AP – BP’s multibillion-dollar settlement with people and businesses harmed by its 2010 oil spill removes some uncertainty about the potential financial damages it faces. It also may help the company restore its all-important relationship with the federal government.
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BP spill settlement clears way for comeback
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The Christian Science Monitor – Federal criminal charges may be pending for key individuals involved in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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Gulf oil spill could result in criminal charges for BP employees
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AP – For a world already weary of weather catastrophes, the latest warning from top climate scientists paints a grim future: More floods, more heat waves, more droughts and greater costs to deal with them.
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APNewsbreak: Future holds more extreme weather
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AP – George Eberhardt turned 107 last month, and scientists would love to know how he and other older folks like him made it that far. So he’s going to hand over some of his DNA. He’s one of 100 centenarians taking part in a project announced Wednesday that will examine some of the oldest citizens with one of the newest scientific tools: whole-genome sequencing, the deciphering of a person’s complete collection of DNA.
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Longevity’s secrets sought in DNA of 100-year-olds
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AP – With the space shuttle now history, NASA’s next great mission is so audacious, the agency’s best minds are wrestling with how to pull it off: Send astronauts to an asteroid in less than 15 years.
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Daunting space task send astronauts to asteroid (AP)
AP – After four years sailing through space, the Dawn spacecraft was expected to slip into orbit late Friday around a giant asteroid to begin a yearlong investigation into the origins of the solar system.
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Dawn craft to circle giant asteroid in 1st stop (AP)
AP – Atlantis and four astronauts thundered into orbit Friday on NASA’s last space shuttle voyage, writing the final chapter in a 30-year story of dazzling triumphs, shattering tragedy and, ultimately, unfulfilled expectations.
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Shuttle lifts off for last time; `Light this fire’ (AP)
AP – Germany’s coalition government agreed early Monday to shut down all the country’s nuclear power plants by 2022, the environment minister said, making it the first major industrialized nation in the last quarter century to announce plans to go nuclear-free.
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Germany decides to abandon nuclear power by 2022 (AP)
AP – NASA’s space shuttles are dragging their tails toward retirement.
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NASA says no new launch attempt before next Sunday (AP)
AP – More than 3,200 oil and gas wells classified as active lie abandoned beneath the Gulf of Mexico, with no cement plugging to help prevent leaks that could threaten the same waters fouled by last year’s BP spill, The Associated Press has learned.
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AP IMPACT: 3,200 Gulf wells unplugged, unprotected (AP)