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BulletExperts to complete final climate report (AP).

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, center, with cabinet ministers and top officials ride during a campaign promoting the use of bicycles to reduce carbon emission ahead of U.N. conference on climate change, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2007. Indonesia will host the conference next month on the island of Bali to decide the future course of the worldwide push to curb greenhouse gas emissions after the 2012 expiration of the first phase of the Kyoto Protocol. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)AP - The U.N.'s top climate official challenged world policymakers Monday to map out a path to curb climate change, charging that to ignore the urgency of global warming would be "nothing less than criminally irresponsible."




BulletAncient peru temple, mural excavated (AP).

In this photo released by Peru's Andina Agency, archeologist Walter Alva points out a white and red mural depicting a deer hunted in a net, in Lambayeque, Peru, Saturday, Nov. 10, 2007. A team of Peruvian archeologists have excavated a 4,000-year-old temple near Peru's northern coast. The temple has a staircase leading to an altar Alva said was used for worshipping fire and making offerings to the deities. (AP Photo/Andina Agency)AP - Carbon dating tests and excavation of a colorful pre-Incan temple indicate that it was built thousands of years ago by an advanced civilization, a prominent archaeologist said in comments published Sunday by a Peruvian newspaper.




BulletOfficials to tour Bay oil spill damage (AP).

Rear Adm. Craig Bone, the U.S. Coast Guard's top official in California, discusses an oil spill caused by the Cosco Busan, seen in the background, on Saturday, Nov. 10, 2007, in Oakland, Calif. The vessel struck the Bay Bridge on Wednesday spilling about 58,000 gallons of oil into the San Francisco Bay. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)AP - Coast Guard investigators on Sunday were trying to determine whether a cargo ship's speed and possible communication problems led to a collision that resulted in the San Francisco Bay's worst oil spill in nearly two decades.




BulletFighting fat and climate change (AP). AP - America's obesity epidemic and global warming might not seem to have much in common. But public health experts suggest people can attack them both by cutting calories and carbon dioxide at the same time.

BulletDNA tests show Gipper didn't sire child (AP).

George Gipp, All American football player for Notre Dame, is shown in this undated file photo. DNA from the recently exhumed body of the college football hero shows he was not the father of a child born shortly before his death, quelling longstanding rumors, relatives said Saturday, Nov. 10, 2007. (AP Photo)AP - A paternity test shows college football hero George Gipp wasn't the father of a girlfriend's child born shortly after his death, a family member said Saturday, but bitterness persisted over the exhumation of the body.




BulletNorthwest blown away (weather.com). weather.com -

BulletNew delay for Ariane rocket launch (Reuters).

An Ariane 5 rocket carrying an Australian and an U.S. television satellites takes off from the Kourou space center in French Guiana October 5, 2007. The launch of an Ariane rocket carrying satellites for the British military and a Brazilian telecoms company has been delayed again in French Guyana following detection of a new technical problem. (ESA/ARIANESPACE/Handout. EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS./Reuters)Reuters - The launch of an Ariane rocket carrying satellites for the British military and a Brazilian telecoms company has been delayed again in French Guyana following detection of a new technical problem.




BulletChina pandas forced to migrate for food (AP).

Giant pandas play in a tree at the Wolong Giant Panda Protection Center in Wolong of China's Sichuan province in this Thursday, Oct. 19 2006 file photo. Giant pandas have been forced to move from a mountainous area of southwestern China due to food shortages as their bamboo food flowers and dies as part of a natural cycle, an animal expert said. (AP Photo/Color China Photo, File)AP - Giant pandas are being forced to move from a remote mountainous area in southwestern China due to food shortages as their staple bamboo withers, an animal expert said Monday.




BulletDouble Trouble: What Really Killed the Dinosaurs (LiveScience.com). LiveScience.com - Instead of being driven to extinction by death from above, dinosaurs might have ultimately been doomed by death from below in the form of monumental volcanic eruptions. The suggestion is based on new research that is part of a growing body of evidence indicating a space rock alone did not wipe out the giant reptiles. The Age of Dinosaurs ended roughly 65 million years ago with the K-T or Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event, which killed off all dinosaurs save those that became birds, as well as roughly half of all species on the planet, including pterosaurs. ...

BulletIsrael to encourage development of electric cars (AFP).

Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni(L) listens to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as he addresses the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. Olmert said on Sunday his government will encourage the development of electric cars to help wean Israel off fossil fuels.(AFP/POOL/Jim Hollander)AFP - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Sunday his government will encourage the development of electric cars to help wean Israel off fossil fuels.




BulletUN report: Human cloning ban needed (AP). AP - The international community faces a stark choice: outlaw human cloning or prepare for the creation of cloned humans, U.N. researchers said Saturday.

 

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