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Do you want the Artist (formerly known as Prince) or a Jehovah’s Witness showing up at your doorstep? How about both?

China Sends Man Into Orbit, Entering U.S.-Russian Club

BEIJING, Wednesday, Oct. 15 – The Chinese spacecraft Shenzhou 5 blasted off from the Gobi Desert on Wednesday carrying a single astronaut. The launching left government leaders jubilant yet also anxiously awaiting his safe return so China can stake its claim as one of the world’s elite space-faring nations.

The launching took place about 9 a.m., according to the state-run television network, CCTV. At about 9:30, the network showed a videotape of the rocket soaring to the heavens.

The Shenzhou 5, or Divine Vessel, is expected to orbit Earth 14 times before returning after a voyage of roughly 21 hours.

If successful, the mission would make China the third nation to send a man into space, coming more than four decades after the Soviet Union and the United States accomplished the feat at the height of the cold war.

But before you jump to conclusions, these are not WMD’s.

U.S. troops uncover one of their biggest weapons caches in Saddam’s hometown

The cache turned up 23 Russian-made surface to air missiles, 1,000 pounds of plastic explosives, four rocket propelled grenade launchers and 115 rockets, a mortar and 40 mortar rounds, 1,300 blasting caps and 423 hand grenades

Conventional weapons.

Let no man say that I have never said a good word about Bill Gates. This month, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged $55 million to “accelerate dengue vaccine research,” $51 million to “support small dynamic high schools to boost student achievement” in New York City, and $168 million to fight malaria. That’s a quarter of a billion dollars for health and education causes. Good job, Bill.

So now that the Gates Foundation has ponied up the money, spend a few of your minutes reading the press releases to find out how many kids are dying every day from the two diseases these grants are supposed to fight.