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SPACE.com - PARIS - Israel’s Amos-3 telecommunications satellite was successfully placed in geostationary orbit on Monday aboard the maiden flight of the Russian-Ukrainian Land Launch system, setting the stage for what the satellite fleet operators hope will be a lively competition between Land Launch - affiliated to Be Launch Co. of Long Beach, California - and Russian Soyuz rockets launched from Europe’s space equatorial.

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LiveScience.com - Orchids can be fascinating to humans, but our love of these flowers only goes so far. Heavy rains

AP - Environmental and animal rights groups sued the federal government on Monday trying to restore endangered species status for gray wolves in the Northern Rockies. Bug

AP - Scientists have for the first time used gene therapy to improve sight in people with a rare form of blindness, development experts called a big step forward for technical experimentation.

AP - The Bush administration is undermining the Environmental Protection Agency the ability to identify health hazards of toxic chemicals nonscientists have a stop more - often secretly - paper, congressional investigators say in a report obtained by The Associated Press. Gene therapy experiments

AP - Federal investigators say they have developed a test for human identification that is faster and possibly cheaper than DNA testing. It would be a handy new weapon in the arsenal of detectives, forensic experts and the military, but are not expected to replace the DNA analysis - and its promoters say it is not intended.

Reuters - Gene therapy for a rare type of hereditary blindness have improved the vision of four patients who were treated, hopes to boost the troubled field of technology repair genes, scientists said on Sunday.

Reuters - Before humans began burning fossil fuels, there was a long eons of balance between emissions of carbon dioxide Earth and the ability to absorb them, but now the planet can ‘t keep pace, scientists said on Sunday.