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This YA Writer Signed Your Favorite Bands — And Now She Wrote Your Favorite Book

Amy Fleisher Madden talks her debut YA novel, “A Million Miles” — inspired by her years as a teen label owner.

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This YA Writer Signed Your Favorite Bands — And Now She Wrote Your Favorite Book

NASA Space Shuttle lands safely in Florida – video, path

After a 15-day mission and 238 orbits of Earth, NASA’s space shuttle Discovery has successfully landed in Florida’s Kennedy Space Center last April 20, 2010 at exactly 9:08:35am. The shuttle landed on time during the second scheduled opportunity landing in Kennedy Space Center which was 9:08am with deorbit time of 8:02am. The following astronauts were onboard Discovery: Commander Alan Poindexter Pilot James P. Dutton Jr. Mission Specialists: Rick Mastracchio Stephanie Wilson Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger Naoko Yamazaki Clayton Anderson. Discovery traveled more than 6 million miles on the mission alone. Photo credits: NASA NASA Space Shuttle lands safely in Florida – video, path is a post from: Daily World Buzz Continue reading

Researchers now able to stop, restart light

Two years ago we slowed it down to 38 miles an hour; now we've been able to park it then bring it back up to full speed.” Lene Hau isn't talking about a used motorbike, but about light – that ethereal, life-sustaining stuff that normally travels 93 million miles from the sun in about eight minutes. added by: kurthsb27 2 responses

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Researchers now able to stop, restart light