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	<title>Science Opinions</title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 08:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Federal authorities declares salmon fishery a catastrophe</title>
		<link>http://www.scienceopinions.com/2008/05/07/federal-authorities-declares-salmon-fishery-a-catastrophe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 08:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
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Federal authorities have declared the West Coast ocean salmon fishery a failure, opening the way for Congress to appropriate economic disaster assistance for coastal communities in California, Oregon and Washington.
The declaration Thursday stems from the sudden collapse of the chinook salmon run in California&#8217;s Sacramento River, where the salmon return to spawn. Scientists are studying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Korea starts imports of biotech cereal grain</title>
		<link>http://www.scienceopinions.com/2008/05/05/south-korea-starts-imports-of-biotech-cereal-grain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.scienceopinions.com/2008/05/05/south-korea-starts-imports-of-biotech-cereal-grain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 10:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Major South Korean corn processors have begun importing genetically modified varieties of the crop because of shortages of conventional corn on the world market since China began limiting its exports, officials said Friday.
About 63,000 tons of genetically modified U.S. corn arrived in South Korea on Thursday, the first large-scale imports [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Endeavour With Astronauts Leave ISS</title>
		<link>http://www.scienceopinions.com/2008/03/25/endeavour-with-astronauts-leave-iss/</link>
		<comments>http://www.scienceopinions.com/2008/03/25/endeavour-with-astronauts-leave-iss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Space]]></category>

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After a week and a half of complex orbital construction work, Endeavour&#8217;s seven astronauts undocked from the international space station and began their journey home.
The space shuttle is scheduled to land on Wednesday at the Kennedy Space Center, ending a record-setting mission to the orbiting outpost. Endeavour&#8217;s astronauts will spend Tuesday preparing their ship for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Astronauts End 5th Spacewalk</title>
		<link>http://www.scienceopinions.com/2008/03/23/astronauts-end-5th-spacewalk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.scienceopinions.com/2008/03/23/astronauts-end-5th-spacewalk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
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As for the jammed rotating solar joint, it&#8217;s filled with metal shavings because of grinding parts.
NASA has been trying since last fall to figure out what is broken and how best to fix the joint. Spacewalking astronauts inspected the joint several times before and even collected samples of the steel grit for analysis back on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cassini To Advance End Saturn Secondary Planet Plumes</title>
		<link>http://www.scienceopinions.com/2008/03/21/cassini-to-advance-end-saturn-secondary-planet-plumes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.scienceopinions.com/2008/03/21/cassini-to-advance-end-saturn-secondary-planet-plumes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Three years after gigantic geysers were spied on an icy Saturn moon, the international Cassini spacecraft is poised to plunge through the fringes of the mysterious plumes to learn how they formed.
Wednesday&#8217;s flyby will bring Cassini within 30 miles of the surface of Enceladus (en-SELL&#8217;-uh-duhs) at closest approach. The unmanned probe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Space Station Robot Is Fully Assembled</title>
		<link>http://www.scienceopinions.com/2008/03/19/space-station-robot-is-fully-assembled/</link>
		<comments>http://www.scienceopinions.com/2008/03/19/space-station-robot-is-fully-assembled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
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HOUSTON (AP) - Now that the space station&#8217;s new robot is fully assembled, astronauts prepared to attach the giant machine directly to the orbiting outpost for the first time on Tuesday.
Astronauts Richard Linnehan and Robert Behnken went on a spacewalk Monday to add a tool belt and two cameras that will serve as the robot&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dolphin Guiding Whales Track</title>
		<link>http://www.scienceopinions.com/2008/03/17/dolphin-guiding-whales-track/</link>
		<comments>http://www.scienceopinions.com/2008/03/17/dolphin-guiding-whales-track/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ocean]]></category>

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - Most days, Moko the bottlenosed dolphin swims playfully with humans at a New Zealand beach. But this week, it seems, Moko found his mojo. Witnesses described Wednesday how they saw the 053; APGROUP:Oceania;) )
via AOL
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Most days, Moko the bottlenosed dolphin swims playfully with humans at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Astronauts Added Hands To A ISS</title>
		<link>http://www.scienceopinions.com/2008/03/16/astronauts-added-hands-to-a-iss/</link>
		<comments>http://www.scienceopinions.com/2008/03/16/astronauts-added-hands-to-a-iss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
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Spacewalking astronauts added hands to a robot outside the international space station early Friday as experts on the ground prepared to beam up a software patch they hoped would fix a problem getting power to the giant machine.
The Canadian robot, named Dextre, needs to have power to heat its joints, limbs and electronics. The $200 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vietnam Going To Throw To Orbit First Satellite</title>
		<link>http://www.scienceopinions.com/2008/03/13/vietnam-going-to-throw-to-orbit-first-satellite/</link>
		<comments>http://www.scienceopinions.com/2008/03/13/vietnam-going-to-throw-to-orbit-first-satellite/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>

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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Vietnam is preparing to launch its first satellite, hoping to improve the country&#8217;s telecommunications to keep pace with its rapid economic development, officials said Wednesday.
Vinasat No. 1 is scheduled to be launched April 12 from Kourou spaceport in South America, and will be ready for use in May, Nguyen Ba Thuoc, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Astronauts Will Assemble Robot in Space</title>
		<link>http://www.scienceopinions.com/2008/03/11/astronauts-will-assemble-robot-in-space/</link>
		<comments>http://www.scienceopinions.com/2008/03/11/astronauts-will-assemble-robot-in-space/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Astronauts bound for orbit this week will dabble in science fiction, assembling a &#8220;monstrous&#8221; two-armed space station robot that will rise like Frankenstein from its transport bed.
Putting together Dextre, the robot, will be one of the main jobs for the seven Endeavour astronauts, who are scheduled to blast off in [...]]]></description>
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