Porpoise strandings surge across Atlantic coast
A record number of harbor porpoises have washed ashore from Maine to North Carolina with at least 162 deaths by mid April, far surpassing last year's totals and the prior record. Scientists including Stephen Jordan note this is more strandings in a month than a year. Porpoises are a threatened species.
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Stephen Jordan
Maryland
Sarbanes Cooperative Oxford Research Laboratory
Carolinas
White supremacist Kehoe meets with Little Rock judge
Alleged white supremacist Chevie Kehoe and co defendant Danny Lee met with a federal judge in Little Rock on Thursday hour delaying closing statements for a jury of 12 black jurors. Prosecutors say Kehoe and Lee sought to overthrow the federal government by forming a whites only Aryan Republic while stockpiling weapons and committing robberies and murders, including an Arkansas couple and their 8 year old daughter.
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Little Rock
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Colville
Wash
Danny Lee
Yukon
Okla
Lee
Pacific Northwest
Commuter Pushed Into Path of Subway Train
Edgar Rivera, 46, father of three, was shoved onto the tracks at S1st Street and Lexington Avenue by Julio Perez, 43, during evening rush hour. Surgeons could not reattach Rivera’s severed legs at Bellevue Hospital. Witnesses said Perez acted strangely and punched a wall before pushing Rivera as the train arrived. He yelled “Oh my God” as he fell. two train cars passed over him.
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Mars
Edgar Rivera
S1st Street
Lexington Avenue
Julio Perez
Rivera
Bellevue Hospital
Perez
Magnetic strips found in Mars rocks
Washington reports magnetic striations on Mars from Mars Global Surveyor resemble Earth's crustal spreading signs. Norman Ness says Mars once had a molten interior and continental drift-like activity but lost its energy early, leaving only a magnetized rock memory. The finding implies Mars may have had plate tectonics similar to Earth in early history.
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Mars
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Mars Global Surveyor
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Norman Ness
University of Delaware
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IRS Disputes Whistleblower Job Reviews in Court
Washington based IRS faces new court filings claiming that revenue agent Jennifer Long produced inferior work since 1991. Long, a whistleblower who testified before the Senate Finance Committee, says the filings reflect retaliation. She argues the IRS pitches a pattern of oppression and harassment as it seeks to dismiss her 1997 race and age discrimination suit.
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Internal Revenue Service
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Finance Committee
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