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Tuesday November, 22, 2016 |
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The pangolin, a scaly anteater coveted by poachers, might have a new champion: rats that will be trained to sniff out trafficked pangolin parts in shipments heading from Africa to Asia. | ||
 | It sounds like a great idea: Forget passwords, and instead lock your phone or computer with your fingerprint. It's a convenient form of security -- though it's also perhaps not as safe as you'd think. | |
 | Machines long ago usurped a donkey's traditional role as the farmer's beast of burden, but the animals are winning new fans in Montenegro -- thanks to their luxury milk.
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 | Six hunting and fishing groups are pushing for a compromise in the event the Obama administration designates a national monument around Grand Canyon National Park, a heated issue in the Southwest. | |
Among Donald Trump's many promises on his way to the White House was a tweeted vow to change the new name of North America's tallest mountain back to Mount McKinley. | ||
 | The most advanced weather satellite ever built rocketed into space Saturday night, part of an US$11 billion effort to revolutionize forecasting and save lives.
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 | The International Space Station gained three new residents Saturday, including the oldest and most experienced woman to orbit the world.
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Two Brazilian parachutists jumped from a 46-story skyscraper in the heart of Sao Paulo, Brazil's biggest city, this week after slipping past security, Globo news site G1 reported Saturday. | ||
 | --Russian art restorers on Friday unveiled a recently discovered portrait of the last Czar Nicholas II, almost a century after it was hidden behind a giant painting of his Bolshevik foe Lenin.
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 | There's no doubt which side the fashion world supported during the US presidential campaign. | |
