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AP - A species of flightless parrot edged back from extinction with the hatching of five new chicks in New Zealand in recent weeks and two more on the way, officials said Monday.
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AP - Scientists are scanning human DNA with a precision and scope once unthinkable and rapidly finding genes linked to cancer, arthritis, diabetes and other diseases.

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AFP - A major excavation at Britain’s prehistoric Stonehenge standing stones started Monday as archaeologists try to work out exactly when and why the first boulders were placed at the site.

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AP - The parents of Staff Sgt. Keith Matthew Maupin had vowed never to let the U.S. Army forget about finding their son.

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AP - Suspects accused of setting fire to shops in Tibet, causing the deaths of 12 people during anti-government violence, have been taken into custody, state media said Monday.

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Reuters - The housing secretary announced his
resignation on Monday amid investigations into his role in
government contracts, creating a vacuum at an agency seen as a
vehicle for addressing the housing crisis.

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AP - Shares of Merck & Co. and Schering-Plough Corp. fell to record lows Monday, as analysts warned new clinical data would cause sales of their blockbuster cholesterol drug Vytorin to fall further.

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Reuters - Riot police in armored carriers were
deployed in two of Harare’s restive townships on Monday night
amid long delays in issuing Zimbabwe’s election results which
have raised tensions.

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CQPolitics.com - It didn’t have the prominence of its presidential primary election earlier this month, but Texas Democrats this past weekend continued their complex and drawn-out process of apportioning national convention delegates to Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.
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SPACE.com - Dangerous levels of radiation in space could bar astronauts from a mission to Mars and limit prolonged activity on the moon, experts now caution.
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