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WASHINGTON (AP), Far out in the Atlantic, a little yellow submarineis trying to slip from current to current, gliding across the oceanbeneath the waves. The unmanned sub is nearing the halfway mark inits effort to travel from New Jersey to Spain, collectingscientific data along the way. US judge blocks gas drilling in Michigan forest
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP), A federal judge has overturned adecision by the U.S. Forest Service to allow oil and gas drillingnear a forest and a river in Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula.U.S. District Judge David Lawson of Detroit ruled Thursday theagency had acted "arbitrarily and capriciously" in 2005 by givingSavoy Energy LP of Traverse City a permit to drill an exploratorywell near the Au Sable River's south branch. Remote Alaska volcano erupts, spewing rock and ash
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP), A volcano erupted Saturday with littlewarning on a remote island in Alaska, sending residents of a nearbyranch fleeing from falling ash and volcanic rock. The Okmok Calderaerupted late Saturday morning, just hours after seismologists atthe Alaska Volcano Center began detecting a series of smalltremors. Mars bake test hastened after oven short circuit
LOS ANGELES (AP), Will the Mars lander's next baking test of soiland ice be its last? Scientists worry that it could be, thanks toan electrical glitch that threatens the $420 million quest to findthe chemical ingredients for life near the Martian north pole. White House rejects regulating greenhouse gases
WASHINGTON (AP), The Bush administration, dismissing therecommendations of its top experts, rejected regulating thegreenhouse gases blamed for global warming Friday, saying it wouldcripple the U.S. economy. In a 588-page federal notice, theEnvironmental Protection Agency made no finding on whether globalwarming poses a threat to people's health or welfare, reversing anearlier conclusion at the insistence of the White House andofficially kicking any decision on a solution to the next presidentand Congress. Report: 2nd oldest US wildlife refuge in jeopardy
NEW ORLEANS (AP), The nation's second oldest national wildliferefuge, a chain of barrier islands southeast of New Orleans, is indanger of being lost unless the islands are restored, the U.S. Fishand Wildlife Service said Friday. The Chandeleur and Breton islandshave been battered by hurricanes in the past four years and theytook a pounding from Hurricane Katrina, which "reduced the islandsby one-half of their pre-storm size," the agency said in a newreport. Lightning claims 5 young lives in a week
WASHINGTON (AP), Five young lives have been ended by lightning inless than a week, a deadly reminder of one of summer's leadinghazards. "Typically, July marks the peak in lightning activity.It's also the time when people are vacationing, so they are outsideand they are vulnerable to lightning," said John Jensenius, alightning safety expert at the National Weather Service. Astronauts handle explosives on daring spacewalk
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP), In a daring spacewalk, two space stationastronauts cut into the insulation of their descent capsuleThursday and removed an explosive bolt that could have blown offtheir hands with firecracker force. Spacewalkers Sergei Volkov andOleg Kononenko managed, in the end, to safely disconnect the boltfrom the Soyuz capsule that will be their ride home this fall. Theyimmediately slid it into a blast-proof container. Ancient Rome's she-wolf statue not so ancient?
ROME (AP), She suckled Rome's legendary twin founders and fedBenito Mussolini's ambitious dreams of renewed imperial glories.For centuries, the she-wolf has been one of Rome's most powerfulsymbols. But now some experts are contending that the bronze statuein a city museum atop Capitoline Hill might not be so old afterall.
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