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Volcano erupts in southern Chile
Jan 1 2008 10:42PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - A volcano in southern Chile erupted on Tuesday, spewing lava and ash, and forcing the evacuation of about 150 people, officials said.
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Volcano erupts in southern Chile
Jan 1 2008 10:42PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - A volcano in southern Chile erupted on Tuesday, spewing lava and ash, and forcing the evacuation of about 150 people, officials said.
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Purdue students sniff manure for science
Jan 1 2008 10:39PM (CT)
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) - Purdue University students are making some extra cash through a project that might turn some of their classmates' stomachs _ by sniffing livestock excrement. Students earn $30 per session as they take whiffs of a variety of smells collected from barns filled with hogs, cows and chickens for odor research being conducted by Albert Heber, a Purdue professor of agricultural and biological engineering.
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Researchers work on cocaine vaccine
Jan 1 2008 10:38PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Two Baylor College of Medicine researchers in Houston are working on a cocaine vaccine they hope will become the first-ever medication to treat people hooked on the drug. "For people who have a desire to stop using, the vaccine should be very useful," said Dr. Tom Kosten, a psychiatry professor who is being assisted in the research by his wife, Therese, a psychologist and neuroscientist. "At some point, most users will give in to temptation and relapse, but those for whom the vacc
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Deep Impact spacecraft zips past Earth
Jan 1 2008 5:40PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A comet-busting NASA spacecraft zipped past Earth on Monday on its way to rendezvous with another comet in an extended mission that will also see it hunt for Earth-sized planets around a cluster of stars. The Deep Impact probe made the first of three flybys designed to use the planet's gravity to hurtle the spacecraft toward comet Hartley 2 for a 2010 meeting.
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Iran says first cloned sheep thriving
Jan 1 2008 5:39PM (CT)
ISFAHAN, Iran (AP) - Iranian scientists said Monday that the country's first cloned sheep is thriving 15 months after birth, eating well and frolicking among a flock of normal sheep. The cloned male sheep named Royana was born Sept. 30, 2006 in the historic central city of Isfahan, less than two months after the country's first cloned animal, also a lamb, died within minutes of birth.
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Iran says first cloned sheep thriving
Jan 1 2008 5:39PM (CT)
ISFAHAN, Iran (AP) - Iranian scientists said Monday that the country's first cloned sheep is thriving 15 months after birth, eating well and frolicking among a flock of normal sheep. The cloned male sheep named Royana was born Sept. 30, 2006 in the historic central city of Isfahan, less than two months after the country's first cloned animal, also a lamb, died within minutes of birth.
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Iran says first cloned sheep thriving
Jan 1 2008 5:39PM (CT)
ISFAHAN, Iran (AP) - Iranian scientists said Monday that the country's first cloned sheep is thriving 15 months after birth, eating well and frolicking among a flock of normal sheep. The cloned male sheep named Royana was born Sept. 30, 2006 in the historic central city of Isfahan, less than two months after the country's first cloned animal, also a lamb, died within minutes of birth.
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