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Children return to school in post-quake Chile (AFP)
March 9, 2010
AFP - Hundreds of thousands of Chilean children have returned to class as a revised death toll continued to climb nine days after an earthquake and tsunami waves devastated the country.
As Chile shook, cities rolled to the west a bit (AP)
March 9, 2010AP - The Earth really did move during the massive Chile quake: Researchers say cities and islands physically shifted west a bit.
NASA: Money key to more space shuttle flights (AP)
March 9, 2010
AP - NASA's space shuttle manager says it wouldn't be hard to add more shuttle flights. The real question is money.
GE: Limit PCB contamination during Hudson dredging (AP)
March 9, 2010
AP - General Electric Co. on Monday proposed halting further dredging of the Hudson River if PCBs churned up by the work spread too much pollution downriver during the second phase of an ongoing cleanup.
Metal From Hip Implants Passed on to Babies (LiveScience.com)
March 9, 2010LiveScience.com - Some moms might pass more than genetics to their newborns. Doctors found three babies born to women with hip implants had high levels of chromium and cobalt in their umbilical cord blood - metals that had worn off the implants.
Feds to probe cause of runaway Prius in Calif. (AP)
March 9, 2010AP - Federal officials are sending two investigators to California to determine what caused a Toyota Prius to race out of control on a San Diego-area freeway.
Arms, energy to dominate Russia's Putin India trip (Reuters)
March 9, 2010
Reuters - Russian Premier Vladimir Putin will offer a traditional cocktail of arms and oil deals when he travels to India on Thursday to persuade a Cold War ally to buy new weapons amid rising competition with the United States.
NASA: Space Shuttles Could Fly Longer With Extra Funds (SPACE.com)
March 9, 2010SPACE.com - WASHINGTON — The chief of NASA's space shuttle program said Tuesday that the agency could technically continue to fly its three aging orbiters beyond their planned 2010 retirement if ordered to do so by President Barack Obama and lawmakers. All it would take would be the extra funding needed to pay for it.
US-born panda freed from quarantine in China (AP)
March 9, 2010
AP - After a month in quarantine, American-born panda Tai Shan paced around his new home in southwest China as he was put on public display Tuesday for the first time since his much-anticipated arrival in the country.
Toyota, U.S. officials investigate runaway Prius (Reuters)
March 9, 2010
Reuters - U.S. safety regulators and Toyota Motor Corp dispatched investigators to San Diego on Tuesday to inspect a Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway a day earlier.
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