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Conservators X-ray Roman statue of Venus
Nov 2 2006 10:52PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Conservators trying to restore a 1,900-year-old statue of Venus have put their heads together with airline maintenance inspectors who usually scrutinize welds and repairs in jet engines for any cracks.
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Overfishing may harm seafood population
Nov 2 2006 8:13PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Clambakes, crabcakes, swordfish steaks and even humble fish sticks could be little more than a fond memory in a few decades. If current trends of overfishing and pollution continue, the populations of just about all seafood face collapse by 2048, a team of ecologists and economists warns in a report in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
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Boy gets rare shot of California condor
Nov 2 2006 8:13PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A 5-year-old boy has taken a photograph of what experts say may be the first California condor to fly in Topanga Canyon's skies in more than a century.
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Mont. survey: More bull trout spawning
Nov 2 2006 8:12PM (CT)
HELENA, Mont. (AP) - Bull trout, a threatened fish whose well-being has driven court cases and changed industrial projects, may be coming back in some areas of Montana, a new survey suggests.
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Tiny bug attacking hemlock trees in Ky.
Nov 2 2006 8:10PM (CT)
PINEVILLE, Ky. (AP) - It's going to take a lot of money to combat a tiny bug that's attacking eastern Kentucky's hemlock trees, forestry officials warned Thursday.
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Numbers boost sought for prairie chicken
Nov 2 2006 8:07PM (CT)
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - Panhandle rancher Jim Bill Anderson has for years been helping to keep the rare lesser prairie chicken from a federal wildlife watch list. Now he's hoping other Texans follow his lead after the signing Thursday in Austin of an agreement between officials with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
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NASA pushes back shuttle launches
Nov 2 2006 7:46PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA on Thursday approved pushing back three shuttle launches next year to give the space agency more time to service and possibly make changes to the spacecraft's external tanks.
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Scientists study political-genetic link
Nov 2 2006 7:17PM (CT)
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Politics may not be in the blood, but it could be in the genes. That's the theory a team of political scientists and geneticists is trying to prove with extensive studies of twins, genes and brain scans.
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