Posted Wednesday July 2, 2008, 12:56 am, Over one day old
AP - As crude soared to a new record, the head of the International Energy Agency declared that the world was in the grip of an "oil shock," and the president of OPEC acknowledged he could not say whether prices would flatten out or continue to soar.
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Posted Wednesday July 2, 2008, 12:56 am, Over one day old
AP - An influx of tourists to Peru's famed Inca citadel of Machu Picchu may prompt UNESCO to add the jungle-shrouded ruins to its list of endangered World Heritage sites.
Read Experts say tourists harming Machu Picchu
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Posted Tuesday July 1, 2008, 12:56 am, Over one day old
AP - A new poll shows high gasoline prices have dramatically changed Americans' views on energy and the environment. More people now say expanding oil drilling and building new power plants is a bigger priority than energy conservation.
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Posted Tuesday July 1, 2008, 12:56 am, Over one day old
AP - The Pentagon will buy and operate one or two commercial imagery satellites and plans to design and build another with more sophisticated spying capabilities, according to government and private industry officials.
Read Pentagon will buy satellites to do more spying
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Posted Tuesday July 1, 2008, 12:56 am, Over one day old
AP - In 2002, at a Johns Hopkins University laboratory, a business consultant named Dede Osborn took a psychedelic drug as part of a research project.
Read Study finds long benefit in illegal mushroom drug
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Posted Tuesday July 1, 2008, 12:56 am, Over one day old
Read Scientists say ailing penguins signal sea problems
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Posted Tuesday July 1, 2008, 12:56 am, Over one day old
AP - Forecasters say a tropical storm in the Pacific is now a hurricane over the ocean far to the west of Mexico.
Read Hurricane Boris reported in Pacific far off Mexico
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Posted Tuesday July 1, 2008, 12:56 am, Over one day old
AP - Five Makah Indian whalers who killed a gray whale during an illegal hunt last September have been sentenced in federal court. The sentences include jail time for two men considered the leaders of the group.
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Posted Tuesday July 1, 2008, 12:56 am, Over one day old
AP - Two conservation groups have asked the federal government to impose new restrictions on oil and gas development in the West to protect the greater sage grouse, a popular game bird on the decline.
Read Groups seek drilling halt near sage grouse habitat
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Posted Tuesday July 1, 2008, 12:56 am, Over one day old
LiveScience.com - Soft and squishy chemical robots will one day squeeze through tight
spots then expand to 10 times larger, offering an advantage over rigid
robots. Once a mission is complete, a chembot would biodegrade.
Read Futuristic Chembots Squeeze Through Small Spaces
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