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Salk had help developing polio vaccine
Apr 10 2005 7:22PM (CT)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - The vaccine bears his name, but Jonas Salk had plenty of help in the victory over polio, and his legacy includes researchers bitterly disappointed that he denied them their share of the glory.
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Engineers redesign roads to save moose
Apr 10 2005 7:22PM (CT)
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) - At night on a dark country road, all that the headlights catch are the shadowy legs the size of tree trunks rising out of the pavement. Standing six feet at the shoulder, weighing up to 1,000 pounds, with massive antlers more than five feet across, moose tower over automobiles and have no fear of them.
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Pandas at San Diego Zoo successfully mate
Apr 10 2005 4:45PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - The two giant pandas at the city's zoo retired to their favorite spot under a few bushes and mated over the past two days _ the only successful natural insemination of a panda this year in the United States, officials said Saturday.
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Old speck of crystal on display in Wis.
Apr 10 2005 4:44PM (CT)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Call it much ado about almost nothing. To create buzz about an otherwise arcane subject, the University of Wisconsin-Madison showed off a tiny speck of zircon crystal believed to be the oldest known piece of Earth at about 4.4 billion years old.
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Drug-resistant bacteria persist in chicken
Apr 10 2005 2:56AM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - Antibiotic-resistant bacteria continued to be found in chickens bought at area supermarkets a year after two large poultry producers stopped using an antibiotic blamed for creating the resistant strains, Johns Hopkins researchers report.
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Scientists create remote-controlled flies
Apr 10 2005 2:55AM (CT)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - Yale University researchers say their study that used lasers to create remote-controlled fruit flies could lead to a better understanding of overeating and violence in humans.
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