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  • In this Aug. 14, 2010 file photo, survey technician Jim Burkitt adjusts bottles used to capture subsurface water samples on a Conductivity-Temperature-Depth, or CTD, carousel onboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research vessel Henry B. Bigelow near the coast of Louisiana, Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010. The vessel is operating near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil wellhead to collect subsurface water samples for analysis onshore as well as monitor oil and gas seepage on the seafloor. Scientists are giving different estimates on how much oil remains in the ocean and the long terms effects on the environment.  (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

    Gulf surface cleaner, but questions lurk far below

    Researchers are warning that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is a bigger mess than the government claims and that a lot of crude is lurking deep below the surface, some of it settling perhaps in a critical undersea canyon off the Florida Panhandle.


  • In this Aug. 14, 2010 file photo, survey technician Jim Burkitt adjusts bottles used to capture subsurface water samples on a Conductivity-Temperature-Depth, or CTD, carousel onboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research vessel Henry B. Bigelow near the coast of Louisiana, Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010. The vessel is operating near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil wellhead to collect subsurface water samples for analysis onshore as well as monitor oil and gas seepage on the seafloor. Scientists are giving different estimates on how much oil remains in the ocean and the long terms effects on the environment.  (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

    Gulf surface looks cleaner, but woes lurk below

    Researchers are warning that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is a bigger mess than the government claims and that a lot of crude is lurking deep below the surface, some of it settling perhaps in a critical undersea canyon off the Florida Panhandle.


  • Michelle Leigh Butina, left, watches Sinan Ekrem Gemici, right, adjust his mortarboard hat in one of the waiting rooms in Stegeman Coliseum before they march in the University of Georgia summer commencement exercises in the gymnasium in Athens, Ga., Saturday, July 31, 2010. Princeton Review ranked University of Georgia the No. 1 party school Monday, Aug. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Kelly Wegel, Athens Banner-Herald)

    Georgia party animals are top dogs

    The Princeton Review announced Monday that the University of Georgia is the No. 1 party school on its now infamous annual ranking.


  • Murray opens practice as Georgia's new No. 1 QB

    Mark Richt isn't afraid of starting a freshman quarterback.


  • Michelle Leigh Butina, left, watches Sinan Ekrem Gemici, right, adjust his mortarboard hat in one of the waiting rooms in Stegeman Coliseum before they march in the University of Georgia summer commencement exercises in the gymnasium in Athens, Ga., Saturday, July 31, 2010. Princeton Review ranked University of Georgia the No. 1 party school Monday, Aug. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Kelly Wegel, Athens Banner-Herald)

    Georgia tops party schools ranking

    The University of Georgia won a national title this year — top party school.


  • Baby on toy bike (OJO Images via AP Images)

    Sperm bank peddles celebrity look-alike donors

    Is it custom-designing a baby in the image of your favorite celebrity? The next logical step of the evolutionary desire for attractiveness? A silly result of sperm-donor anonymity rules? Or all that and more?


  • In this Sept. 20, 2008 file photo, Uga VII, the seventh English bulldog mascot for the University of Georgia team, who died last football season, keeps to the sidelines in Tempe, Ariz. Dogs with pushed-back faces such as English bulldogs and pugs accounted for roughly half the purebred dog deaths on airlines in the past five years, the Transportation Department disclosed Friday. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

    Short-snouted dogs face air travel risks

    The University of Georgia's bulldog mascot, Uga, gets a special medical procedure to help him fly safely. But many other short-snouted dogs do not fare as well when put on an aircraft, new data shows.


  • Researchers seek 'super' bee cure for a deadly disorder

    A team of researchers from universities across the nation are urgently trying to develop a strain of "super" honeybees to ward off a mysterious malady that has been decimating U.S. colonies for the past three years.


  • Party reputation restored at WVU

    MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — To the disappointment of school administrators — and the pride of some students — West Virginia University is No. 1 on the Princeton's Review's annual list of the top 20 party schools.


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