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Navy Interceptor Missile Test Off Hawaii Successful
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This photo provided by the U.S. Navy shows a Standard Missile-3 being launched from the Aegis cruiser USS Lake Erie during a test in the Pacific Ocean, Thursday, April 26, 2007.
KEKAHA, Hawaii (AP) — The U.S. military has successfully conducted a test flight of the Navy's newest interceptor missile by shooting down a ballistic missile target off Hawaii.
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Carl Sagan papers donated by 'Family Guy' creator
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:36AM June 27, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Seth MacFarlane once included a gag on his animated TV comedy "Family Guy" about an "edited for rednecks" version of Carl Sagan's "Cosmos," featuring an animated Sagan dubbed over to say that the earth is "hundreds and hundreds" of years old.
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SKorea claims East Asia's oldest farming site
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:31AM June 27, 2012 CommentSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's archaeological agency says it has unearthed evidence of East Asia's oldest known farming site.
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Subway Work Unearths Ancient Road in Greece
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Workers of Metro's construction company are seen at the ancient ruins in the northern Greek port city of Thessaloniki on Monday, June 25, 2012. Archaeologists in Greece’s second largest city have uncovered a 70-meter (230-foot) section of an ancient road built by the Romans that was city’s main travel artery nearly 2,000 years ago.
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Archaeologists in Greece's second-largest city have uncovered a 70-meter (230-foot) section of an ancient road built by the Romans that was the city's main travel artery nearly 2,000 years ago.
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Sea Rise Faster on East Coast Than Rest of Globe
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The breakwater along Rudee Inlet in Virginia Beach weathers waves as swimmers and surfers enjoy the ocean along the oceanfront in Virginia Beach, Va.
WASHINGTON (AP) — From Cape Hatteras, N.C., to just north of Boston, sea levels are rising much faster than they are around the globe, putting one of the world's most costly coasts in danger of flooding, government researchers report.
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Animal smarts: What do dolphins and dogs know?
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:23AM June 24, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — It's not just man's closer primate relatives that exhibit brain power. Dolphins, dogs and elephants are teaching us a few lessons, too.
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Chinese spacecraft docks with orbiting module
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:59AM June 24, 2012 CommentBEIJING (AP) — A Chinese spacecraft carrying three astronauts docked manually with an orbiting module on Sunday, a first for the country as it strives to match American and Russian exploits in space.
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Singles try to sniff out love at pheromone parties
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:17PM June 23, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — Sniff your way to love? Singles who have attended so-called pheromone parties haven't ruled it out.
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Rio+20, the unhappy environmental summit
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:54PM June 23, 2012 CommentRIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — It was hard to find a happy soul at the end of the Rio+20 environmental summit.
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Sumatran rhino gives birth to male in Indonesia
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:54AM June 23, 2012 CommentJAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian official says an endangered Sumatran rhinoceros has given birth to a male calf. It's only the fifth known to have been born in captivity.
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Report: Calif. to get seas rising 6 inches by 2030
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:51PM June 22, 2012 CommentThe West Coast will see an ocean several inches higher in coming decades, with most of California expected to get sea levels a half foot higher by 2030, according to a report released Friday.
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APNewsBreak: Florida man defends dinosaur's import
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:07PM June 21, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — A Florida dealer of fossils who acquired the remains of a dinosaur that the government plans to seize says he is "not some international bone smuggler" and that he risked his finances and reputation to put together the skeleton to promote a love of science in others.
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Leaders raise alarm at Rio+20 enviro summit
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:47PM June 21, 2012 CommentRIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Leaders from the developing world sharply criticized their counterparts from richer nations during talks at the Rio+20 sustainable development conference on Thursday, citing what they said is the historic responsibility industrialized nations have to clean up the globe.
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Celebs Urge Drilling-Free Sanctuary in Arctic
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:50PM June 21, 2012 CommentIcebergs drift in calm seas off the Greenland coast.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The environmental group Greenpeace launched a global campaign for greater protection of the arctic on Thursday, backed by celebrities such as Robert Redford, Penelope Cruz and Paul McCartney.
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Bird flu study published after terrorism debate
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:19PM June 21, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — The second of two bird flu studies once considered too risky to publish was released Thursday, ending a saga that pitted concerns about terrorism against fears of a deadly global epidemic.
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Cash cows, disputes explain UN development summit
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:41PM June 21, 2012 CommentRIO CLARO, Brazil (AP) — The cash cows on Carlos Marques' farm used to be nothing but that: herds of dairy cattle that grazed the grassy, rolling hills of his property, where most of the dense tropical forest was long ago cut down for pastures and cropland.
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Development banks commit $175bn to transportation
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:13PM June 21, 2012 CommentRIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The world's largest development banks say they are investing $175 billion over the next decade to support cleaner transportation systems.
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Solar plane makes 2nd attempt in Morocco flight
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:55AM June 21, 2012 CommentRABAT, Morocco (AP) — An experimental solar plane hoping to one day fly around the world tried again Thursday to fly over Morocco's Atlas Mountains after being thwarted a week ago by high winds.
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Big UN environmental summit opens in Rio
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:21PM June 20, 2012 CommentRIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Leaders from around the globe gathered Wednesday to open three days of talks at the United Nations conference on sustainable development, where a sober, unambitious mood prevailed as negotiators produced what critics called a watered-down document that makes few advances on protecting the environment.
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Rio: pollution rife during UN enviro conference
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:48PM June 20, 2012 CommentRio de Janeiro (AP) — The throngs streaming into Rio for a sustainable development conference may be dreaming of white-sand beaches and clear, blue waters, but what they are first likely to notice as they leave the airport is not the salty tang of ocean in the breeze, but the stench of raw sewage.
