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Group renames asteroid for George Takei
Oct 2 2007 10:01PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A piece of outer space named for George Takei is in kind of a rough neighborhood for somebody who steers a starship: an asteroid belt.
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Scientists amazed at fish tag journey
Oct 2 2007 8:54PM (CT)
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - In 2005, a 2.9-inch steelhead left a Washington state hatchery in 2005 with a tiny implanted electronic tag. In April, Maori hunter Dale Whaitiri on Big Moggy Island off Southern New Zealand killed a young sooty shearwater chick, and found the tag.
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Mishandling of germs on rise at US labs
Oct 2 2007 4:15PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - American laboratories handling the world's deadliest germs and toxins have experienced more than 100 accidents and missing shipments since 2003, and the number is increasing as more labs do the work.
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Mishandling of germs on rise at US labs
Oct 2 2007 4:15PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - American laboratories handling the world's deadliest germs and toxins have experienced more than 100 accidents and missing shipments since 2003, and the number is increasing as more labs do the work.
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Mishandling of germs on rise at US labs
Oct 2 2007 4:15PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - American laboratories handling the world's deadliest germs and toxins have experienced more than 100 accidents and missing shipments since 2003, and the number is increasing as more labs do the work.
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EPA: Competing bills achieve same goal
Oct 2 2007 3:54PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Three competing Senate proposals calling for limits on greenhouse gases would have roughly identical success in curbing global warming, but only if other nations also significantly cut heat-trapping emissions, a government analysis says.
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Schools embrace ways to help environment
Oct 2 2007 3:54PM (CT)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Jacob Chapman hopes to plant a rooftop garden at Olathe South High School, encourages classmates to recycle plastic bottles and paper, and wants them to reduce their use of disposables in the school cafeteria.
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Experts: Eggshells can help power cars
Oct 2 2007 3:46PM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio State University researchers say a breakfast byproduct could play a role in a new way of powering cars.
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Agency studies restoration at Ind. lake
Oct 2 2007 3:44PM (CT)
CEDAR LAKE, Ind. (AP) - Restoration could begin soon on the ecosystem of a northwestern Indiana lake that has been polluted for decades with sewage and stormwater filled with fertilizer from farm fields.
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Dead whale washes back to Calif. shore
Oct 2 2007 3:30PM (CT)
MALIBU, Calif. (AP) - Getting rid of a dead blue whale is proving no easy feat. More than a week after a 70-foot whale carcass was hauled out to sea, the creature's putrid remains washed back to shore.
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Agency warns Australia on gas emissions
Oct 2 2007 3:27PM (CT)
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Parts of Australia could be 9 degrees Fahrenheit hotter and 80 percent drier by 2070 if global greenhouse gas emissions are not radically reduced, government data said Tuesday.
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