The unmanned Dragon spacecraft cast off from the International Space Station early Thursday morning and survived a fiery re-entry through Earth's atmosphere to make an apparently flawless splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California.

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In Antananarivo I met oil prospectors, airline industry executives and agricultural exporters all trying to make contact with the president's office in the hope of securing an entry into the newly liberated markets abandoned by cronies of the old corrupt regime.

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Secondly, the relatively small cost will likely lower the barrier to entry for advanced microscopy and make field diagnosis an easier and more viable option in places like Africa.

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