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Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008

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Memo Suggests Cause Of 1968 Mine Deaths

Forty years ago, an explosion in a Farmington, W.Va., coal mine killed 78 men. The cause was a mystery for years, but a recently-released memo reveals that an alarm — that might have saved the miners — was disabled. ()  

 

Scientists Decode The DNA Of A Woolly Mammoth

The woolly mammoth is the first extinct mammal to have its DNA sequence deciphered. ()  

Stem Cells Used In Woman's Windpipe Transplant

The pioneering operation used a section of windpipe engineered in a laboratory with stem cells. ()  

 

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