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Report: 8 Million Born With Birth Defects Annually
About 8 million children worldwide are born every year with serious birth defects, many of them dying before age five in a toll largely hidden from view, the March of Dimes says. Most birth defects occur in poor countries, where babies can languish with problems easily fixed or even prevented in wealthier nations.

NASA Puts Stardust Craft Into Hibernation Mode
NASA has deactivated most of the Stardust spacecraft that collected the first comet dust ever gathered in space, two weeks after the probe jettisoned samples to Earth from its seven-year voyage through the heavens.

Will Google Subvert Microsoft's Dominant Paradigm?
Speculation about the announcement of a $200 PC from Google that won't be running Windows is setting technology industry speculation into the highest gear it's seen since, uh, Google's IPO. One analyst has emerged from the pack to make a bubblesque prediction of Google's stock going to $600 on the anticipated announcement, which could be made by company co-founder Larry Page at the CES show in Las Vegas.