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Photos taken of 'living fossil' in Laos
Jun 14 2006 9:33PM (CT)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - The first pictures showing a live specimen of a rodent species once thought to have been extinct for 11 million years have been taken by a retired Florida State University professor and a Thai wildlife biologist.
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Man has new hip resurfacing procedure
Jun 14 2006 9:24PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - No way was Rick Jones going to be a couch potato. An athlete and youth coach who works out regularly, Jones dreams of someday hiking the Grand Canyon. A painful, arthritic hip started to slow him down, but at 52, he refused. Then he heard about a new surgical hip procedure that could restore his active lifestyle.
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Ore. judge asked to block forest logging
Jun 14 2006 9:06PM (CT)
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) - Environmentalists asked a federal judge Wednesday to temporarily block logging in a remote, burned-over section of a national forest that was purchased last week in the first such sale since the Bush administration eased logging restrictions.
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Nev. students try to float concrete canoes
Jun 14 2006 6:03PM (CT)
RENO, Nev. (AP) - It's whatever floats your boat _ even if it's a concrete canoe. Engineering students at the University of Nevada, Reno shoved 217 pounds of it into the lake at Sparks Marina Park, then took turns paddling it across the water. Floating concrete?
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Iowa's oaks at risk of disappearing
Jun 14 2006 5:52PM (CT)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Iowa is at risk of losing its state tree _ the oak _ and residents are being urged to plant more of them to keep them from disappearing.
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Report: Design flaw caused Genesis crash
Jun 14 2006 5:52PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A report released Tuesday blamed a design flaw for the 2004 crash of a NASA space probe carrying solar wind atoms back to Earth and criticized engineers for failing to detect the error.
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Jumbo camera taking world's largest photo
Jun 14 2006 5:48PM (CT)
IRVINE, Calif. (AP) - Walk into the massive air hangar and the first thing you notice is an oppressive darkness broken only by a tiny beam of light from a gumball-size hole in the wall.
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'Green slime' returns to Great Lakes
Jun 14 2006 5:46PM (CT)
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - Call it the return of the green slime. Back in the 1960s, foul gobs of algae along Great Lakes shorelines made swimmers and sunbathers miserable before a crackdown on phosphorus pollution repelled the invasion.
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Space shuttle crew arrives in Florida
Jun 14 2006 10:35AM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The crew of space shuttle Discovery arrived at the Kennedy Space Center Tuesday for several days of dress rehearsals in preparation for a July launch.
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