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Online activists Downhill Battle have a new idea: put a phone call in to your Congressperson on September 14, 2004 in opposition of the INDUCE Act and Save Betamax. (Well, not really Betamax per se, since they went out of business years ago. But you get the drift.)
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The Genesis space capsule, which had orbited the sun for more than three years in an attempt to find clues to the origin of the solar system, crashed to Earth on Wednesday after its parachute failed to deploy. ### So much for catching a bullet with a helicopter.