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		<title>WWII Japanese Submarines Revealed</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two World War II Japanese submarines, designed with revolutionary technology to attack the U.S. mainland, have been discovered off the coast of O&#699;ahu.]]></description>
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		<title>Rats’ taste in snails spurs conservation caution</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because rats dine on both indigenous snails and the destructive non-native snails they compete with, controlling rats raises conservation concerns.]]></description>
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		<title>Male whales like full-figured mates</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Male humpback whales appear to prefer full-figured mates, according to University of Hawai&#699;i at Hilo researcher.]]></description>
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		<title>Body mass index tied to friendships, relationships</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In two studies on body mass index, UH M&#257;noa researchers find that heavy adolescents have heavy friends and heavy women have poor relationships.]]></description>
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		<title>Finding puts heat on carbon dioxide emission data</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheryl Ernst</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sediment samples suggest carbon dioxide alone can&#8217;t explain the marked increase in global surface temperatures 55 million years ago.]]></description>
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		<title>Binary star system has planet forming potential</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time, scientists identify disks with enough mass to form a planetary system like our own around both stars in an optically visible binary system.]]></description>
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		<title>Alien slugs and snails on U.S. least wanted pest list</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UH researcher and colleagues produce first list of alien slugs and snails that could pose agricultural, environmental or human risks if introduced in the United States.]]></description>
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		<title>Whale bone habitats similar to hydrothermal vents</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whale carcasses create a rich life-supporting deep-sea ecosystem similar to the chemosynthetic habitats found at undersea cold seeps and hydrothermal vents.]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers look at deepest ocean floor</title>
		<link>http://www.hawaii.edu/malamalama/2009/07/nereus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheryl Ernst</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UH scientists participated as a new underwater vehicle visited the deep sea Mariana Trench for the first time since 1998.]]></description>
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		<title>Mauna Kea selected for powerful telescope</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheryl Ernst</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mauna Kea edged out a Chile site as future home of the Thirty Meter Telescope, which will be the world&#8217;s most powerful optical instrument]]></description>
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