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Study Says Antarctic Glaciers Are Shrinking, Sea Levels May Climb
Most of the coastal glaciers along the 1,200-mile Antarctic Peninsula have shrunk as temperatures have risen over the past 50 years, and sea levels may climb if the trend continues, according to a study published today in the journal Science.
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Historic Voyager Mission May Lose Its Funding
In a cost-cutting move prompted by President Bush's moon-Mars initiative, NASA could put an end to Voyager, the legendary 28-year mission that has sent a spacecraft farther from Earth than any object ever made by humans.
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T. Rex Find May Spur Biological Study
Paleontologists have recovered what appear to be soft tissues from the thighbone of a 70 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex, potentially enabling dinosaur research to make a leap into studying the animals' physiology and perhaps even their cell biology.
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Hopkins Physicist, Engineer Tapped to Head NASA
President Bush named Johns Hopkins University physicist and engineer Michael D. Griffin, a devotee of human space travel, to serve as administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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U.N. Backs Human Cloning Ban
UNITED NATIONS, March 8 -- The U.N. General Assembly adopted a declaration Tuesday that calls on governments to ban all forms of human cloning that are "incompatible with human dignity and the protection of human life."
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