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Big Easy fighting epic battle against mold
Nov 13 2005 9:20PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The Longue Vue estate, with its English furnishings, Turkish rugs, blown-glass chandeliers and oil paintings, is on life support. Hundreds of yards of air-duct hoses run through doors and into cellars, trying to save the mansion from Hurricane Katrina's long-lasting remnant: mold.
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Japan loses contact with asteroid lander
Nov 13 2005 8:58PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's space agency has lost contact with a wayward probe that botched an attempted rehearsal landing in a mission to collect surface samples from an asteroid and return to Earth, an official said Monday.
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New dams said to destroy water sources
Nov 13 2005 7:31PM (CT)
GENEVA (AP) - New dams intended to provide cheaper power and support irrigation systems are destroying important water sources and causing economic disruption, a leading environmental group said in a report released Monday.
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Conservationists creating bison preserve
Nov 13 2005 1:02PM (CT)
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - When conservationists Curt Freese and Sean Gerrity look out on the rolling prairie of north-central Montana, they see grasslands largely unchanged by time or man _ the perfect place, they believe, for bison to roam again.
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Anger, gamma camera inventor, dies at 85
Nov 13 2005 9:52AM (CT)
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - Hal O. Anger, a pioneer of nuclear medicine who is credited with inventing the gamma camera, has died. He was 85.
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Calif. may build tunnel in quake region
Nov 13 2005 4:28AM (CT)
ALISO VIEJO, Calif. (AP) - Traffic is so bad along the eastern rim of Los Angeles' suburban ring that regional planners are considering the once unthinkable _ an 11-mile tunnel through a mountain range in earthquake country.
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Scientist ends Korea stem cell partnership
Nov 13 2005 2:47AM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A University of Pittsburgh researcher has pulled out of a partnership with a South Korean stem-cell research team, citing concerns over ethical practices in obtaining donated eggs for the team's groundbreaking research.
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