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• Earthlings, space beer has splashed down
TOKYO - Space beer, the result of a five-month mission to boldly grow, where almost no one has grown barley before, has landed in Japan. The beverage, brewed from barley cultivated in the International Space Station in 2006, has splashed down ...
• Gloom returns to world markets after U.S. falls
Germany’s DAX was the best performing European index, up 52.08 points, or 1.2 percent, at 4,446.87. Earlier, Asian markets slid with Japan’s Nikkei 225 stock average tumbled 533.53 points, or 6.4 percent, to 7,863.69, and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng ...
• Major automakers report big sales declines
Dearborn, Mich.-based Ford, Toyota, Japan’s No. 1 automaker, and Honda are the first of the major automakers to report U.S. sales Tuesday. Ford says Lincoln and Mercury light truck sales were off 29 percent compared with November of last year, while ...
• U.S. chef serves oodles of noodles to hungry Tokyo
He went on to teach English in Japan and finally settled in this ramen-loving country in 2003 to master the dish. Soul food Unlike many of the franchised ramen shops, Orkin said he approaches the process with an artisan's touch, making his own noodles ...
• Activists blast U.S. at climate change talks
He called on the U.S., Japan, Australia and New Zealand to agree to policies that would lessen their dependence on fossil fuels and urged them to share technology with the developing world to help those nations do the same. However, he praised Brazil ...