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Shuttles back in the assembly business
Sep 21 2006 8:08PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA declared that it's back in the space-station assembly business Thursday after shuttle Atlantis and its six astronauts safely returned from a 12-day mission to install a big new piece of the orbiting outpost.
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States seek lethal sea lion removal
Sep 21 2006 8:05PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Oregon and Washington are drafting a proposal for "limited selected lethal removal" of protected California sea lions in the Columbia River to ease pressure on the spring chinook salmon run.
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Scientists find 2nd red panda specimen
Sep 21 2006 8:03PM (CT)
GRAY, Tenn. (AP) - Scientists uncovered a second fossil of a red panda species first discovered at the Gray Fossil Site two years ago. Researchers from East Tennessee State University found a lower jawbone from a red panda of the Pristinailurus bristoli species last week.
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Report: Soviet shipwreck from 1934 found
Sep 21 2006 7:59PM (CT)
MOSCOW (AP) - Researchers have found and raised fragments believed to be from a Soviet steamship that sank more than 70 years ago off the Arctic region of Chukotka, a Russian news agency reported Thursday.
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Skeleton sheds light on ape-man species
Sep 21 2006 7:59PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - In a discovery sure to fuel an old debate about our evolutionary history, scientists have found a remarkably complete skeleton of a 3-year-old female from the ape-man species represented by "Lucy."
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