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"Trailblazers" Honored by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Madonna is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame March 10 in New York. The Hall of Fame calls her “one of the most ferociously original artists in music today.” (© AP Images)

The artists honored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008 represent many of the styles and genres that have shaped the vibrant American musical landscape.

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Space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from Kennedy Space Center March 11, bound for the International Space Station. (© AP Images)Two launches within three days are sending equipment and astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), which will represent for the first time the interests of all five space station partners -- the United States, Japan, Canada, Russia and the European Space Agency (ESA).

Shuttle Launches To Deliver European Space Agency Lab to Station

European Space Agency image shows a computer-drawn interior view of the Columbus module. (© AP Images)With the February 7 afternoon launch of Atlantis through cloud-swept skies above Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) most important contribution to the International Space Station -- its Columbus laboratory – is finally on its way to the orbital outpost.

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