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NASA sets July 13 shuttle launch date
Jun 30 2005 11:55PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - After 2 1/2 two years of frustrating setbacks and delays, NASA officially set July 13 as the launch date Thursday for the first space shuttle flight since the Columbia tragedy.
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Bush: Kyoto treaty would have hurt economy
Jun 30 2005 2:49PM (CT)
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - President Bush said in a Danish TV interview aired Thursday that adhering to the Kyoto treaty on climate change would have "wrecked" the U.S. economy.
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Researchers study tallest man-made tsunami
Jun 30 2005 1:05PM (CT)
YOKOSUKA, Japan (AP) - At the far end of a long trough, a bulge of water appears. Seconds later, the wave rips through the wall of a room with such fury it splinters the wall and washes away the furniture and a mannequin standing behind it. From seabed to crest, the 8-foot-tall wave is the world's tallest man-made tsunami, Japanese scientists at the Port and Airport Research Institute's Tsunami Research Center said on Wednesday.
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E-tagging of pygmy elephants helps study
Jun 30 2005 10:57AM (CT)
IN THE BORNEO FOREST, Malaysia (AP) - Crouched in the vine-tangled forest of Borneo, where the brightest part of the day seems like dusk, Elis Tambing finally got the elusive animal in his laser sight and fired.
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Tobacco fungal disease confirmed in Ky.
Jun 30 2005 9:48AM (CT)
CECILIA, Ky. (AP) - A fungus that attacks tobacco plants has been found in Kentucky, the first reported U.S. outbreak this year, although one expert said hot, dry weather appears to be preventing it from spreading.
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GOP backs non-destructive cell research
Jun 30 2005 7:56AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Embryonic stem cell research that doesn't destroy budding human life? Right now, it's possible only in theory, or on animals. But those alternatives to the most promising stem cell science are enough to win the attention of anti-abortion Republicans and President Bush.
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Warming may harm Africa's sand dune fields
Jun 30 2005 3:08AM (CT)
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Global warming could drastically alter Africa's southern sand dune systems, spreading desert-like conditions and destroying the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people before the end of the century, new research warns.
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