Archive: 05/18/2009
Blue whales returning to former Alaska waters
(AP) -- Blue whales are returning to Alaska in search of food and could be re-establishing an old migration route several decades after they were nearly wiped out by commercial whalers, scientists say.
May 18, 2009 |
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NYC has first swine flu death; cases soar in Japan
(AP) -- Swine flu and the possibility of a vaccine topped the agenda Monday as the World Health Organization opened its annual meeting amid concern that the virus continues to spread - and kill - around the ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 18, 2009 |
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Study links cigarette changes to rising lung risk
(AP) -- It may be riskier on the lungs to smoke cigarettes today than it was a few decades ago - at least in the U.S., says new research that blames changes in cigarette design for fueling a certain type ...
May 18, 2009 |
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Scribd turns page from document sharing to selling
(AP) -- Hoping to do for the written word what iTunes did for music, the online document-sharing service Scribd is opening an Internet store that will offer new sales opportunities for authors and publishers, ...
May 18, 2009 |
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