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Columbia River spring salmon at new lows
Apr 13 2005 8:24PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Usually by now the Columbia River's spring chinook salmon are heading upstream over fish ladders in the tens of thousands to spawn. But not this year.
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Land near Grand Canyon to be protected
Apr 13 2005 8:22PM (CT)
PHOENIX (AP) - Bolstered by a $1 million grant from retail giant Wal-Mart, conservation groups plan to protect almost 900,000 acres of wilderness, including land stretching along 125 miles of the Grand Canyon's North Rim.
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Students find inclusions in shuttle debris
Apr 13 2005 8:21PM (CT)
BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) - Students who spent more than a month testing pieces of the Columbia say that today's space-age materials _ unavailable when the doomed shuttle was built more than two decades ago _ might make a next-generation space vehicle safer.
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Eggs finally hatching for giant octopus
Apr 13 2005 8:12PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Aurora held tight to her dream. Even when most any other would-be mother _ even one with eight arms _ would likely have become discouraged, not Aurora. The aging Giant Pacific octopus at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward embraced her maternal instinct and was rewarded this week. Her eggs finally began hatching.
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Senate confirms Griffin to head NASA
Apr 13 2005 7:22PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate on Wednesday confirmed rocket scientist Michael Griffin to serve as the next administrator of NASA. Griffin was approved by voice vote.
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Beetles get politically prominent names
Apr 13 2005 12:30PM (CT)
ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) - President Bush, Vice President Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld have shared a common political vision for most of their careers. Now each will share something else _ a slime-mold beetle named in his honor.
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Wal-Mart to fund wildlife habitat
Apr 13 2005 8:12AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, pledged Tuesday to spend $35 million compensating for wildlife habitat lost nationwide beneath its corporate "footprint."
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Activity changes dome of Mount St. Helens
Apr 13 2005 8:09AM (CT)
MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash. (AP) - Surging seismic activity at Mount St. Helens has changed the whale-back shape of the volcano's emerging new dome, leaving it more like the back of a stegosaurus _ a dinosaur with bony plates of armor along its spine.
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U.N. presses India to save tigers
Apr 13 2005 8:06AM (CT)
GENEVA (AP) - Even in their own reserves, they are rampantly poached for their "lucky" collar bones, fashionable skins and decorative claws. When they flee onto human territory, they are poisoned, electrocuted, shot or trapped. There is nowhere left for India's dwindling tiger population to turn.
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Gene project aims to trace human migration
Apr 13 2005 7:20AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Researchers are aiming to learn more about how the Earth was populated by collecting and analyzing genetic samples from 100,000 people around the globe.
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Exhibit aims to portray real Washington
Apr 13 2005 7:07AM (CT)
MOUNT VERNON, Va. (AP) - The nation's Founding Father had a crooked face _ his chin receding on the left and protruding on the right _ the likely result of significant tooth loss, an anthropology professor has concluded.
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