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NASA plans launch even if problem recurs
Jul 24 2005 9:48PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA plans to launch the first space shuttle flight in 2 1/2 years, even if it is plagued by the same fuel gauge problem that halted the previous countdown two weeks ago, officials said Sunday.
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Genetics leave felines without sweet tooth
Jul 24 2005 7:05PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Cats are notoriously finicky eaters, as millions of pet owners can attest. Now, there's a scientific theory explaining, at least in part, why cats have such snobby eating habits: genetics.
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Poaching becoming rampant on federal land
Jul 24 2005 8:34AM (CT)
CHADRON, Neb. (AP) - Barbara Beasley was the first person called to investigate when three suspicious men were stopped on federal land in remote northwest Nebraska. It didn't take the U.S. Forest Service official long to find what they had been doing: digging an 18-by-10-foot hole more than 2 feet deep that left the fossilized bones of a prehistoric rhinoceros called a brontothere exposed. Plaster used to take casts of the bones and excavating tools also were found.
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