July 2012 hottest month on record in contiguous U.S.
NOAA data show July 2012 averaged 77.6 degrees across the 48 states, surpassing the Dust Bowl era record. Over 60 percent of the country faced drought, with more than 2 million acres burned by wildfires and crop and livestock devastation amid warnings of climate-driven heat. NASA scientist James Hansen coauthored a study linking extremes to climate change.
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Goddard Institute For Space Studies
Jazia Pratt
Philadelphia
Underground sect in Russia charged with abuse after 27 children freed
Police raid exposes an eight level underground compound in Kazan where 27 children aged 1 to 17 lived in dark, barren cells for years. Parents and founder Faizrakhman Satarov face charges of child abuse and negligence while the derelict house slated for demolition.
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Irina Petrova
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Volga River
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Sazarov
Tatyana Moroz
Russia
Fossil finds show multiple early human species in East Africa
A 1.78 to 1.95 million year old skull and two jawbones from East Africa suggest at least three co existing human lineages and an evolving brain size with divergent faces and teeth. Researchers led by Meave Leakey connect the new finds to a long enigmatic skull found 40 years ago, forming a complex human family tree in the Turkana Basin region.
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Turkana Basin Institute
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East Africa
Fred Spoor
Max Planck Institute For Evolutionary Anthropology
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Germany
Nature
Study reignites diabetes cure debate in PLoS One trial
A small early study led by Denise Faustman suggests the BCG tuberculosis vaccine may temporarily suppress type 1 diabetes by regenerating insulin-secreting pancreatic cells. Critics caution results may not hold in larger trials and warn against overclaiming the vaccine’s effects.
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Plos One
Denise Faustman
Massachusetts General Hospital
FBI: Temple gunman killed self
The FBI confirmed Wade Michael Page, the Oak Creek Sikh temple gunman, killed himself after being wounded by an Oak Creek police officer. The officer identified as Sam Lenda shot Page in the stomach. Page then died of a self inflected gunshot wound to the head after firing at officers outside and inside the temple, killing six people.
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Carlson
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Milwaukee County Medical Examiner
Travis charged after naked roadside arrest in Texas
Country star Randy Travis, 53, was charged with drunken driving and retaliation after a Texas state trooper found him naked on a road near Tioga. He allegedly threatened to shoot officers during transport to jail. The incident occurred Tuesday night. no clothes were on at discovery.
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Randy Travis
Texas
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Grayson County
Rickey Wheeler
Tioga
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Komen Leader Resigns as Planned Parenthood Funding Fallout Grows
In Dallas the president of Susan G. Komen for the Cure resigns and founder Nancy Brinker steps back from daily management as the group reels from its brief end to funding Planned Parenthood. The shakeup follows the January funding reversal after broad criticism.
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