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Baby can wait as expectant dad finishes spacewalk (AP)
AP - A spacewalking astronaut put aside the impending birth of his daughter and blazed through his first-ever venture outside the International Space Station on Saturday.
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Climate Emails Show Rancor
A picture of professional backbiting and questionable scientific practices emerges from the more than 3,000 documents and emails from prominent climate-change scientists accessed by hackers and posted on the Internet. That could undermine the idea that the science of man-made global warming is settl …
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China coal mine blast death toll jumps to 87 (AP)
AP - A state news agency says the death toll in a northeast China coal mine blast has jumped to 87.
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Central America demands billions in climate damages (AFP)
AFP - Central American nations will demand 105 billion dollars from industrialized countries for damages caused by global warming, the region's representatives said on Friday.
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Australia issues 'catastrophic' alerts as fires rage (AFP)
AFP - Australia has issued "catastrophic" alerts after record-breaking temperatures and wild lightning storms sparked more than 100 fires across the country, officials said Saturday.
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Astronauts finish another spacewalk, still no baby (AP)
AP - A spacewalking astronaut put aside the impending birth of his daughter and blazed through his first-ever venture outside the International Space Station on Saturday.
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Ukraine's `hot air' bedevils global climate deal (AP)
AP - Vladimir Gapor is a plumber by trade, but now he's a scavenger, prying bits of scrap steel from the ruins of his old factory and selling them for a pittance.
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EPA: Uranium from polluted mine in Nev. wells (AP)
AP - Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the northern Nevada air smell sweet at harvest time.
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Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debate (AP)
AP - Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online — stoking debate over whether some scientists have overstated the case for man-made climate change.
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Really Rare Rhinos Found by Dung-Sniffing Dogs (LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - We all know dogs like to smell just about everything, including other animals' poo. Now scientists have figured out how to put the canines' odd pastimes to work to help sniff out the dung of endangered rhinos in Vietnam.
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Coal mine blast kills 42 in China, 66 trapped (AP)
AP - Rescuers working in frigid cold and darkness tried to reach 66 people believed trapped a third of a mile (half a kilometer) underground after a huge gas explosion Saturday ripped through a coal mine in northern China, killing at least 42 people.
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Climate scientists accused of 'manipulating global warming data'
Some of the world's top climate scientists have been accused of manipulating data on global warming after hundreds of private emails were stolen by hackers and published online.
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Colo. to review taxpayer-paid lobbyists practice (AP)
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.
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Atlantis astronauts take 2nd spacewalk of mission (AP)
AP - Atlantis' astronauts are taking another spacewalk outside the International Space Station.
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Giant Cannibal Galaxy's Last Meal
New images show results of collision between giant galaxy and smaller neighbor.
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Pennsylvania residents sue over gas drilling (Reuters)
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.
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Quick restart of Big Bang machine stuns scientists (AP)
AP - Scientists moved Saturday to prepare the world's largest atom smasher for exploring the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10 billion machine following more than a year of repairs.
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How Netbooks Work
Netbooks are ultra-portable computers that are even smaller than traditional laptops. They're all the rage right now, but can they overcome their shortcomings to become a mainstay of the portable computer market?
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Astronauts gear up for 2nd spacewalk of mission (AP)
AP - An astronaut is gearing up for the first spacewalk of his career while awaiting the imminent birth of his daughter.
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China says 42 dead, 66 trapped in mine explosion (AP)
AP - A gas explosion tore through a state-run coal mine in northern China on Saturday, killing 42 people and leaving 66 others trapped underground as rescuers worked hastily to save them.
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