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Planet outside solar system is observed
Apr 30 2005 9:39PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - New images taken of an object five times the mass of Jupiter confirm that it is a giant planet closely orbiting a distant star, an international team of astronomers reported. The team of European and American astronomers said this is the first time a planet outside of our solar system has been directly observed _ a claim other scientists have also made.
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Larvae mortality latest woe for oystermen
Apr 30 2005 8:06PM (CT)
BIVALVE, N.J. (AP) - Decimated by disease in the 1990s and still recovering, Delaware Bay oyster beds are facing yet another scourge _ mysteriously high mortality among larvae, a trend that threatens a fishery that has been producing the plump, salty delicacies for more than 200 years.
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Astronaut Hall of Fame inducts 3 members
Apr 30 2005 7:51PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The first man to fly freely and untethered in space, famously photographed alone in the cosmic blackness above a blue Earth, was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on Saturday.
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Genetic mingling endorsed for drug testing
Apr 30 2005 6:43PM (CT)
RENO, Nev. (AP) - On a farm about six miles outside this gambling town, Jason Chamberlain looks over a flock of about 50 smelly sheep, many of them possessing partially human livers, hearts, brains and other organs.
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Woman aiming to lift NASA back into space
Apr 30 2005 4:14PM (CT)
SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) - Eileen Collins, commander of the next space shuttle mission, is eager to strap herself into a rocketship loaded with explosive fuel and fearlessly shoot from zero to 1,000 mph in a minute flat. Just don't ask her to get on a roller coaster.
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Toxic algae hampers Everglades restoration
Apr 30 2005 7:24AM (CT)
LAKE OKEECHOBEE, Fla. (AP) - Lake Okeechobee was in trouble before last year's hurricanes churned up a thick layer of pollution from the bottom, turning the water the color of day-old coffee. But the worst may be yet to come.
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NASA delays post-Columbia flight again
Apr 30 2005 4:20AM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA on Friday pushed back the first post-Columbia space shuttle flight by at least two months, after last-minute analyses suggested that ice falling off the fuel tank could prove as catastrophic as the foam that doomed the last mission two years ago.
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