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Woodpecker thought extinct rediscovered
Apr 28 2005 10:13PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The ivory-billed woodpecker, once prized for its plumage and sought by American Indians as magical, was thought to be extinct for years. Now it's been sighted again and conservationists are exulting.
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Zebra gives birth to foal sired by donkey
Apr 28 2005 10:12PM (CT)
ST. THOMAS, Barbados (AP) - It's male. But what is it? A zonkey? A deebra? That's the debate in Barbados since a zebra gave birth to a foal sired by a donkey.
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Top NASA officials debate May liftoff
Apr 28 2005 10:12PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Top NASA officials debated Thursday whether to postpone a May liftoff for the first space shuttle flight since the Columbia disaster, based on the latest launch-debris analyses and the possible need for extra repairs.
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AP: EPA exceeds Mercury cleanup projection
Apr 28 2005 9:44PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Environmental Protection Agency estimated in an internal report as much as $2 billion in yearly benefits from cutting mercury pollution just in the Southeast _ 40 times the value the agency projected publicly for the entire nation.
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Zoo may use animal waste as energy source
Apr 28 2005 9:07PM (CT)
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - The Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse is looking to become the first zoo in the nation to be powered by its own animal waste _ particularly the prodigious piles produced by its pachyderms.
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Calif. adopts toughest ozone standards
Apr 28 2005 8:12PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The state Air Resources Board unanimously adopted a new limit on ozone levels Thursday that gives California the toughest air pollution guidelines in the nation _ a standard that critics argue is largely symbolic.
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NASA's Deep Impact probe spots quarry
Apr 28 2005 8:09PM (CT)
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) - NASA's Deep Impact probe has spotted its quarry, a comet with which the spacecraft is to collide July 4.
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Experts: New data show global warming
Apr 28 2005 8:06PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Climate scientists armed with new data from deep in the ocean and far into space have found that Earth is absorbing much more heat than it is giving off, a conclusion they say validates projections of global warming.
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Birds may be behind exploding German toads
Apr 28 2005 8:02PM (CT)
BERLIN (AP) - Why are toads puffing up and spontaneously exploding in northern Europe? It began in a posh German neighborhood and has spread across the border into Denmark. It's left onlookers baffled, but one German scientist studying the splattered amphibian remains now has a theory: Hungry crows may be pecking out their livers.
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Report: Farmers are sick less from GM crop
Apr 28 2005 1:11PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Chinese farmers growing genetically modified rice produced larger crops, saved money on pesticides and were less likely to get sick from exposure to poison intended for insects.
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DNA backlog undercuts crime-solving value
Apr 28 2005 1:09PM (CT)
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - It took five years to get Howard Godfrey's DNA entered into a database at the state crime lab _ and just five days after that for police to conclude he committed a murder that had gone unsolved since 1991.
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Experiment creates nuclear fusion in lab
Apr 28 2005 12:50PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A tabletop experiment created nuclear fusion _ long seen as a possible clean energy solution _ under lab conditions, scientists reported. But the amount of energy produced was too little to be seen as a breakthrough in solving the world's energy needs.
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Texas A&M researchers clone horse
Apr 28 2005 12:49PM (CT)
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) - A team of French and American researchers has successfully cloned a horse, Texas A&M University officials announced Wednesday. The foal was named Paris Texas.
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Advocacy group reports less air pollution
Apr 28 2005 12:46PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Fewer Americans have had to breathe unhealthy levels of smog or microscopic soot in recent years, but air pollution remained a threat in counties where more than half the nation lives, the American Lung Association said in an annual report Thursday.
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Zoo reverses vasectomy on bush dog
Apr 28 2005 6:56AM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Three yapping, cuddly South American bush dog pups at the Saint Louis Zoo are making fertility history among wild canids, with implications for the rest of the animal world.
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