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| 1. | Researcher: Faint writing seen on Shroud of Turin |
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AP - A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus.
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:20:51 GMT [ AP ] 20 hours, 9 minutes ago
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| 2. | Astronauts await word of baby girl on Earth |
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AP - Atlantis' astronauts anxiously awaited word on the birth of one crewman's daughter Friday, as they moved more supplies into the International Space Station and geared up for another spacewalk.
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:30:59 GMT [ AP ] 59 minutes ago
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| 3. | Biologists save fish after landslide |
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AP - A gigantic landslide that buried a highway, uprooted homes and rerouted a river in Washington state's Cascade Range left hundreds of smaller victims: fish.
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:41:37 GMT [ AP ] 7 hours, 48 minutes ago
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| 5. | Colo. to review taxpayer-paid lobbyists practice |
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AP - At a time of budget cuts, Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter's administration last year paid employees and outside contractors $1.1 million to lobby Colorado lawmakers on legislation ranging from renewable energy tax credits to increasing motor vehicle license fees.
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:12:44 GMT [ AP ] 20 hours, 17 minutes ago
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| 6. | Pennsylvania residents sue over gas drilling |
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Reuters - Residents of a small rural Pennsylvania town sued Cabot Oil & Gas Corp on Friday, claiming the company's natural-gas drilling has contaminated their water wells with toxic chemicals, caused sickness and reduced their property values.
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:56:36 GMT [ Reuters ] 21 hours, 33 minutes ago
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| 7. | Key Parts Returned from Hubble Telescope Now on Display at Smiths... |
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SPACE.com - WASHINGTON - The camera that captured many of the Hubble SpaceTelescope's most famous images and the "contact lenses" thatfocused the observatory's flawed mirror debuted Wednesday at theSmithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. along withthe first p...
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:16:28 GMT [ SPACE.com ] 21 hours, 13 minutes ago
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| 8. | U. of Neb. board votes down stem-cell rule changes |
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AP - The University of Nebraska's governing board on Friday voted down a proposal to restrict the school's rules governing embryonic stem-cell research beyond what the federal government allows.
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:53:20 GMT [ AP ] 21 hours, 36 minutes ago
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| 9. | 3 new ancient crocodile species fossils found |
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AP - A 20-foot-long crocodile with three sets of fangs — like wild boar tusks — roamed parts of northern Africa millions of years ago, researchers reported Thursday. While this fearsome creature hunted meat, not far away another newly found type of croc with a wide, flat snout like a pancake was fishing for food.
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:25:53 GMT [ AP ] 21 hours, 4 minutes ago
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| 10. | Australia 'disappointed' at Japan whaling mission |
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AFP - Australia said it was "deeply disappointed" after a fleet of Japanese whaling ships set out to kill hundreds of the giant ocean mammals on their annual hunt.
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:04:13 GMT [ AFP ] 4 hours, 25 minutes ago
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| 12. | Vehicle fuel efficiency up in 2008 model year |
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AP - The fleet of new cars and trucks sold to U.S. consumers averaged 21 miles per gallon in the 2008 model year, a modest increase over the previous year, the Environmental Protection Agency reported Friday.
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:58:11 GMT [ AP ] 20 hours, 31 minutes ago
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| 13. | The nation's weather |
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AP - New England was expected to see another dreary day, while the Pacific Northwest remains under wintry conditions on Friday.
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:02:15 GMT [ AP ] 7 hours, 27 minutes ago
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| 14. | Stuck Mars Rover Finally Budges, a Little |
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SPACE.com - NASA's stuck Mars rover Spirit took a tiny step Thursday,its first progress in months, during the latest attempt to extricate the robotfrom deep Martian sand.
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:47:31 GMT [ SPACE.com ] 23 hours, 42 minutes ago
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| 15. | Asthma Combo Seems Less Influenced by Genes |
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HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- People's genetic makeup has been shown to affect how they respond to asthma medications, but a new study finds that many people respond well to a particular combination treatment regardless of their genes.
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:25:30 GMT [ HealthDay ] 17 hours, 4 minutes ago
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| 16. | Permafrost thaw threatens Russia oil and gas complex: study |
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AFP - Thawing permafrost caused by global warming is costing Russian energy firms billions of dollars annually in damage control and shrinking Russia's territory, Greenpeace warned in a new study Friday.
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:03:00 GMT [ AFP ] 22 hours, 27 minutes ago
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| 17. | Evacuations underway as floods hit towns |
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AFP - Rescuers were working on Friday to evacuate about 200 people by helicopter from a town after storms triggered flooding across parts of the country, police said.
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:15:10 GMT [ AFP ] 6 hours, 14 minutes ago
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