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Study describes bar at center of Milky Way
Aug 16 2005 10:23PM (CT)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - After creating the most detailed analysis yet of what the Milky Way looks like, astronomers say a long bar of stars cuts on an angle through the center of the galaxy that includes the sun and planet Earth.
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Study: Car exhaust polluting Puget Sound
Aug 16 2005 7:54PM (CT)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Mud and sand at the bottom of Puget Sound is increasingly tainted by pollution from vehicle exhaust, not heavy industry, a state Department of Ecology study says.
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Report: Ancient key found in Austria
Aug 16 2005 7:50PM (CT)
GRAZ, Austria (AP) - Archeologists believe they have found a key dating back to the late Bronze Age in southern Austria, an Austrian news agency reported.
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Study: Most wild chimps are southpaws
Aug 16 2005 7:43PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - When it comes to fishing tasty termites out of their mounds, wild chimpanzees don't have the right stuff. Most, in fact, are southpaws. A three-year study of 17 wild chimps in Gombe National Park, Tanzania, found that 12 of them used their left hands when using sticks to probe for termites.
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Red tide bloom strikes off Florida coast
Aug 16 2005 7:43PM (CT)
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - An unusually fierce red tide bloom this summer has choked off oxygen and killed undersea life in a region of the Gulf of Mexico bottom about 10 miles off the coast of Florida, scientists said.
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Pacific Coast ecosystems return to normal
Aug 16 2005 7:38PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The northerly winds that sustain the Pacific Coast's marine ecosystems have returned, but their arrival came too late for fish and birds that couldn't survive the unseasonably warm waters.
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U. of Wis. records show high monkey deaths
Aug 16 2005 8:38AM (CT)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A study at the University of Wisconsin led to an unusual number of deaths and illnesses of rhesus monkeys in 2001 and 2002, internal school records show.
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