Nigerian teen to take zero-gravity trip
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Nigerian teen Stella Felix rises at 5 a.m. to do chores and then walks nearly an hour to school. She has to share textbooks with schoolmates because her parents can't afford to buy them and does homework by candlelight.
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Terna Nande thought he would see his mother again in a few days when he and his younger brother got on an airplane in Nigeria for the flight home to the United States.
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After years of capturing the imagination of wide-eyed daredevils, dreamers and would-be entrepreneurs, space travel for ordinary people may finally be taking flight.
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A 6-year-old Palestinian girl may be about to experience at first hand the gulf between care of spinal injuries in the rich world and developing countries.
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Yaser Esam Hamdi is expected to board a US plane within the next several days for Saudi Arabia, ending a nearly three-year confinement for the Louisiana-born college student that
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Mikel John Obi's move to Chelsea is being investigated by police in Norway.The 19-year-old Nigerian midfielder moved to Stamford Bridge from Lyn Oslo despite having already agreed a switch to Manchester United ...Comment
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Keeping an astronaut crew in tip-top shape during lengthy treks to and from distant Mars may demand portable gravity.
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The front-runner in next month's presidential elections in Nigeria has been flown to Germany for medical treatment, his spokesman said Wednesday.
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Stephen Hawking, the British cosmologist, is to take a zero-gravity ride out of Cape Canaveral on a so-called vomit comet, offering him a chance to get away from his wheelchair.
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Since the boy is a juvenile he cannot be put in jail. He is now being held in the Economic Offences Wing in New Delhi. The 17-year-old boy, who was reportedly arrested at the Delhi airport, will be produced in court tomorrow.
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A little green artifact from Nigeria transforms normal nine-year old boy into multilingual, transcontinental cultural ambassador
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By S. SRINIVASAN    BITHOOR, India  -- For 12-year-old Anju Sharma, hope for a better life arrives in her poor farming village three days a week on a bicycle rickshaw that carries a computer with a high-speed, wireless Internet connection...
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A Chinese businessman has paid $200,000 (about 103,000 pounds) to become his country's first space tourist, hoping for lift-off some time by the end of 2008.
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Sir Alex Ferguson bundled Cristiano Ronaldo aboard Manchester Unitedâs charter flight to Turkey with a reminder to the precocious Portuguese teenager that he is still just a kid.
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The name of South Korea's first astronaut &#151; who will fly on a Russian Soyuz capsule to the International Space Station early next year &#151; will be announced Wednesday, an official said.
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By Amanda Ricker, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Jun. 14--An Oklee, Minn., teacher is flying high -- all the way to space camp.
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Science & environment: The countdown is on for the first regular space tourists to rocket into space