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Forecast worsens slightly for launch
Dec 5 2006 10:13PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA wrestled with two late-breaking technical concerns which showed up Tuesday two days before the launch of space shuttle Discovery, but managers weren't sure if they could delay the start of the mission.
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EPA cannot verify asbestos cleanup
Dec 5 2006 7:14PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Environmental Protection Agency cannot verify the effectiveness of its cleanup programs in a Montana town where residents have contracted asbestos-related illnesses in unusually large numbers, the agency's inspector general said Tuesday.
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Shuttle night launch: Art in the sky
Dec 5 2006 6:03PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - On Thursday night, Nature and NASA will collaborate in a painting that will use the skies over the Eastern seaboard as a cosmic canvas. The materials are a nearly full moon, the stars and a streaking space shuttle.
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Study disputes cell phone-cancer link
Dec 5 2006 4:35PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A huge study from Denmark offers the latest reassurance that cell phones don't trigger cancer. Scientists tracked 420,000 Danish cell phone users, including 52,000 who had gabbed on the gadgets for 10 years or more, and some who started using them 21 years ago.
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Mayans excited, unsure on 'Apocalypto'
Dec 5 2006 3:42PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Scenes of enslaved Maya Indians building temples for a violent, decadent culture in Mel Gibson's new film "Apocalypto" may ring true for many of today's Mayas, who earn meager wages in construction camps, building huge tourist resorts on land they once owned.
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Water to flow again in California river
Dec 5 2006 3:38PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - In Los Angeles, William Mulholland is remembered as the visionary who helped transform L.A. from a dusty desert town into a metropolis by building a 240-mile aqueduct in 1913 that brought water from the Sierra Nevada to the city.
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Alps are warmest in 1,300 years
Dec 5 2006 10:29AM (CT)
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Europe's Alpine region is going through its warmest period in 1,300 years, the head of an extensive climate study said Tuesday.
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