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Report: Tsunami reefs to heal in 10 years
Feb 20 2006 11:28PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Most coral reefs escaped "serious damage" from the 2004 tsunami and should recover in less than 10 years, though much will depend on local government's protecting marine ecosystems, according to a report released Monday.
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Pa. student to publish anthrax project
Feb 20 2006 11:28PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A high school student who showed in a science fair project that using a clothes iron on mail can kill anthrax-like spores inside _ without damaging the contents of the envelope _ will have that research published later this year.
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Center aims to unite scientists, Hawaiians
Feb 20 2006 11:27PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - Blending scientific and Hawaiian exhibits, an astronomy center atop Mauna Kea hopes to ease conflicts over the development of a volcano considered sacred by Hawaiians.
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Maui mayor wants sand exports to end
Feb 20 2006 10:19PM (CT)
WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) - Hoping to slow the flow of sand off his island, Mayor Alan Arakawa has asked the Maui County Council to look at a moratorium on exporting sand.
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Forest Service eager to study wolverine
Feb 20 2006 10:19PM (CT)
MAZAMA, Wash. (AP) - The U.S. Forest Service has trapped the first wolverine ever captured and fitted with a radio collar in the Pacific Northwest.
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El Nino may affect Africa's food supply
Feb 20 2006 10:19PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Climate change that strengthens the El Nino weather patterns could endanger food supplies for more than 20 million people in Africa, a new study warns.
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Scientists dig into pile of comet dust
Feb 20 2006 10:19PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Scientists said Monday they have begun slicing and dicing the first of hundreds of microscopic specks of comet dust, virtually unchanged since the birth of the solar system, that a NASA spacecraft successfully returned to Earth in late January.
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