Posted on April 30th, 2008 by Editor
Federal drug regulators believe that a contaminant detected in a crucial blood thinner that has caused 81 deaths was added deliberately, something the Food and Drug Administration has only hinted at previously.

“F.D.A.’s working…
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Posted on April 29th, 2008 by Kris
BIGGAR Archaeology Group have discovered the location of an ancient 5000-6000-year-old settlement site in a ploughed field at Carwood Farm near the town.
After only two days walking ploughed fields to look for evidence of the past, an annual Spring event…
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Posted on April 29th, 2008 by Kris
OSLO (Reuters) – Tests of the bones of two Viking women found in a buried longboat have dispelled 100-year-old suspicions that one was a maid sacrificed to accompany her queen into the afterlife, experts said on Friday.
The bones indicated…
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Posted on April 29th, 2008 by Kris
A Mysterious mound in Notts that was once thought to mark the boundary of two Anglo-Saxon kingdoms is to be investigated by historians, the Forestry Commission has said.
Known as Thynghowe, the hillock was only discovered three years ago in…
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Posted on April 29th, 2008 by Kris
A total of four antique statues were unearthed in the temple of the Phrygian Goddess Cybele in Bulgaria’s coastal town of Balchik on Wednesday.
The team of the archaeologists Igor Lazarenko, Elina Mircheva and Radostina Encheva discovered two Cybele’s statues…
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Posted on April 29th, 2008 by Kris
Archaeologists are hoping to unearth evidence of what they believe to have been one of Bronze Age Britain’s largest axe-making “factories”.
Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust (CPAT) said the axes, made from a distinctive type rock – known as picrite –…
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Posted on April 28th, 2008 by Hengest
The results of DNA and x-ray studies of the two women buried in the Oseberg ship in the year 834 have revealed startling discoveries.
The two women were powerful figures in their day but still lived a hard life, and…
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Posted on April 28th, 2008 by Editor
Posted on April 27th, 2008 by Editor
University of Minnesota college student Chris Jenkins was found in the Mississippi River in February of 2003.
Minneapolis Police began investigating the case, which also caught the attention of two retired NYPD detectives.
Turns out, Jenkins’ death was the missing…
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Posted on April 26th, 2008 by Hengest
Sgt. John Delaney told a city council hearing Wednesday that the stark uniforms send a message to criminals that officers are serious about making arrests.
Delaney said a sense of “fear” has been missing for the past few years.
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