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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
The 2nd Granddaughter of Minnesota Powerball Winners Tested For Krabbe Disease Baby Allison gets tested for Krabbe disease.
Powerball winners Paul and Sue Rosenau, of Waseca, Minnesota, lost their granddaughter to Krabbe disease five years ago.The Rosenaus have been active in raising awareness for Krabbe disease, and the attention and newly-won ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Marine scientists in New Zealand on Tuesday were thawing the corpse of the largest squid ever caught to try to unlock the secrets of one of the ocean's most mysterious beasts.
No one has ever seen a living, grown colossal squid in its natural deep ocean ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
A massive magnitude 5.2 earthquake has hit the Midwest along the New Madrid Fault Lines, also known as the New Madrid Seismic Zone or the Reelfoot Rift. The fault line is a major seismic zone located in the Southern and Midwestern United States, spanning from the southwest to New ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
NEW DELHI (AP) — A baby with two faces — two noses, two pairs of lips and two pairs of eyes — was born in a northern Indian village, where she is doing well and is being worshipped as the reincarnation of a Hindu goddess.
Hundreds of pilgrims have visited Lali, ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
The textured skin of a hadrosaur is visible as it emerges from it's sandstone tomb, at the North Dakota Heritage Center Museum in Bismarck, N.D., Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2008. The 65 million year old duckbilled dinosaur mummy was found in Southwest North Dakota in 2004. It is one of only ...
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly all of today's Native Americans in North, Central and South America can trace part of their ancestry to six women whose descendants immigrated around 20,000 years ago, a DNA study suggests.
Those women left a particular DNA legacy that persists to today in about about 95 ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The white killer whale spotted in Alaska's Aleutian Islands sent researchers and the ship's crew scrambling for their cameras.
The nearly mythic creature was real after all.
"I had heard about this whale, but we had never been able to find it," said Holly Fearnbach, a research biologist ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Those of you who get paid every other Friday might get three paychecks this month. It's rare for that to happen in February, which normally has only 28 days and struggles to create five Fridays. It happened last in 1908 and won't come again until 2036.
The reason, of course, ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The space shuttle Atlantis, after successfully delivering a major new section to the International Space Station, glided home for a safe landing at the Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, announcing its arrival with twin sonic booms just before touchdown.
Ending a challenging 13-day mission, Atlantis and a ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The last total lunar eclipse until 2010 occurs Wednesday night, with cameo appearances by Saturn and the bright star Regulus on either side of the veiled full moon.
Skywatchers viewing through a telescope will have the added treat of seeing Saturn's handsome rings.
Weather permitting, the total eclipse ...
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