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Shuttle to launch despite damaged foam
Jul 3 2006 11:27PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA signed off Monday night on a Fourth of July shuttle liftoff despite worries about a piece of foam that popped off Discovery's external fuel tank while the spacecraft sat on the launch pad. "We're go to continue with the launch countdown," said Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA associate administrator, at a nighttime briefing.
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Scientist admits falsifying stem cell data
Jul 3 2006 11:08PM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A discredited South Korean cloning scientist admitted in court Tuesday to ordering subordinates to falsify stem cell data for a paper in a scientific journal, but he denied violating a bioethics law.
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Second gorilla dies at D.C. National Zoo
Jul 3 2006 9:14PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Another western lowland gorilla died at the National Zoo on Monday, days after the zoo's only other adult male died while veterinary specialists tried to implant a cardiac device.
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Scientists: Warm seas threaten coral
Jul 3 2006 8:18PM (CT)
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) - Caribbean Sea temperatures have reached their annual high two months ahead of schedule _ a sign coral reefs may suffer the same widespread damage as last year, scientists said Monday.
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Whale concerns halt use of Navy sonar
Jul 3 2006 6:29PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A federal judge on Monday temporarily barred the Navy from using a high-intensity sonar that could harm marine mammals during war games that began last week in the Pacific Ocean.
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Large asteroid zips harmlessly past Earth
Jul 3 2006 6:03PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A large asteroid hurtled harmlessly past the Earth early Monday at a distance of about 269,000 miles _ slightly farther away than the moon.
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Discovery could lead to sleep treatments
Jul 3 2006 4:02PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A newly discovered clue to the workings of a protein that helps regulate sleep could point scientists to better treatments for sleep-related illnesses.
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Persian Gulf wildlife threatened
Jul 3 2006 11:18AM (CT)
KHOR KALBA, United Arab Emirates (AP) - It's one of the world's rarest birds, but there it sat on a mangrove branch, motionless, eyes peeled for a fiddler crab.
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