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New tourist to visit the space station
Oct 26 2006 11:40PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The next space tourist is set to visit the international space station in March, officials with the company that brokered the trip said Thursday.
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Space tourist to lift off in March
Oct 26 2006 11:05PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The next space tourist is set to visit the international space station in March, officials with the company that brokered the trip said Thursday.
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Amazon deforestation lowest since 1991
Oct 26 2006 10:21PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Deforestation in the Amazon rain forest has declined to its lowest level since 1991 due to strict enforcement of environmental regulations, the Brazilian government said Thursday.
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Study: Lake Tahoe landslide made tsunami
Oct 26 2006 10:05PM (CT)
TAHOE CITY, Calif. (AP) - A massive underwater landslide in Lake Tahoe thousands of years ago caused a tsunami and left ripplelike stony ridges on the lake bottom, according to a new study.
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Warner leads name to anti-stem cell ad
Oct 26 2006 7:41PM (CT)
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) - Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner says his deep Christian faith led to his decision to appear in a television ad opposing a proposed constitutional amendment in Missouri.
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Misguided manatee eludes rescue team
Oct 26 2006 7:07PM (CT)
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A manatee that took an unheard-of swim 700 miles up the Mississippi River eluded a rescue team Thursday that hoped to return the animal to the sea.
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Science bites myth of vampires, ghosts
Oct 26 2006 6:50PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - It may be the season for vampires, ghosts and zombies. Just remember, they're not real, warns physicist Costas Efthimiou. Obviously, you might say. But Efthimiou, a professor at the University of Central Florida, points to surveys that show American gullibility for the supernatural.
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NASA spacecraft to study solar flares
Oct 26 2006 6:50PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Twin spacecraft blasted off Wednesday night on a mission to study huge eruptions from the sun that can damage satellites, disrupt electrical and communications systems on Earth and endanger spacewalking astronauts.
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Russia cargo ship docks at space station
Oct 26 2006 6:49PM (CT)
MOSCOW (AP) - Russian Mission Control experts on Thursday succeeded in latching a cargo ship securely onto the international space station, after an initial failure to complete the docking, an official said.
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Los Alamos lab to test giant magnet
Oct 26 2006 6:14PM (CT)
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) - Los Alamos National Laboratory expects researchers from around the world to use its new facility for high magnetic field science.
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Scientists study brain using video game
Oct 26 2006 6:13PM (CT)
ST. LOUIS (AP) - The teenager jukes missiles and blasts aliens in the video game. But it's his brain, not his thumbs, doing all the work. The 14-year-old, part of a study at Washington University, played the old-school video game "Space Invaders" by simply using his brain as a controller.
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Wild pigs eyed in tainted spinach probe
Oct 26 2006 4:24PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Wild pigs may have spread deadly bacteria onto a California spinach field, sparking an outbreak that killed three people and sickened more than 200 others nationwide, investigators said Thursday.
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Ancient footprints found in Mexico valley
Oct 26 2006 3:30AM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - A trail of 13 fossilized footprints running through a valley in a desert in northern Mexico could be among the oldest in the Americas, Mexican archeologists said.
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