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HOUSTON – Astronauts made preparations Saturday morning to take the international space station’s newest piece of equipment out for a spin, albeit a limited one. Space shuttle Discovery crew members Akihiko Hoshide and Karen Nyberg were assigned to move the Japanese Kibo lab’s robotic arm for the first time, but …

OAKLAND, California – You know you are in a different kind of college when a teaching assistant sets five marijuana plants down in the middle of a lab and no one blinks a bloodshot eye. Welcome to Oaksterdam University, a new trade school where higher education takes on a whole …

• Omar Bongo ascended to Gabon’s presidency Dec. 2, 1967, after his predecessor’s death. In his 70s, Bongo faces little political opposition in oil-rich West African nation of 1.5 million. • Moammar Gadhafi of Libya took power through a Sept. 1, 1969, military coup in the oil-producing North African nation …