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Faulty sensor delays space shuttle launch
Mar 14 2006 11:05PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA on Tuesday postponed the launch of space shuttle Discovery from May until at least July because of an all-too-familiar problem: a faulty fuel tank sensor.
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Portion of Patagonian glacier collapses
Mar 14 2006 10:51PM (CT)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - A vast Patagonian glacier shed a 200-foot wall of ice with a roar during the night, sending debris plunging into a lake in southern Argentina as hundreds of tourists struggled to watch in the dark.
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Utah girl named top high school scientist
Mar 14 2006 10:14PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Utah girl won a prestigious science competition Tuesday for analyzing how to protect water quality by improving environmental buffers and changing daily behavior.
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Coast Guard to study 'cargo sweepings'
Mar 14 2006 8:09PM (CT)
MUSKEGON, Mich. (AP) - For more than 75 years, shipping companies that haul iron ore, coal, salt and limestone have dumped their "cargo sweepings" _ residual materials and wash water left on freighters after they are unloaded _ into the Great Lakes to avoid contaminating future loads.
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Carbon dioxide hit record in 2005
Mar 14 2006 8:08PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere climbed to a record 381 parts per million last year, an increase sure to spark further debate on global warming.
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Tunnels used by ancient Jews discovered
Mar 14 2006 7:46PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Underground chambers and tunnels used during a Jewish revolt against the Romans nearly 2,000 years ago have been uncovered in northern Israel, archaeologists said Monday.
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Survey shows more yellow perch in Wis.
Mar 14 2006 7:46PM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - One of Lake Michigan's more popular fish could be on the rebound after years of declining numbers. A recent survey indicated the lake's Wisconsin waters may contain more baby yellow perch than a decade ago, according to the state Department of Natural Resources.
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Scientist: Keep oil platforms as reefs
Mar 14 2006 7:39PM (CT)
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) - Marine biologist Milton Love drives a hybrid car, displays a banner of left-wing revolutionary Che Guevara on his laboratory wall _ and has backing from Big Oil.
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Scientists find big Afghan oil resources
Mar 14 2006 5:29PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Two geological basins in northern Afghanistan hold 18 times the oil and triple the natural gas resources previously thought, scientists said Tuesday as part of a U.S. assessment aimed at enticing energy development in the war-torn country.
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Report: 2004 set record for carbon dioxide
Mar 14 2006 5:05PM (CT)
GENEVA (AP) - Carbon dioxide and other so-called greenhouse gases reached record high levels in the atmosphere in 2004, the World Meteorological Organization said Tuesday in a new report aimed at providing an annual measuring system for emissions widely blamed for global warming.
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Shipwreck emerges off Washington's coast
Mar 14 2006 8:57AM (CT)
OCEAN SHORES, Wash. (AP) - A ship that carried Northwest loggers and miners, housed visitors to the 1962 Seattle World's Fair and served as a charter fishing base before it was grounded in a storm is emerging from a sand dune like a ghost unearthed by a howling wind.
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