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Fast Forward Gabby Giffords Astronaut Hubby Mark Kelly and Twin To Be NASA Guinea Pigs
NASA’s only identical twin astronauts are planning to serve as guinea pigs for studies investigating the genetic impacts of long-duration spaceflight. Astronaut Mark Kelly, who commanded four space shuttle missions including the final flight of Endeavour, is set to be a test subject on Earth while his twin undergoes studies in orbit. Kelly left NASA…
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Fast Forward Israeli Drone Attack Kills 4 Sinai Militants
An Islamist militant group said on Saturday four of its members were killed in an Israeli drone strike in Egypt’s North Sinai region. “Our heroes became martyrs during their jihadi duties against the Jews in a rocket attack on occupied lands,” the Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis group said on a jihadist website. Egyptian security sources said…
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Fast Forward Scott Stringer Comes Out Swinging Against Eliot Spitzer
Eliot Spitzer’s rival in the Democratic race for New York City comptroller repeatedly raised the prostitution scandal that forced Spitzer to resign as New York’s governor during Friday’s televised debate, despite having vowed to avoid it. “There’s two tiers of justice in this city,” said Scott Stringer, the Manhattan Borough president who is running against…
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Fast Forward Bernie Madoff in ‘Love Triangle’ With Employee, Feds Say in Court Papers
Bernard Madoff was in a “love triangle” involving one of five former employees who are about to go on trial for helping him run his multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, prosecutors said. Madoff pleaded guilty in March 2009 to running a fraud of up to $65 billion at his investment firm and is serving a 150-year prison…
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The Schmooze Amanda Bynes’ Psych Hold Is Extended
LOS ANGELES – A California judge gave Amanda Bynes’ mother legal control of the troubled actress’s affairs on Friday, according to court documents. Ventura County Superior Court Judge Glen Reiser granted a temporary conservatorship motion brought by Bynes’ parents, the documents said. They filed the request after the 27-year-old actress allegedly started a small fire…
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Fast Forward Jewish Girls Attacked With Acid on African Island of Zanzibar
Men riding a motorbike threw acid at two Jewish British teenage girls in Tanzania’s semi-autonomous Zanzibar region, leaving them with facial, chest and back injuries, a senior police official said. Kirstie Trup and Katie Gee, both 18 and from northwest London, were flown to Tanzania’s commercial capital Dar es Salaam for treatment. The girls’ parents…
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Fast Forward Israel Pleads With Europe for Rethink on Settlements
Israel appealed to the European Union on Friday to rethink planned sanctions against its organisations in the occupied territories and called for talks, a shift in tone from previous Israeli anger and retaliatory measures. Under guidelines adopted by the executive European Commission in June, Israeli “entities” operating in the West Bank and East Jerusalem will…
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Fast Forward Daniel Kahneman and Gloria Steinem Win Presidential Medals of Freedom
Feminist Gloria Steinem and Princeton psychologist Daniel Kahneman were among some of the most famous figures in American sports, politics and music were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Thursday by President Barack Obama. The award is the highest U.S. civilian honor and to mark the 50th anniversary of the medal, Obama chose to…
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