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Mexico rejects biotech corn planting
Oct 18 2006 11:34PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico this week barred Monsanto Co. and other biotechnology companies from planting genetically engineered corn, rekindling fierce debate in that country over the technology.
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Calif. presents plan to save Salton Sea
Oct 18 2006 10:05PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - After two years of often intense debate and research, state officials have finished an environmental report providing eight alternatives for saving the Salton Sea, California's largest lake.
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Scientists say Hawaii hit by two quakes
Oct 18 2006 10:01PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - Scientists are investigating whether a magnitude-6.0 earthquake that rocked Hawaii within minutes of Sunday's 6.7 temblor was a separate quake and not an aftershock.
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Fight over chimps enters new chapter
Oct 18 2006 9:46PM (CT)
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - The court-appointed caregiver entrusted with Primarily Primates, a sanctuary holding an estimated 800 monkeys, chimps, jungle cats and other animals, says that everywhere she turns, another horror pops out:
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Hard times for wildlife in Zimbabwe
Oct 18 2006 9:43PM (CT)
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - The economic chaos engulfing Zimbabwe is decimating the country's once teeming wildlife, according to a conservation group, which painted a grim picture of nature reserves staffed by poorly trained rangers who cruelly kill the animals they are meant to protect.
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Researcher: Northwest may get more rain
Oct 18 2006 7:10PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - A climate researcher at the University of Washington says Pacific Northwest winters will be getting more gray and rainy over the next 50 to 100 years, due to a low-pressure system near the Aleutian Islands that is moving farther to the north and east.
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Female space tourist hopes for return
Oct 18 2006 7:09PM (CT)
MOSCOW (AP) - Now that she's learned to walk in gravity again, American space tourist Anousheh Ansari has some things to take care of on Earth: developing a new company, promoting science and space travel, and spending time with her family.
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Grammar-based peptide fights bacteria
Oct 18 2006 7:09PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Using grammar rules alongside test tubes, biologists may have found a promising new way to fight nasty bacteria, including drug-resistant microbes and anthrax.
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Fewer pollinators mean trouble for crops
Oct 18 2006 7:08PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - This is a story about the birds and the bees and reproduction. No, not that story. It's about plants. Most plants need to be pollinated by birds, bees, bats and other animals and insects to reproduce. And scientists say a decline in pollinators may spell trouble for crops.
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Grammar may help fight bacteria
Oct 18 2006 12:25PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Biologists reached back to elementary school to discover a promising new way to fight nasty bacteria: Apply the rules of grammar.
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