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Remains of old ship found in San Francisco
Sep 6 2005 9:51PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The remains of a massive Gold Rush-era sailing ship dating to the early 1800s have been discovered at the site of a large construction project in downtown San Francisco, archaeologists at the scene confirmed Tuesday.
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Comet-busting mission puzzles scientists
Sep 6 2005 7:58PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Two months after a NASA spacecraft smashed a comet with a space probe, scientists are still puzzling over how big a hit the icy body took.
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Alaska scientists release sawfly's enemy
Sep 6 2005 7:57PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A wasp from Canada could cut the numbers of billions of leaf-munching sawflies that for years have been attacking birch trees across Anchorage and other parts of the state, scientists said.
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Chicago opens a rare 'green' school
Sep 6 2005 7:56PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Youngsters at Tarkington elementary started their first day of classes Tuesday at a school where flowering plants grow on the roof. It's one of the nation's small but growing number of environmentally friendly schools, a stand-out because it sits in a major city better known for towers of steel and concrete.
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Estimates put wolf numbers up in Rockies
Sep 6 2005 7:51PM (CT)
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - The number of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies has increased to more than 900 since last year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimated Tuesday.
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Group: Population numbers may doom salmon
Sep 6 2005 7:48PM (CT)
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - Too many people using too much energy and natural resources make it inevitable that wild Pacific salmon will become extinct over the next century without a major overhaul in the way people live their lives, a group of 30 scientists, policy analysts and advocates concluded.
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Armstrong: Mars easier voyage than moon
Sep 6 2005 6:58AM (CT)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Neil Armstrong said Tuesday that a manned mission to Mars will not happen for at least 20 years _ but the effort might be easier than what it took to send him to the moon in 1969.
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Changes in Saturn rings puzzle scientists
Sep 6 2005 6:52AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - New observations by the international Cassini spacecraft reveal that Saturn's trademark shimmering rings, which have dazzled astronomers since Galileo's time, have dramatically changed over just the past 25 years.
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