A balloonist who tried to cross the Atlantic Ocean using hundreds of helium-filled balloons is heading home after landing in Newfoundland, far short of his goal.

一名試圖利用數百個氦氣氣球飛越大西洋的飛行員,在迫降距離目標有一大段差距的加拿大紐芬蘭後「打道回府」。

Trappe landed safely in a rugged area near York Harbour after reporting that he was having trouble controlling his balloons Thursday evening, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

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The Navy spent about $71 million on cleanup, planning and initial repairs on the fire-damaged USS Miami before scuttling plans to restore the nuclear-powered submarine.

美國海軍在失火受損的「邁阿密號」潛艦上花了約7100萬美元用於清理、規劃和初步修復,然後又放棄修復這艘核動力潛艦。

The Navy intended to repair the attack submarine, damaged last year, at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and return it to duty before the discovery of additional cracks in pipes drove the estimated repair costs up from $450 million to $700 million.

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A Russian state service in charge of safeguarding Kremlin communications is looking to purchase an array of old-fashioned typewriters to prevent leaks from computer hardware, sources said.

據消息人士指出,俄羅斯負責保護克里姆林宮通訊內容的國家機構正試圖購買一批老式打字機,以防止機密透過電腦硬體外洩。

The throwback to the paper-strewn days of Soviet bureaucracy has reportedly been prompted by the publication of secret documents by anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks and the revelations leaked by former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.

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Swiss researchers said Thursday that people really do have a hard time getting a good night’s sleep when the moon is full, even when they can’t see it.

瑞士研究人員週四指出,當月圓時,人們難以得到好的睡眠品質,就算他們看不見月亮也一樣。

The results of a study on 33 volunteers published in the journal Current Biology showed that people took longer to fall asleep at night and slept for a shorter time during a full moon.

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Kohei Jinno fans out the black and white photos of his family posing proudly in front of their central Tokyo home, a house they were forced to leave ahead of the 1964 Olympic Games to make way for construction of the main stadium.

甚野公平攤開許多張他們一家人自豪地站在東京市中心自宅前的黑白照片,這棟房子就是他們在1964年東京奧運前被迫離開、以便騰出空間興建主場館的家。

Now Jinno, 79, has to move again.

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Eating lots of broccoli may slow down and even prevent osteoarthritis, UK researchers believe. The University of East Anglia team is starting human trials following on from successful lab studies.

英國研究人員認為,吃大量花椰菜或能減緩甚至預防關節炎。東安格利亞大學研究團隊在實驗室研究成功後,現已展開人體實驗。

Tests on cells and mice showed that a broccoli compound blocked a key destructive enzyme that damages cartilage.

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Astronauts traveling to and from Mars would be bombarded with as much radiation as they’d get from a full-body CT scan about once a week for a year, researchers reported.

往返火星的太空人面臨的輻射量,多達持續1年每週1次接受全身斷層掃描的劑量,研究人員報告指出。

That dose would, in some cases, exceed NASA’s standards and is enough to raise an astronaut’s cancer risk by 3 percent.

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Mr.Eckhouse and his wife, Kathy,began producing "Prosciutto Americano" eight years ago in a plant they built here, just south of Des Moines. The meat has drawn enthusiastic reviews and is on the menus of upscale restaurants and in shops in New York, Chicago and the Bay Area.

美國艾克豪斯夫婦8年前在德梅因南部蓋工廠,打造美製義式火腿,引發市場熱議,並「榮登」紐約、芝加哥與舊金山灣區的高檔餐廳與商店菜單。

Still, the Eckhouses, in hairnets and lab coats, fuss over details and patrol La Quercia’s cavernous curing rooms.

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