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The container is automatically slowed to a halt (like an elevator) before reaching the ground FREE FALL: Where are animal-right- s activists when you need them? German scientists are throwing innocent microbes off a tower — and all in the name of science! Actually it's not as bad as it sounds (I was just trying to get your attention) Hans Machemer and his colleagues from QUAKE ALERT: Did a satellite "foresee" Chinese earthquakes? 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