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Stranded whale dies in Malaysian waters
Dec 17 2006 10:55PM (CT)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - An injured whale died Sunday after beaching itself in the same spot off Malaysia's coast for the second time in as many days, news reports said Monday.
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Discovery crew readies for 4th spacewalk
Dec 17 2006 10:16PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Instead of enjoying a relaxing day at the international space station, the space shuttle Discovery's seven astronauts prepared Sunday for an unplanned, fourth spacewalk to get a stubborn, half-retracted solar array to fold up.
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Scientists study human olfactory ability
Dec 17 2006 1:28PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - By studying blindfolded college students who crawled through grass to sniff out a chocolate-scented trail, scientists say they've found evidence of a human smelling ability that experts thought was impossible.
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Biologists hunt invasive pythons in Fla.
Dec 17 2006 1:22PM (CT)
EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK, Fla. (AP) - "SNAKE!" Hearing this shout, Skip Snow slammed on the brakes. When the off-roader plowed to a halt, he and his partner, Lori Oberhofer, leaped out and took off running toward two snakes, actually _ a pair of 10-foot Burmese pythons lying on a levee, sunning themselves.
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Bone fragment likely not Joan of Arc
Dec 17 2006 3:39AM (CT)
CHINON, France (AP) - A rib bone and a piece of cloth supposedly recovered after Joan of Arc was burned at the stake are probably not hers, according to experts trying to unravel one of the mysteries surrounding the 15th century French heroine.
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