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China’s maiden spacewalk to be broadcast live

Friday, September 26th, 2008
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BEIJING, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) — China will broadcast live the nation’s maiden spacewalk slated for 04:30 p.m. Saturday, according to Wang Zhaoyao, spokesperson with the manned space program.

The spacewalk, or extra-vehicular activity (EVA), will last about 30 minutes, he said at a press conference here Friday.

Excluding the opening and the closing of the module gate, the real spacewalk may take about 20 minutes, he said.

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Son finds hope for dying father on Internet

Friday, February 8th, 2008
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Son finds hope for dying father on Internet

The Internet is making connections possible that didn’t happen before. Now Stanford is marketing its clinical trials directly with its own all-inclusive Web site, med.stanford.edu/clinicaltrials.

Pacific Institute- Pacific Studies

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
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This is the scholarly journal from BYUH.  (Brigham Young University Hawaii) and is actually quite good in some respects.  Try check it out.

Pacific Institute- Pacific Studies

Pacific Studies is a quarterly journal produced by the Pacific Institute. It is a multi-disciplinary publication devoted to the study of the peoples of the Pacific Islands. It covers special topics in Pacific Anthropology, Archaeology, Art History, Ethnomusicology, Folklore, Geography, History, Sociolinguistics, Political Science, Sociology, and Literary Studies.