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The U.S. government plans to spend at least $1 billion on new facilities to fight bioterrorism over the next decade.
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Ridley turtles and an 88-pound loggerhead turtle named Bruiser are expected to spend winter in rehabilitation in New York after being caught in the cold.
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Students in North Dakota debating programs have been banned from broaching the topic of intelligent design.
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Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, is calling to boost safeguards for the nation's coastal fisheries to curb overfishing.
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A new method of freezing Pacific oyster eggs could have major implications for the world's seafood industry, it was reported Tuesday.
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A Michigan teacher wants people to know that a rare wolverine roaming Michigan's Thumb isn't a threat to humans.
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A groundbreaking study is aimed at finding out if people will change their driving habits if they had to pay a toll for almost every mile they drive.
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Dec 28 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 | pda version
U.S. drivers will be able to gas up their vehicles next year with nearly 3 percent of clean-burning, domestic renewable fuels such as ethanol.
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U.S. suburban sprawl with its increased use of septic tanks and its watering and fertilizing of lawns is taking a toll on the environment.
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The University of Colorado at Boulder's long heritage with NASA planetary missions will continue Jan. 17 with the launch of a student space dust instrument on the New Horizons Mission to Pluto from Florida's Kennedy Space Center.
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Dec 28 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 | pda version
Stardust's voyage in space is near its end, but its cargo - the world's first cometary and interstellar dust samples - has begun its two year journey on Earth, which ends on a cold early morning on the floor of a frozen dry lakebed.
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This week the Opportunity Instrument Arm Anomaly Team continued investigating the safety of different arm positions. The intent is to determine the safest position to leave the arm while the vehicle drives to new locations.
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This past week was a busy one for New Horizons. Mission operations practices continued, as did engineering paperwork closeouts.
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Cloudmark Inc. issued a consumer warning Wednesday in anticipation of an increased risk of "phishing attacks" following the holiday shopping season.
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Verizon Wireless announced Wednesday it has completed more than $290 million in enhancements to its Texas voice and data wireless network this year.
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Even as China, by far the world's biggest telecom market that is anxiously awaiting the go-ahead from its government for third-generation telecom services, is trying out all the available 3G technology standards, industry experts believe that it will be the "home grown" technology that the government will allow first for rolling out the latest in mobile telephony.
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On the Rock Creek Parkway running trail in the heart of Washington, D.C., a steady stream of joggers runs past a tabbed flier attached to a utility pole describing Peaches, a missing parakeet, and offers a reward for its return.
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Users of MSN's dial-up Internet service will have access to anti-virus and firewall protection from McAfee.
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The Philippines has granted four companies permits to operate third-generation wireless telephone systems.
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A consensus has reportedly been reached in India on the contentious issue of telecom infrastructure sharing.
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An Oregon man pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges he took part in a cyber attack on the eBay auction site in 2003.
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Fifteen years ago this Christmas week, Tim Berners-Lee, an obscure scientist working in a European laboratory, invented the Internet browser, now a fixture of the digital economy, experts tell United Press International's The Web.
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China Unicom has ordered 150,000 smartphones manufactured by Qiao Xing Universal in a deal worth $108 million.
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Dec 28 | User rating: 1.5 / 5 | pda version
Ask Jeeves Inc. Wednesday released the most popular New Year's Resolutions for 2006, as noted on the Web site.
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Thanks to support from successive EU-funded projects, Tiga Technologies, an advanced IT consultancy, is creating a spin-off company to commercialise a pioneering electronic arbitration system called e-Dispute.
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