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Comet dust to be sent to Houston
Jan 16 2006 8:09PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The Stardust space capsule that returned to Earth with comet debris suffered just a small nick when it landed in the Utah desert _ a huge relief for NASA after a similar space probe cracked open like a clamshell two years ago.
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Prehistoric 'kitchen' found in Indiana
Jan 16 2006 8:07PM (CT)
CHARLESTOWN, Ind. (AP) - Workers building a boat ramp at southeastern Indiana's Charlestown State Park have uncovered the apparent remains of a 4,000-year-old "kitchen" ancient American Indians tribes may have used to prepare their winter food supply.
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Ark. workers trained for Africanized bees
Jan 16 2006 8:03PM (CT)
LAKE HAMILTON, Ark. (AP) - Emergency workers are being trained to deal with Africanized honeybees as they begin to spread northward in Arkansas from the southwestern corner of the state.
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Rare bats discovered in eastern Oklahoma
Jan 16 2006 8:01PM (CT)
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - A forestry specialist with the Cherokee Nation appraising timber in eastern Oklahoma uncovered a newfound colony of endangered Ozark big-eared bats. Scientists believe that only about 2,000 of the bats exist, and roughly 75 percent of those are in Oklahoma.
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Experts to search Bangladesh for sandpiper
Jan 16 2006 7:58PM (CT)
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - A team of international bird experts will begin surveying the Bangladeshi coast Tuesday in search of the endangered spoon-billed sandpiper, whose population they believe has dwindled to just 350 pairs in the wild, organizers said Monday.
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NASA set to launch spacecraft to Pluto
Jan 16 2006 7:58PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - An unmanned NASA spacecraft the size of a piano is set to lift off Tuesday on a nine-year journey to Pluto, the last unexplored planet in the solar system.
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Canadian beetle infestation worries U.S.
Jan 16 2006 9:52AM (CT)
GRANGEVILLE, Idaho (AP) - Northwest loggers are worried British Columbia may be forced to harvest as much as 21 million acres of forests to stop the mountain pine beetle, flooding the market and driving down timber prices.
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Anti-nuke activists protest Pluto mission
Jan 16 2006 6:10AM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - More than eight years ago, hundreds of protesters chanted anti-nuclear slogans before NASA launched a spacecraft to Saturn carrying 72 pounds of plutonium fuel. The noise before this week's launch of a craft with a similar payload has been more muted.
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