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1. The Space Shuttle Atlantis came home Wednesday from the International Space Station, after installing Columbus - Europe's $2 billion contribution to the ISS. The 23 foot long tube is attached to the station, and holds special experiments, letting scientists research what happens to things in zero gravity. Coming home on Alantis is US astronaut Daniel Tani, who spent four months in space instead of two, after Atlantis' December mission was scrubbed. As Atlantis headed home, the Space Shuttle Endeavour made the slow trip to the launch pad this week. Endeavour is scheduled to liftoff to the space station on March 11th, and will deliver the pressurized section of the Kibo Japanese experiment module to the ISS, the 25th mission to the space station.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/statio
n/structure/elements/jem.html
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/shut
tleoperations/orbiters/atlantis-info.html
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/
main/index.html
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2.  There is much celebration in Kosovo this week, after the nation of two million people declared its independence from Serbia on Sunday. Officials in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, are unhappy about the move, and called Kosovo a fake state. The United Nations will be meeting to talk about the new nation. Kosovo is located in Eastern Europe, just north of Greece. About 3,000 miles to the southeast, in Pakistan, parliamentary elections took place Monday. People were so afraid of Election Day violence that only about 20% of them voted in many areas. Armed police and 80,000 soldiers kept law and order at many polling stations. Results will probably institute a new kind of government, after eight years of military rule under President Pervez Musharraf. The United States has been advising Pakistan on election procedures.
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3. President Bush and the First Lady are on a much anticipated trip to Africa. The President arrived in Tanzania bearing gifts, part of his administration’s initiative to help struggling African countries combat life-threatening diseases like HIV/AIDS and malaria. The President toured a hospital in Tanzania that is in need of ways to ward off disease carrying mosquitos. The goal is to distribute 5.2 million free bed nets in the next six months. President Bush will also travel to Rwanda, Liberia and Ghana.
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4. In the wake of violence in Kenya surrounding the country's disputed presidential election, youth soccer players are trying to rise above ethnic divisions by competing in a tournament involving more than 100 multi-ethnic teams. David McKenzie has more on how a soccer ball -- or football as it's known to most of the world -- is being used as a tool for peace. Matt Meyer has been involved in Kenya since college. He thought of the idea of a soccer tournament while watching events unfold from New York. Ruth Wamutuwa lives in Mathare, one of the worst hit areas of violence. Ruth managed to keep safe, but her teammates suffered. Many were burned out of their homes, forced to move in with friends or in camps, shunned by other tribes. But this is not the case at True Colours Football Club.
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5. Senator Hillary Clinton rallied for votes around Ohio last week, where she positioned herself as the champion of the middle-class. Senator Clinton hopes her base of working-class Democrats will turn out to vote for her in large numbers in the Ohio primary, March 4th. Clinton and her opponent, Senator Barack Obama, are competing for Ohio's 92 Democratic delegates. Senator Obama made a stop at Youngstown State University Monday for a "Keeping America's Promise” rally. Even though the Illinois Senator has been slightly ahead of Senator Clinton in delegates won, Clinton is comfortably ahead in the polls, here in Ohio.
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6. The Cleveland Museum of Natural History has acquired a full-sized replica, or a copy, of a Triceratops, a creature that lived during the late cretaceous period, about sixty eight to sixty five million years ago. This three-horned giant was second in size only to its arch enemy, Tyrannosaurus rex. The replica was created by the Canadian museum-exhibit fabricators "Research Casting International," from a copy of a Triceratops on exhibit in New York City. There is no known complete skeleton of a Triceratops. The original New York skeleton is a composite, which means it is made up of bones from several different dinosaurs.
http://www.cmnh.org/site/AtTheMuseum_O
nExhibit_Tri.aspx
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7. We chose the school to visit in our NewsDepth Contest by looking at every entry from all across Ohio, again and again. Several entries were outstanding. The school that we decided to visit was Huntington Elementary School in Brunswick. “Reaching out” is something they do pretty well at Huntington. It wasn't just one or even two projects that made fourth and fifth graders here stand out. It was a series of efforts they've made - lead by the members of a club they've named "Project Support.” Maddie Braun, Hannah Elerick, Savanah Manochi and Megan Zajkowski describe two service projects that the thirty members of the service club for fifth graders took part in during the fall. They collected food and $665 for the “Turkey Trot” at Brunswick High School, and filled the principal’s office with 1400 pounds of food for “Can the Principal.”
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8. Huntington School was just one of many schools that impressed us - it seemed here, everyone pitched in to make something special happen.  The next school we visited was where one person made a huge difference. We also visited Northwood Elementary School, in North Canton. The person who we went there to meet is fifth grader Liana Westerman. Matthew Westerman nominated his sister for the NewsDepth story. Adopted from a Chinese orphanage as a baby, Liana chose to use her musical talents as a pianist to raise money for the orphanage she came from, as well as the orphanage her brother was adopted from in Korea, and an orphanage in Peru. Her piano concert last year raised nearly $3000.
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9.  A James Bond fan, the CEO of Rinspeed in Switzerland helped design the sQuba car.  Equipped with air tanks, it can go into water as deep as thirty feet and as it's a convertible, one can really get a feel for the elements.  Don't count your allowance yet - this model is the only one made so far. The sQuba is expected to make a splash at the Geneva auto show next month.
http://www.rinspeed.com/pages/cars/squba/pre-squba.htm
http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/14/geneva
-08-preview-rinspeed-squba-concept-for-the-spy-who-lov/
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