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North Carolina -
Red wolf biologists have something to howl about. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service reports a record 55 red wolf pups in 11 litters were born in northeastern North Carolina this spring. Two wild red wolf mothers adopted two female pups placed in their dens. The sister pups were selected for their rare genes as part of the program to recover the federally protected endangered species.
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Sudan -
About 150,000 people in Sudan's troubled Nuba Mountains region have received seeds, tools and construction materials as part of a scheme by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to rehabilitate the area's farming industry.
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Beijing, China -
environmentalists plan to climb Mount Everest and rid the world's highest peak of some of the tonnes of garbage that have accumulated over decades of mountaineering, state media said Monday.
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New York City -
Reasearchers in the US were able to halt type 1 diabetes in lab mice by restoring a critical class of T cells to their normal balance. Rockefeller University researchers may have made the first step that could lead to prevention of Type 1 diabetes in humans.
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Durham, NC -
New data suggest that smokers who quit before age 35 have a reasonable chance to regain their health over time and to live as long and as well as people who have never smoked.
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Washington D.C. -
Thousands of rain-soaked runners and walkers, many wearing bright pink T-shirts, braved the rain and chill yesterday and participated in the 15th annual Komen National Race for the Cure.
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Pasadena, California -
After a 6 1/2-year journey spanning nearly 2.2 billion miles, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft is speeding toward its final rendezvous with Saturn, opening the discovery phase of one of the most ambitious scientific space missions ever attempted.
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Washington D.C. -
U.S. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice says the U.N. Security Council is very close to reaching agreement on a resolution on Iraq's future.
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Apromanches, France -
World leaders paid tribute Sunday to the thousands of Allied troops who fought and died in the D-Day landings in Normandy 60 years ago, and vowed to safeguard the transatlantic alliance they forged.
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Colorado -
Nasa's chief, Sean O'Keefe, has taken a step toward a robotic repair mission to save the Hubble Space Telescope.
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