By Carol Pearson Washington 30 April 2008 Ten years ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved LASIK, eye surgery with a laser that enables people to see without glasses. But about five percent of LASIK procedures fail, and those patients ca

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You could use the balloons not just to go to the edge of the space as we do now,but go all the way over the line, and actually to use balloons or airships to go all the way into space,space travel without rocket.Officially, the atmosphere ends and sp

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The United States Navy has demonstrated a new laser weapon operating in the Persian Gulf. The Laser Weapons System, or LaWS, is deployed on the USS Ponce transport ship. A live test firing of the weapon was recently carried out for Cable News Network

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This is Valentines Day and this morning, we have a few words about love and money. According to research from a major credit card company, the average man spends about $130 on his sweetheart. Women, spend about half that. For people who want to spend

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Last month, Washington, D.C., opened a new kind of trade school of which it is immensely proud. This is not one of the old-fashioned vocational schools that taught literal nuts-and-bolts repair work or hands-on career training in fields like auto re

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By Paul Sisco Washington 14 November 2007 At the McDonald Observatory in western Texas, a unique space program has been quietly underway for more than 30 years. It is called the Lunar Laser Ranging Program. VOA's Paul Sisco has more. Research scienti

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