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ADVISORY-Reuters Witness story from the Baikonur Cosmodrome
24 May 2007 20:00:01 GMT
Source: Reuters
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Maria Golovnina reports on Central Asia for Reuters and is based in Almaty, Kazakhstan. In the following story, slugged BC-WITNESS-SPACE/BAIKONUR and headlined "WITNESS-A touch of outer space in the Kazakh steppe", she reports on her stay last month at the Baikonur Cosmodrome to cover the journey into orbit by American space tourist Charles Simonyi.

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The carcass of a baby mammoth lies in a museum in the artic city of Salekhard July 2, 2007. A frozen carcass of a baby mammoth was found in May this year in the Yamal-Nenets autonomous district in Russia's north and is considered to be the best preserved specimen of its type, scientists said. Picture taken July 2, 2007


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