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Microbes are eating BP oil without using up oxygen (AP)
September 8, 2010
AP - Government scientists studying the BP disaster are reporting the best possible outcome: Microbes are consuming the oil in the Gulf without depleting the oxygen in the water and creating "dead zones" where fish cannot survive.
Iraq displays hundreds of recovered artifacts (AP)
September 8, 2010
AP - Iraq displayed hundreds of recovered artifacts Tuesday that were among the country's looted heritage and span the ages from a 4,400-year-old statue of a Sumerian king to a chrome-plated AK-47 bearing Saddam Hussein's image.
Big quake aftershocks plague New Zealand city (AP)
September 8, 2010
AP - A powerful new 5.1-magnitude aftershock rattled terrified residents of New Zealand's earthquake-stricken city of Christchurch on Wednesday, as officials doubled their estimate for repairing the damage from nearly 300 aftershocks in five days.
Study of Men Dancing Reveals Moves Ladies Love (LiveScience.com)
September 8, 2010LiveScience.com - Using computer-generated avatars, psychologists say they have unlocked the dance moves that will capture a woman's heart. Apparently the speed of a man's right knee and the size and variety of movements of the neck and torso are key, they suggest.
BP probe to spread blame for spill: report (Reuters)
September 8, 2010
Reuters - BP Plc's internal probe of the deadly April 20 blowout that unleashed the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill will assign blame to BP as well as other companies involved in the well's operations, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
34 rescued from China oil platform accident (AP)
September 8, 2010AP - Emergency teams with helicopters rescued 34 workers Wednesday from an oil drilling platform that was leaning dangerously in the East China Sea after a storm, and searched for two others still missing, officials said.
2 Asteroids to Zoom Between Earth and the Moon's Orbit (SPACE.com)
September 8, 2010SPACE.com - Two asteroids will zip close by the Earth Wednesday and may be visible in telescopes as they zip between our planet and the orbit of the moon.
U.S. judge refuses to lift ban on government stem cell funds (Reuters)
September 8, 2010Reuters - A U.S. judge refused on Tuesday to lift a ban on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research despite Obama administration warnings it would set back key research and cost more than a thousand jobs.
Report: Money can buy you happiness, to a point (AP)
September 8, 2010AP - They say money can't buy happiness. They're wrong.
Greenpeace urges Japan to probe whaling graft (AFP)
September 8, 2010
AFP - Greenpeace urged Japan on Tuesday to probe graft claims in its state-funded whaling programme, a day after two of its activists received suspended jail terms for committing theft during an investigation.
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