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EPA asked to regulate ship emissions
Oct 3 2007 11:34PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Environmental groups and California Attorney General Jerry Brown asked the federal government Wednesday to require oceangoing ships to limit emissions of heat-trapping gases blamed for global warming.
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Duck-billed dinosaur amazes scientists
Oct 3 2007 10:01PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Scientists are amazed at the chomping ability of a newly described duck-billed dinosaur. The herbivore's powerful jaw, more than 800 teeth and compact skull meant that no leaf, branch or bush would have been safe, they say.
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Duck-billed dinosaur amazes scientists
Oct 3 2007 10:01PM (CT)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Scientists are amazed at the chomping ability of a newly described duck-billed dinosaur. The herbivore's powerful jaw, more than 800 teeth and compact skull meant that no leaf, branch or bush would have been safe, they say.
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Minn., Iowa residents see flaming object
Oct 3 2007 9:43PM (CT)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Residents from the Twin Cities to the southwestern corner of Minnesota and into Iowa reported seeing a flaming object shooting through the sky Wednesday, and experts said they may have been watching a meteor.
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Judge won't block NASA background checks
Oct 3 2007 8:35PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A federal judge denied a request Wednesday by more than two dozen workers at one of NASA's research labs to block a Bush administration directive requiring background checks and access to personal information.
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GAO: US can't ID labs that handle germs
Oct 3 2007 3:52PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government can't identify all the research laboratories across the United States that handle dangerous organisms, creating problems for preventing bioterrorism plots, congressional investigators found.
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China seen winning space race against US
Oct 3 2007 3:30PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The Soviets beat the United States at getting a satellite, and a man, into space. Now, the Chinese may get to the moon before the U.S. can make a return visit.
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Students plan to restore dinosaur bone
Oct 3 2007 3:21PM (CT)
CELINA, Ohio (AP) - A group of college students plans to restore a 250-million-year-old dinosaur bone they dug up at a ranch near Faith, S.D.
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Russia, US to cooperate on space trips
Oct 3 2007 3:16PM (CT)
MOSCOW (AP) - Russian and U.S. space chiefs signed agreements Wednesday to cooperate on unmanned missions that would search for potential water deposits beneath the surface of the moon and Mars.
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Researcher: Texas dinosaur misidentified
Oct 3 2007 3:08PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Bones discovered in the 1990s that spurred the Legislature to declare the pleurocoelus the state's official dinosaur were misidentified and actually came from a different species, according to a student's research.
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50 years ago, Sputnik changed technology
Oct 3 2007 10:27AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - With a series of small beeps from a spiky globe 50 years ago Thursday, the world shrank and humanity's view of Earth and the cosmos expanded.
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Asteroid belt is named for George Takei
Oct 3 2007 8:07AM (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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