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Boeing, Spray on Clothing, Freddie Mercury Movie

Boeing wants to take you out of this world!
Boeing plans to offer passengers the chance to fly into space on a special new craft developed for low Earth orbit.
They're putting passenger seats on it.
They say it could carry seven people and fly in low Earth orbit as soon as 2015. They're not saying yet how much tickets will cost.          

Someday, you might be able to wear spray-on clothing. 
A liquid mixture developed a company called "Fabrican" lets you spray clothes directly onto your body using  an aerosol.
After the spray dries, it creates a thin layer of fabric that can be peeled off, washed, stored in the closet, and reworn. Kinks to be worked out include the solvent smell--and how to make spray-on clothing that isn't form-fitting. (Just in case you DON'T want to look like "Mystique" in "X-Men."

The man who murdered John Lennon outside his New York City apartment in 1980 says he considered killing Johnny Carson and Elizabeth Taylor -- but since Lennon was more accessible, he went for him.
Mark David Chapman's comments appear in a transcript of his latest parole hearing. He was denied parole after the hearing last week.

They're making a movie about Freddie Mercury, and his glory days as the front man of Queen.
Who's going to star?
Sacha Baron Cohen will play the part of the flamboyant genius.
Shooting begins next year.
The movie has the blessing of Mercury's estate, and the three surviving members of Queen.
Freddie Mercury died in 1991 at the age of 45.

Michael Jackson and Lady Gaga have something in common.
Both are listed in the upcoming Guinness World Records book. They are the most searched-for celebrities on the Internet, as measured by Google.

Paul McCartney is re-issuing his Grammy winning, 1973 best seller, "Band on the Run."
It will be a four-disc, remastered, collector's edition that will include a new interview with McCartney, along with a 120 page book of photos by his late wife Linda.
"Band on the Run" sold more than seven million copies and topped the U.S.album charts three separate times.

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