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One-Legged ASU Wrestler Claims NCAA Championship
By Jane Healey - AOL NewsThe college sports story of the weekend had nothing to do with the NCAA basketball tournament and everything to do with Anthony Robles, the Arizona State University wrestler who defeated reigning champ Matt McDonough from Iowa State on Saturday to become national champion in the 125-pound weight class. A national championship is an impressive achievement for any athlete, but it's an awe-inspiring achievement by Robles, who was born with one leg. Clearly one of the keys to Robles' athletic success is his attitude and determination. "I grew up like a normal kid," Robles told NCAA.com. "Yeah I ...
Why Volunteer for a One-Way Mission to Mars?
By Lee Speigel - AOL NewsIf NASA put out the word that it was looking for volunteers to suit up for the first manned mission to Mars, the line outside Cape Canaveral might stretch from there to the moon. But what if they said it was a nine-month trip on a cramped spaceship and there was a possibility you wouldn't be coming home? Despite the possibility of those conditions, at least 400 brave souls have said "yes" in response to a new book, "The Human Mission to Mars: Colonizing the Red Planet" (Cosmology Science Publishers). The book is a combined effort of more than 70 scientists, detailing the steps leading up to ...
Did Arizona Immigration Policies Deprive State of Federal Dollars?
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsArizona came out a winner last week when the Census Bureau released 2010 population figures. Or did it? The Grand Canyon State will gain a House seat to bring its total to nine when Congress is reapportioned before the 2012 election. But in the competition for billions in federal funding for Medicaid, education, transportation and other services, Arizona may turn out a loser. In a Huffington Post piece titled "Did Arizona Shoot Itself in the Foot?," political scientist Michael McDonald writes that Arizona may lose as much as $775 million in federal grants per year over the next decade ...
Ariz. Homeless Man Finds -- and Returns -- $3,300
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Nov. 19) -- Dave Talley really, really could have used the money. But when the homeless man from Tempe, Ariz., found a backpack full of cash, he knew it wasn't his -- so he returned it. "I could've done a lot of things with the money," Talley told The Arizona Republic, "but none of them would've been right." On Tuesday, Talley, a recovering addict who lives in a Tempe shelter, discovered a backpack filled with $3,300 in cash and no wallet to help identify its rightful owner. Talley said he suppressed an urge to keep the money and turned it over to the Tempe Community Action Agency, where ...
Scientists Propose One-Way Trips to Mars
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PULLMAN, Wash. (Nov. 15) - It's always cheaper to fly one way, even to Mars. Two scientists are suggesting that colonization of the red planet could happen faster and more economically if astronauts behaved like the first settlers to come to North America - not expecting to go home. AP Professor Dirk Schulze-Makuch, left, and Dr. Paul Davies propose sending volunteers to Mars and leaving them there, arguing that is essential to begin colonizing another planet as a hedge against a catastrophe that would make Earth uninhabitable. "The main point is to get Mars exploration moving," said Dirk ...
Arizona State Levies Self-Imposed Baseball Sanctions
By FanHouse Newswire - AOL NewsTEMPE, ARIZ (AP) -- Arizona State is vacating 44 of its 49 victories from the 2007 baseball season and will be reducing scholarships as part of self-imposed sanctions for violating NCAA rules. The sanctions announced Wednesday follow an internal investigation in association with the Pac-10 that began in January 2008. The NCAA has also begun its own investigation into the violations, which include approximately 500 impermissible telephone calls by the baseball coaching staff from January 2004 to June 2009 and the recruitment of a prospective student-athlete by an impermissible ...
Kole Calhoun Leads Sun Devils to Scorching Start
By Jim Henry - AOL NewsKole Calhoun can't say precisely why third-ranked Arizona State is nine innings away from matching its best start in school history, but he has a pretty good idea. For starters, the Sun Devils, who need a victory Friday in their Pac-10 Conference opener against visiting California to tie the program mark of 21-0 set in 1961, are accustomed to hot starts. They are 33-1 over the first three weeks of the last three seasons. Yet, Calhoun, one of three senior starters and one of three team captains, believes this year's team has also been quick to bond despite its overall youth. Eleven players ...
Scientist: Alien Life Could Be on Earth Now
By not in system - AOL NewsLONDON (Jan. 26) – For the past 50 years, scientists have scoured the skies for radio signals from beyond our planet, hoping for some sign of extraterrestrial life. But one physicist says there's no reason alien life couldn't already be lurking among us – or maybe even in us. Paul Davies, an award-winning Arizona State University physicist known for his popular science writing, said Tuesday that life may have developed on Earth not once but several times. Davies said the variant life forms – most likely tiny microbes – could still be hanging around "right under our ...
Green Sun Devils Show No Fear at CWS
By Jim Henry - AOL NewsAlthough it features one of the least experienced rosters in the nation, Arizona State has refused to rattle. In fact, don't even try to use the inexperience card when discussing the Sun Devils, who entered the College World Series without a senior starter. They dominated the Pacific-10 Conference and have remained perfect in the NCAA Tournament. Just ask their latest victim, the North Carolina Tar Heels, who just so happen to be making their fourth consecutive CWS appearance and have plenty of postseason stubble. "I don't know if I buy the inexperience," UNC coach Mike Fox said Sunday after ...
Arizona State University Says Sorry To Obama
By David Knowles - Politics DailyHere's a follow-up on my earlier story about Arizona State University's decision not to award President Obama an honorary doctorate when he delivers this years's commencement address. It turns out that move generated a whole lot of negative press for ASU, who have issued a new press release detailing the university's moves to try and patch things up:"I apologize for the confusion surrounding our invitation to President Obama to address ASU students at commencement," ASU President Michael Crow said in a news release from the university."The entire ASU community has been electrified with ...
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