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Museum to show dinosaurs being taken apart
Mar 23 2005 7:59PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - What could be better than seeing the first tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered? Watching it being taken apart. Visitors to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, which has one of the oldest and largest dinosaur collections in the nation, will be able to watch as the museum's collection of fossilized dinosaur skeletons are taken apart before a renovation of the museum's almost century-old Dinosaur Hall.
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Panda undergoes artificial insemination
Mar 23 2005 7:56PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - A rare possible panda pregnancy was announced by the top official at Zoo Atlanta on Wednesday. "We have some exciting news," zoo president and CEO Dennis Kelly said at a news conference just outside the panda compound.
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Weather service to keep hurricane 'line'
Mar 23 2005 7:36PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The National Weather Service will keep using a "skinny black line" to project hurricane tracks on forecast maps although some officials worry people in wider warning areas on either side may fail to take precautions.
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U.S. to start tracking 'greenhouse' gases
Mar 23 2005 7:36PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government will start keeping track of all the "greenhouse" gases that farmers and foresters voluntarily reduce to help combat global warming.
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EPA chided for disregarding mercury study
Mar 23 2005 2:15PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Environmental Protection Agency's decision to ignore researchers' analysis of possible health benefits from reducing mercury pollution from power plants was criticized Tuesday by Democrats in Congress.
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NASA instituting crowd control on shuttle
Mar 23 2005 9:25AM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA said Tuesday it will institute strict crowd control for space shuttle launches and landings, and rely more on a seldom-used touchdown site in New Mexico, to better protect the public once flights resume in a few months.
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Saturn V rocket almost ready for tourists
Mar 23 2005 8:53AM (CT)
SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) - It was designed to go to the moon, but a little coastal humidity is all it took for the towering Saturn V rocket at Johnson Space Center to begin to rot like an old pickup left in the front yard.
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Asians, Iraqis to get recycled water
Mar 23 2005 6:13AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - There are plenty of wells in Iraq, but the dead animals dumped there when Saddam Hussein was in power have contaminated them. There are plenty of streams in southeast Asia, but the recent tsunami polluted them with salt from the ocean. How do you quench someone's thirst when there is plenty of water, but not a drop of it is drinkable?
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