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"To most people they are lovable pets, but guinea pigs could soon be on the menu at British restaurants after the development of a "superpig" designed to offer diners a nutritious low-fat meal."

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"AP - The Smithsonian is about to take the wraps off a new hangar where visitors can get close to a space shuttle."

Come Nov. 1, visitors to the National Air and Space Museum's northern Virginia branch will be able to see the space shuttle Enterprise, the museum's second-largest artifact after the Concorde. Curators added more than 600 other space finds to the new wing, including rockets, satellites and 1960s space capsules used by astronauts."

The damage from the looting was tremendous. People ask me about the infrastructure and how much buildings were damaged during the bombings. The bombing campaign by the U.S. was tremendously effective and also incredibly surgical. They could take out one building and preserve all the surrounding buildings with limited damage. What was most destructive on the infrastructure and the buildings and the people in Baghdad was the subsequent looting. There wasn't a plan in place to control it, and there were certainly not enough forces in place to control it, so it became what the guys used to call 'the Wild West.'"