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Commentary: 'It's Time to Soar Again' - Space.com  I believe we must look farther ahead and deeper into the cosmos. We’ve trolled the shallows of low-Earth orbit long enough, and I agree with President Bush that the time has come to set sail once again on the seas of space. I had the incredible fortune of making two trips to the Moon during the Apollo Program. But I think all of us who shared that privilege realized that what we were doing was just the beginning.

Prominent Business Leaders, Scientists on Bush's Mars-Moon Commission - Space.com  President George W. Bush announced Friday the business leaders, scientists and other spaceflight experts who will advise him on how to carry out the specifics of his new vision for putting humans back on the Moon and eventually on Mars. Carleton S. "Carly" Fiorina, the CEO of Hewlett-Packard, will serve on the nine-member commission.

New ozone threat: Whistle blown on Pakistan's illegal trade in CFCs  - BBC  The border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, already a key route for the heroin trade, is being used for a new type of smuggling - chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). Production is still allowed for "basic needs production" for developing countries to use in air conditioning equipment and refrigeration equipment. But now, a black market for Europe-produced CFCs has sprung up in some Asian countries. Salem Mutuwala, director of Karachi-based Symphony Limited told BBC World Service's One Planet that "at least 20 to 25" Pakistani businesses were trading in CFCs smuggled in as part of the heroin trade.

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Biosciences:
2/8/2004: Sweet Memories  - NY Times
2/8/2004: Scientists Discover Where Snakes Lived When They Evolved Into Limbless Creatures - Science Daily
2/8/2004: Microbial Biofilm Yields Community Genomes, Metabolic Clues - Science Daily
2/8/2004: Scientists Report First Sequencing Of Environmental Genome - Science Daily

Climate, Environment:
2/8/2004: New ozone threat: Whistle blown on Pakistan's illegal trade in CFCs  - BBC
2/8/2004: Study Notes Extinction of Shark Species  - NY Times
2/8/2004: Indon, Foreign Students Study Artificial Coral Reef In Bali... - FirstScience
2/8/2004: Dolphin patrol: Greenpeace goes to war with fishermen... - FirstScience
2/8/2004: Environmentalists urge action on ship ballast water... - FirstScience
2/8/2004: EPA moves to decontaminate Senate building of poison... - FirstScience
2/8/2004: Environment Minister says climate change bigger than fighting terrorism... - FirstScience
2/8/2004: AK Steel's pollution control commitment could help in dispute with regulators... - FirstScience
2/8/2004: Report Calls Recycling Costlier Than Dumping - FirstScience
2/8/2004: Integrated Animal Model Answers Questions About Environment - Science Daily
2/8/2004: Clouds Shield Pollutants Going Out To Sea - Science Daily

Computers:
Devices

Communications

Technology
2/8/2004: New Cryogenic Refrigerator Dips Chips Into A Deep Freeze - Science Daily

PC's
2/8/2004: Stripping Adware/Spyware from PC Can Be Tricky - Google

Internet

Miscellaneous

Energy:

Health:
Cardiovascular
2/8/2004: Moderate-fat Diet Is Kinder To Heart Than Low-fat Diet, Study Shows - Science Daily

Cancer  
2/8/2004: New Cancer Test Stirs Hope and Concern  - NY Times
2/8/2004: Hormone Use After Cancer Can Be Risky, Study Says - FirstScience
2/8/2004: Research Indicates Why Radiation Therapy Reduces Bone Cancer Pain - Science Daily
2/8/2004: New Mode Of Action Discovered For Tamoxifen - Science Daily
2/8/2004: Researchers Discover That A Virus Can Naturally Target And Kill Tumors - Science Daily

Infectious
2/8/2004: Man Who Killed the Mad Cow Has Questions of His Own  - NY Times
2/8/2004: The Doctor's World: As Bird Flu Spreads, Global Health Weaknesses Are Exposed  - NY Times
2/8/2004: Finding May Help Eczema Sufferers Tolerate Smallpox Vaccine - Science Daily
2/8/2004: Pacifying Bacteria Prevents Lethal Post-op Infections - Science Daily
2/8/2004: 'Kissing' RNA And HIV-1: Unraveling The Details - Science Daily
2/8/2004: Lock To Food-borne Pathogen Pathway May Be Key To Vaccine - Science Daily
2/8/2004: Avian Flu: Shut Down Wild Bird Markets, Experts Say - Science Daily

Non-Infectious
2/8/2004: Regimen Benefits Children With Cerebral Palsy - FirstScience
2/8/2004: Experimental Treatment Yields New Hope For Children Battling Cerebral Palsy - Science Daily

Miscellaneous
2/8/2004: Benefit of Bed Rest Is Largely a Wives' Tale  - NY Times
2/8/2004: Sensations: The Science of Itch and Scratch  - NY Times
2/8/2004: 'Healthy Self-Delusion' Joins Regimen to Fight M.S. - FirstScience

History, Anthropology:
2/8/2004: When Giants Had Wings and 6 Legs  - NY Times
2/8/2004: Living Large  - NY Times
2/8/2004: Breathing Deeper  - NY Times
2/8/2004: Chagas Disease Found in Ancient Mummies  - NY Times

Miscellaneous:
2/8/2004: Ricin Poses Postal Risk, but Different From Germs  - NY Times
2/8/2004: National Briefing: Science and Health  - NY Times
2/8/2004: Scientist pleads for forgiveness over nuclear leaks... - Ananova
2/8/2004: Khan nails Pervez for N-leaks... - FirstScience
2/8/2004: Want A Side Of Algae With That? Hawaiian Farmers Sell Seaweed By The Seashore - Science Daily
2/8/2004: 'Turbulator' Technology Reduces Drag, Improve Swimmers' Time - Science Daily

Neurosciences:
2/8/2004: Monkey Talk, Human Speech Share Left-Brain Processing - Science Daily
2/8/2004: Optic Nerve Disease May Cause Sleep Disorders - Science Daily
2/8/2004: Sex In The Brain: How Do Male Monkeys Evaluate Mates? - Science Daily

Physics and Astronomy:
2/8/2004: Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics Comes of Age... - PhysicsWeb
2/8/2004: CERN Experiment Finds Evidence for More Pentaquark States... - PhysicsWeb
2/8/2004: Supernova blast bonanza in nearby galaxy... - FirstScience
2/8/2004: Chemists Report New Superheavy Elements...American
2/8/2004: Big Chill Pairs Up Antisocial Particles - FirstScience
2/8/2004: Oxygen And Carbon Found In Atmosphere Of An Extrasolar Planet - Science Daily
2/8/2004: Dazzling New Light Source Opens At Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory - Science Daily
2/8/2004: MIT's Nanoruler Could Impact Space Physics, More - Science Daily

Prolongevity

Robotics:

Space:
2/8/2004: Commentary: 'It's Time to Soar Again' - Space.com
2/8/2004: Prominent Business Leaders, Scientists on Bush's Mars-Moon Commission - Space.com
2/8/2004: From Glory to Sideshow: The Space Station's Story  - NY Times
2/8/2004: There's No Changing Course  - NY Times
2/8/2004: Intriguing Intricacies From the Rocks of Mars  - NY Times
2/8/2004: Our Far-Flung Correspondents  - NY Times
2/8/2004: Adventure or Inquiry: Two Visions of Cosmic Destiny  - NY Times
2/8/2004: Forum- Human Exploration vs. Robotic Scientific Inquiry  - NY Times
2/8/2004: NASA Rover Takes Close Look at Mars Soil  - NY Times
2/8/2004: Radiation on Mars  - NY Times
2/8/2004: Face the Facts About Mars... - FirstScience
2/8/2004: Europeans set sights on Mars... - FirstScience
2/8/2004: Both Mars rovers reach out to touch soil... - FirstScience
2/8/2004: Gugulethu learner selected for Mars programme... - FirstScience
2/8/2004: 2005 budget to fuel NASA's new exploration plan... - FirstScience

Technology:
2/8/2004: Stirring Research Provides Recipe For Nanotube Success - Science Daily