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...Indeed, as a new space race heats up - with China and India joining the U.S., Europe and Russia in the quest to be the first to build a moon base or put a man on Mars - Russia's government has done more than just revamp its space museum. In 2007, it founded Rosnanotekh, the Russian Nanotechnology Corporation; last year, the government announced tentative plans to abandon its current space base in Kazakhstan and build a new one in the Russian far east; and in March, it launched an effort to design a new moon rocket. (See pictures of animals...
...with a revamped museum, a new rocket program and possibly a new space base, it's Russia that's trying to catch...
...unacceptable to base this bill on politics, instead of good science," said Greenpeace's Damon Moglen...
...Obama, of course, is far from the first Presidential candidate to be pulled from his political base once he has been elected and become responsible to the country - and not merely to those who fought hardest to get him into the White House. But he is doing so at a time when his party's anger about the prior Administration is at a fever pitch. Even as Obama is ordering 21,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, spending more money there than in Iraq, and approving the firing of the current U.S. commander, liberal Democrats are talking of giving...
...flap - and continuing controversy over the use of waterboarding and other extreme interrogation techniques - has shown, treatment of detainees remains a flashpoint. Some Democrats and human-rights activists are upset over the Obama Administration's decision to endorse the Bush Administration's view that prisoners at Afghanistan's Bagram base have no right to challenge their detention in U.S. courts. In a prison closer to home, the Administration is fitfully grappling with Obama's pledge to close the Guantanamo prison next January, perhaps by holding some suspected terrorists indefinitely on U.S. soil. House Democrats are so upset with the fuzzy...