The performance of those six auto-bots marks a new height in humanless feats: Though Stanford's autonomous Touareg "Stanley" won a 132-mile unmanned sprint across the Mojave Desert in 2005, that event's bots merely had to stay on the road.

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Tuesday's launch marks the culmination of six years of preparation to bring commercial flights to the space station following the retirement of NASA's space shuttle fleet last year.

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It is possible that 3:41.60 might be enough to convince the selectors to add him to the six names who have already achieved qualifying marks.

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It marks the start of the six-month period during which each US state will hold primary elections or caucuses to pick a Republican candidate, who will be officially nominated at the party convention in August.

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"Today marks a critical moment in our six-point plan for ending the violence in Syria, " said U.N.

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It marks the third time in the last six years Cabrera has been in the last group at the Masters.

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It said it found burn marks on a makeshift power switchboard and a 15cm (six-inch) dead animal nearby.

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James Neal, who as head of Columbia University's libraries in New York is a big customer, gives Reed Elsevier top marks for creating user-friendly research products, but he also has a six-point gripe list with the company that includes price-gouging and concerns that scientific journals are increasingly being consolidated under one corporate banner.

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So with the Six Nations now two months away, it is backs to the drawing board for Wales, but top marks for forwards thinking.

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