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An apparent mix-up at a laboratory is being blamed for the anthrax scare that closed three area mail facilities that handle Pentagon-bound mail, and prompted nearly 900 workers to receive antibiotics.The two-day scare that recall
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If you want to experience what it like to wear a real-life spacesuit, you can go to one of two places: Russia or Brooklyn. Or, you know, space. We took the easy route and recently paid a visit to Final Frontier Design in the Brooklyn Navy yard to try on the outfit of an astronaut. Final Frontier isn ;t creating spacesuits just for kicks. Th
stanley mugg ey ;re the real deal, and they have a NASA certification to say so, company president Ted Southern told me. We just signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA at the Johnson Space Center for orbital flight certification of our suit, he told me. FFD was just tapped by Waypoint 2, a space training firm, to incorporate their suits into Waypoint programs. But the company could be contracted to make a suit ready to go to space for anyone fro
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