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Alaska gets its first artificial reef
May 12 2006 7:42PM (CT)
WHITTIER, Alaska (AP) - Fifty feet down in the cold waters of Smitty's Cove, a concrete paradise is being built for some of Alaska's most unusual creatures.
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Rock chunk falls from Mount St. Helens
May 12 2006 6:53PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - The sheer rock fin emerging in Mount St. Helens' crater lost about a third of its northern face recently, but because lava keeps pushing to the surface, the height remained the same Thursday _ around 330 feet.
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Study details quake at San Andreas fault
May 12 2006 6:51PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A powerful earthquake on the southern San Andreas fault, which hasn't ruptured in over three centuries, is capable of producing prolonged periods of strong shaking in the greater Los Angeles region, a new study finds.
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Mayo docs separate conjoined twin girls
May 12 2006 6:44PM (CT)
ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) - Twin girls Abbigail and Isabelle Carlsen, joined at the chest since their birth five months ago, were separated Friday by a team of doctors at the Mayo Clinic.
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Groups sue to keep pygmy owls protected
May 12 2006 6:32PM (CT)
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Conservation groups have sued to stop the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from removing a tiny desert owl from the endangered species list.
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Whirling disease spreading in Utah
May 12 2006 6:28PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A disease that can deform trout, cause them to chase their own tail and eventually lead to their starvation, continues to spread swiftly through Utah's waterways.
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Rare Whooping Crane lands in Vermont
May 12 2006 6:26PM (CT)
ADDISON, Vt. (AP) - A whooping crane flew off its migration path and landed in Vermont for the second year in a row this spring. The bird, who was accompanied by a younger crane, was caught and flown to Wisconsin where the rare birds usually spend the summer. They migrate to Florida for the winter.
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Zebra mussels eradicated in Va. quarry
May 12 2006 6:25PM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - An infestation of zebra mussels in a Virginia quarry has been eradicated, marking what biologists and environmental experts believe is the first successful extermination of the notoriously invasive species in open waters.
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U.S. launches new era of space diplomacy
May 12 2006 6:24PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA seems to be embarking on a new era of space diplomacy. An accord to cooperate with India on an unmanned moon mission was sewn up this week and talks are on the horizon with China, a potential competitor that wants to land on the moon.
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Space shuttle moved in step toward launch
May 12 2006 12:24PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The space shuttle Discovery was moved Friday from its hangar to an assembly building, an important milestone in preparing the spacecraft for launch in July.
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Chinese scientist fired over chip fraud
May 12 2006 10:19AM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - A dean at one of China's top universities has been fired after his claims to have invented a new computer chip turned out to be a fraud, the school announced Friday.
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S. Korean cloning scientist Hwang indicted
May 12 2006 9:53AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korean prosecutors indicted disgraced cloning scientist Hwang Woo-suk Friday on charges of fraud, embezzlement and bioethics violations in a scandal over faked stem cell research that shook the scientific community.
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