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02/09/2012 10:01 AM
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Life in Antarctic lake? It's everywhere else
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AP - If scientists find microbes in a frigid lake two miles beneath the thick ice of Antarctica, it will illustrate once again that somehow life finds a way to survive in the strangest and harshest places.
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02/09/2012 09:48 AM
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Mexican experts excited to find ancient home ruins
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 AP - The ruins aren't particularly impressive, just some stone and clay footings for houses that probably supported walls of wood or clay wattle. And it's that very ordinariness that has experts excited.
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02/09/2012 06:38 PM
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Researchers probe 200-year-old shipwreck off RI
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AP - For two centuries it rested a mile from shore, shrouded by a treacherous reef from the pleasure boaters and beachgoers who haunt New England's southern coast.
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02/09/2012 07:26 AM
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Judge tosses case seeking rights for orcas
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AP - An effort to free whales from SeaWorld by claiming they were enslaved made a splash in the news but flopped in court Wednesday.
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02/09/2012 05:24 PM
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How Earth's Next Supercontinent Will Form
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LiveScience.com - The Earth has been covered by giant combinations of continents, called supercontinents, many times in its past, and it will be again one day in the distant future. The next predicted supercontinent, dubbed Amasia, may form when the Americas and Asia both drift northward to merge, closing off the Arctic Ocean, researchers suggest.
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02/09/2012 01:53 AM
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BP wins exclusion of emails from oil spill trial
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Reuters - BP Plc won a court order keeping several potentially damaging emails out of a scheduled trial to determine responsibility for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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02/09/2012 05:11 AM
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Dems hit lax fed drilling oversight
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AP - Federal policing of oil and natural gas drilling on public lands is lax and inconsistent, with only 6 percent of violations resulting in monetary fines over 13 years, House Democrats said in a report Wednesday.
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02/09/2012 06:06 PM
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Exclusive: U.S. squeezes French-led satellite maker over China
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Reuters - The United States has threatened action that could disrupt a French-led satellite maker's supply chain, spurred by suspicion that it illegally used U.S. know-how or parts in spacecraft launched by Chinese rockets.
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02/09/2012 07:47 AM
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More Success With Gene Therapy for Blindness
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HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Feb. 8 (HealthDay News) -- As a child, Tami Morehouse
had vision problems. She struggled to read the blackboard at school, and
homework took hours.
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02/01/2012 08:25 PM
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Fewer zoos may have elephants under new standard
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Reuters - Fewer zoos of the future may have elephants but those that do would have happier animals under a new policy requiring American zoos with two elephants to add space for a third in case one dies.
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02/09/2012 12:23 AM
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Lawsuit filed over Jesus statue on public land
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AP - The battle over a 57-year-old Jesus statue at a northwest Montana ski resort escalated Wednesday with a new federal lawsuit arguing that the Forest Service needs to remove the relic from its mountaintop perch.
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02/09/2012 01:28 PM
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The nations weather
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AP - Weather Underground Forecast for Thursday, February 09, 2012.
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