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NASA: Atlantis cleared for launch
Nov 30 2007 7:25PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA has cleared Atlantis for a Thursday launch, one month after the last space shuttle flight and a flurry of work since then getting the international space station ready for a new laboratory.
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Sunken Antarctic cruise ship leaves oil
Nov 30 2007 2:51PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - About 2,500 penguins en route to their Antarctic mating grounds could be sickened by a diesel fuel spill from a cruise boat that struck an iceberg and sank last week, Chilean scientists said Friday.
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Duke scientists map 'silenced genes'
Nov 30 2007 6:49AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Remember biology class where you learned that children inherit one copy of a gene from mom and a second from dad? There's a twist: Some of those genes arrive switched off, so there is no backup if the other copy goes bad, making you more vulnerable to disorders from obesity to cancer.
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Red tide blamed for Calif. bird deaths
Nov 30 2007 4:58AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Hundreds of dead or injured seabirds have washed up on the shores of Monterey Bay in recent weeks, and scientists believe a red tide of marine algae is to blame.
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