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FAIRFIELD, Conn. –Janet Kettman says she and her
neighbors on Sunset Circle are always looking over their shoulders in
fear the stalker will strike again.
"He attacks from the back," Kettman said Monday. "You never
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Most of the time the parts of our brain responsible
for our career as an English teacher and the part of our brain responsible
for our career as a Red Sox fan are completely separate, and that’s the
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WASHINGTON — What preventive health measures would save the most lives
for the least money?
The top rank goes to taking aspirin daily to prevent heart attacks and
strokes in men over 40 and [...]
WASHINGTON — What preventive health measures would save the most lives
for the least money?
The top rank goes to taking aspirin daily to prevent heart attacks and
strokes in men over 40 and [...]
Senate Majority Leader Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., right, talks with
an aide before he records his weekly podcast Thursday, May 18, 2006,
in Washington. Frist personally responds to questions on his blog weekly
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A model has been coated in a million individual Swarovski
crystals and is being slowly undressed online.
The crystals are being sold off individually on eBay for upwards of
one euro (68p) each.
As the crystals are sold, more and more of [...]
After an emotional debate fraught with symbolism,
the Senate yesterday voted to make English the "national language" of
the United States, declaring that no one has a right to federal communications
or services in [...]
A US-British team of scientists has challenged the
idea that the tiny skeleton from Indonesia dubbed "the Hobbit" is
a new human species.
Writing in Science magazine, the team presents an alternative theory that
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Just when we were down to our last hope - that the
Celtics would draft that kid named "Noah" - it finally stopped raining.
So what to do, on one of our last days of relative freedom before the
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Boston scientists released a provocative report yesterday
that challenges the timeline of human evolution and suggests that human
ancestors bred with chimpanzee ancestors long after they had initially
separated into two species.
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An exquisitely preserved and elaborately tattooed
mummy of a young woman has been discovered deep inside a mud-brick pyramid
in northern Peru, archaeologists from Peru and the U.S. announced today.
The 1,500-year-old mummy may shed new [...]