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Rice looking forward to her meetings with Indian leaders

Condoleezza RiceWashington, Oct. 3 : U. S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said that she is looking forward to her meetings with the Indian leadership during her visit to New Delhi.

Though her schedule is yet to be confirmed, Rice told media and officials at a State Department reception here that ties between India and the United States were on a firm footing, and added that the bilateral civil nuclear cooperation deal should be seen as a part of Washington’s "enduring" friendship with New Delhi.

New robotic tracking system to be used to help repair orbiting satellites

orbiting satellitesWashington, Oct 3 : Researchers at Queen’s University, Canada, are developing a new robotic tracking system that will be used to enable repairs of orbiting satellites.

This system will service more than 8,000 satellites now orbiting the Earth, beyond the flight range of ground-based repair operations.

Currently, when the high-flying celestial objects malfunction – or simply run out of fuel – they become “space junk” cluttering the cosmos.

Sarah Palin look-alike paid $3000 for porn film shoot

Sarah PalinNew York, October 3 : American publisher Larry Flynt has shot an adult movie with a porn star who resembles U. S. Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

His spokesman David Carrillo confirmed the production of the flick by Flynt’s Hustler Video, but refused to reveal the film’s title, reports the New York Daily News.

Flynt''s producers had posted an ad on Craigslist in Los Angeles just days after the Republican convention.

"Looking for a Sarah Palin look-alike for an adult film to be shot in the next 10 days," the ad said.

Why Stradivari violins sound better than modern ones

Washington, October 3 : Researchers at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, have identified a measurable sound quality that distinguishes the superior quality violins made by eighteenth-century Italian instrument-makers Stradivari and Guarneri del Gesu from cheap, factory-made instruments.

Research leader George Bissinger spent ten years painstakingly measuring the acoustics of violins rated from "bad" to "excellent" by professional musicians, and observed that the ''excellent'' old Italian violins in his sample showed a significantly stronger acoustic response in the lower octaves than did the ''bad'' violins.

The instruments rated merely “good” had intermediate values, the researcher said.

Sarah Palin’s ‘lipstick on a pig’ costumes a Halloween sell out

Sarah Palin’s Speech Shakes DemocratsNew York, Oct 3 : Sarah Palin has become such a huge name that costume stores are getting deluged with requests for Halloween masks of the Republican vice presidential nominee.

However, owners of costume stores say that they are facing a problem in fulfilling the customer’s demand, because of Plain’s relatively late announcement as a vice-presidential candidate.

"The Sarah Palin is going to be huge," the New York Daily News quoted James Gleason, 26, a manager at Halloween Adventures downtown, as saying.

US V-P poll rivals Sarah Palin, Joe Biden agree N-armed Pak pose threat to world

St. Louis, Oct 3 : US V-P poll rivals Sarah Palin, Joe Biden agree N-armed Pak pose threat to worldIn their first public debate yesterday, Republican and Democratic vice-presidential candidates Sarah Palin and Joe Bide, respectively, had one point in common, that Pakistan and Iran posed a threat to the world community and that Iran will be more dangerous if it acquired nuclear arms.

They said that Pakistan’s nuclear weapons were not placed in safe hands.

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