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NASA Delays Space Shuttle Endeavour's Last Launch

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA abruptly called off space shuttle Endeavour's final launch Friday because of a puzzling heater failure in a critical power unit, disappointing huge crowds converging on the area for the afternoon liftoff. President Barack Obama and his family were planning to watch Endeavour blast off. It...

Appeals Court Overturns Stem Cell Research Ban

WASHINGTON -- Opponents of taxpayer-funded stem cell research lost a key round in a federal appeals court Friday. In a 2-1 decision, a panel of the U.S. court of appeals in Washington overturned a judge's order that would have blocked taxpayer funding for stem cell research. The judges ruled that opponents of...

Deadliest Tornado Outbreak in Decades Kills Nearly 300

PLEASANT GROVE, Ala. -- Firefighters searched one splintered pile after another for survivors Thursday, combing the remains of houses and neighborhoods pulverized by the nation's deadliest tornado outbreak in almost four decades. At least 297 people were killed across six states - more than two-thirds of them in Alabama,...

Army Corps Preps to Blast Levee to Save Town; Legal Tussle Looms

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- As ominous as a floating hearse, twin barges creep up the Mississippi River carrying a payload of explosives bound for southeast Missouri and a levee facing the prospect of being sacrificed to spare a flood-threatened Illinois town just upriver. The Army Corps of Engineers' tugboat-shoved shipments...

Buddhists Remember Japan's Tsunami Victims

SOMA, Japan -- Buddhist priests in black and gold robes chanted and rang bells Thursday to mark the 49th day since Japan's massive tsunami when the dead are believed to end their restless wandering through the devastated coastline. About 1,200 mourners filled a hall to overflowing, with many standing outside a gate, for a...

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06/04/12 CDPHP Energy Efficiency Project Nets Significant... Source: PRWeb Albany, NY (PRWEB) June 04, 2012 CDPHP® is pleased to announce the results of an aggressive energy savings project that was designed to cut costs and reduce the company's environmental footprint.
06/04/12 G&K Services Launches Pilot Program to Test Hybrid... Source: UnumProvident Corp MINNEAPOLIS--( BUSINESS WIRE )-- G&K Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: GKSR) announced today that the company has launched a pilot program to test hybrid electric trucks in its fleet of delivery vehicles.
06/04/12 Feet of sand leave farms wasteland after flooding Source: Le Mars Daily Sentinel - Le Mars IA Mason Hansen guns his pickup and cranks the steering wheel to spin through sand up to 4 feet high, but this is no day at the beach.
06/04/12 Transit of Venus: Now or never Source: The News Journal - Mansfield OH Tuesday will mark the last Venus transit for more than 100 years.
06/04/12 Santa Barbara Samples 4.71 Grams Per Tonne Gold over 3... Source: UnumProvident Corp VANCOUVER, British Columbia--( BUSINESS WIRE )-- Santa Barbara Resources Limited (TSX-V: SBL - "Santa Barbara" or the "Company") is pleased to announce additional trench and other channel sampling results from its flagship Sancos Project in Peru. New trench results have been received from sampling at the Sancos Central and Sancos Northwest high-sulphidation epithermal gold targets.