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A German who discovered the body of a 5,000-year-old man frozen in the Italian Alps said Monday he is demanding a finder's fee of up to $300,000.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/23/iceman.reward.ap/index.html
A threatened species of frog thought to have inspired Mark Twain's tale of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County has been rediscovered in the county, 34 years after the frogs were last seen in the area.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/03/twain.frog.ap/index.html
European space officials on Wednesday showed off the first pictures of Mars sent back by the Mars Express spacecraft as it heads for a Christmas rendezvous with the red planet.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/03/europe.mars.ap/index.html
The world's glaciers could melt within a century if global warming accelerates, leaving billions of people short of water and some islanders without a home, environmentalists said.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/11/28/glaciers.melting.reut/index.html
California prosecutors took the unusual step of setting up a Web site on the Michael Jackson case to alleviate a media frenzy and, in doing so, triggered a debate on use of the Web within the legal community.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/12/25/jackson.websites.reut/index.html
Microsoft Corp. and the New York attorney general are going after a sprawling e-mail spam ring, saying they hoped to drive it into bankruptcy by exposing what they called its schemes of deception.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/12/19/spam.suit.ap/index.html
Microsoft Corp. said on Friday that its latest version of Office software inadvertently contained a font featuring two swastikas, and said it would offer tools to remove and replace the offending characters from the program.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/12/12/microsoft.swastika.reut/index.html
Mobile phones are flying off the shelves before Christmas and sales are heading for record highs this year as the global economy recovers and low-priced models go on the market.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/04/sprj.ws.phones.shortage.reut/index.html
Wilbur and Orville Wright were the first to use sibling synergy to slip the surly bonds -- but not the last.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/15/rutan.brothers/index.html
Grab the popcorn, cinemaphiles. You may be about to sit through one of the best movie sequels in years: digital cinema.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/24/digital.movietheater.reut/index.html
At NASA's request, the Pentagon is using spy satellites to check the international space station for any exterior damage that might explain the loud metallic noise heard last week by the two men on board.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/03/us.spacestation.ap/index.html
NASA said Monday it successfully adjusted the course of a rover that is scheduled to land on Mars this weekend as part of a mission to search for evidence of life on the red planet.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/29/mars.rover.ap/index.html
Soot mostly from diesel engines is blocking snow and ice from reflecting sunlight, which is contributing to near worldwide melting of ice and as much as a quarter of all observed global warming, top NASA scientists say.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/22/soot.global.ap/index.html
NASA is relying on Russian-made thrusters to steer the international space station following a new malfunction with the U.S. motion-control system, officials said Friday.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/05/spacestation.thursters.ap/index.html
The crunching sound heard by the U.S.-Russian crew of the international space station does not appear to have come from an impact with space debris, U.S. space officials said.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/01/station.noise.ap/index.html
For those still searching for the perfect holiday gift, how's this for an out-of-this world idea: Space burials.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/19/offbeat.burial.orbit.reut/index.html
Serial killer Maury Travis used an online mapping service to show a newspaper reporter where he dumped a body. A former Las Vegas exotic dancer convicted of stalking and harassing her ex-lover posted a map on the Web with directions to the married man's home.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/12/23/online.mapping.ap/index.html
Federal regulators approved a step Wednesday toward developing smart highways, where warning signals automatically transmitted to drivers can prevent traffic accidents.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/17/smart.highway.ap/index.html
Australian astronomers have discovered an extra cosmic arm in the Milky Way that they believe wraps around the outskirts of the vast galaxy like a thick gas border.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/16/milkyway.boundary.reut/index.html
Internet services company Yahoo Inc. Friday said it is working on technology to combat e-mail spam by changing the way the Internet works to require authentication of a message's sender.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/12/05/spam.yahoo.reut/index.html
Mission controllers on Tuesday redirected Europe's Mars Express orbiter closer to the red planet's poles, taking a crucial first step to push it into a lower orbit where it will be able to listen for its missing Beagle 2 surface probe.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/30/europe.mars.ap/index.html
NASA unveiled stunning first pictures from a powerful new infrared space telescope on Thursday, and announced a new name for the spacecraft, one of the agency's four so-called Great Observatories.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/18/telescope.name/index.html
New Jersey opened its first bear hunt in 33 years Monday with hunters trekking into snow-filled woods before dawn as animal rights activists protested nearby.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/08/nj.bearhunt.ap/index.html
North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il has defined three types of fools in the 21st century: people who smoke, people who don't appreciate music and people who can't use a computer.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/12/25/nkorea.computer.craze.ap/index.html
British scientists have failed in their latest attempt to make contact with the Beagle 2 probe which was to have landed on Mars on Christmas Day.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/25/mars.beagle.nosignal/index.html
An Oslo appeal court cleared a 20-year-old Norwegian man of DVD piracy charges on Monday in a new setback for Hollywood studios which say unauthorized copying costs them billions of dollars a year.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/12/22/dvd.piracy.reut/index.html
NASA plans to dispatch a hulking nuclear-powered spacecraft to determine whether three of Jupiter's icy, planet-sized moons have the potential to harbor life.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/09/jupiter.icymoons.ap/index.html
A Chinese court has ordered an online video game company to return hard-won virtual property, including a make-believe stockpile of bio-chemical weapons, to a player whose game account was looted by a hacker.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/fun.games/12/19/china.gamer.reut/index.html
A dispute over aid to OPEC states clouded the last day of a U.N. conference on global warming on Friday with the Kyoto protocol hanging by a thread amid uncertainties over Russian ratification.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/12/climate.kyoto.reut/index.html
Miami's Haitian and Cuban communities are up in arms over a top-selling computer game that exhorts players to kill the Haitians and kill the Cubans.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/fun.games/12/03/caribbean.outrage.reut/index.html
The Defense Department should have been more sensitive to concerns about potential government abuses of privacy from its highly criticized research project to predict terrorist attacks, the agency's inspector general has concluded.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/31/pentagon.spying.ap/index.html
Jace Curtis is the kind of customer who could help phone companies catch up to cable operators in the high-speed Internet market.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/12/06/broadband.prices.ap/index.html
Psst... How about a souped-up handheld computer cell phone combination that not only boasts a camera, surfs the Web, does e-mail, can play digital music and has a calendar, but also makes your toast in the morning?
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/08/handheld.future.reut/index.html
The familiar process of buying something with a credit card -- handing the plastic to the clerk or swiping it yourself, then waiting for approval and signing the receipt -- could be headed the way of the mechanical brass cash register.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/13/goodbye.swipe.ap/index.html
A quarter of a century ago, Peru's white-winged guan -- a species native only to this Andean bird paradise -- was considered as dead as a dodo.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/29/peru.bird.reut/index.html
Chinese scientists are building a two-ton lunar probe that is to be launched by 2007 and orbit the moon for at least 12 months, state media said.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/09/china.space.lunar.ap/index.html
The strength of the Earth's magnetic field has decreased 10 percent over the past 150 years, raising the remote possibility that it may collapse and later reverse, flipping the planet's poles for the first time in nearly a million years, scientists said.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/12/magnetic.poles.ap/index.html
California's largest earthquake in four years struck on Monday, causing planet Earth to ring like a bell and mountains to grow a foot (30 cm) taller, geologists said.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/24/earthquake.geology.reut/index.html
Microsoft Corp. is investigating a report of seven new security holes in its Internet Explorer browser discovered by a Chinese researcher, a company spokesman said.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/12/01/explorer.holes.reut/index.html
A fossil of a small sea creature extracted from a 425-million-year-old British rock formation is the oldest unequivocally male fossil known, researchers say.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/05/oldest.male.ap/index.html
Russia will deliver all regular crews and cargo to the international space station next year, filling in again for NASA, the head of the Russian space agency said.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/15/russia.station.ap/index.html
Attention Bruce Springsteen: you have a friend at the San Diego zoo.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/17/sandiego.panda.reut/index.html
Saudi authorities, facing a wave of militant attacks, have arrested five people after raiding computer shops selling compact disks containing hidden bomb-making instructions, a local newspaper reported on Thursday.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/25/saudi.disks.reut/index.html
Europe's first Mars probe remained silent for a third day, but scientists clung to the hope Saturday that the Beagle 2 spacecraft had landed safely on the Red Planet and would respond to a call from its mother ship in about a week.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/27/beagle.missing.ap/index.html
Scientists were hopeful Thursday the British-built Beagle 2 had landed on Mars, despite being unable to receive a signal to confirm the probe's touchdown.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/25/mars.beagle/index.html
Europe's effort to successfully land its first probe on Mars has suffered a setback.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/24/mars.beagle/index.html
NASA plans to embed wings of the three remaining space shuttles with high-tech sensors to detect blows from debris.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/12/sprj.colu.repairs.ap/index.html
On sections of Beijing Road, you can barely see the sky.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/12/03/shanghai.wires.ap/index.html
After decades of watching astronauts circle Earth, space visionaries finally have reason for optimism: NASA and other agencies are working with the White House on a bold, new course of exploration.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/04/moon.mars.ap/index.html
Even though a Mars probe has failed to signal it has landed, scientists at the European Space Agency say the primary mission goal to put a satellite in orbit around Mars was achieved.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/26/mars.missions.reut/index.html
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