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With the government shutdown looming, one federal employees may be reluctantly preparing for the furlough — space shuttle Endeavor. Disagreements over ideologies in the final hours of negotiations on Capitol Hill seemed deadlocked, and without a congressional resolution providing lawmakers more time to negotiate, the federal government shuts down at …

A Canadian nuclear scientist who has not been seen for more than a month has simply vanished, leaving “absolutely no trace at all,” police say. Lachlan Cranswick, 41, a physicist from the Chalk River Laboratories nuclear facility in Ottawa, was last seen on Jan. 18, when he left his job …

Diversity, apparently, is in the eye of the beholder. The United Nations, which has come under fire for stocking its climate change group with scientists who are lockstep in their endorsement of the theory of manmade global warming, is trumpeting the “more diverse” panel it has selected for its fifth …