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20 Nov 2009
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Top Story: Solar Sailing
By Dauna Coulter, Science@NASA
The world's space agencies are planning to explore space with the technology of sailing ships   Long ago, someone stood alone on a sandy shore and gazed longingly out at the seemingly endless expanse of ocean, over a horizon...
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The Challenger Admission
The Challenger Admission
Space shuttle design flaws have had disastrous consequences for the American space...
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No Labor-Saving Machine
By Walt Whitman
No labor-saving machine,Nor discovery have I made;Nor will I be able to leave behind me any wealthy bequest to found...
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The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle is 166.94 mph by Fred Rompelburg.
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Editor's Weekly
Editor's Weekly
Bicycles - part of the urban transport solution?
Back when I was growing up - sometime after the invention of the wheel - I rode a bicycle...
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