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Shuttle blasts off in rare night launch
Dec 9 2006 11:41PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Discovery lit up the sky late Saturday, blazing off for the first nighttime space shuttle launch in four years _ the latest step in NASA's ambitious schedule to complete the international space station.
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Shuttle crew among the most diverse
Dec 9 2006 9:31PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Discovery's seven astronauts are among the most culturally diverse of any space shuttle crew. There are two black astronauts, an astronaut of Indian descent, the first Swede in space, a British-born mission specialist, an Alaskan and a New Jersey boy.
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Vast African lake levels dropping fast
Dec 9 2006 7:17PM (CT)
JINJA, Uganda (AP) - At Jinja pier the rusty red hull of a Lake Victoria freighter sat barely afloat in water just six feet deep _ and dropping. "The scientists have to explain this," said ship's engineer Gabriel Maziku.
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2 still fighting dump near Joshua Tree
Dec 9 2006 7:09PM (CT)
JOSHUA TREE, Calif. (AP) - From their trailer in the middle of the desert, Larry and Donna Charpied two-finger typed the first lawsuit they filed to stop Los Angeles County from putting one of the nation's biggest dumps on the edge of Joshua Tree National Park. And won.
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NASA hasn't put price on lunar outpost
Dec 9 2006 3:50PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - It'll be cheaper to build a permanent moon base and keep it running, than it will be to get to the moon. Just don't ask how much, NASA's boss says.
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Study says bees can find explosives
Dec 9 2006 1:05AM (CT)
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - Here's the latest buzz on detecting explosives: bomb-sniffing bees. A study at Los Alamos National Laboratory has found that honeybees can be trained to detect explosives, even in tiny quantities. "These bees really perform," said bee biologist Timothy Haarmann, the study's leader.
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