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Another runaway Toyota Prius reported (Reuters)

Reuters - Federal regulators said they were looking into a report of another runaway Toyota Prius, this one in Westchester County, New York, where police said a woman pulling out of a driveway zoomed across a busy street and into a stone wall.

Runaway Prius driver: Brakes were 'almost burned' (AP)

Driver James Sikes talks about his experiences in his Toyota Prius during a news conference held at Toyota of El Cajon Tuesday, March 9, 2010, in El Cajon, Calif. Sikes' 2008 Toyota Prius raced out of control on a San Diego freeway Monday. A California Highway Patrol officer helped him stop the car.  (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)AP - Before he called 911, James Sikes says he reached down with his hand to loosen the "stuck" accelerator on his 2008 Toyota Prius, his other hand on the steering wheel. The pedal didn't move.

Toyota, U.S. officials investigate runaway Prius (Reuters)

In this Feb. 7, 2010 photo, the tailends of unsold 2010 Toyota Prius sedans form a long line at a Toyota dealership in Lakewood, Colo. Toyota owners and stockholders have peppered the Japanese automaker with more than 80 class-action lawsuits in the wake of widespread recalls, some contending that defective engineering has caused injuries or deaths and others claiming the company's woes have damaged the value of the vehicles. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)Reuters - U.S. safety regulators and Toyota dispatched teams on Tuesday to inspect a Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway a day earlier, as the automaker struggled to reassure consumers shaken by its recall crisis.

As Chile shook, cities rolled to the west a bit (AP)

AP - The Earth really did move during the massive Chile quake: Researchers say cities and islands physically shifted west a bit.

'Extinct' frog species found again after 30 years (AP)

This undated photo provided by the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service shows a pair of Yellow-spotted Bell Frogs in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales state of Australia. The species of frog thought to have been extinct for 30 years has been discovered in rural Australian farmland, officials said Thursday, March 4, 2010. (AP Photo/New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service, David Hunter)  EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - A species of frog thought to have been extinct for 30 years has been found in rural Australian farmland, officials said Thursday.

Toyota Prius tops Japan sales despite recall woes (AP)

Visitors are silhouetted as they watch a video showing the assembly line of a Toyota Motor Corp.'s plant at the automaker's exhibition hall in Toyota, central Japan, Thursday, March 4, 2010. Toyota's Prius remains the top-selling car in Japan despite the automaker's global recall woes that included braking problems with the hit hybrid. More than 27,000 of the gas-electric hybrids were sold in February, making the Prius the best selling model for the 10th straight month, according to Japan Automobile Dealers Association figures released Thursday. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)AP - Toyota's Prius remains the top-selling car in Japan despite the automaker's global recall woes that included braking problems with the hit hybrid.

Northwest at risk of megaquake like one in Chile (AP)

FILE - In this Sunday, Feb. 28, 2010 file photo, people walk past a collapsed building in Concepcion, Chile. The disaster in Chile has brought new attention to an undersea fault along the Pacific Northwest capable of producing the same type of mega earthquake and inflicting heavy damage on bustling cities like Seattle, Portland and Vancouver. (AP Photo/ Natacha Pisarenko)AP - Just 50 miles off the Pacific Northwest coast is an earthquake hotspot that threatens to unleash on Seattle, Portland and Vancouver the kind of damage that has shattered Chile.

Chile earthquake may have shortened Earth's day (AP)

AP - Earth's days may have gotten a little bit shorter since the massive earthquake in Chile, but don't feel bad if you haven't noticed.

World warming unhindered by cold spells: scientists (Reuters)

United Nations Environment Programme director Adrian Steiner (L) and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono listen during the opening session of the Global Ministerial Environment Forum in Nusa Dua. Countries will have to make far greater cuts in greenhouse gas emissions if the world is to limit the rise in global temperatures to two degrees Celsius or less, the UN has warned.(AFP/Sonny Tumbelaka)Reuters - The pace of global warming continues unabated, scientists said on Thursday, despite images of Europe crippled by a deep freeze and parts of the United States blasted by blizzards.


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