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Multiple dangers loom in coastal regions
Mar 29 2005 9:10PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - While the earthquake in Indonesia and last December's Asian tsunami have focused attention on natural disasters, hundreds of smaller disasters cause widespread devastation every year.
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Scientists mystified by herring decline
Mar 29 2005 8:00PM (CT)
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - A steep decline in Puget Sound-area herring, a critical food source for larger fish, marine mammals and sea birds, has scientists mystified.
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Lawmaker urges NASA on Hubble mission
Mar 29 2005 7:59PM (CT)
GREENBELT, Md. (AP) - Maryland Congressman Steny Hoyer called on NASA Tuesday to go ahead with plans to send a robot to service the Hubble Space Telescope while officials from the space agency said such a mission likely won't happen due to proposed budget cuts.
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Study: Salmon from farms breed sea lice
Mar 29 2005 7:51PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Salmon farms help stock supermarkets but also breed parasitic sea lice that infect young wild salmon and could endanger other important ocean species such as herring, scientists said Tuesday.
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Tsunami warning system helped spread word
Mar 29 2005 7:50PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Within minutes of the earthquake, the word went out: Radio and television stations repeated government warnings, workers at beachfront hotels pounded on doors to awaken guests, and police used loudspeakers to urge residents away from the sea.
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Latest earthquakes surprise seismologists
Mar 29 2005 7:49PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The latest deadly earthquake off the coast of Indonesia wasn't unexpected but may have arrived earlier than experts anticipated.
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Scientists puzzled no tsunami after quake
Mar 29 2005 10:05AM (CT)
EWA BEACH, Hawaii (AP) - Tsunami experts could not understand why Monday's forceful earthquake off Indonesia failed to produce massive waves similar to those generated by the Dec. 26 quake that killed at least 175,000 people in the same region.
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Space station crew excited by Discovery
Mar 29 2005 8:36AM (CT)
STAR CITY, Russia (AP) - The next crew members of the International Space Station said Tuesday they were proud of their mission, which involves the U.S. space shuttle's return to flight.
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Ind. man photographs endangered bobcats
Mar 29 2005 8:35AM (CT)
ANGOLA, Ind. (AP) - A northeastern Indiana hunter who found mysterious animal tracks in a swamp set up an infrared-activated camera that captured images of two endangered bobcats.
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Expert: Hurricane Ivan caused sand loss
Mar 29 2005 8:35AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - New measurements of Hurricane Ivan's erosion of beaches, dunes and barrier islands along the Gulf of Mexico underscore how vulnerable the American shoreline is to such storms, a U.S. Geological Survey oceanographer says.
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Study finds high toxins in Wash. fish
Mar 29 2005 8:35AM (CT)
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - A state Department of Ecology study has found that fish in the Spokane River have the highest concentrations of toxic flame retardants of any freshwater fish in Washington state.
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Scientists use new fingerprint technique
Mar 29 2005 8:34AM (CT)
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) - Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists are using a new technique to see fingerprints on surfaces that typically make them invisible.
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Two astronauts complete spacewalk work
Mar 29 2005 8:34AM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The two space station astronauts installed antennas and released a baby Sputnik during a spacewalk Monday, completing the work just before the orbiting outpost drifted and rolled slightly because of overloaded gyroscopes.
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Wis. professor to test stun guns on pigs
Mar 29 2005 8:32AM (CT)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison plans to study whether stun guns alone can kill pigs _ or whether other medical factors must be at play _ as part of an effort to understand why 70 people have died in North America since 2001 after being shocked by Tasers.
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Pa. museum dismantling dinosaur collection
Mar 29 2005 8:31AM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Two men stood perched atop folding ladders. One cradled the skull of an allosaurus, his hands tucked behind its 3-inch curved serrated teeth. The other probed under the jaw with a screwdriver.
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