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Dennis may interfere with shuttle launch
Jul 10 2005 8:30PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The countdown for NASA's return to space began Sunday amid sky-high anticipation, although Hurricane Dennis threatened to interfere with the liftoff of the first shuttle mission in more than two years.
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Hillary issues call to save Mt. Everest
Jul 10 2005 7:10PM (CT)
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Edmund Hillary, the first climber to conquer Mount Everest with his Sherpa guide, on Monday urged that the world's highest mountain be placed on the United Nations' list of endangered heritage sites because of the risks of climate change.
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Panda cub survives critical first day
Jul 10 2005 4:39PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Giant panda Mei Xiang appeared to be nursing her day-old cub on Sunday, a positive sign of survival for a tiny bear susceptible to malnutrition, bacterial infection and even the lumbering of its 250-pound mother.
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Group aims to save rattlers in N.Y. park
Jul 10 2005 4:23PM (CT)
WESTPORT, N.Y. (AP) - The ponytailed environmentalist hiked down the ridge, over the gray rocks and matted brown leaves, stopped among the hardwoods, and said, "Right down the side, it's prime country here."
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South Africa's Cape baboons being maimed
Jul 10 2005 4:20PM (CT)
KOMMETJE, South Africa (AP) - Georgie was bashed in the head and is missing part of his ear. Penny's right hand was mangled in a trap. Tammy's bullet-riddled leg had to be amputated. Golden Arrow was shot dead, leaving her infant to starve to death. The baboons of South Africa's Cape Peninsula are caught in a war with their human neighbors, who are sick of having their kitchens ransacked by marauding primates with an uncanny knack for breaking into houses.
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Groups try to revive coaster brook trout
Jul 10 2005 4:13PM (CT)
PICTURED ROCKS NATIONAL LAKESHORE, Mich. (AP) - Barely noticeable beneath a wooden foot bridge, the wire antenna stretched across the gurgling Mosquito River is on the lookout for one of the Great Lakes' most mysterious fish: the coaster brook trout.
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Creator touts replicas of ancient shoes
Jul 10 2005 1:53PM (CT)
ZLIN, Czech Republic (AP) - Lined with hay and held together by a net of rough string, the leather shoes look bulky, itchy and downright uncomfortable. But if they were good enough for Oetzi, the 5,300-year-old man found in an alpine glacier in 1991, they're good enough for the modern foot, insists Petr Hlavacek, a Czech shoe expert who has created replicas, taken them out for a walk and pronounced them far better than most modern footwear.
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Military's energy-beam weapons delayed
Jul 10 2005 10:22AM (CT)
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) - For years, the U.S. military has explored a new kind of firepower that is instantaneous, precise and virtually inexhaustible: beams of electromagnetic energy. "Directed-energy" pulses can be throttled up or down depending on the situation, much like the phasers on "Star Trek" could be set to kill or merely stun.
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Astronauts arrive early at launching site
Jul 10 2005 7:22AM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The seven astronauts who will make the first space shuttle flight since the Columbia disaster arrived early at the launch site Saturday, beating Hurricane Dennis by a day.
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Japan's M-5 rocket, satellite blast off
Jul 10 2005 5:33AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan successfully launched a rocket carrying X-ray telescopes into Earth's orbit to examine black holes and galaxies on Sunday, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said.
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