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Spectator-friendly minus the spectators

I had two new experiences today. I watched a day of Test match cricket as a spectator at an Indian ground in comforts that, in the context of what an Indian cricket fan has learnt to endure, bordered on the luxurious. And then I also watched Sachin Tendulkar score a Test hundred in front of a crowd so small that, with a bit of perseverance, you could have counted them manually.

Endeavour crewmembers complete spacewalk minus tool bag

WASHINGTON, November 19 (RIA Novosti) - U.S. astronauts completed their first spacewalk during the Endeavour's mission to the International Space Station, leaving a tool bag drifting through space, NASA said on Wednesday.

Oasis star creates iTunes playlist minus Beatles

Noel Gallagher has become the latest celebrity to select an iTunes playlist, which features tracks from some of his favourite artists.

Biological reactions take 2.4 billion years - minus enzymes

Biological reactions that occur in the blink of an eye within cells, thanks to enzymes or catalysts, would take 2.4 billion years otherwise!

Biological reactions take 2.4 billion years - minus enzymes

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'Test cricket is for people who know cricket. Twenty20 is for people who don't'

IT'S T-minus eight hours to lift-off at the Gabba. A nation awaits two garishly attired teams to engage in 20-over combat, all backdropped by enough pyrotechnics to power New Year's Eve and more doof-doof tunes than a Darlinghurst nightclub. A good performance could secure a player a million-dollar Indian payday. And all this beamed live to an international television audience.

Batman steps on Achilles' heel

Today's comic book characters have many parallels with the legendary heroes of ancient myth - minus the 21st-century angst

Japanese team clones mice from bodies frozen 16 years

A team of Japanese researchers said Tuesday it has succeeded in producing healthy cloned mice from bodies frozen at minus 20 C for 16 years.

Virtual Training for Disaster Response

Virtual worlds might be the perfect place to conduct disaster training, with their ability to simulate the physical world minus the dangers. A UK company has created a virtual sandbox similar to Second Life in which companies and government agencies can simulate disastrous situations to test people's responses.

LBP copies start arriving stateside

LittleBigPlanet is (once again) set to officially arrive in North America later this week, when Sony return the game to retail minus soundtrack lyrics the company were worried might offend people, because they were taken (unwittingly) from the Qur'an.

iPhone users love their video games

Apple’s iPhone is a cellphone, Web-surfing gadget and digital media player rolled into one. The iPod Touch is the same, minus the cellphone, but to many people’s surprise, one of the devices’ most popular uses is as a hand-held video game system. Games have become the fastest-growing and most popular type of application for iPhone and iPod Touch owners, outpacing all other categories available on Apple’s App Store. As of last week, 7 of the top 10 selling applications for the devices were games.

PRESS RELEASE Fitch Nigeria's Access Bank At BBB-(nga) (DJ)

Fitch Ratings-London/Johannesburg/Paris-24 November 2008: Fitch Ratings has today downgraded Nigeria-based Access Bank Plc's (Access) National Long-term rating to 'BBB-(BBB minus)(nga)' from 'BBB(nga)'. At the same time, the agency has affirmed the bank's National Short-term rating of 'F3(nga)'.

Extinct Animals May Be Back

Scientists say that they have taken a step closer to recreating extinct animals like the mammoth, after successfully cloning living mice from donor animals that had been frozen. A team of Japanese scientists produced the clones after thawing mice that had been frozen at minus 20C for up to 16 years.

PRESS RELEASEFitchComml Bank Consumer Fin Co Outlook... (DJ)

Fitch Ratings-London/Moscow-02 December 2008: Fitch Ratings has today revised the Outlook on Russia-based Commercial Bank Consumer Finance Company (CFC Bank) to Negative from Stable. At the same time, the agency has affirmed the bank's ratings, including its Long-term Issuer Default rating (IDR) of 'B-'(B minus). A full breakdown of of CFC's ratings follows below.

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