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Australian toad the size of a small dog
Mar 28 2007 6:08PM (CT)
DARWIN, Australia (AP) - An environmental group said Tuesday it had captured a "monster" toad the size of a small dog. With a body the size of a football and weighing nearly 2 pounds, the toad is among the largest specimens ever captured in Australia, according to Frogwatch coordinator Graeme Sawyer.
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Australian toad the size of a small dog
Mar 28 2007 6:08PM (CT)
DARWIN, Australia (AP) - An environmental group said Tuesday it had captured a "monster" toad the size of a small dog. With a body the size of a football and weighing nearly 2 pounds, the toad is among the largest specimens ever captured in Australia, according to Frogwatch coordinator Graeme Sawyer.
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Astronaut stuck in space
Mar 28 2007 6:02PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Astronaut Sunita Williams is stuck in space _ at least temporarily. She flew up to the international space station last December planning to come home in early July after a seven-month stay.
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Energy Department fined $1 million
Mar 28 2007 5:58PM (CT)
RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) - The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday fined the federal Energy Department $1.1 million over violations of an agreement to clean up the Hanford nuclear reservation, the nation's most polluted nuclear site.
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Flaming objects miss jetliner in air
Mar 28 2007 4:53PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Pilots of a Chilean commercial jetliner spotted flaming objects falling past their plane as it headed for a landing in New Zealand, airline officials said Wednesday.
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Cities at risk of rising seas
Mar 28 2007 4:51PM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - More than two-thirds of the world's large cities are in areas vulnerable to global warming and rising sea levels, and millions of people are at risk of being swamped by flooding and intense storms, according to a new study released Wednesday.
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Study: Dinosaur demise didn't spur species
Mar 28 2007 2:46PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The big dinosaur extinction of 65 million years ago didn't produce a flurry of new species in the ancestry of modern mammals after all, says a huge study that challenges a long-standing theory.
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Michigan ponders sewage disappearance
Mar 28 2007 12:00AM (CT)
SAND LAKE, Mich. (AP) - About 15 million gallons of partially treated sewage water disappeared from a 250,000 square-foot storage lagoon into a sinkhole, but officials don't know where it went after that.
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