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Dale Earnhardt, 2001 News
NASCAR champion, was killed in the final lap at February's Daytona 500 when his car crashed into a wall. Earnhardt was an icon on the race-car circuit, and was as adept at marketing himself…Gray goo
The Question: What is gray goo? The Answer: "Gray goo" is a term used to describe what might happen if teeny-tiny robots were created with the ability-and imperative-to use the substances…A Group of Rhinos
The Question: What is a group of rhinoceroses called? The Answer: We get questions like this a lot. We answer most of them by sending people to…Scott Waddle, 2001 News
commander of the USS Greeneville, the submarine that crashed into a Japanese fishing vessel as it emerged in waters off Hawaii, took sole responsibility for the fatal February exercise that…EU Blacklist of Unsafe Airlines
“Flying Coffins” are banned from landing in Europe In 2006, the European Union banned 92 airlines, the vast majority of them from Africa. Declared unsafe according to…Cassini-Huygens
The Cassini-Huygens mission, launched in 1997 as a joint endeavor of NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian space agency, went into orbit around Saturn on June 30, 2004, and…July 2000 News and Events
WorldMexico Elects Reform President (July 1): Leader of center-right party, Vicente Fox Quesada, soundly defeats governing party's candidate, Francisco Labastida Ochoa. Election ends 71 years…August 2000 News and Events
WorldQueen Mother Turns 100 (Aug. 4): Elizabeth celebrates with three generations of royal family. UN Peacekeepers Reach Lebanon (Aug. 5): Troops fan out along border with Israel after weeks…Comets
The SWAN comet, taken in 2006. Photo: NASA Comets, according to the noted astronomer Fred L. Whipple (1906–2004), are enormous “snowballs” of frozen gases (mostly carbon dioxide, methane, and…Meego
CBSFriday 8:30–9:00 p.m.; canceledCast: Bronson Pinchot, Jonathan Lipnicki, Michelle Trachtenberg, Eric Von Detten and Ed Begley, Jr. Three siblings (Lipnicki, Trachtenberg and Von Detten)…Trending
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