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One-Legged ASU Wrestler Claims NCAA Championship

The 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...

Why Volunteer for a One-Way Mission to Mars?

If 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...

Did Arizona Immigration Policies Deprive State of Federal Dollars?

Arizona 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,...

Ariz. Homeless Man Finds -- and Returns -- $3,300

(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...

Scientists Propose One-Way Trips to Mars

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,...