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Classified satellite launched in Calif.
Jun 27 2006 11:38PM (CT)
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) - A classified satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office was launched Tuesday night from the California coast, leaving a thin trail in the twilight.
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Disgraced scientist to resume research
Jun 27 2006 10:22PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - The disgraced South Korean scientist who falsely claimed breakthroughs in creating stem cells from cloned human embryos plans to open a new lab and resume research next month, his lawyer said Wednesday.
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Tropical Stonehenge may have been found
Jun 27 2006 10:04PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - A grouping of granite blocks along a grassy Amazon hilltop may be the vestiges of a centuries-old astronomical observatory _ a find archaeologists say indicates early rainforest inhabitants were more sophisticated than previously believed.
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Shuttle crew in Florida for launch
Jun 27 2006 9:32PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Space shuttle Discovery's crew of seven arrived at the Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday for this weekend's launch, a day after a top NASA engineer who praised his colleagues for voicing doubts about the wisdom of going ahead with the flight was removed from his job.
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Scientists OK Gore's movie for accuracy
Jun 27 2006 8:15PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's top climate scientists are giving "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore's documentary on global warming, five stars for accuracy.
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Snake on Borneo island can change color
Jun 27 2006 8:14PM (CT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Researchers scouring swamps in the heart of Borneo island have discovered a venomous species of snake that can change its skin color, the conservation group WWF announced Tuesday.
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Rare coin returned to Greek officials
Jun 27 2006 8:14PM (CT)
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - A rare silver coin celebrating the most famous murder of antiquity was handed over to Greek Culture Ministry officials, after a groundbreaking deal that allowed its repatriation from Britain.
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Navy to use sonar that may affect whales
Jun 27 2006 8:13PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal regulators granted the Navy a permit Tuesday to use sonar in a maritime exercise despite environmentalists' concerns it could disturb or even kill whales and dolphins.
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NASA: Hubble camera should be back July 3
Jun 27 2006 8:12PM (CT)
GREENBELT, Md. (AP) - The Hubble Space Telescope's main camera should be back on line July 3 without any loss of performance, the space agency announced Tuesday.
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Sunken ships eyed for storm barriers
Jun 27 2006 4:24PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Marine scientists and Louisiana officials are floating the idea of sinking some of Uncle Sam's cast-off ships along the water's edge to create a steel barrier against hurricane flooding.
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Organic dairy growth raises concerns
Jun 27 2006 11:54AM (CT)
JORDAN, Minn. (AP) - The cows on Pam and Jeff Riesgraf's farm chomped happily away on lush green grass on a warm, sunny afternoon. Their milk would soon find its way to grocery stores, where organic dairy products are a hot item.
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Surgeon general warns of secondhand smoke
Jun 27 2006 9:23AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Separate smoking sections don't cut it: Only smoke-free buildings and public places truly protect nonsmokers from the hazards of breathing in other people's tobacco smoke, says a long-awaited surgeon general's report.
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Conn. scientists investigate marsh die-off
Jun 27 2006 6:31AM (CT)
MADISON, Conn. (AP) - Something is killing New England's salt marshes, and scientists are trying to figure out how large the problem is, and how to stop it. Parts of the marshes, normally teeming with cord grass, fish and birds have turned mud brown and bare of life except for fiddler crabs.
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Released whooping cranes hatch 2 chicks
Jun 27 2006 4:07AM (CT)
MILWAUKEE (AP) - A pair of whooping cranes has hatched two chicks in central Wisconsin, marking the first young of the species to be hatched in the wild in the eastern United States in more than 100 years.
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AP: NASA analysts screen launch video
Jun 27 2006 3:13AM (CT)
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) - NASA photo analysts Tom Rieckhoff and Danny Osborne were watching a videotape of Columbia's launch in 2003 when they saw the first evidence of the problem that doomed the shuttle.
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