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Hubble telescope to view comet collision
Jun 11 2005 10:02PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - The Hubble Space Telescope will be watching when the University of Maryland's Deep Impact space probe crashes into a comet July 4, setting off a cosmic firework that may be visible on Earth.
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Arizona's pronghorns making comeback
Jun 11 2005 10:00PM (CT)
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - About 2 1/2 years ago, the survival chances for Arizona's endangered Sonoran pronghorns were grim. Victimized by prolonged drought, only an estimated 21 of the sleek desert-dwelling animals were left in this country; their extinction appeared inevitable.
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Cal given 8-month extension at Los Alamos
Jun 11 2005 9:49PM (CT)
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) - The University of California has been given an eight-month contract extension to run the Los Alamos National Laboratory for the federal government.
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After years of drought, Salt Lake rising
Jun 11 2005 9:25PM (CT)
BRIGHAM CITY, Utah (AP) - The water in the Great Salt Lake has begun rising again after years of drought, changing the landscape and starting to submerge one of Utah's best-known artifacts: an enormous earth sculpture called the Spiral Jetty.
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Neighbors defend Mo. mining waste mountain
Jun 11 2005 5:17PM (CT)
PARK HILLS, Mo. (AP) - You won't hear Elwood "Knot" Ragsdale or many others along Buckley Street call the mining waste towering 30 stories above their homes a neighborhood eyesore, a wind-swept legacy of the community's bygone days of keeping the nation supplied with lead.
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Few differences for new nuclear plants
Jun 11 2005 5:05PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The new-generation nuclear reactors being talked about after a pause of three decades are not much different from those of the past, though the designs should make them safer, more efficient and easier to build.
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Wildlife officials net rare white muskie
Jun 11 2005 3:38AM (CT)
WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) - This is indeed a fish story _ not about the one that got away but about a rare one. A white muskellunge is swimming in the waters of Lake Tomahawk, in the northern part of the state. State fisheries experts captured it in nets during a population survey in April and released it back into the lake.
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Judge orders gov't to help imperiled fish
Jun 11 2005 3:34AM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A federal judge ordered U.S. officials to increase the volume of water spilled through five dams on the Snake and Columbia rivers to make it easier for imperiled salmon species to reach the ocean.
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