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Clams befouling Tahoe invade Adirondack lake in NY (AP)
September 6, 2010
AP - A thumbnail-sized clam blamed for clouding the azure bays of Lake Tahoe high in the Sierra Nevada has now turned up in a mountain-ringed Adirondack lake renowned for its limpid, spring-fed waters.
Earl's path along northeast is not well-worn (AP)
September 6, 2010
AP - Pushed by an ill-timed trough of low pressure, Hurricane Earl is heading uncomfortably close to an area relatively few hurricanes tend to go: the Northeast coastline.
Double hand transplant patient shows new hands (AP)
September 6, 2010
AP - The recipient of a rare double hand transplant says he feels "fantastic" and can wiggle fingers on both his new hands.
Labor Day Is No Vacation for a Growing Number of Workers (LiveScience.com)
September 6, 2010LiveScience.com - If you're a business owner or a salaried employee, the long Labor Day weekend is a chance to kick back and relax before heading into the busy fall business season. If you're an hourly employee - and more than half of all workers are, according to the U.S. Census Bureau - you might not have that luxury, particularly if you're a low-level worker involuntarily working part time.
Greenpeace activists given suspended jail term (AFP)
September 6, 2010
AFP - A Japanese court Monday sentenced two Greenpeace activists to one-year jail terms, suspended for three years, for stealing a box of whale meat during an investigation, the environmental group said.
Focus of Gulf oil disaster shifts to finding the culprit (AFP)
September 6, 2010
AFP - With a key piece of evidence raised from the depths of the Gulf of Mexico and BP's Macondo well ruled a threat no longer, the focus shifts to what went wrong and who is to blame.
As a Hurricane, Earl Looked Like 'Magnificent Chaos' From Space (SPACE.com)
September 6, 2010SPACE.com - The former Hurricane Earl put on a striking weather display for astronauts on the International Space Station, impressing the crew with its strength even as it weakened to a tropical storm.
Sanofi ready to raise bid if Genzyme talks: report (Reuters)
September 6, 2010Reuters - French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis would be prepared to moderately raise its $69 per share offer for Genzyme if the U.S. biotech agreed to negotiate, Dow Jones reported, citing a person familiar with the matter.
UN: Climate funds shouldn't divert poverty aid (AP)
September 6, 2010AP - The U.N.'s climate chief says poor countries are right to expect that any funding they receive to combat global warming be kept separate from development aid or poverty relief.
After 20 years of protection, owl declining but forests remain (McClatchy Newspapers)
September 6, 2010McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Twenty years after northern spotted owls were protected under the Endangered Species Act, their numbers continue to decline, and scientists aren't certain whether the birds will survive even though logging was banned on much of the old-growth forest in the Pacific Northwest where they live in order to save them.
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