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Robots to face off for $2M Pentagon prize
Sep 26 2005 7:20PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Wanted by the Pentagon: A muscular, outdoorsy specimen. Must be intelligent and, above all, self-driven. When 20 hulking robotic vehicles face off next month in a rugged race across the Nevada desert, the winning machine (if any crosses the finish line) will blend the latest technological bling and the most smarts.
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Feds cut back habitat for snowy plover
Sep 26 2005 7:15PM (CT)
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Monday announced that West Coast beach-front critical habitat for the threatened western snowy plover will be cut back by nearly 40 percent, continuing a Bush administration policy of reducing habitat protections for threatened and endangered species to reduce economic losses.
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Invasive mosquito species found in Midwest
Sep 26 2005 7:10PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A species of mosquito common in the eastern U.S. and capable of carrying the West Nile virus has made its way to the Midwest for the first time, a finding made by a college undergraduate, Washington University officials said Monday.
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Scientists conduct wind energy projects
Sep 26 2005 7:06PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - In an effort to make the country less dependent on foreign oil, experimental wind energy projects are underway at opposite ends of Georgia.
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Archaeologists discover infants' remains
Sep 26 2005 7:05PM (CT)
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of two newborns dating back 27,000 years while excavating a hillside in northern Austria, the scientist in charge of the project said Monday.
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Decision to remove causeway sparks debate
Sep 26 2005 9:20AM (CT)
SWANTON, Vt. (AP) - A Douglas administration decision to remove the Missisquoi Bay causeway over Lake Champlain has sparked a debate over how that will affect habitat for the spiny soft shell turtle.
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China space mission said planned for Oct.
Sep 26 2005 7:11AM (CT)
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - China's second manned space mission _ and its first to carry two astronauts _ is due to launch on Oct. 13, weather permitting, and return five days later, a state media report said.
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Delta rocket carries satellite into space
Sep 26 2005 2:05AM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A Boeing Delta 2 lifted off from its seaside pad shortly before midnight Sunday, carrying into space the first of a new generation of Global Positioning System satellites.
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