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Cold can't stop Alaska sewage composting
Aug 12 2006 10:49PM (CT)
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) - Environmental consultant Mike Pollen remembers standing on a pile of sewage sludge composting outside the Fairbanks treatment plant on a November day in 1997. The temperature was 40 degrees below zero but his feet were warm. Then sweaty. Then uncomfortably hot inside his insulated rubber boots.
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Archaeologists unearth abolitionist home
Aug 12 2006 6:09PM (CT)
EASTON, Md. (AP) - The Great House still stands on the plantation where Frederick Douglass spent his childhood. But the quarters where the famed abolitionist once lived along with other slaves are long gone from the 350-year-old estate.
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Colombia's big-butt ants entice gourmets
Aug 12 2006 6:07PM (CT)
BARICHARA, Colombia (AP) - The first loud crackle tastes and feels like popcorn, but by the time the juices spray wildly in your mouth and the filament-like legs slide down your throat, there's no mistaking this toasted ant queen.
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Philippine volcano blast appears likely
Aug 12 2006 8:51AM (CT)
LEGAZPI, Philippines (AP) - President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on Saturday visited villagers forced to flee their homes due to restive Mayon volcano and ordered officials to speed up efforts to improve conditions at cramped evacuation centers.
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