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Would you like 1 hump or 2 with your dinosaur?
By SETH BORENSTEIN 2010-09-08T18:26:59Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The weird world of dinosaurs has just gotten a tad more bizarre. Scientists found a nearly complete fossil of a new dinosaur that sports a noticeable hump, maybe as possible advertising....


Turtle egg rescue at space center billed success
By MARCIA DUNN 2010-09-08T20:03:09Z
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- The unprecedented turtle rescue effort at NASA's Kennedy Space Center is winding down....


Water main break at space center stalls shuttle
By MARCIA DUNN 2010-09-08T18:17:26Z
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- A water main break at NASA's spaceport put launch preparations on temporary hold Wednesday for the next-to-last shuttle flight....


Microbes are eating BP oil without using up oxygen
By SETH BORENSTEIN 2010-09-07T22:15:23Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Government scientists studying the BP disaster are reporting the best possible outcome: Microbes are consuming the oil in the Gulf without depleting the oxygen in the water and creating "dead zones" where fish cannot survive....


Gunmen kill Iraqi TV journalist in Mosul
By SINAN SALAHEDDIN 2010-09-08T16:13:07Z
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Gunmen on Wednesday killed an Iraqi TV journalist, the second to be slain in Iraq in as many days, highlighting the dangers media workers continue to face in the country seven years after the U.S.-led invasion....


Big quake aftershocks plague New Zealand city
By ROB GRIFFITH 2010-09-08T11:35:10Z
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) -- A strong aftershock rocked terrified residents of New Zealand's earthquake-stricken city of Christchurch on Wednesday, as officials doubled their estimate for repairing the damage following nearly 300 temblors in five days....


2 asteroids to whiz harmlessly past Earth
By 2010-09-07T20:48:58Z
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- NASA says two small asteroids discovered just days ago will zip harmlessly past Earth on Wednesday, a double flyby that should be visible through a telescope....


Report: Money can buy you happiness, to a point
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID 2010-09-07T07:09:14Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- They say money can't buy happiness. They're wrong....


Ancient city by the sea rises amid Egypt's resorts
By PAUL SCHEMM 2010-09-07T12:10:49Z
MARINA, Egypt (AP) -- Today, it's a sprawl of luxury vacation homes where Egypt's wealthy play on the white beaches of the Mediterranean coast. But 2,000 years ago, this was a thriving Greco-Roman port city, boasting villas of merchants grown rich on the wheat and olive trade....


Japan confirms its first case of new superbug gene
By SHINO YUASA 2010-09-07T11:29:15Z
TOKYO (AP) -- Japan has confirmed the nation's first case of a new gene in bacteria that allows the microorganisms to become drug-resistant superbugs, detected in a man who had medical treatment in India, a Health Ministry official said Tuesday....



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