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Southeast Asia hunts wildlife poachers
Dec 23 2006 9:41PM (CT)
HUA HIN, Thailand (AP) - Brandishing pistols, a half dozen Thai police officers jump out of a pickup truck and surround the house of an alleged international wildlife trafficker.
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Armadillos marching north to Illinois
Dec 23 2006 9:21PM (CT)
MURPHYSBORO, Ill. (AP) - For years, Lloyd Nelson laughed off as myth reports that armadillos _ those armored, football-sized critters with the big claws and bigger nose _ had waddled their way into southern Illinois, the same place folks say they've seen cougars.
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Shuttle's landing ends big year for NASA
Dec 23 2006 5:43AM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA began 2006 having flown only a single space shuttle mission since the Columbia disaster three years earlier. After Friday's landing of space shuttle Discovery and its seven astronauts, the U.S. space agency will end the year with three successful shuttle missions under its belt and the resumption of construction on the international space station.
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Lawsuit seeks to shield Alaska sea otter
Dec 23 2006 1:01AM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A conservation group, alarmed at a decrease in the number of sea otters in southwest Alaska, filed a lawsuit in federal court on Tuesday to try to compel the government to designate critical habitat to help the endangered species recover.
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