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Icebergs head from Antarctica for New Zealand (AP)
Nov 24, 2009

In this Nov. 16, 2009 photo released by the Australian Antarctic Division, an iceberg is seen at Sandy Bay on Macquarie Island's east coast, in the Southern Ocean 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) southeast of Tasmania, Australia. It is very rare to see icebergs from Macquarie Island and is uncommon to find icebergs in this general region. (AP Photo/Australian Antarctic Division, Eve Merfield)AP - A flotilla of hundreds of icebergs that split off Antarctic ice shelves is drifting toward New Zealand and could pose a risk to ships in the south Pacific Ocean, officials said Tuesday.


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Canadian parliament votes for deep CO2 emissions cut (AFP)
Nov 24, 2009

Prime Minister Stephen Harper, pictured in August 2009. Canada's parliament on Tuesday passed a motion urging Harper's minority Tory government to adopt a deep carbon dioxide reduction target at upcoming international climate talks.(AFP/File/Elmer Martinez)AFP - Canada's parliament on Tuesday passed a motion urging Prime Minister Stephen Harper's minority Tory government to adopt a deep carbon dioxide reduction target at upcoming international climate talks.


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Smoking Gun Found in Rejected Heart Transplants (LiveScience.com)
Nov 24, 2009

LiveScience.com - Scientists have long suspected that smoking increased the risk that a transplanted heart would be rejected. Now they have a smoking gun.

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Astronaut says Mexico needs its own space program (AP)
Nov 24, 2009

AP - A NASA astronaut says he wants to help Mexican officials start the country's first space agency.

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Salazar blasts critics of U.S. energy policy (Reuters)
Nov 24, 2009

Reuters - Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Tuesday fired back at critics who claim he's not supportive enough of domestic energy production, saying their accusations have the same "poison and substance of election-year politics."

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EPA proposes sulfur dioxide limits for first time since 1971 (McClatchy Newspapers)
Nov 24, 2009

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency is continuing its crackdown on coal pollution with a new plan to cut sulfur dioxide — a move that would clean up the air for millions of Americans and bring some relief to people who suffer from asthma and other respiratory diseases.

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Report: Indiana power plants 4th dirtiest in US (AP)
Nov 24, 2009

AP - Coal-hungry Indiana ranks fourth in the nation for carbon dioxide emissions from mostly aging power plants that contribute to global warming, an environmental group said Tuesday.

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Is Case Finally Closed on 1965 Pennsylvania 'UFO Mystery'? (SPACE.com)
Nov 24, 2009

SPACE.com - In the chronicles of UFO oddness, there's been a long-standing oddity – some say folklore, others deem it reality. This saga, now over four decades old, centers on a reported out-of-the-sky incident involving the small town of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania.

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Ohio's zoo's lion cubs make debut (AP)
Nov 24, 2009

In this photo provided the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium female lion cub Adia, left, and male cub Kitambi, right, are shown Monday, Nov. 23, 2009 in Columbus, Ohio. The two cubs and a sister, all born Sept. 22, were allowed outdoors in view of zoo visitors for the first time on Tuesday, Nov. 24. (AP Photo/Columbus Zoo and Aquarium)AP - An Ohio zoo is ready to show off its newest additions — a trio of lion cubs.


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Comatose for 23 years Belgian feels reborn (AP)
Nov 24, 2009

Belgian patient Rom Houben, seen here using a specially-adapted computer to type messages at the Weyerke institute near Liege. Houben, who was wrongly diagnosed as being in a coma for 23 years, has revived the debate on care for those considered in a vegetative state, with the astonishing case far from unique according to a recent study.(AFP/Stringer)AP - With a caretaker holding his hand, a Belgian man who was diagnosed as comatose for 23 years typed out a message Tuesday that he felt reborn after decades of loneliness and frustration. A leading bioethicist, however, expressed skepticism that the man was truly communicating on his own.


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