CAMBRIDGE, UK – Doctors have performed the UK’s first beating heart transplant and say they hope the procedure will “revolutionise” the way transplants are carried out. Professor Bruce Rosengard, from Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, led the team that transferred a beating heart into a 58-year-old man. The operation, which has …
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LUDINGTON, Mich. – Police have located the owner of a 4-foot alligator found in a park at this Lake Michigan shoreline community. Police Chief Mark Barnett said the owner may face animal cruelty charges. “The man said he was looking for a place to get rid of it to, but …
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CAIRO, Egypt – The Al-Jazeera network broadcast a video by Al Qaeda No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahiri on Friday in which he spoke about Palestinian and Egyptian politics and the situation in Darfur. The tape apparently was made before the announcement that Iraq’s most-wanted terrorist, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was killed Wednesday …
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WINNEMUCCA, Nev. – Two qualifying heats, two wire-to-wire victories, two nearly identical times. It was almost like the same mule won twice. Idaho Gem, the world’s first equine clone, and his brother, Idaho Star, made successful debuts Saturday in what scientists billed as the first professional competition between clones of …
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WASHINGTON – For all those teachers who take work home at night, creating lessons they hope kids will like, the reward is a good day in class. Now there could be another payoff: cash. Teachers are selling their original lectures, course outlines and study guides to other teachers through a …
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SANTA MONICA, Calif. – Michael Jackson was the invisible presence in a Santa Monica courtroom on Wednesday as jury selection began in a $3.8 million lawsuit brought by his former adviser Marc Shaffel. Perspective jurors were told by the judge and by Jackson’s lawyer that he will not be present …
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WASHINGTON – The United States and South Korea held their first round of talks Monday aimed at achieving a free trade agreement between the two nations before the end of the year. An agreement with South Korea, America’s seventh-largest trading partner, would be the most economically significant such pact the …
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KIBBUTZ KEREM SHALOM, Israel – Palestinian militants tunneled into Israel at a Gaza border crossing Sunday, killed two Israeli soldiers and captured another, raising the threat of an all-out conflict in Gaza just a year after Israel’s pullout. Israel, which sent ground troops into Gaza after the assault, blamed the …
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NEW YORK – Worldwide franchisees of Subway sandwich shops filed suit against the chain’s founder Fred DeLuca and the franchiser Doctor’s Associates Inc. Monday, claiming that terms of a new franchise agreement disregard existing commitments concerning marketing spending. The lawsuit was filed in Connecticut Superior Court in Ansonia-New Haven by …
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