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Sandhill cranes roost along Platte River
Apr 22 2006 10:01PM (CT)
WOOD RIVER, Neb. (AP) - To the human eye, the shallow, muddy Platte River surrounded by razed cornfields and brown pastureland is, at best, austere.
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Crumbling Chernobyl shelter poses danger
Apr 22 2006 5:37PM (CT)
CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, Ukraine (AP) - Chernobyl's coffin is cracking. Birds and rainwater have gotten inside the steel-and-concrete shelter hastily built over the reactor that blew up in 1986, and officials worry about what is getting out.
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Could Chernobyl happen again?
Apr 22 2006 4:26PM (CT)
MOSCOW (AP) - The Chernobyl plant sits idle 20 years after the world's worst nuclear accident, its last reactor taken out of service some six years ago.
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Scientists warn of threat to coral reefs
Apr 22 2006 3:01PM (CT)
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) - Warmer sea temperatures could worsen the widespread destruction of coral reefs that hit the Caribbean in 2005, scientists fear.
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Scientists study Japan for Chernobyl clues
Apr 22 2006 12:24PM (CT)
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) - Scientists trying to predict the long-term health effects of the Chernobyl explosion look to Hiroshima and Nagasaki for clues, but drawing parallels is difficult.
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Waikiki's beaches get clean bill of health
Apr 22 2006 6:55AM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - Concerns that a massive sewage spill polluted Waikiki's world-famous beaches all but washed away after a health group said the sand "seems" to be clean.
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Calif. stem cell agency still in limbo
Apr 22 2006 3:16AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - California's $3 billion stem cell research institute won an important victory with a court ruling rejecting challenges to its constitutionality, but the agency's finances remain in limbo while the expected appeals block much of its funding.
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Ag union: U.S. not prepared for bird flu
Apr 22 2006 2:43AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Homeland Security Department inspectors at U.S. airports don't have enough training to keep a deadly strain of bird flu from getting into the country, a union official is charging, citing the handling of live birds found in the luggage of a passenger from Vietnam.
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