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Stimulus, not transactions tax needed: Geithner

ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Saturday stressed the necessity of keeping global economic stimulus in place until recovery is assured and opposed the utility of a tax on financial transactions as a way to dampen risky bank behavior.

Seattle Team Wins $900,000 in Space Elevator Contest (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - A Seattle-based team has won $900,000 in this year's Space Elevator Games, a NASA-sponsored contest to build machines powered by laser beams that can climb a cable in the sky.

EBay settles lawsuit filed by Skype founders (AP)

AP - EBay Inc. has settled a legal skirmish with the founders of Skype that threatened to complicate eBay's plans to sell most of the Internet phone service to a group of investors for $2 billion.

Symphony dedicated to Khodorkovsky opens in Moscow (AP)

AP - A symphony dedicated to Mikhail Khodorkovsky has premiered in Moscow in a rare show of support for the jailed tycoon in his native Russia.

A Room and a Half -- Film Review

Audrey Khrzhanovsky makes a smooth feature debut with "A Room and a Half," a free-form look at the life of exiled Russian poet and Nobel Laureate Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996).

eBay's Skype sale gets go-ahead with settlement

New deal brings in Skype founders Niklas ZennstrÃ¶m and Janus Friis as investors in a roughly $2 billion sale of the Internet telephony pioneer.

Hu says China seeks peaceful use of airspace

BEIJING (Reuters) - China supports the peaceful exploration and use of space, President Hu Jintao said on Friday, days after its top air force officials sparked concerns with talk of a "Great Wall of steel in the blue sky."

Space Elevator Contest Heats Up (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - Pull me up, Scotty. At least one team has qualified for part of a $2 million prize up for grabs in this year's Space Elevator Games, a NASA-sponsored contest to build machines that can climb a cable in the sky ? precursors for a futuristic transit system to space.

Suspect in Fort Hood shootings alive, in custody

• Twelve people killed and 31 wounded • Injured suspect identified as Nidal Malik Hasan • He is a psychiatrist, worked at Walter Reed • Military earlier said suspect died

Capturing Carbon Dioxide

That's the sound of clean coal. Well, cleaner coal. A relatively small unit attached to the smokestack at the Mountaineer Power Plant in West Virginia is capturing some 1.5 percent of the carbon dioxide the coal-fired plant would otherwise belch into the sky.   The loud thrum comes from the whirring of fans that cool the flue gas and the jostling of an agitator that keeps things moving in the tower where the reaction to actually capture the CO2 takes place. There’s also the chug of the compressor, which turns the odorless, colorless greenhouse gas into a milky liquid at 1,400 pounds-per-square inch (or psi).  

FanHouse: NBA TV analyst sorry for Yi racial slur

Arizona couple arrested for stealing scores of luggage

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Police have solved the mystery of where about 1,000 pieces of luggage from Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport disappeared to -- the home of local couple Keith and Stacy King.