Bush forest plan draws environmentalists' fire
Even on a day when a late-summer rain coats the arthritic woods, it is clear that Idaho Panhandle National Forest is sick. To save this forest, one of the biggest in the United States, federal
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Indonesia's (illegal) buzz
Indonesia's timber industry is booming, good news for a country suffering widespread unemployment and mired in economic stagnation. There is a dark side, however: Nearly all the sawmills operate
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150 feared dead in Russia, avalanche search goes on
Rescue workers in south-western Russia were searching for survivors after a mammoth chunk of ice split from a glacier in the Caucasus Mountains and swept downhill, leaving up to 150 people dead and a
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Common painkiller is found to carry some risk of death
Citing evidence that thousands of patients unwittingly take toxic and potentially fatal- doses of acetaminophen, a panel of expert scientists has urged stronger warning labels for the painkiller, the
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Immune-cell treatment of cancer shows promise
A research team at the National Cancer Institute has successfully treated several cases of advanced and usually fatal cancer with immune system cells taken from the patients, grown in large numbers
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U.S. farms vulnerable, scientists say
The United States is highly vulnerable to terrorist attacks on its livestock and food crops and needs a national plan to identify threats, direct research, gather intelligence and respond to
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U.S. is issuing guidelines in case of smallpox attack
Federal health officials were issuing detailed guidelines population against smallpox within five days of an outbreak of the disease. Intended as a blueprint for state and local health officials
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Flood toll nears 200
Twelve more people have died in flooding across Vietnam, disaster relief officials said, as the death toll from two months of torrential rains and flash floods neared 200.
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Modern mariners pose rising threat to the albatross
Albatrosses -the talisman birds of the ocean- spend most of their life skimming the seas in search of food and usually return to land-mainily remote islands in the Antarctic Ocean - only to breed.
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AIDS is called a security threat
Rates of infection from the AIDS virus in five of the world's most populous countries are rising so fast that they pose potential security threats to their regions and to the United States, according