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Spacewalkers to look at solar array
Dec 15 2006 10:58PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - After a handful of unsuccessful attempts Friday to coax a solar array to fold properly, NASA officials now plan to send two spacewalkers to examine it close up and may add a fourth spacewalk if needed.
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Spacewalkers to look at solar array
Dec 15 2006 10:58PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - After a handful of unsuccessful attempts Friday to coax a solar array to fold properly, NASA officials now plan to send two spacewalkers to examine it close up and may add a fourth spacewalk if needed.
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Spacewalkers to look at solar array
Dec 15 2006 10:58PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - After a handful of unsuccessful attempts Friday to coax a solar array to fold properly, NASA officials now plan to send two spacewalkers to examine it close up and may add a fourth spacewalk if needed.
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Spacewalkers to look at solar array
Dec 15 2006 10:58PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - After a handful of unsuccessful attempts Friday to coax a solar array to fold properly, NASA officials now plan to send two spacewalkers to examine it close up and may add a fourth spacewalk if needed.
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Amazon countersues IBM over patents
Dec 15 2006 10:43PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Amazon.com Inc. denies it violated IBM Corp. patents in building its massive retail Web site, and alleges instead that IBM infringed on Amazon's technology to beef up its own offerings.
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Ark. men say the saw rare woodpecker
Dec 15 2006 8:31PM (CT)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Kip Davis and Jay Robison saw what they believed was an ivory-billed woodpecker on Thursday, one of thousands of reported sightings piling up as leaves in an east Arkansas swamp drift down.
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FAA issues 1st-ever space tourism rules
Dec 15 2006 6:40PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Thrill-seekers looking to blast into space would need to be informed in writing of serious risks _ including death _ and promise not to sue the government under the first-ever rules for commercial space travel.
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Gov't to consider protection for cactus
Dec 15 2006 5:37PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will study whether a rare Utah cactus should be protected as an endangered species, a move that could affect oil drilling in the state's Uinta Basin.
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World's first cloned cat has kittens
Dec 15 2006 5:37PM (CT)
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) - The world's first cloned cat just became a mother _ and she even did it without test tubes. Copy Cat, who was cloned by Texas A&M University researchers in 2001, had three kittens in September. Mother and kittens are doing well, said Duane Kraemer, an A&M veterinary medicine professor who helped clone her and has been taking care of her since.
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Fungal infection may have killed ducks
Dec 15 2006 5:33PM (CT)
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - A fungal infection likely killed 2,500 mallard ducks in a mysterious cluster along a tiny southeastern Idaho creek, a federal wildlife biologist said Friday.
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Exhibit shows Egypt's sunken treasures
Dec 15 2006 5:31PM (CT)
PARIS (AP) - The great port of Alexandria was a bustling trade hub, a transit point for merchandise from throughout the ancient world _ until much of it vanished into the Mediterranean Sea.
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Satellite cleared at Va. spaceport
Dec 15 2006 1:20AM (CT)
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Air Force officials on Thursday cleared an experimental satellite for the first rocket launch from the mid-Atlantic region's commercial spaceport, after a software glitch had grounded it. The launch was rescheduled for Saturday.
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