Venus in her element
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LONDON -- It's not quite the Midas touch propelling Venus Williams way beyond the bookmakers' expectations. After all, King Midas, the champion of ancient Phrygia, had trouble running in his solid gold sneakers.
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Early-morning risers this week will be treated to a wonderful display of planetary motion, as Venus and Jupiter cross each other&#39;s path in the eastern sky before dawn.
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Venus Williams doesn't exactly know how her injured left wrist will respond in her return to competitive tennis. She just knows it's time.
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by Harry Bortman    In part 1 of this interview with Astrobiology Magazine editor Henry Bortman, planetary scientist David Grinspoon explained how Venus evolved from a wet planet similar to Earth to the scorching hot, dried-out furnace of today. In part 2, Grinspoon discusses the possibility of life on Venus...
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Sport: Wimbledon: Former US Open champion sets up date with either Venus Williams or Maria Sharapova.
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In her Wimbledon-white hot pants, Venus Williams rose higher and higher the past two weeks, outpacing her pedestrian seeding and midcareer crisis.
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Astronomers have found what they say is the best evidence yet for water, or at least steam, in the atmosphere of a planet around another star.
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U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler's courtroom yesterday experienced the kind of harmonic convergence generally reserved for those occasions when the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Mars.
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An asteroid with a wild orbit is about to zoom by our planet. Plus: Solving the mystery of the Pioneer anomaly could take decades.... A biologist finds a chunk of space shuttle Columbia. By Amit Asaravala.
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Venus Williams underlined her title credentials at the U.S. Open on Sunday after she reached the quarter-finals with an impressive 6-4 6-2 victory over fifth seed Ana Ivanovic.
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Venus Williams of the US returns a shot during a match against Elena Bovina of Russia at the Kremlin Cup tennis tournament in Moscow&#39;s Olympic Indoor stadium on Friday, Oct. 15, 2004.
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Maria Sharapova reaches the Zurich semi-finals with victory over Venus Williams.
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If Benjamin Franklin, one of the original Fourth of July guys, had been around, he would have said to Venus, "There's an electric quality to you, young lady. I'm glad you're showing it off here in London. We want the English to respect us Americans."
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NEW YORK -- Venus Williams climbed five spots to No. 9 in the rankings Monday, meaning she and her sister, No. 7 Serena, are both in the top 10 for the first time in nearly two years _ even though both lost in straight sets at the U.S. Open to eventual champion Justine Henin.
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Venus Williams offers some fashion advice after making a slew of errors in a 6-1, 7-5 victory over Greece's Eleni Daniilidou in the first round of the Australian Open.
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The Stars and Stripes still fluttered in Friday's sunshine but only one American player remained in the French Open singles after Venus Williams fell in the third round to Serbian fourth seed Jelena Jankovic.
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Venus Williams came through a stiff test against Serbian schoolgirl Ana Ivanovic on Thursday to book her place in the Zurich Challenge quarter-finals.