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Those Russian fires are threatening their nuclear research city of Sarov...but no risk of radiation leak.
Deja vu for me: I lived in New Mexico the year the state had scores of fires, and Los Alamos partly burned down.

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Using fish nets to clean up space junk.

but what about Mario?

and IBEX Spacecraft investigates what happens when the solar wind hits the earth's magnetic field.


AHHGGH WAGD!


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Zipper problems in the US Navy.
..my sainted mother was the one who told me the joke about not dropping the soap in the shower, so it's not a new problem...

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Mitochondrial Eve lived 200 thousand years ago. link2

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Is the "Avastin" decision an example of death panels?
From what I've read, no: it works for lung cancer, brain cancer, and several other types of cancer,
but for breast cancer it doesn't work very well, and has so many side effects that the problems outweigh the advantages in breast cancer.... And the anti euthanasia site Secondhand smoke agrees.

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The hunchback of Notre Dame might have been based on a rock carver who helped repair the cathedral.
Headsup TeaAtTrianon

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The latest international incident with US troops in Japan: Baby babble