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Associated Press - Thu Aug 28, 2008
A federal judge overseeing cases against dozens of Guantanamo Bay detainees said Wednesday that he fears the public — and the detainees themselves — will be locked out of the courtroom when evidence in the case is scrutinized for the first time. More...
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Raleigh News & Observer - Thu Aug 28, 2008
Bayer CropScience officials are rejecting claims that some of the company's pesticides played a role in the disappearance of millions of US honeybees. More...
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Discovery News - Tue Aug 26, 2008
Scientists are moving closer to a unilateral opinion that water, even in relatively modern times, exists on Mars. More...
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Reuters - Tue Aug 26, 2008
Grazing cattle and sleeping deer tend to align their bodies along the North-South axis of the Earth's magnetic field, European researchers said on Monday, giving new meaning to the phrase animal magnetism. More...
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Associated Press - Mon Aug 25, 2008
Across the country, from grain elevator to grain elevator, golden wheat and corn are piled in towering mounds, waiting for a rail car to haul them to market. More...
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Associated Press - Sun Aug 24, 2008
NEW ORLEANS - Signs are emerging that history is repeating itself in the Big Easy, still healing from Katrina: People have forgotten a lesson from four decades ago and believe once again that the federal government is constructing a levee system they can prosper behind. More...
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Associated Press - Sun Aug 24, 2008
SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Court authorities here will be able to track students with a history of skipping school under a new program requiring them to wear ankle bracelets with Global Positioning System monitoring. More...
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US News - Sat Aug 23, 2008
The Department of Homeland Security is studying how best to implement a little-noticed congressional mandate to gather, search, and store biometric data from all foreign visitors leaving the country. More...
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Associated Press - Sat Aug 23, 2008
NEW YORK - Yoga can reduce hot flashes and night sweats among women going through menopause, and also appears to sharpen their mental function, researchers from India report. More...
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AFP - Fri Aug 22, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO - Intel on Thursday showed off a wireless electric power system that analysts say could revolutionize modern life by freeing devices from transformers and wall outlets. More...
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Los Angeles Times - Fri Aug 22, 2008
TIKABOO VALLEY, Nevada - The only landmark for about 40 miles on a barren stretch of highway is a mailbox battered by time and desert gusts. More...
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Associated Press - Thu Aug 21, 2008
MONTGOMERY, Alabama - Alabama, pushed to third in national obesity rankings by deep-fried Southern favorites, is cracking down on state workers who are too fat. More...
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USA Today - Thu Aug 21, 2008
Speaking up in the military can be hazardous to the health of your career, even when it's done to help wounded soldiers or the families of fallen warriors. More...
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Rocky Mountain News - Thu Aug 21, 2008
There won't be razor wire, but anyone arrested during the Democratic National Convention will be held in locked chain-link cells in an old warehouse. More...
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Associated Press - Thu Aug 21, 2008
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania - The maker of Snickers bars and M&Ms candies said it is raising wholesale prices on various items to offset the higher costs of raw materials, packaging and energy, the second major candy company in the past week to announce such a move. More...
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Associated Press - Wed Aug 20, 2008
RALEIGH, North Carolina - A mental patient died after workers at a North Carolina hospital left him in a chair for 22 hours without feeding him or helping him use the bathroom, said federal officials who have threatened to cut off the facility's funding. More...
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Associated Press - Wed Aug 20, 2008
PHOENIX - A federal judge on Wednesday permanently barred Arizona from using a state law to prosecute an online merchant who sells shirts that list names of thousands of troops killed in Iraq. More...
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Associated Press - Tue Aug 19, 2008
A new analysis of government data is the first to link low-level arsenic exposure, possibly from drinking water, with Type 2 diabetes, researchers say. More...
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Reuters - Sat Aug 16, 2008
PALO ALTO, California - Results from tests on genetic material from alleged remains of one of the mythical half-ape and half-human creatures, made public at a news conference on Friday held after the claimed discovery swept the Internet, failed to prove its existence. More...
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WSB-TV - Thu Aug 14, 2008
PALO ALTO, California - It could be an elaborate hoax or one of the biggest news stories of the summer. More...
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KMGH-TV - Tue Aug 12, 2008
DENVER - The FBI is now investigating a possible case of cyanide poisoning at a downtown Denver hotel. More...
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KSAT-TV - Tue Aug 12, 2008
DeWITT COUNTY, Texas - The legend of the chupacabra gained new life over the weekend as two DeWitt County sheriff's deputies spotted what they said they believe is the mythical creature. More...
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Associated Press - Tue Aug 12, 2008
Just months before President Bush leaves office, his administration is antagonizing environmentalists by proposing changes that would allow federal agencies to decide for themselves whether subdivisions, dams, highways and other projects have the potential to harm endangered animals and plants. More...
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Mon Aug 11, 2008
JEFFERSON CITY - Missouri state Representative Scott Muschany, R-Frontenac, was indicted today in connection with a reported sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl on May 17, the day after this year’s Legislative session ended. More...
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Associated Press - Mon Aug 11, 2008
Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to 26 percent greater risk of death in men and women, according to a study published Monday that appears to confirm the importance of this essential nutrient. More...
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AFP - Mon Aug 11, 2008
A US court on Monday ordered medical care for a Pakistani scientist said to be seriously sick since being shot last month in an alleged struggle with US officers in Afghanistan. More...
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Associated Press - Sun Aug 10, 2008
TORONTO - Explosions at a propane facility forced thousands of people to evacuate early Sunday, and witnesses described the sky lighting up in the glow of an enormous fireball before turning black with billowing smoke. More...
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Associated Press - Sat Aug 9, 2008
FBI Director Robert Mueller has apologized to the editors of The Washington Post and The New York Times for improperly obtaining phone records of the newspapers' reporters while investigating terrorism four years ago. More...
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CNN - Thu Aug 7, 2008
A US Navy submarine leaked trace amounts of radioactive water for two years as it made port calls in Japan and other Asian nations, the Navy said Thursday. More...
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Associated Press - Tue Aug 5, 2008
Before killing himself last week, Army scientist Bruce Ivins told friends that government agents had stalked him and his family for months, offered his son $2. More...
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Associated Press - Tue Aug 5, 2008
The White House and the CIA on Tuesday adamantly denied a report that the Bush administration concocted a fake letter purporting to show a link between Saddam Hussein's regime and al-Qaida as a justification for the Iraq war. More...
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BBC - Mon Aug 4, 2008
An injection of a high dose of vitamin C may be able to hold back the advance of cancers, US scientists claim. More...
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BBC - Mon Aug 4, 2008
Scientists in the UK who have examined hairs claimed to belong to a yeti in India say that an initial series of tests have proved inconclusive. More...
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BBC - Mon Aug 4, 2008
There has been a plutonium leak at a site run by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Austria. More...
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Reuters - Mon Aug 4, 2008
GUANTANAMO BAY US NAVAL BASE, Cuba - Osama bin Laden's driver performed vital services that enabled "the world's most dangerous terrorist" to launch attacks, a prosecutor told jurors before they began deliberations on Monday in the first US war crimes trial at Guantanamo. More...
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Time - Mon Aug 4, 2008
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Reuters - Sun Aug 3, 2008
MOSCOW - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet dissident writer and Nobel literature prize winner who revealed the horror of Stalin's camps to the world, died late on Sunday aged 89, Russian news agencies reported. More...
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Health Day - Sun Aug 3, 2008
A cannabinoid receptor lying on the surface of cells may help suppress colorectal cancer, say US researchers. More...
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Associated Press - Sun Aug 3, 2008
Snack lovers, rejoice: Munching on potato chips just got a little healthier. More...
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Reuters - Fri Aug 1, 2008
US federal agents have been given new powers to seize travelers' laptops and other electronic devices at the border and hold them for unspecified periods the Washington Post reported on Friday. More...
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