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Wyo. wants gray wolf off 'threatened' list
Jul 13 2005 11:12PM (CT)
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Wyoming formally petitioned the Interior Department on Wednesday to remove gray wolves from the threatened species list in the northern Rockies, and to allow the state to control the predator.
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Faulty fuel gauge delays shuttle launch
Jul 13 2005 10:05PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA scrapped Wednesday's launch of the first shuttle flight in 2 1/2 years because of a fuel gauge that mistakenly read full instead of empty, a frustrating setback to the agency's bid to get back into space after the Columbia tragedy.
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Wash. city turns down lab tunnel proposal
Jul 13 2005 9:09PM (CT)
LEAVENWORTH, Wash. (AP) - The Leavenworth City Council has voted down a proposal from the University of Washington to build a $300 million science lab under Mount Cashmere, 9 miles west of this Cascade Mountain resort town.
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Animal rights group sues over sea lions
Jul 13 2005 8:59PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - An animal rights group filed a lawsuit Wednesday accusing the federal government of violating several environmental protection acts by allowing the use of certain research techniques on threatened and endangered Steller sea lions.
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Calif. officials worry about Asian beetle
Jul 13 2005 7:52PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - State and federal agriculture officials on Wednesday warned that destructive Asian beetles have been found near a Sacramento warehouse and dispatched federal firefighters to climb nearby trees to search for traces of the insects.
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Scientists raise alarm about ocean health
Jul 13 2005 7:48PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - With a record number of dead seabirds washing up on West Coast beaches from Central California to British Columbia, marine biologists are raising the alarm about rising ocean temperatures and dwindling plankton populations.
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Scientist believes bones likely a mammoth
Jul 13 2005 7:45PM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - A scientist from University of California, Berkeley confirmed Wednesday that a cluster of fossilized bones found in Silicon Valley are likely those of a mammoth that roamed the area between 10,000 and 40,000 years ago.
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Glance at space shuttle crew
Jul 13 2005 1:24PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The seven astronauts who will brave the unknown on NASA's return to space have explained the shuttle safety improvements to their children and tried to calm their spouses and parents.
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Officials investigating pelican deaths
Jul 13 2005 12:06PM (CT)
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - The Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating the deaths of thousands of young white pelicans at a wildlife refuge in central North Dakota, a year after thousands of adult birds abruptly left the same location.
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Military's energy-beam weapons delayed
Jul 13 2005 10:56AM (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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