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the weather worsened. A similar crowd is expected this weekend, but there have been no reports of climbers in trouble and the weather is good.
• Gyanendra Shrestha, an official with Nepal's Tourism Ministry, said he had reports that 82 climbers reached the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) summit on Friday morning.
• Shrestha, who is at the base camp, said 120 climbers started the last phase of the climb on Thursday night but not all of them reached the summit. He said it was normal for some of the climbers to quit at the last treacherous part of the climb for various reasons.
• There were still more climbers expected to try to reach the summit on Saturday -- probably the last day of this climbing season.
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• CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- The privately bankrolled Dragon capsule approached the International Space Station for a historic docking Friday after sailing through a practice rendezvous the day before.
• The unmanned SpaceX Dragon was right on track to deliver a half-ton of supplies and become the first commercial vessel to visit the space station.
• "It's a great view," Dutch space station astronaut Andre Kuipers said as the Dragon drew to within 900 feet, its strobe light flashing. "The solar panels are nicely lit."
• On Thursday, the capsule came within 1½ miles of the space station in a practice fly-by. It returned to the neighborhood early Friday so Kuipers and U.S. astronaut Donald Pettit could capture it with a robot arm. First, the capsule had to go through a series of stop-and-go demonstrations to prove it was under good operating control.
• A collision at orbital speed -- 17,500 mph -- could prove disastrous for the space station.
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• INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- With another season on the brink, Dwyane Wade and LeBron James took their two-man game to new heights.

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