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                    [Title] => How ‘The Martian’ gets it right
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THE MARTIAN By Andy Weir 369 pages Available at National Book Store

[DatePublished] => 2015-10-10 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136008 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804693 [AuthorName] => Scott R. Garceau [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 953143 [Title] => Chinese craft blasts into space on docking mission [Summary] =>

A Chinese spacecraft blasted off to begin the country's fifth and longest manned space mission, taking three astronauts to an orbiting space lab from where they will give science lessons to youngsters.

[DatePublished] => 2013-06-12 10:21:20 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1125051 [AuthorName] => Andy Wong [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/3198/15f06f28906c7413340f6a7.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 819218 [Title] => NY judge: US can seize dinosaur skeleton [Summary] =>

One of the more unusual arrest warrants in U.S. history was issued Tuesday when a federal judge authorized the Department of Homeland Security to seize a dinosaur from an art storage company. There's no need for handcuffs though. It's been dead for 70 million years.

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The fossil of a dinosaur that roamed the earth 70 million years ago should be turned over to the United States by an auction house so that it can be returned to its home in Mongolia, a lawsuit brought by the U.S. government demanded Monday.

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China launched its most ambitious space mission yet on yesterday, carrying its first female astronaut and two male colleagues in an attempt to dock with an orbiting module and work on board for more than a week.

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The dust works its way through keyholes and window frames, and smells like a filthy brew of dirt, smoke and metallic particles. The sky turns magenta and whole buildings disappear. Eyes tear up and throats get sore from coughing.

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