?
     Baltimore - May 07, 2002
     Immunizing young Americans against smallpox before a bioterrorist attack might save many more lives than a strategy focused exclusively on isolating and vaccinating those at risk after an attack. But a mass-vaccination approach would cost more up front and would have to be done cautiously because of illnesses and deaths the vaccine itself could cause.
    Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses Examined As Potential Bioweapons
     Baltimore - May 08, 2002
     Ebola, Marburg, Lassa, and other viruses that cause deadly hemorrhagic fever illnesses could be used as biological weapons, according to a report from the Working Group on Civilian Biodefense, a panel of 26 experts convened by the Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
  • US Warns Trio Of Old Foes To Avoid WMDs
  • Bush Anti-Terrorism Strategy Is One War Behind
  • Blair Claims "Treasure" Of Evidence Iraqi WMD Plans
  • Al-Qaeda Leader Says Group Seeking A Radiological Bomb

    • CORE SPACE
    Ocean Cores May Give Clues On Climate Change
     Edinburgh - May 07, 2002
     Core samples taken from far below the ocean floor are helping a University of Edinburgh geologist to form a picture of dramatic climate changes which took place 30 to 40 million years ago.
  • Ice Coring Team Heads For Alaska

    • TERRADAILY
    South Korea Calls North Back To Talks While Working On Dam
     Seoul (AFP) - May 07, 2002
     South Korea on Tuesday demanded that North Korea return to the negotiating table, while a dispute deepened over a dam in the North that the South says is dangerous.
    China Rolls Out Barbed Wire To Keep N.Koreans From Foreign Embassies
     Beijing (AFP) - May 05, 2002
     China's paramilitary police Sunday fenced in foreign embassies with barbed wire in what officials and diplomats said were attempts to keep out North Korean asylum seekers.
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  • Victoria To Be Slashed In Two

    • CIVIL NUCLEAR
    New Research Could Spearhead Permanent Nuclear Waste Storage
      West Lafayette - May 07, 2002
     Researchers armed with a laser are closer to knowing how to prepare millions of gallons of highly radioactive nuclear waste for permanent storage. The study is the first to describe the chemistry of waste formed by aluminum and alkaline, or caustic sodium compounds, mixing with high-level radioactive material.
    European Rights Court Issues First Ruling Against Russia
  • Peaceful Life In Belarus's Contaminated Zone
  • Taiwanese Demand Removal Of Nuclear Waste
  • Can A New Generation Of Nuclear Reactors Allay Public Fears

    • NUKEWARS
    US Threatens Iraq, Denies Specific Invasion Plans
     Washington (AFP) - May 05, 2002
     US officials Sunday continued to express their belief that Iraq would be better off without President Saddam Hussein amid reports specific attack plans have been produced.
  • Russia To Raise Fragments From Kursk Sub
  • India Gives Thumbs Up To Strategic Nuke Force
  • India And Pakistan Look Inward

    • COSMOLOGY
    Theory Asserts The Existence Of Mirror Matter
     Melbourne - May 06, 2002
     Invisible asteroids and other cosmic bodies made of a new form of matter may pose a threat to Earth, asserts Australian Physicist Dr. Robert Foot. In a revolutionary new theory, Dr. Robert Foot of the University of Melbourne argues that meteorites composed of `mirror matter' -- a candidate for the invisible dark matter that astronomers say is necessary to explain their observations -- could impact with the Earth without leaving any ordinary fragments.

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    • ENERGY TECH
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    • EARTH OBSERVATION
  • Aqua Spacecraft Launched To Study Earth's Water Cycle
  • Massive Icebergs May Affect Antarctic Sea Life And Food Chain
  • Changing Antarctica Viewed By NASA Satellite

    • TECH SPACE
  • Super-Fast Flashes Could Help Scientists See into a Nucleus
  • Powell Plugs Science As Foreign Policy Tool
  • Marshall Pollution Solution Gets NATO's Attention

    • MISSILE DEFENSE
  • Regional Spy Ships Watch Taiwanese Games
  • Pentagon Flags New Aegis Sale To Japan
  • Pakistan Concerned Over Indian Missile Tests

    • EXO WORLDS
  • New Evidence For Organic Compounds In Deep Spaces
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  • Where Are The Other Earths Beyond The Solar System?

    • SPACE SCIENCE
  • Adding Trillions Of Years To The Universe
  • X-Ray Flashes To Gamma-Ray Bursts
  • Los Alamos Researcher Says 'Black Holes' Aren't Holes At All

    • DRAGON SPACE
  • Shenzhou-5 May Carry Out First Chinese Manned Mission
  • China To Put Man In Space Within Two Years
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