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Areas of Georgia are desperately dry. Atlanta newspaper headlines shout that there is only a 90 day supply of water left for the 4 million people in the Atlanta area. Lake Lanier has been the city's main source of water but the water has also been used downstream by Alabama and Florida. People in Atlanta enjoyed rain showers earlier this week, but not enough to break a drought.
Poor weather did not stop the space shuttle Discovery from taking off Tuesday. The two-woman, five-man crew will deliver the "Harmony Module," a crucial connecting point to let the International Space Station expand to include European and Japanese laboratories. Pam Melroy is commanding the mission and astronaut Peggy Whitson will greet them in space, marking the first time in NASA history that women are in charge of both the shuttle and the space station at the same time.
Sohn Jie-Ae takes a look at the cyber education boom in South Korea. People use technology and the Internet to endlessly educate children starting before birth.
Two astronauts recently returned from space encouraged a group of middle school students to look to the stars. NASA's first educator astronaut, Barbara Morgan, and space shuttle pilot and Marine Colonel Charlie Hobaugh, met with students at NASA Glenn Research Center last week. Morgan and Hobaugh were members of the crew that visited the International Space Station back in August.
A very slimy salamander at the Toledo Zoo is a mama-to-be, carefully protecting a clutch of new eggs. The eggs should produce the zoo's first baby slimy salamanders in December.
Researchers from Kent State University and the University of Bucharest, Romania have discovered a very old crab species in eastern Romania. The tiny creature existed more than one hundred fifty million years ago, during the Jurassic period. The crab fossil was found in fossilized sponge reefs that were, at that time, under about two hundred feet of ocean.
An unusual discovery was made at a construction site in California. Workers unearthed wooly mammoth bones while tearing down a one-hundred-year-old building. Officials think the bones are anywhere from ten thousand to several hundred thousand years old. More studying is required, and an archeologist will stay on site while the construction continues.
From its very beginning New York City was a slave town. African slaves helped build the colony, first called "New Amsterdam," and establish it as a commercial center. Blacks were banned from burial in churchyards. So north of the city- which then was the lower tip of Manhattan- the "negro burial ground" was established. More than 10-thousand people were laid to rest across nearly seven acres-- where office buildings now stand! It had been forgotten by all but a handful of historians- until digging began for a new skyscraper. Four years ago, 419 African ancestors were re-interred. With the dedication of the African Burial Ground National Monument earlier this month, the country now has a memorial to tell the story of their contribution to the United States.
October 26, 2007