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Perched NYC hawk sees bald eagle soar by
Dec 27 2006 10:32PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Pale Male, the famed red-tailed hawk of Central Park, was perched on the 22nd floor of the swank Beresford apartment building on Wednesday when the national emblem of the United States soared past, carrying a large fish in its talons.
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Thailand tree apes use song as warning
Dec 27 2006 10:14PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Wah, wow, hoo! Turns out humans aren't the only primates using songs to warn of life's dangers and travails. White-handed gibbons in Thailand's forests have been found to communicate threats from predators by singing _ the first time the behavior has been discovered among non-human primates, researchers said Wednesday.
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Govt. sees polar bears as 'threatened'
Dec 27 2006 9:25PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Polar bears are in jeopardy and need stronger government protection because of melting Arctic sea ice related to global warming, the Bush administration said Wednesday.
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FDA set to OK food from cloned animals
Dec 27 2006 6:16PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal scientists have concluded there is no difference between food from cloned animals and food from conventional livestock, setting the stage for the government to declare Thursday that cloned animals are safe for the human food supply.
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Idaho researcher uses fungi on knapweed
Dec 27 2006 6:14PM (CT)
MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) - A University of Idaho researcher is hoping to harness the power of tiny fungi to combat an invasive weed that ranchers blame for crowding out nutritious forage for their livestock. George Newcombe is busy inside a greenhouse on the school's Moscow campus working with so-called endophytes that live in spotted knapweed, considered one of the West's most-destructive noxious weeds.
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NASA seeks ways to boost youth appeal
Dec 27 2006 5:11PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Even though he goes to college in the shadow of the Kennedy Space Center, Adam Humphries can't name any of the astronauts who just returned home on space shuttle Discovery.
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