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Ukraine's `hot air' bedevils global climate deal
KONSTANTINOVKA, Ukraine (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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Ukraine's `hot air' bedevils global climate deal
KONSTANTINOVKA, Ukraine (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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Ukraine's `hot air' bedevils global climate deal
KONSTANTINOVKA, Ukraine (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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Ukraine's `hot air' bedevils global climate deal
KONSTANTINOVKA, Ukraine (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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Robotic clam digs in mudflats
(American Institute of Physics) To design a lightweight anchor that can dig itself in to hold small underwater submersibles, Anette Hosoi of MIT borrowed techniques from one of nature's best diggers -- the razor clam.
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Beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss
(Census of Marine Life) En route to historic 1st global Census of Marine Life (Oct. 2010), scientists have inventoried an astonishing abundance, diversity and distribution of deep sea species that have never known sunlight -- creatures that somehow manage a living in a frigid black world down to 5000 meters (three miles) below the ocean waves.
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Generating electricity from air flow
(American Institute of Physics) A group of researchers at the City College of New York is developing a new way to generate power for planes and automobiles based on materials known as piezoelectrics, which convert the kinetic energy of motion into electricity. They will present their concept later this month at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society's (APS) Division of Fluid Dynamics will take place from Nov. 22-24 at the Minneapolis Convention Center.
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Nuclear weapons: Predicting the unthinkable
(American Institute of Physics) If a nuclear weapon were detonated in a metropolitan area, how large would the affected area be? Where should first responders first go?
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Baby can wait as expectant dad finishes spacewalk
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (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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Baby can wait as expectant dad finishes spacewalk
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (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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Baby can wait as expectant dad finishes spacewalk
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (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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Baby can wait as expectant dad finishes spacewalk
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (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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Baby can wait as expectant dad finishes spacewalk
(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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Swine flu vaccine effective despite mutations: experts
Swine flu vaccines are still effective despite reported cases of mutations in the A(H1N1) virus, health experts in Europe and North America said Saturday.
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Tree-eating bugs threaten Monarch butterfly in Mexico
The mysterious Monarch butterfly, which migrates en masse annually between Canada and Mexico, is now facing a new peril: another insect thriving in Western Mexican forests.
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Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debate
(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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Astronauts finish another spacewalk, still no baby
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (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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Astronauts finish another spacewalk, still no baby
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (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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Atlantis astronauts take 2nd spacewalk of mission
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (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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Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debate
LONDON (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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