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Ancestor of modern birds believed found
Jun 15 2006 10:02PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The first detailed look at the ancestor of modern birds _ a grebe-like waterbird that would look normal even today _ was shown off Thursday by scientists who discovered fossil remains in a remote lake bed in China.
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Whale carcass mystifies Alaska scientists
Jun 15 2006 9:17PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Scientists are mystified by the carcass of a young beluga whale found in a river in central Alaska, nearly 1,000 miles from its natural ocean habitat.
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Man has new hip resurfacing procedure
Jun 15 2006 8:27PM (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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Twins recovering after separation surgery
Jun 15 2006 8:27PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Regina and Renata Salinas Fierros lay in side-by-side beds for the first time in their 10-month-old lives Thursday after doctors separated and rebuilt the twins' bodies in a marathon surgery.
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School to use grant on hog farm odors
Jun 15 2006 8:15PM (CT)
URBANA, Ill. (AP) - The University of Illinois plans to use a $251,000 grant presented by the state attorney general's office Thursday to test techniques and technology to control hog farm odors.
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Discovery crew has practice countdown
Jun 15 2006 8:07PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Discovery's seven crew members put on their bright orange spacesuits and were strapped into the space shuttle for a practice countdown on the launch pad Thursday.
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Hawking recalls pope's views on research
Jun 15 2006 8:06PM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - Famed physicist Stephen Hawking said Thursday that Pope John Paul II tried to discourage him and other scientists attending a cosmology conference at the Vatican from trying to figure out how the universe began.
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Photos taken of 'living fossil' in Laos
Jun 15 2006 8:05PM (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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DNA data may reunite war-torn families
Jun 15 2006 3:06PM (CT)
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - Angela Fillingim grew up knowing she had been adopted as a baby during El Salvador's bloody civil war. But it wasn't until she took a high school Spanish class that she really began wondering about her past.
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Pro-whalers eye whaling commission
Jun 15 2006 2:13PM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Pro-whaling nations are expected to take control of the International Whaling Commission this week, giving them a majority of seats on the panel for the first time since it banned commercial hunting 20 years ago.
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Bush to create largest marine sanctuary
Jun 15 2006 12:19PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush is creating a vast new marine sanctuary Thursday, extending stronger federal protections to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and its endangered monk seals, nesting green sea turtles and other rare species.
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3 win World Food Prize for Brazil project
Jun 15 2006 11:04AM (CT)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Three men who helped turn Brazil's arid tropical plains into a thriving agricultural region were announced Thursday as winners of the 2006 World Food Prize.
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Wine researchers using biotechnology
Jun 15 2006 6:05AM (CT)
MOUNTAIN GROVE, Mo. (AP) - Every season, wine makers fight the same battles to protect their grapevines they have been fighting for thousands of years.
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