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Fossett breaks flight distance record
Feb 11 2006 8:55PM (CT)
MANSTON, England (AP) - Adventurer Steve Fossett completed the longest nonstop flight in aviation history with an emergency landing Saturday, flying 26,389 miles in about 76 hours but stopping early because of mechanical problems.
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Egypt offers first peek at new tomb
Feb 11 2006 4:13PM (CT)
LUXOR, Egypt (AP) - The painted 3,000-year-old face of a woman _ her eyes lined in black kohl _ stared from a funerary mask as authorities on Friday revealed to the world the first tomb discovered in eight decades in the Valley of the Kings.
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Md. official elaborates on stem cell views
Feb 11 2006 4:00PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele said Saturday he supports stem cell research as long as scientists approach it cautiously, one day after he apologized for comparing the research to Nazi medical experiments.
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Yellow-legged frog faces extinction
Feb 11 2006 3:59AM (CT)
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) - The mountain yellow-legged frog has survived for thousands of years in lakes and streams carved by glaciers, living up to nine months under snow and ice and then emerging to issue its raspy chorus across the Sierra Nevada range.
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