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(AP) - A polar bear reacts after being presented an ice block planted with apples at a zoo in Osaka, western Japan Wednesday, July 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

(AP) - Zhaira Escamilla rides a wave as Hurricane Dolly approaches the South Texas coast Tuesday, July 22, 2008 in South Padre Island, Texas. Dolly is expected to make landfall Wednesday. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

(Reuters) - A woman with an umbrella walks through a field of flowers in Biei town, on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido July 14, 2008. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao(JAPAN)

(AFP) - On the lake : A man rows a boat on Ohrid Lake in Macedonia (AFP/Robert Atanasovski)

(Reuters) - A piece by artist David Mach entitled 'Out of Order' shows a row of traditional English red phone boxes in Kingston, south London July 15, 2008. REUTERS/ Eddie Keogh (BRITAIN)

(AP) - A model walks the runway at the showing of the spring/summer 2009 collection of Germany's fashion label Scherer Gonzalez during the Fashion Week in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, July 19, 2008. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

(AFP) - Mega manta : Children extend their hands to touch the image of a manta ray projected from a Sony's 4,096 x 2,160-pixels ultra-high resolution digital movie projector 4K SRX during a press preview at the company's showroom in Tokyo. (AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno)

(Reuters) - A woman takes photos of an art installation at GLOW in Santa Monica, California July 19, 2008. GLOW, an all-night festival inspired by the Nuit Blanche in Paris, showcases art and entertainment activities on the beach and the pier of the city. REUTERS/Mark Avery (UNITED STATES)

(AFP) - Underwater kisses : A couple kisses each other during the IKE, the International underwater kissing event in Riccione. (AFP/Zirilli)

(AP) - A woman looks at balloon lumpfish sitting on balloons at Shinagawa Aqua-Stadium aquarium in Tokyo Tuesday, July 8, 2008. The colorful 'Eumicrotremus Pacificus,' commonly found in the deep sea near the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, attach themselves to rocks in the water via a sucker disk on their underside so as not to be drifted away by strong current. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

AP - Facebook Inc. is introducing more tools to help the software applications fueling the online hangout's popularity and is promising to intensify its efforts to weed out programs that violate its rules for protecting users' privacy.

AP - Amazon.com Inc. shares leaped 13 percent Thursday after the Internet retailer showed that it doesn't seem to be bothered by the sputtering U.S. economy.

Reuters - NASA has began unofficial negotiations with Japan's space agency on purchasing units of an unmanned cargo transfer spacecraft as the successor to its space shuttles, the Yomiuri newspaper said on Sunday.

AP - Money problems will likely force NASA to abandon its ambitious internal goal of having a new moon spaceship ready by 2013, a top space agency official told The Associated Press Wednesday.

SPACE.com - NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has successfully drilled into the rock-hard ice layer below the Martian surface and collected the frozen shavings in its robotic arm scoop, NASA said on Wednesday.