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The Race For The Electric Car The race to develop and build the first viable, affordable electric car is on, as Silicon Valley has gotten into the game. And as Lesley Stahl reports, Detroit is taking notice. Attempt To Breed Rare Chinese Turtle Fails When the two rare Yangtze giant soft-shell turtles mated last spring, scientists were hopeful that their attempts to keep the species from fading into extinction would be a success. But conservationists announced that the turtles' eggs didn't hatch. Strippers, Coke Inspire Sci-Prize Winners The Ig Nobel prize, the annual award given by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine to oddball but often surprisingly practical scientific achievements, were announced. Diary Survives 37-Mile Fall To Earth Pages from an Israeli astronaut's diary that survived the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia and a 37-mile fall to earth are going on display this weekend for the first time in Jerusalem. Cincinnati Offers Grants For Green Roofs Officials want to see more green roofs on building tops in Cincinnati. The City Council became the first in Ohio with a plan to channel grants and loans to residents and businesses to replace tar and shingles with vegetation.