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Sea otters could return to Southern Calif.
Oct 5 2005 11:25PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday proposed allowing sea otters back into Southern California waters, saying that scrapping the current "no-otter zone" would boost recovery efforts for the threatened species.
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Robotic Hummer gets pole in robot race
Oct 5 2005 9:52PM (CT)
FONTANA, Calif. (AP) - A driverless red Hummer snagged the pole position Wednesday in a government-sponsored sequel race across the Mojave Desert that will pit 23 robots against one another.
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Vets operate on giraffe for skin cancer
Oct 5 2005 8:51PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - National zoo veterinarians treated a giraffe Wednesday for a tumor on its head, in what the chief vet said was the first such case of skin cancer.
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Ariz. officials to track mountain lions
Oct 5 2005 7:11PM (CT)
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Officials will fit as many as 20 mountain lions with tracking collars near Tucson and Payson in a study that aims to better understand how the animals and people can coexist.
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SpaceShipOne donated to Smithsonian
Oct 5 2005 7:07PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The first private space ship took its place Wednesday next to Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, a hoped-for symbol of a new era of space tourism alongside the icon of trans-Atlantic flight.
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Oyster Bay listed as endangered refuge
Oct 5 2005 7:05PM (CT)
COVE NECK, N.Y. (AP) - The Oyster Bay National Wildlife Refuge, near Theodore Roosevelt's summer White House, is among the nation's 10 most endangered wildlife refuges, according to a new report from an environmental group.
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Envoy: U.S. greenhouse gas growth slowing
Oct 5 2005 7:04PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The chief U.S. negotiator on global warming acknowledged Wednesday the nation's glacial pace in reducing greenhouse gases and said even that might not continue in the future.
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Forecasters: Another hurricane could hit
Oct 5 2005 7:04PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - With two months left in the Atlantic hurricane season, forecasters warn that another devastating storm could hit the U.S. this year. And some of the conditions that sent Hurricanes Katrina and Rita slamming into the Gulf Coast appear to still be in place.
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Witness: 'Intelligent design' used in book
Oct 5 2005 1:35PM (CT)
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Early drafts of a student biology text contained references to creationism before they were replaced with the term "intelligent design," a witness testified Wednesday in a landmark trial over a school system's use of the book.
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Official offers shuttle foam loss theory
Oct 5 2005 11:27AM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Workers may have accidentally cut or crushed the section of foam that broke off Discovery's fuel tank during its launch two months ago _ a mishap that threatened the safety of the astronauts and grounded the shuttle fleet.
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Experts: Microbes may show Mars has life
Oct 5 2005 6:16AM (CT)
OSLO, Norway (AP) - Living microbes found in what could be 1 million-year-old ice on a remote Arctic island support the theory that the frozen planet Mars could also sustain life, researchers said Tuesday.
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