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Broken butterfly gets mended, andride south: A monarch butterfly has a chance at completing its species' famed migration to central Mexico thanks to some tiny cardboard splints, a bit of contact cement and a trucker from Alabama. ›23:11 20 Nov, Thu
Video: GM pitches a back-in-black bailout plan: Dec. 2: Skirting the edge of bankruptcy, General Motors told Congress that a federal bailout will allow the automaker to remake itself into a leaner, greener and hopefully more profitable company. CNBC's Phil LeBeau reports.(Nightly News) ›23:40 2 Dec, Tue
After 55 days, contest ends for 2 living in truck: A radio station had to make two contestants an offer they couldn't refuse in order to get them to quit a game to win a new car. ›23:32 28 Nov, Fri
Invisible lights on Mars mapped: Mars' ultraviolet auroral lights have been mapped for the first time. The map could in turn shed light on the way the Red Planet interacts with electrically charged particles spit out by the sun. ›00:25
Sound of Music hotel plan hits sour note: The Austrian city of Salzburg has blocked plans to open a hotel in a former home of the von Trapp family immortalized in The Sound of Music after protests by neighbors. ›17:24
E-readers' high prices may hinder adoption: While they're unlikely to be high on many shoppers lists, Sonys recent e-reader, the PRS-700, and Amazons Kindle, out for more than a year, are starting to generate interest. Whether theyll generate sales remains to be seen. ›14:05
Wall Street wavers in volatile trading: Wall Street absorbed more bad economic news, turning higher as investors shuttled between pessimism about the recession and hopes that the nation might start to see some relief soon. ›19:50
Court urged to choose power over fish: The Bush administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to let the nation's older power plants draw in billions of gallons of water for cooling without installing technology that would best protect fish and aquatic organisms. ›18:50 2 Dec, Tue
No electricity? Island now energy independent: Energy independence is still only a hypothetical goal for the U.S., but the owner of a tiny island off the coast of Connecticut says he has already achieved that feat and is offering his work as a model. ›01:50 23 Nov, Sun
Pope: Banks should help society's weakest: Pope Benedict XVI says one of the primary objectives of banks is to support the weakest in society while also spurring productivity. ›18:09
Rare turtle in close call with soup pot: A rare Vietnamese turtle, one of just four believed left in the world, was swept away by a flood, taken hostage by an enterprising fisherman and nearly ended up in a soup pot. ›22:13 28 Nov, Fri
Cosmic Log: Rocket rides for $95,000: Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: A brand-new travel agency is selling front-row seats on an XCOR Aerospace rocket plane that will soar more than halfway to outer space. ›17:57 2 Dec, Tue
Hospital doctor in Burress incident suspended: and has been suspended for failing to alert police and signing off on medical papers identifying him by a phony name, sources said yesterday. ›12:50
SportsBiz: Golf industry gets hit hard: The economic meltdown is hitting the golf industry hard. More courses are scheduled to close in the U.S. this year (nearly 100) than the 80 expected to open. ›16:08
Newsweek: Gore on carbon, coal and illusion: ›15:24 2 Dec, Tue
BoSox sign MVP Pedroia to $40M deal: Dustin Pedroia, the AL Most Valuable Player, will be a member of the Red Sox through at least 2014. ›20:10
Red Tape: eBay users say holiday giveaway hacked: eBay users are complaining that a holiday contest offered by the auction Web site has been overrun by Scrooge-like computer hackers, and that eBays poor design for the contest is to blame. ›15:43 2 Dec, Tue
Cop shoots himself after gun-safety lesson: A top cop mistakenly shot himself in the thigh after giving his daughter a lesson in gun safety, police said. ›11:17 29 Nov, Sat
Hebron settlers brace for showdown: The Russian navy said Wednesday one of its warships would sail this week through Panama Canal a symbolic projection of Moscow's power to the U.S. zone of influence. ›19:55
Judges reject Alaska offshore drilling plan: Federal regulators improperly granted Shell Oil permission for exploratory drilling in Alaska's Beaufort Sea, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. ›17:08 21 Nov, Fri
Obama: Gov't must help homeowners, too: President-elect Barack Obama signaled a clear desire Wednesday to use a significant portion of $700 billion in financial bailout funds to stanch foreclosures. ›19:54
$1 billion network for green cars vowed: A $1 billion network of electric car recharging stations will dot San Francisco Bay area highways under a plan unveiled Thursday. ›22:55 20 Nov, Thu
World's oldest marijuana stash totally busted: Nearly two pounds of still-green plant material found in a 2,700-year-old grave in the Gobi Desert has just been identified as the world's oldest marijuana stash, according to a paper in the latest issue of the Journal of Experimental Botany. ›18:19
Mortgage applications surge by record: Mortgage applications surged by the largest amount on record last week as a new Federal Reserve program pushed interest rates down to their lowest level in more than 3 years. ›18:36
