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1. News: NASA, Google Aim for Virtual Space Travel on Web

2. News: Spacewalkers Set Out to Free Station's Jammed Wing

3. News: National Health Network Should Be Set Up For Research

4. News: Broadcom Says SEC Launches Formal Probe

5. News: Verizon in China Optical Cable Deal

6. News: FCC Aims to Help Telcos Offer TV Service Faster

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1. News: NASA, Google Aim for Virtual Space Travel on Web

Web surfers may soon be able to explore the canyons of Mars

and experience a virtual flight over the surface of the moon thanks

to a deal announced between Web search company Google and

the NASA Ames Research Center.

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2. News: Spacewalkers Set Out to Free Station's Jammed Wing

Space shuttle astronauts left their ship for a fourth spacewalk in

a last-ditch effort to free a jammed solar wing panel on the International

Space Station and complete every job NASA wanted for its final flight of the year.

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3. News: National Health Network Should Be Set Up For Research

A Washington-based nonprofit think tank and advocacy group says

the Nationwide Health Information Network should be set up to

conduct clinical research.

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4. News: Broadcom Says SEC Launches Formal Probe

Federal securities regulators launch an investigation of wireless

chip maker Broadcom's stock option practices.

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5. News: Verizon in China Optical Cable Deal

Verizon Business has signed a $500 million deal with a consortium

that includes China Telecom and China Netcom to build an

undersea optical cable system directly linking the U.S. mainland and China.

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6. News: FCC Aims to Help Telcos Offer TV Service Faster

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission this week

hopes to do what Congress could not accomplish this

year-help AT&T and Verizon Communications get into

the television business faster.

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