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Industrial plants in the Qixia district of Nanjing, China.

Global warming pause linked to sulfur in China

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This undated handout photo provided by the journal Science shows a trench connecting both areas of the site in Alaska. Some 11,500 years ago one of America's earliest families laid the remains of a three-year-old child to rest in their home in what is now Alaska. Today archaeologists are learning about the life and times of the early settlers who crossed from Asia to the New World, researchers thank to that burial. (AP Photo/Ben A. Potter, Science) (AP)

Earliest human remains found in U.S. Arctic

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Scientists find unusual bacteria in California

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Post Office lost $8.5 billion last year

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New microbe discovered eating Gulf oil spill

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Stamp prices going up again, to 46 cents

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New fossils may fit in gap between apes and humans

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Cloak of invisibility takes a step forward

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