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Agency wants whales listed as endangered
Apr 19 2007 11:36PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Beluga whales have long delighted residents and tourists alike when spotted swimming the silty waters off Alaska's biggest city, but now the gregarious white whales are in danger of becoming extinct.
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Space race heats up in Asia
Apr 19 2007 8:26PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan is set to launch its first lunar orbiter this summer, but exploring the moon is just part of the mission.
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Space race heats up in Asia
Apr 19 2007 8:26PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan is set to launch its first lunar orbiter this summer, but exploring the moon is just part of the mission.
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Space race heats up in Asia
Apr 19 2007 8:26PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan is set to launch its first lunar orbiter this summer, but exploring the moon is just part of the mission.
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NASA to test portable robot surgeon
Apr 19 2007 8:26PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Doctors and scientists from the University of Washington will get a glimpse of what it would be like to do remote surgery in space when a portable medical robot they created will be tested next month in an underwater environment designed by NASA to simulate zero gravity.
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NASA to test portable robot surgeon
Apr 19 2007 8:26PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Doctors and scientists from the University of Washington will get a glimpse of what it would be like to do remote surgery in space when a portable medical robot they created will be tested next month in an underwater environment designed by NASA to simulate zero gravity.
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NASA to test portable robot surgeon
Apr 19 2007 8:26PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Doctors and scientists from the University of Washington will get a glimpse of what it would be like to do remote surgery in space when a portable medical robot they created will be tested next month in an underwater environment designed by NASA to simulate zero gravity.
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Dead whooping crane aids in bird studies
Apr 19 2007 8:26PM (CT)
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - A whooping crane found dead in a farmer's field was a "senior citizen" with a colorful past that helped with studies of the rare birds, a Fish and Wildlife Service spokesman says.
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Energy producers capture speedier wind
Apr 19 2007 8:26PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - New technology is allowing energy producers to capture speedier wind that environmental activists say has the potential to provide 20 percent of the state's electricity within 10 years.
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NYC police retrieve dead whale's body
Apr 19 2007 8:26PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A day after it died while splashing around in a remote backwater of New York Harbor, the body of a baby whale was retrieved by police divers on Thursday and taken to an Army Corps of Engineers dock in New Jersey for a necropsy to possibly determine what caused its demise.
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Fishermen go after protected sea lions
Apr 19 2007 8:26PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The competition between protected sea lions gobbling Columbia River salmon and impatient humans with empty fishing lines has led to vigilante action.
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U.S. agency to help wipe out potato pest
Apr 19 2007 8:26PM (CT)
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Federal aid is on the way to help Idaho potato growers battle a microscopic worm that was discovered in fields last year and blamed for the closure of four export markets for fresh potatoes.
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Kenya farmers fight animal welfare lobby
Apr 19 2007 8:26PM (CT)
NAIVASHA, Kenya (AP) - For the farmers of Kenya, life is a constant contest for grass and water between their herds and the wild animals that share the land. Now they are waging a new struggle, this time against the international animal welfare lobby.
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