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    Typhoon Fengshen kills 80 in Philippines (AP)

    Residents wade through a flooded street in Manila following heavy rains brought about by typhoon Fengshen on Sunday June 22, 2008 in Manila. Typhoon Fengshen lashed across the Philippines for a second day Sunday, killing at least 80 people as it submerged entire communities and capsized a passenger ferry carrying more than 800 passengers and crew.  (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)AP - A rescue ship battling huge waves and strong winds on Sunday reached a passenger ferry that capsized in Typhoon Fengshen, but found none of the more than 700 people who were on board. The storm has submerged entire communities in the Philippines and left at least 80 people dead.


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    Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:24:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    What's the Deadliest Natural Phenomenon? (LiveScience.com)
    LiveScience.com - Hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes might seem like the most dangerous natural hazards you could ever face, but floods and droughts actually kill more Americans over time. -- read full article
    Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:50:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Navy conducts hearing tests on rare whale in Fla. (AP)
    AP - A team of U.S. Navy audiologists conducted a hearing test Saturday on a rare beaked whale convalescing at a marine mammal rehabilitation center in the Florida Keys. -- read full article
    Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:59:33 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Deals transfer water from northern Wash. counties (AP)

    Ray Colbert walks through his last remaining apple orchard neighboring the Okanogan River, March 21, 2008, in Tonasket, Wash. Colbert, who's ready to retire from farming, sold his largest remaining parcel of land to a wine grape grower in the southern part of the state who wanted the water that came with it. (AP Photo/Shannon Dininny)AP - Ray Colbert wanted out after five decades of growing apples, but his son didn't want the farm in northern Washington. No one else did either.


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    Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:05:47 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Zoos ask, what to do with an aged lemur? (AP)

    George, a near 38 year old Tapir, is seen at the San Antonio Zoo in San Antonio, Thursday, May 29, 2008. The Golden Years have arrived at the nation's zoos and aquariums, and that is taking veterinarians and keepers into a zone of unknowns. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)AP - Even as a youngster, Rollie looked older and wiser than his years. His white mustache sprouted longer by the month, until it flamed from his cheeks like a German kaiser's. Sometimes, it all but hid his mouth.


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    Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:12:56 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    US energy chief: Low oil production drives price (AP)

    Saudi Assistant Minister for Petroleum Affairs Prince Abdulaziz Bin Salman Bin Abdulaziz addresses journalists at a hotel in the Red Sea port city of Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, on Saturday, June 21, 2008, ahead of a major oil summit. Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil producer, called the meeting of consumer and producer nations with oil industry executives to find a way to bring rapidly rising oil prices under control. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)AP - The U.S. energy secretary said Saturday that insufficient oil production, not financial speculation, was driving soaring crude prices.


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    Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:48:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    The Nation's Weather (AP)

    The forecast for noon, Saturday, June 21, 2008 shows more severe weather is possible for the Plains, while the Northeast will remain mostly cloudy. Meanwhile, a strengthening ridge will bring a heat wave to the West and a system continues to approach the Pacific Northwest. (AP Photo/Weather Underground)AP - Cloudy and wet conditions were to continue across the Northeast on Saturday. There was a chance of thunderstorms, particularly in the Ohio Valley. Highs were to be in the 70s and 80s.


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    Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:13:19 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Why North America's Oldest Colony Split Up (LiveScience.com)
    LiveScience.com - Some people point to 1906 as the year of the Great San Francisco Earthquake, but, for anthropologists who study American Indians, it is the year that split the Hopi community of Orayvi, the longest continually occupied settlement in North America. -- read full article
    Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:41:03 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Deals transfer water from northern Wash. counties (AP)

    Ray Colbert walks through his last remaining apple orchard neighboring the Okanogan River, March 21, 2008, in Tonasket, Wash. Colbert, who's ready to retire from farming, sold his largest remaining parcel of land to a wine grape grower in the southern part of the state who wanted the water that came with it. (AP Photo/Shannon Dininny)AP - Ray Colbert wanted out after five decades of growing apples, but his son didn't want the farm in northern Washington. No one else did either.


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    Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:42:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Opposition mounts to clean air change affecting parks (AP)
    AP - Critics fear the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will adopt a rule in the waning days of the Bush administration that will make it easier to build coal-fired power plants near national parks. -- read full article
    Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:37:19 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Zoos ask, what to do with an aged lemur? (AP)

    In this photo provided by the Lincoln Park Zoo, Rollie, an Emporer Tamarin monkey is seen at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo. The Golden Years have arrived at the nation's zoos and aquariums, and that is taking veterinarians and keepers into a zone of unknowns. (AP Photo/Lincoln Park Zoo, Greg Neise)AP - Even as a youngster, Rollie looked older and wiser than his years. His white mustache sprouted longer by the month, until it flamed from his cheeks like a German kaiser's. Sometimes, it all but hid his mouth.


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    Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:20:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Iraqi oil pipeline sabotage drops sharply (AP)

    A U.S. soldier holds a poster of anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr found during a search operation in Maysan province near the border with Iran, 320 kilometers (200 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq on Friday, June 20, 2008. U.S.-backed Iraqi security forces are in their second day of military operations in the southern city of Amarah. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - A sharp drop in attacks on pipelines has enabled Iraq to increase oil exports from northern oil fields and profit from the rise in world energy prices, the country's oil minister said Friday.


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    Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:06:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Fla. to sue Army Corps of Engineers over water (AP)
    AP - Florida said it intends to sue the Army Corps of Engineers for violating the Endangered Species Act, a move which could further complicate already strained regional relations over shared water resources. -- read full article
    Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:20:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    Space Shuttle Statues to be Painted for Student Scholarships (SPACE.com)
    SPACE.com - Over 100 space shuttles will land this November at the Kennedy Space Center, though NASA can take credit for only one. The additional orbiters will be courtesy the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation, which on Thursday formally announced the "Shuttles Orbiting the Space Coast" program, a public art exhibit organized to celebrate the first half-century of U.S. space exploration. -- read full article
    Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:01:17 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
    New Orleans streetcar reopens as transit struggles (AP)

    In a Saturday, Nov. 10, 2007 file photo, streetcars run along the Uptown section of the St. Charles Ave. line in New Orleans. The full 13-mile length of the city's historic St. Charles street car line will be up and running for the first time since Hurricane Katrina on Sunday, June 22, 2008, a milestone in New Orleans' recovery from the storm nearly three years ago.  (AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt, File)AP - For the first time since Hurricane Katrina, the 1920s-era St. Charles Avenue streetcar will clack along its entire 13-mile route Sunday.


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    Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:24:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: Science News
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