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Brazilian military to aid stray penguins
Aug 2 2006 10:27PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Brazil is staging a military operation involving a Hercules transport plane and Navy ships _ all to return four dozen wayward penguins to the icy waters of Antarctica, authorities said Wednesday.
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Evolution debate not settled by election
Aug 2 2006 6:41PM (CT)
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Upcoming changes to the state school board mean Kansas is likely to return to evolution-friendly education standards _ yet remain mired in a fight over how the theory is taught in classrooms.
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Summer nights heating up, scientists say
Aug 2 2006 6:10PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - America in recent years has been sweltering through three times more than its normal share of extra-hot summer nights, government weather records show. And that is a particularly dangerous trend.
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Researchers confirm Charles V had gout
Aug 2 2006 6:08PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A 450-year-old piece of Charles V's pinkie lends support to the theory that it was gout that led one of the most powerful rulers of all time to abdicate, Spanish researchers report.
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Shuttle Atlantis heads to launch pad
Aug 2 2006 6:02PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Space shuttle Atlantis was hauled to the launch pad early Wednesday, a major step toward a mission to resume construction of the international space station for the first time in three years.
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Energy Dept. to spend $250M on fuel study
Aug 2 2006 6:02PM (CT)
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - The federal government will spend $250 million to help create two research centers that will focus on finding more efficient ways to produce cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels, Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman announced Wednesday during a visit to Illinois.
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Md. dams to get new pathways for eels
Aug 2 2006 6:01PM (CT)
MILLINGTON, Md. (AP) - American eels are crafty fish, able to slither up rocks and around branches in just a tiny bit of water. But it turns out they're not the strongest swimmers _ and dams throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed may be blocking their natural migration patterns and contributing to a sharp population decline.
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Oak-killing pathogen appears in Indiana
Aug 2 2006 6:01PM (CT)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A tree disease that's killed hundreds of thousands of oak trees in California is now in Indiana after arriving in a shipment of shrubs from Oregon, state officials said.
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Chandeleur Islands said not rebuilding
Aug 2 2006 6:01PM (CT)
CHANDELEUR ISLANDS, La. (AP) - Last year's hurricanes did so much damage to these barrier islands in Breton Sound they may disappear altogether in the not so distant future, scientists say.
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U. of Ariz. has telescope work contract
Aug 2 2006 3:45PM (CT)
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - The University of Arizona will get $3 million for polishing the 4.3-meter mirror of a new $40 million telescope partially funded by the owners of the Discovery Channel.
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Objects may shed light on 'Black Bunyan'
Aug 2 2006 3:28PM (CT)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - Archaeologists excavating the 200-year-old graves of a slave family said Tuesday that they recovered several artifacts that could shed light on the life of a man dubbed "the black Paul Bunyan."
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