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| Nearly 1 in 20 US adults over 50 have fake knees
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(Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
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 AP - Nearly 1 in 20 Americans older than 50 have artificial knees, or more than 4 million people, according to the first national estimate showing how common these replacement joints have become in an aging population.
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| Mexican experts excited to find ancient home ruins
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(Thu, 09 Feb 2012)
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 AP - The ruins aren't particularly impressive, just some stone and clay footings for houses that probably supported walls of wood or clay wattle. And it's that very ordinariness that has experts excited.
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| Researchers probe 200-year-old shipwreck off RI
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(Thu, 09 Feb 2012)
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| AP - For two centuries it rested a mile from shore, shrouded by a treacherous reef from the pleasure boaters and beachgoers who haunt New England's southern coast. |
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| Life in Antarctic lake? It's everywhere else
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(Thu, 09 Feb 2012)
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| AP - If scientists find microbes in a frigid lake two miles beneath the thick ice of Antarctica, it will illustrate once again that somehow life finds a way to survive in the strangest and harshest places. |
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| Clues to Tokyo's Great Quakes Uncovered
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(Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
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| LiveScience.com - Japan's Kanto region, which includes the city of Tokyo on the main island of Honshu, is one of the most seismically active areas on Earth. Situated near the triple junction of the Pacific, Philippine and Eurasian plates, the Kanto region lies along the famed Pacific Ring of Fire and has experienced more than its fair share of earthquakes and tsunamis. |
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| Georgia to Be Home to First Nuclear Reactors Since Three Mile Island
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(Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
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| ContributorNetwork - On Thursday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission granted its first approved licenses for new nuclear reactors built on American soil since before the Three Mile Island incident in 1979. The news brings with it the first manifestation of the so-called renaissance of nuclear power in the United States predicted back in 2007. |
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| Iran sanctions already hitting oil trade flows: IEA
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(Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
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| Reuters - Sanctions on Iran are already hitting global oil flows even though a European ban on imports from the Islamic Republic does not come into effect until July, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says. |
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| Big NASA Budget Cuts to Slash Mars Missions, Experts Say
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(Thu, 09 Feb 2012)
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| SPACE.com - NASA's budget for the next fiscal year is likely to include deep cuts to planetary science programs, forcing the space agency to withdraw altogether from an international effort to send two new missions to Mars, experts say. |
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| Two Genes for Sealing In Memories Identified
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(Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
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| LiveScience.com - Inside the teensy brains of fruit flies lies the blueprint for how memories form — information that likely carries over to our bulky noggins — and researchers have just identified two genes that are key to forming long-term memories. |
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| Lions apparently not enough to keep intruders out
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(Thu, 02 Feb 2012)
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| AP - With 120 lions, tigers and other big cats on the grounds, the owner of a Colorado refuge didn't think he needed a security system. |
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| Nuclear power: NRC approves first new reactors since 1978
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(Thu, 09 Feb 2012)
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| The Christian Science Monitor - The federal board that regulates nuclear power in the US on Thursday voted to allow construction to proceed on the first new commercial nuclear power reactors in more than three decades. |
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| The nations weather
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(Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
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| AP - Weather Underground Forecast for Friday, February 10, 2012. |
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| Nike Launching Space Sneakers for NBA Stars
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(Thu, 09 Feb 2012)
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| SPACE.com - Three icons of professional basketball will don special space-themed sneakers when they take the court for the NBA All-Star Game in Orlando later this month. |
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| Origin expects to grow China's first GMO corn in 2013
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(Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
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| Reuters - Origin Agritech Ltd said it expects the Chinese government to approve its genetically modified organism (GMO) corn for production in 2013, China's first GMO strain in commercial production, its chairman Han Gengchen said on Friday. |
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| 182 Members of Congress Call for More Offshore Oil Opportunities
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(Thu, 09 Feb 2012)
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| ContributorNetwork - On Tuesday, 182 members of the House of Representatives sent a bipartisan letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar calling for new access to offshore energy production. Here are the details. |
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| Japan priest fights invisible demon: radiation
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(Fri, 10 Feb 2012)
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 Reuters - On the snowy fringes of Japan's Fukushima city, now notorious as a byword for nuclear crisis, Zen monk Koyu Abe offers prayers for the souls of thousands left dead or missing after the earthquake and tsunami nearly one year ago.
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