Moon rock seizure headlines high end auction profits
At Phillips Fine Art Auctioneers in Manhattan investors bid up rare items as the FBI seized a moon rock tied to a federal grand jury. The sale still drew about 400 potential buyers with meteorites and dinosaur relics fetching thousands to tens of thousands of dollars.
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New York Times
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Philips
Wayne Rosso
China
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Hell Creek
South Dakota
Stone-age horses found in remote Tibet by expedition
A French British expedition reports discovery of the Riwoche horse in northeastern Tibet. The animal stands close to four feet tall, pony-sized, with a beige coat, bristly mane, and a distinctive back stripe, resembling ancient European cave horses.
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Paris
Tibet
Michel Peisgel
Ancient horses traced from Eohippus to modern breed
Dr Ignasi Casas notes horses evolved from a small browsing animal named Eohippus around 50 million years ago with branches into rhinos and tapirs and later the zebra, donkey and horse. The modern horse is about five million years old. Cavemen hunted and ate it. domestication began 3,000 to 5,000 years ago. The Riwoche breed may be an isolated population preserved in a long valley. Local Bon-po farmers herd by lasso and release horses when needed.
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Ignasi Casas
Casas
Aw York Times
Radiation Resistant Bacterium Survives Ultra High Dose
Government scientists report Demococcus radiodu, a hardy bacterium, endures 15 000 grays of ionizing radiation. In Science, Dr. Kenneth Minton and Dr. Michael Daly show the microbe repairs DNA within hours, rebuilding chromosomes from damaged fragments despite tens of thousands of rads, aided by multiple chromosome copies.
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Science
Kenneth W. Minton
Michael J. Daly
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Bethesda
Minton
Radiation Resilient Bacteria Rekindle Pan Sperma Debate
Researchers spotlight Deinococcus radiodurans, a bacterium that repairs DNA after radiation and may illuminate why some organisms survive extreme stress. Minton notes its unique self repair prompts questions about evolution and potential biomedical uses, while noting its discovery in diverse, unlikely places from lab sterilization to elephant feces.
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Minton
Dinosaur egg embryo hints at early skeleton development
A 17-pound dinosaur egg, among the largest found, likely died at 2 or 3 weeks old. Mud and flood exposure may have caused its death.CATacan tests after 90 minutes showed a core with flecks resembling the start of a skeleton.
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Catacan
Web help for Mac and Windows users on the Internet
A guide to online resources for Macintosh and Windows 95 users with problem solving pages. It highlights Mac tips and a Problem Solver, Windows 95 help pages, official Microsoft site, Ask Mr Computer, Trevin's Help for Ordinary Users, and a Moan and Groan Page for user feedback.
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Dartmouth.edu
Microsoft
Trevin
Acme
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