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Activists Fight Green Projects, Seeing U.N. Plot At a Roanoke County, Va., meeting, dozens opposed the county's paying $1,200 to a nonprofit.
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China Fires Officials for Not Reporting Toxic Spill The spill, which affected 200 miles of the Longjiang River in southern China, was caused by two companies that accidentally released tons of cadmium.
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Roger Boisjoly, 73, Dies; Warned of Shuttle Danger Roger Boisjoly worked for a firm making rocket boosters.
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Fessenheim Journal: Wishing Upon an Atom in a Tiny French Village A nuclear power station, in background, is the center of the livelihood of Fessenheim. It also happens to sit in a seismic zone.
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Scientist at Work Blog: One Moose, Two Moose
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National Briefing | New England: Maine: Emergency Plan Would Limit Cod Fishing Fishermen from Cape Cod, Mass., to northern Maine would have to reduce the amount of cod they catch under an emergency proposal by the New England Fishery Management Council.
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Deal to Salvage Britain’s Victory May Yield Richest Trove A cannon was recovered in 2008 from wreckage of the H.M.S. Victory in the English Channel.
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National Briefing | Mid-Atlantic: Delaware: Some Sturgeon Declared to Be Endangered Several populations of Atlantic sturgeon, the large, primordial-looking fish that were once common along East Coast watersheds, are endangered, the National Marine Fisheries Service declared Tuesday.
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National Briefing | Science: Panel Praises Removal of Details on Bird Flu Removing information from manuscripts describing experiments that made a lethal bird flu more likely to transmit among humans “maximized the benefits to society and minimized the risks,” the government’s biosecurity panel said.
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National Briefing | Washington: Map of Earthquake Risks Is Updated A new map detailing all known geologic faults east of Denver was issued Tuesday by the government and Electric Power Research Institute, a nonprofit electric research group.
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World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Radiation Blamed in Doomed Space Mission Russia blamed radiation on Tuesday for a computer glitch that doomed its mission to a moon of Mars, but space industry experts cast doubt on the findings.
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Basics: These Mammals Pack a Toxic Punch An illustration of an African crested rat.
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Gains in DNA Are Speeding Research Into Human Origins EARLY LAIRA view above the Denisova cave, where clues to prehistoric interbreeding were found. Faster technology is aiding research.
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Bismarck’s Voice Among Restored Edison Recordings A trove of wax cylinder phonograph records contains the only known recording of Otto von Bismarck.
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A Conversation With Ruslan M. Medzhitov: A Long Journey to Immune System Insights A LONG JOURNEYRuslan Medzhitov, 45, studies immune systems at Yale.
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Scientists Examine Hope Diamond for Clues to Its Blue UNDER EXAMINATIONA time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometer shaved atoms off the Hope Diamond that were then sorted by weight.
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Update: Homeless Science Whiz Goes to Washington Intel Science Talent Search semifinalist Samantha Garvey got a grand tour of Washington this week.
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Alzheimer’s Spreads in the Brain Like a Virus, Studies Find From left, Li Liu, Scott A. Small and Karen Duff examining a mouse brain. Dr. Small and Dr. Duff used mice to study Alzheimer's.
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Dr. Richard K. Olney, A.L.S. Researcher, Dies at 64. Dr. Olney, a leading researcher of A.L.S., commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, learned in 2004 that he himself had it.
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AIDS Prevention Inspires Ways to Simplify Circumcision ‘LIKE A FINGERNAIL’ One new product, PrePex, uses a ring to block blood flow. After a week, the dead foreskin falls off or can be clipped.
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Cases: Feeling Strain When Violent Patients Need Care
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Books: In Search of the Elusive Definition of Heterosexuality
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Non-Specialists Expand Into Lucrative Cosmetic Surgery Procedures With declining insurance reimbursements, more doctors are expanding their practices to include things like breast augmentation and liposuction paid for out-of-pocket by patients.
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Patient Voices: Changed, but Not Defined, by Hemophilia Danielle Schwager
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SCIENCE: Eric Lander An interview with the mathematician and geneticist behind the Human Genome Project and the Broad Institute.
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SCIENCE: The Far Side of the Moon NASA on Thursday released a video taken as one of the twin spacecraft in its Grail mission passed over the far side of the Moon.
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Scientist at Work Blog: A Wolf-Moose Standoff at Isle Royale
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Green Blog: Report: Sierra Club Accepted Gas Industry Money An article raises the issue of whether the Sierra Club's support of natural gas as a "bridge fuel" was influenced by donations from the gas industry.
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Green Blog: Coral, Part II: Is the Cold or Heat More Lethal? Researchers find that extreme cold induces acute stress in coral but that heat is ultimately more lethal.
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Green Blog: Warming Seas and Corals: A New Conundrum A new study based on research in western Australia suggests that warming seas can benefit corals -- but perhaps only to a point.
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Q & A: Are There Drops to Reverse Eye Dilation?
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Observatory: Black Dinosaur Feathers May Have Helped Archaeopteryx Fly An Archaeopteryx fossil was examined for pigment evidence.
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Observatory: Marine Turtles’ Mating Habits Make Up for Male Shortage
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Observatory: Jumping Spiders Focus Eyes Like a Camera to Hunt A jumping spider's eyes show how far to pounce by sharpening the prey and blurring the background.
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Personal Health: Communities Learn the Good Life Can Be a Killer ACTIVE ANTIDOTE Atlanta transformed an old rail corridor into a trail network that encourages walking and biking.
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Really?: The Claim: Never Go to Bed Angry
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Dot Earth Blog: In Overheated Climate Fight, a Search for Common Ground A search for common ground among people deeply split over greenhouse-driven global warming.
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Wordplay Blog: Numberplay: Ordering in Circles A puzzle based on a very simple idea of summing small integers arranged in a circle to magically generate all the numbers in order, without end.
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Letters: Marred Portrait of Disgust (2 Letters) Letters to the editor.
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Letters: Fluoridation Pro and Con (2 Letters) Letters to the editor.
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