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Dirty teeth reveal ancient diet

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Thanks to poor dental hygiene, researchers are getting a more detailed understanding of what people ate thousands of years ago in what is now Peru.... +MORE

Space shuttle glides to safe landing in California

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) -- Space shuttle Endeavour slipped out of a brilliant desert sky and touched down safely in California after a nearly 16-day mission to repair and upgrade the international space station.... +MORE

Food crunch opens doors to bioengineered crops

KUNMING, China (AP) -- Zeng Yawen's outdoor laboratory in the terraced hills of southern China is a trove of genetic potential - rice that thrives in unusually cool temperatures, high altitudes or in dry soil; rice rich in calcium, vitamins or iron.... +MORE

Mandates driving surge to the river for hydropower

HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) -- Many decades ago, cost-conscious Henry Ford turned to hydroelectric plants to power his car factories like the one by the Great Miami River, near this Cincinnati suburb. That assembly plant is long gone, but the power plant and the technology behind it isn't.... +MORE

150 whales die in stranding in Australia

HOBART, Australia (AP) -- A group of 150 whales that became stranded on a remote coastline in southern Australia were battered to death on rocks before rescuers could save them.... +MORE

Problems prompt manual docking at space station

MOSCOW (AP) -- A Russian cosmonaut used a joystick to guide a modernized cargo ship to the international space station Sunday after problems with an automated system prompted a last-minute switch to a manual docking.... +MORE

NZ won't quickly rescue hurt whalers, protesters

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- New Zealand will not be able to quickly rescue anyone who gets lost or hurt if clashes erupt between animal rights activists and Japanese whalers off the north Antarctic coast, the foreign minister said Saturday.... +MORE

Scientists find meteor debris in Canada

LLOYDMINSTER, Alberta (AP) -- Scientists said Friday they had found remains of a meteor that illuminated the sky before falling to earth in western Canada earlier this month.... +MORE

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