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Drug-eluting stents found safe, superior to bare metal stents

Drug-eluting stents were safe and superior to bare metal stents in preventing death and heart attacks among 262,700 "real-world" patients enrolled in a nationwide registry of cardiovascular disease, according to researchers ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

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Europe, Russia in Mars mission rehearsal

Six volunteers from Europe and Russia will on Tuesday allow themselves to be locked up in a capsule in Moscow for over three months to simulate the conditions for an eventual manned mission to Mars.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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Sharks pose Sydney food-chain puzzle

Three shark attacks in Sydney in three weeks drove newspapers and talk show hosts into a feeding frenzy and sent a collective shudder through the other species at the top of the food chain -- humans.

Biology / Other

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Researchers: Cyber spies break into govt computers

(AP) -- A cyber spy network based mainly in China hacked into classified documents from government and private organizations in 103 countries, including the computers of the Dalai Lama and Tibetan exiles, ...

Technology / Internet

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3 boys turn up mammoth bone in southwest Michigan

(AP) -- Three boys in southwest Michigan have turned up what has been identified as a bone from a mammoth.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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Ash falls on Anchorage as volcano keeps spewing

(AP) -- Alaska's Mount Redoubt continued to erupt Saturday, sending plumes of ash tens of thousands of feet into the air that rained down on at least one Alaska town

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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It's time to green this old (White) House - again

(AP) -- President Barack Obama will find out two things as he studies how to make the White House more environmentally friendly:

Space & Earth / Environment

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