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  • Private firms may travel to lunar surface NASA report

    A study of future human missions has indicated corporate researchers could be living on the moon by the time NASA astronauts head off to visit an asteroid in the 2020s. The study by Bigelow Aerospace, commissioned by NASA, shows "a lot of excitement and interest from various companies" for such ventures, Daily Mail quoted Robert Bigelow, founder and president of the Las Vegas-based firm, as ...

  • Japan PMs residence not haunted Government

    The Japanese government has denied rumours which said the prime minister's official residence was haunted. The denial came after a query by an opposition lawmaker, who wanted to know if Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had not yet moved into his official residence, five months after coming to power, because of rumours that the building was haunted by the ghosts of young military officers who died ...

  • Heart healthy lifestyle may help protect kidney patients from dying prematurely

    A new study has found that maintaining a heart healthy lifestyle may also help protect chronic kidney disease patients from developing kidney failure and early death. The findings suggest that patients with kidney disease should be encouraged to improve their heart health. Paul Muntner, PhD (University of Alabama at Birmingham) and his colleagues used the American Heart Association's recently ...

  • Russia to build new parliament compound

    A new Russian parliamentary centre will be built in central Moscow, that will house both the upper and lower houses as well as their administrative and support services, an official said. The idea of building such a parliamentary compound has been considered for a while. The upper and lower houses, their administrative and support services are currently scattered around Moscow at over 10 ...

  • Woman 47 Faces Domestic Violence Rap For Clobbering Guy In Head With Garden Gnome

    A Florida woman is facing a domestic battery charge after allegedly smashing a male acquaintance in the head with a garden gnome, police report. Lisa Buckley, 47, began yelling at the victim upon returning to her Gulfport residence Sunday afternoon. As the dispute escalated, Buckley "threw items all around the ...


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The Man Who Fell to Earth [DVD]

The Man Who Fell to Earth [DVD]

Nicolas Roeg, one of the great mad poets to emerge from British cinema, began his career as a cinematographer, and it shows in his films, which are unusually alive and charged with friction, danger, eroticism, and lyrical moments of such beauty that they seem almost fluid. He ... ...

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  • Lifestyle Kisumu youth dancers have a dream to fly high

    Arts (Yawa) dancers, the script is different. They have tight schedule to achieve their dreams. At this hour, the dancers are making their way into the Goan Hall, located at Milimani Estate. Within no minute, their gigantic choreographed moves make the audience to remain glued to their performance and even desire to have more. Yawa is a group that was founded four years ago, and has so far moved ...

  • Lifestyle Ngugi and the evils of colonialism

    Ngugi wa Thiong'o 's second installment of his memoirs, In the House of the Interpreter. A sequel to Dreams in a Time of War, this new book is about Ngugi's life as a student at Alliance High School between 1955 and 1958. While the allegory likening the prestigious high school to the Interpreter's house in Bunyan's work is used ...

  • Lifestyle A womans place is wherever she wants to be

    Throughout my education, every time I spoke with a guidance counsellor, I couldn't express the desire to accomplish certain goals or enter certain fields without being asked how or when I was going to fit marriage and children into the picture. I was steered into less demanding career paths because it was not only assumed that I wanted children, but that if I had them, I would need to put ...

  • Escondido scuplture garden closed over safety concerns

    ESCONDIDO -; Escondido officials have closed the Queen Califia's Magical Circle sculpture garden in Kit Carson Park because damaged tiles have created safety ...

  • Former Employee of Assisted Living Center Sentenced to 37 Months in Prison for Fraud

    OKLAHOMA CITY-Yesterday, James Lester Hausam, Jr., 29, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was sentenced to serve 37 months in prison in connection with a scheme to steal money from a resident at a metro retirement home, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. In 2010, Hausam worked at an assisted-living center in Bethany, Oklahoma. There, he became ...

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