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Shuttle piggybacks ride on jet to Fla.
Aug 19 2005 7:23PM (CT)
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) - Space Shuttle Discovery rode piggyback atop a jumbo jet headed for Florida Friday, more than a week after being diverted to the Mojave Desert for the first landing shuttle since the Columbia tragedy.
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EPA: Summer smog problem easing in East
Aug 19 2005 7:20PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Ozone levels are falling in 19 Eastern states where smog has been a recurring problem in summer, helping improve air quality for a third of the nation's population, the Environmental Protection Agency says.
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Parasite preying on shrimp in Oregon
Aug 19 2005 7:18PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Biologists are concerned about a non-native parasite that's preying on mud shrimp up and down the Oregon Coast's estuaries, potentially playing havoc with sensitive ecosystems.
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Ship zones recommended to help whales
Aug 19 2005 7:15PM (CT)
FREDERICTON, New Brunswick (AP) - Scientists are recommending speed zones for ship traffic as one way to help to help the endangered North Atlantic right whale population.
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Cloned tabby wildcats have kittens
Aug 19 2005 7:13PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The little tabby wildcats are just doing what comes naturally, but the people who cloned them say their kittens are the last bit of proof that cloning can help save endangered species.
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Judge orders northeast wolf restoration
Aug 19 2005 7:08PM (CT)
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - A federal judge Friday ordered the Bush administration to step up efforts to restore the gray wolf to four northeastern states, a ruling environmentalists called a major victory.
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Carbon tube sheets may have many uses
Aug 19 2005 7:07PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Transparent sheets made from minute carbon tubes may have uses ranging from artificial muscles to light-producing displays to electronic sensors, according to researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas.
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Ill. police claim lab botched DNA tests
Aug 19 2005 10:00AM (CT)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois state police canceled a contract with a nationally known DNA laboratory because it failed to detect the presence of semen on tests of evidence in nearly a dozen cases, officials said.
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Astrophysicist John Bahcall, 70, dies
Aug 19 2005 9:37AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - John Norris Bahcall, an astrophysicist who found a new way to study the sun and was a major force behind the Hubble Space Telescope, has died. He was 70.
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