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• MONDAY 6. FEBRUARY, 2012
• 23:35 Mammogram Readers Could Take a Cue from Film-Making (LiveScience.com)

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  LiveScience.com - The accuracy of a person reading a mammogram is improved when their gaze is subtly shifted toward suspicious areas, and nudged around to ensure that they look at every part of the scan, according to new research.  

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• 23:23 Ship that hit Ky. bridge has precious space cargo (AP)

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  AP - The hulking cargo ship that tore through a western Kentucky bridge last month is carrying millions of dollars of rocket components that will be used to blast satellites into space for NASA and Department of Defense missions.  

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• 22:45 Brightest Galaxy Ever Seen With Gravity Lens Shines in Hubble Photo (SPACE.com)

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  SPACE.com - A fluke of astrophysics has revealed what scientists are calling the brightest galaxy ever seen through a cosmic "zoom lens," NASA officials say.  

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• 22:38 Commercial Composting a Growth Industry in Austin (ContributorNetwork)

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  ContributorNetwork - While Austin, like most Texas cities, has a recycling program, the capital of the state is experimenting with commercial composting, using food and other organic waste to create mulch and potter's soil for commercial use, according to the Austin American Statesman.  

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• 22:05 Sex Education Less Effective in Conservative States (LiveScience.com)

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  LiveScience.com - Sex education is failing to reduce adolescent birthrates in conservative states, according to a new study.  

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• 21:15 Chimps Can Get Inside Others' Heads Just Like Humans (LiveScience.com)

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  LiveScience.com - Chimps know what tools others need to get work done and can help them select the right instruments, suggesting the apes have the ability to understand the minds of others, scientists find.  

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• 20:36 Organization Warns of EPA 'Regulatory Avalanche' (ContributorNetwork)

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  ContributorNetwork - The Texas Public Policy Foundation is warning of an "approaching regulatory avalanche" in a report. The foundation says new rules in the works by the Environmental Protection Agency could cost billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of jobs. Here are the details of the report.  

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• 18:51 Prejudice Reveals the Caveman in Us (LiveScience.com)

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  LiveScience.com - Like their cavemen ancestors who fought outsiders for land and potential mates, the modern guy still holds such prejudices against "outgroups," new research shows.  

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• 18:00 Russia's Space Woes Stress NASA's Need for Private Spaceships (SPACE.com)

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  SPACE.com - The recent delay of the next manned launch to the International Space Station due to a damaged Russian space capsule highlights NASA's critical need for commercially built vehicles, space policy experts say.  

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• 16:15 Mars 'Super-Drought' May Make Red Planet Too Dry for Alien Life (SPACE.com)

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  SPACE.com - The surface of Mars may have been parched for too long for any life-forms to exist on the planet today, a new study suggests.  

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• 14:01 Wanted: Mock Astronauts for Mission to Mars ... in Hawaii (SPACE.com)

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  SPACE.com - If you've ever dreamed of becoming an astronaut and have four months to spare, you might have the "right stuff" to fly to Mars … well, sort of.  

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• 14:00 Virgin Galactic's Private Spaceship Ramping Up Toward Passenger Flights (SPACE.com)

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  SPACE.com - LOS ANGELES, Calif. — This year is key for Virgin Galactic's bid to become the first commercial spaceliner service, as rocket-powered flights of its SpaceShipTwo are on the books for summer.  

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• 13:15 Google Earth Update Erases Underwater 'Atlantis' Error (LiveScience.com)

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  LiveScience.com - A Google Earth map that raised rumors of the lost city of Atlantis has gotten a much-needed update, ridding the seafloor of a gridlike pattern that some vigilant users suspected were sunken streets from the mythological underwater city.  

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• 12:13 Rescuers dig to reach trapped in Philippines quake (AP)

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  AP - Rescuers dug with picks and shovels trying to reach dozens of people trapped under houses collapsed by a strong earthquake Monday that shook a central Philippine island and set off landslides.

  
   

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• 06:07 China bars its airlines from paying EU carbon tax (AP)

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  AP - China announced Monday it will prohibit its airlines from paying European Union charges on carbon emissions, ratcheting up a global dispute over the cost of combatting climate change.  

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• SUNDAY 5. FEBRUARY, 2012
• 22:26 Sierra Club Received Millions from Natural Gas Industry (ContributorNetwork)

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  ContributorNetwork - According to a blog post from Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune, the environmentalist organization accepted millions of donated dollars from the natural gas industry to fight against coal-fired plants nationwide. Here are the details.  

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• 20:18 Snow traps thousands in Bosnian villages (AP)

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  AP - Bosnia used helicopters on Sunday to evacuate the sick and deliver food to thousands of people left stranded by its heaviest snowfall ever, while Pope Benedict XVI donned an overcoat to bless the few pilgrims who braved Rome's unusually cold weather to visit St. Peter's Square.

  
   

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• 19:15 Fire at Moscow nuclear institute, Russia says no risk (Reuters)

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  Reuters - There was no risk of a radiation leak after a fire broke out at a Moscow nuclear research center housing a non-operational 60-year-old atomic reactor Sunday, said officials, but Greenpeace Russia expressed serious concern about the incident.  

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• 19:05 Europe's cold snap claims more victims, travel hit (Reuters)

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  Reuters - Bitterly cold weather sweeping across Europe claimed more victims Sunday, brought widespread disruption to transport services, and left thousands without power with warnings that low temperatures would continue into next week.  

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• 11:48 Clinton urges Bulgaria to be energy independent (AP)

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  AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is in Bulgaria, urging the country to break its energy dependence on Russia by diversifying its oil and gas supplies.

  
   

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• 01:20 Storm blankets Nebraska after dumping on Colorado (AP)

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  AP - A powerful winter storm that covered parts of Colorado with up to 6 feet of snow crept east across the Plains Saturday, knocking out electricity to thousands in Nebraska as the blanket of heavy, wet precipitation downed power lines and made travel treacherous.

  
   

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• 01:06 Over 6,300 Respond to NASA's Request for Astronaut Applicants (ContributorNetwork)

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  ContributorNetwork - NASA's space shuttle program is over. NASA does not have its own means of taking astronauts into space. Commercial spacecraft under development won't be ready for another four to five years. The Orion spacecraft is even more uncertain.  

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• 00:55 First 'Vampire' Bat Fly Fossil Discovered (LiveScience.com)

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  LiveScience.com - A one-of-a-kind fossil shows that so-called bat flies — tiny vampire insects that survive on the blood of bats — have been parasitizing the winged mammals and spreading bat malaria for at least 20 million years, scientists report in a pair of studies Friday (Feb. 3).  

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• SATURDAY 4. FEBRUARY, 2012
• 20:52 Rome struggles with more snow; govt shovels issued (AP)

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  AP - Romans bewildered by their city's first big snowfall in 26 years used government-issued shovels to clear sidewalks, and kitchen utensils to clear windshields Saturday.

  
   

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• 14:45 Jupiter-Bound NASA Probe Adjusts Course Toward Giant Planet (SPACE.com)

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  SPACE.com - A NASA probe on a five-year mission to Jupiter fired up its rocket thrusters this week to better aim itself at the largest planet in our solar system.  

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