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Alaska volcano erupts four times in a day
Jan 13 2006 10:09PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A volcano on an uninhabited island 180 miles from Anchorage erupted four times Friday, sending plumes of ash more than six miles into the sky.
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N.D. to house hydrogen refueling station
Jan 13 2006 10:04PM (CT)
MINOT, N.D. (AP) - North Dakota State University's North Central Research Center, Basin Electric Power Cooperative and other partners are planning a station here to refuel hydrogen-powered vehicles using wind power.
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Activists sue over Conn. parakeet removal
Jan 13 2006 10:01PM (CT)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - An animal rights group said Friday that it filed a lawsuit against United Illuminating Co. seeking to stop any future removal of monk parakeet nests from utility poles. Darien-based Friends of Animals said the lawsuit was filed Thursday afternoon in New Haven Superior Court.
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Japan scientists simulate quake in condo
Jan 13 2006 9:30PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japanese researchers on Friday tested a huge quake simulator capable of jolting a six-storey building in a project that could help improve earthquake-resistant construction methods.
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Ancient remains found in downtown Miami
Jan 13 2006 8:12PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Archaeologists excavating two American Indian burial sites in downtown Miami say they have found hundreds of remains piled in limestone fissures, some of them stacked in stone burial boxes.
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Scientists: Donner family not cannibals
Jan 13 2006 8:11PM (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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Researchers win $10M pig genome grant
Jan 13 2006 8:03PM (CT)
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - A research team led by two University of Illinois scientists has won a $10 million federal grant to help provide the first complete sequence of the swine genome, a map that could help farmers produce better hogs, give consumers tastier pork and ultimately benefit human health.
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Taiwanese researchers breed glowing pigs
Jan 13 2006 8:03PM (CT)
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Pigs may not be able to fly just yet, but at least three of them glow. Taiwanese researchers said Friday they have bred the pigs with a fluorescent material in a move they hope will benefit the island's stem cell research effort.
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Study: Many Ashkenazi Jews from four women
Jan 13 2006 5:25PM (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 13 2006 12:11PM (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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Researcher: Early man was hunted by birds
Jan 13 2006 9:44AM (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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S. Korea widens stem cell probe
Jan 13 2006 9:24AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korean prosecutors investigating disgraced stem cell researcher Hwang Woo-suk said Friday they were barring more of his collaborators from leaving the country.
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