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Malaysia signs astronaut deal with Russia
May 19 2006 10:43PM (CT)
MOSCOW (AP) - Malaysia has signed a contract with Russia to send an astronaut to the international space station next year, Russian officials said Friday.
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Iowa co. hopes to make gasoline obsolete
May 19 2006 9:46PM (CT)
ALGONA, Iowa (AP) - While much of the world fumes over escalating fuel prices, a small company in north central Iowa is quietly hoping to make gasoline obsolete as an engine fuel.
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Scientists show dinosaur fingernail fossil
May 19 2006 9:45PM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - A dinosaur claw fossil found in Brazil reinforces the theory of an evolutionary link between dinosaurs and birds, a new study says. Brazilian scientists dubbed the dinosaur the dino-bird, which they said was found in Minas Gerais state, about 370 miles northwest of Rio.
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NASA moves Discovery to launch pad
May 19 2006 8:47PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA hauled Discovery to the launch pad Friday in preparation for only the second liftoff of a space shuttle since the Columbia disaster three years ago.
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Rare Devils Hole pupfish moved to hatchery
May 19 2006 7:41PM (CT)
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Biologists have moved some of the few remaining endangered Devils Hole pupfish from their secluded desert hot spring to a Las Vegas Strip casino aquarium and a federal fish hatchery on the Colorado River.
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Rare American chestnut trees discovered
May 19 2006 7:05PM (CT)
ALBANY, Ga. (AP) - A stand of American chestnut trees that somehow escaped a blight that killed off nearly all their kind in the early 1900s has been discovered along a hiking trail not far from President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Little White House at Warm Springs.
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French scientists find 'living fossil'
May 19 2006 7:04PM (CT)
PARIS (AP) - French scientists who explored the Coral Sea said Friday they discovered a new species of crustacean that was thought to have become extinct 60 million years ago.
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Glacier Bay popular for humpback whales
May 19 2006 7:02PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - To the delight of tourists, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve continues to be a popular draw for humpback whales.
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Seattle has greater quake, landslide risks
May 19 2006 7:00PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Earthquake experts say Seattle now has the nation's most precise geologic hazards map, and it indicates a greater risk of damage from quakes and landslides than was known before.
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