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The Life-Saving Capabilities Of Storm SheltersWashington DC (SPX) Jul 19, 2010 For 18 horrific hours on April 3, 1974, the largest and most cataclysmic tornado on record for a single 24-hour period took North America by storm. Actually, it was 148 tornadoes, which spun through and sacked 13 states and one Canadian province, ravaging some 900 square miles and killing 148 people. An iconic photo snapped in the tragedy's aftermath speaks the proverbial thousand words: amid a landscape devastated, and houses crushed like eggshells, one thing remained intact, standing erect and d ... read more |
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New Orleans (AFP) July 18, 2010Three sport fishermen guided their boat up a oil-stained Louisiana coastline in a hopeful if tentative show of optimism, just days after BP finally capped the broken well in the Gulf of Mexico. The trio expressed a commonly heard, guarded optimism that after three months after the start of the Gulf oil spill, the worst environmental disaster in US history might finally be in check. "(The ... more  
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Jul 19, 2010When paleontologist Iyad Zalmout went looking for fossil whales and dinosaurs in Saudi Arabia, he never expected to come face-to-face with a significant, early primate fossil. But the skull he stumbled upon provides new insights into what the last common ancestor of apes and monkeys may have looked like and when the two lineages went their separate ways. Zalmout and colleagues at the ... more  
Boulder CO (SPX) Jul 19, 2010Indian Ocean sea levels are rising unevenly and threatening residents in some densely populated coastal areas and islands, a new study concludes. The study, led by scientists at the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo., finds that the sea-level rise is at least partly a result of climate change. Sea-level ris ... more |
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HIV: Start treatment earlier, says panelVienna (AFP) July 18, 2010 A major expert panel recommended ahead of the start of the world AIDS conference here Sunday that patients with HIV start antiretroviral drugs at an earlier stage of infection. Earlier initiation of the famous combination of drugs that repress the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) can reduce long-term mortality and sickness, the group said. It set out its recommendations in a paper published by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and presented in Vienna just before the six-da ... read more |
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