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Feds to do own spotted owl recovery plan
Apr 3 2006 8:18PM (CT)
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - Citing federal budget cuts, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has decided it can't afford to pay an outside contractor to develop the long-overdue recovery plan for the northern spotted owl, so it will develop the blueprint for saving the threatened species from extinction on its own.
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Astronauts plan space station 'campout'
Apr 3 2006 8:17PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The U.S. astronauts on the international space station planned a campout Monday night but without the S'mores. Commander Bill McArthur and science officer Jeff Williams planned to sleep overnight sealed off in the space station's Quest airlock, the area from which crew members embark on spacewalks.
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Private rocket flight set from Mideast
Apr 3 2006 7:07PM (CT)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Adnan al-Maimani insists he isn't looking to be a pioneer _ he just dreams of looking down on Earth. So the 40-year-old entrepreneur is paying more than $100,000 to go on the first flight traveling to the edge of space from a Mideast nation.
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Expert says it was hotter 247M years ago
Apr 3 2006 7:07PM (CT)
CAVE JUNCTION, Ore. (AP) - John Roth shined his flashlight on a black streak flowing through the cream-colored marble forming the walls of the Oregon Caves.
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Researcher to test device while weightless
Apr 3 2006 7:01PM (CT)
MISSOULA (AP) - Chuck Leonard gets motion sickness just by sitting in the back seat of a moving car. So the University of Montana researcher is already resigned to the fact that his project with NASA next week is going to end with him being sick.
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Wash. scientists seek help in Mammoth dig
Apr 3 2006 6:59PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - A mammoth that died thousands of years ago near what is now Yakima is slowly revealing its secrets to scientists, and they're putting out the welcome mat for people interested in pitching in _ and helping to cover the project costs.
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Ag program boosts African farming
Apr 3 2006 6:50PM (CT)
SAURI, Kenya (AP) - James Alede has never seen anything like it. His small farm has produced a bumper maize crop, and for the first time in recent memory he doesn't have to worry about his family going hungry.
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Scientists focus on warming disasters
Apr 3 2006 2:14PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A man stands on a railroad track as a train rumbles closer. "Global warming?" he says. "Some say irreversible consequences are 30 years away. Thirty years. That won't affect me." He steps off the tracks _ just in time. But behind him is a little blonde-haired girl left in front of the roaring train. The screen goes black. A message appears: "There's still time."
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Studies: Celebrex may stop colon cancer
Apr 3 2006 12:58PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A popular arthritis drug that seems to raise the risk of heart problems also seems to lower the risk of growths that lead to colon cancer, two large studies reveal.
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U.N. raises bird flu deaths to 107
Apr 3 2006 12:12PM (CT)
GENEVA (AP) - The U.N. health agency on Monday raised to 107 the confirmed number of people who have died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu, adding two Egyptian women who died last month.
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Co. produces clones from cutting horses
Apr 3 2006 3:59AM (CT)
PURCELL, Okla. (AP) - A company that offers horse owners exact duplicates of their animals says it has successfully cloned two top-earning horses.
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