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Scientists: Donner family not cannibals
Jan 12 2006 10:45PM (CT)
RENO, Nev. (AP) - There's no physical evidence that the family who gave the Donner Party its name had anything to do with the cannibalism the ill-fated pioneers have been associated with for a century and a half, two scientists said Thursday.
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Researcher: Early man was hunted by birds
Jan 12 2006 8:33PM (CT)
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - An American researcher believes he has solved the mystery of how one of the most important human ancestors died nearly 2 million years ago: An eagle killed the 3 1/2-year old ape-man known as the Taung child.
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Study: Most Ashkenazi Jews from four women
Jan 12 2006 8:30PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Some 3.5 million of today's Ashkenazi Jews _ about 40 percent of the total Ashkenazi population _ are descended from just four women, a genetic study indicates.
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Genetic change in bird flu sample detected
Jan 12 2006 8:23PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Analysis of samples of the H5N1 bird flu virus from two of its victims in Turkey has detected a change in one gene in one of two samples tested, but it is too early to tell whether the mutation is important, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
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Hwang asks forgiveness, but issues blame
Jan 12 2006 8:23PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Disgraced researcher Hwang Woo-suk asked forgiveness Thursday from fellow South Koreans for his fraudulent claims of human stem cell breakthroughs, but blamed the scandal on junior researchers who he said deceived him.
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Trip to Pluto to take at least 9 years
Jan 12 2006 8:22PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - It will be the fastest spacecraft ever launched, zooming past the moon in nine hours and reaching Jupiter in just over a year at a speed nearly 100 times that of a jetliner.
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Craft carrying comet dust set to return
Jan 12 2006 8:01PM (CT)
DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah (AP) - A NASA spacecraft carrying the first comet dust samples to Earth is on course to land in the Utah desert this weekend, scientists said Thursday.
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Alaska volcano threat level downgraded
Jan 12 2006 6:34PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - The intensity of Augustine Volcano's seismic rumblings on Thursday fell to pre-eruption levels a day after two brief explosions spewed ash five miles into the skies over Cook Inlet, but scientists still anticipate another eruption.
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Sierra Club launches television series
Jan 12 2006 5:57PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The Sierra Club is launching its own television series, teaming up with filmmaker Robert Greenwald to tell stories about individuals and communities fighting for environmental justice.
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Wyo. debates removing grizzly protection
Jan 12 2006 5:56PM (CT)
CODY, Wyo. (AP) - Several speakers at the only public hearing on a plan to remove grizzly bears from federal endangered species protection called for more hearings on the proposal. About 235 people gathered at Tuesday's hearing in Cody.
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Park Service captures Yellowstone bison
Jan 12 2006 5:50PM (CT)
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - Roughly 200 wandering bison have been captured at Yellowstone National Park, and officials there plan to send the animals straight to slaughter, without first testing them for the disease brucellosis, a park spokesman said Wednesday.
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Detroit Zoo penguins undergo eye surgery
Jan 12 2006 5:49PM (CT)
ROYAL OAK, Mich. (AP) - We'll never know just how well, but three nearly blind penguins at the Detroit Zoo can see again thanks to a morning of cataract surgery at a local veterinary center.
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U.S., Australia back global warming plan
Jan 12 2006 5:49PM (CT)
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - The United States and Australia on Thursday pledged a combined $127 million to an Asia Pacific plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by promoting renewable energy sources and cleaner ways to use coal.
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Volcano in Alaska could erupt again
Jan 12 2006 5:47PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A volcano on an uninhabited island could erupt again after spewing ash into the sky for the first time in 20 years, scientists said.
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Mild La Nina forecast for spring
Jan 12 2006 5:45PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A La Nina, a mild cooling of the tropical Pacific Ocean which can affect weather in other areas, is being forecast for spring.
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A look at NASA's mission to Pluto
Jan 12 2006 1:29PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Here are some surprising details about NASA's mission to Pluto, set for a Tuesday launch.
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Spacecraft to Pluto to carry 435,000 names
Jan 12 2006 1:28PM (CT)
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Cliff Friedman's name may go far in Dallas real estate circles, but that doesn't come close to the 3 billion-mile trip it will begin in a few weeks.
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Researcher: Early man was hunted by birds
Jan 12 2006 1:27PM (CT)
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - A South African anthropologist said Thursday his research into the death nearly 2 million years ago of an ape-man shows human ancestors were hunted by birds.
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