Stampede Kills Hundreds During Iraqi Shiite Procession
Thousands of pilgrims surged onto a bridge in Baghdad amid heat and fear of suicide bombs leading to a stampede. Officials say 769 to 844 people died with hundreds more injured as crowd control failures and terror fear fueled the disaster near Kazimiyah.
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Y Chromosome Likely to Survive Researchers say
NEW YORK AP The human Y chromosome once feared to disappear in about 10 million years may endure. A six million year gene-stability window found by David Page and colleagues in Nature argues the Y is maintaining itself despite historical gene loss and erosion over 300 million years.
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Whitehead Institute For Biomedical Research
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Nature
States move to require online sales tax collection
Thirteen states including Iowa will encourage online merchants to collect sales taxes like brick and mortar stores starting this fall. The Streamlined Sales Tax Project aims to unify rules and persuade Congress to allow mandated collection. States promise a one year amnesty on back taxes if businesses register now.
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David Quamn
National Governors Association
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FDA approves Fluorix flu vaccine for adults in imminent season
The FDA approved Fluorix for people 18 and older to bolster upcoming flu season supplies. Manufactured in Germany by a GlaxoSmithKline subsidiary, the shot has long been available abroad, but its domestic availability remains uncertain.
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Jury seated in Blake wrongful death suit by slain wife’s children
In Burbank California a jury was seated in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Benny Lee Bakley’s four children against actor Robert Blake. Blake previously faced murder charges in his wife’s death but was acquitted in a criminal trial. Opening statements were scheduled to begin.
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Jury pool formed for Posada deportation case in Caracas
Eleven men and five women were selected to hear the Posada case in Caracas judge David Schacter has designated alternates. the jury will learn who among them are regular jurors as testimony ends. Attorneys for the United States and Posada agreed Posada should not be deported to Cuba.
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Cuba
Cuban militant withdraws asylum bid amid deportation fight
Cuban anti Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles dropped his request for U.S. asylum in El Paso and his lawyers will pursue preventing deportation to Venezuela. He is accused of involvement in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner and faces related charges if repatriated.
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Venezuela
Luis Posada Carriles
UN agency warns bird flu may spread worldwide
The U N food agency warned the bird flu virus hitting several Asian nations could spread to Europe the Middle East and Africa urging at risk countries to boost surveillance and prepare emergency plans The immediate threat is poultry farms with fears it could mutate to a form dangerous to humans French President Jacques Chirac called an absolutely necessary coordinated international response.
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