Group plans repeat of Kon-Tiki voyage
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OSLO: Nearly 60 years after Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl and five others crossed the Pacific on their Kon-Tiki raft, six men will attempt to redo the feat next year, the head of the expedition said on Monday.
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By The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Jun. 14--The Summit at Snoqualmie ski area has settled on an expansion plan after input from conservation groups.   The plan for expansion is smaller than what the four-area resort wanted.
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BRISBANE, Australia : A top Australian politician and Aboriginal leaders flew to an offshore island hit by unrest with a plan to prevent violence breaking out again.
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Re-enactors from the Pacific Northwest and Canada will once again celebrate peace as they gather for the fifth annual Encampment scheduled Aug.
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A search is being made around Maria Island on Tasmania&#39;s east coast to see if there have been any further whale and dolphin strandings.
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An American activist tries to save an island paradise, one lecture at a time.
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The Cook Islands receive more tourists per capita than any other South Pacific destination. Now authorities are revamping their tourism strategy to focus on preservation.
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Archaeologists are set to begin an expedition this month in hopes of finding a Spanish ship that wrecked along the jagged reefs off the Turks and Caicos Islands in 1841 carrying a cargo of African slaves.
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Denmark aims to show the North Pole belongs to it and is sending an expedition to try to prove that the seabed there is a natural continuation of Danish territory, the Science Ministry said on Monday.
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By Rasha Madkour  HOUSTON  --  Anyone who's ever tried to fold a well-used map can probably relate to the challenge Discovery astronauts face in the next phase of their mission.
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Indonesian island say they expect to discover more new species of hominids on neighbouring islands. tall, had a brain smaller than a chimpanzee&#39;s, and probably lived alongside modern humans on the island.
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For 12,000 years or more, Columbia River tribes gathered nearby to do business with distant tribes. Now they want to come back &#151; to deal blackjack and poker.
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American and UN leaders have announced plans to visit the regions affected by the Indian Ocean disaster a week ago.
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The terms were simple enough. Be the first to fly three people or the equivalent weight 62 miles high. Do it a second time within two weeks.
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The indigenous peoples of the Arctic are told their culture will be threatened by climate warming.
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JUNEAU, Alaska  -- A team of scientists is traveling a 600-mile stretch of the Inside Passage this month to study the effects of cruise ship waste and other contaminants in Southeast Alaska waters.    The $450,000 project is part of a nationwide look at the environmental health of coastal waters...
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An Aboriginal delegation will travel to Sweden this month to repatriate ancestral remains, that were taken from Australia by a Swedish explorer in the early 1900's. The retrieval team includes representatives ...