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LOS ANGELES – Scientists have processed more than a dozen new photos taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which arrived at the Red Planet last month, including its first color image. The crisp test images released Friday revealed pocked craters, carved gullies and wind-formed dunes in Mars‘ southern hemisphere. The …

PEORIA, Ill. – Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) posted its strongest quarter ever Thursday, yielding record annual profits and revenues that the leading heavy equipment maker says will continue to rise in 2006. Peoria-based Caterpillar reported fourth-quarter earnings surged 54 percent to $846 million, up from $551 million during the same period …

TIWANAKU, Bolivia – Bolivian President-elect Evo Morales, dressed in a bright red tunic worn only by the most important pre-Inca priests, promised to do away with vestiges of his country’s colonial past Saturday in a spiritual ceremony at an ancient temple on the eve of his inauguration. To roars from …