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t r u t h o u t | 03.24

Mood Shifting in Favor of Nuclear Power
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Agency Admits Panther Whistleblower Was Right
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Everglades Restoration Project in Disarray, Feds Say
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Vietnam: "The Biggest Chemical War" in History
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Report Emphasizes Shortfall in Medicare
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New Defense Department Workforce Rules 'Threaten National Security'
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HP Labor Suits Highlight Tech Industry Trend
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US Initial Jobless Claims Rose by 3,000 Last Week to 324,000
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Social Security, Medicare Trustees Reports: No Significant Change
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Ann Marlowe | The Politics of Home
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Michele Weldon | Flare-Up over the Shortage of Female Op-Ed Writers
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Planned Parenthood Denounces Record Search
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Canada Begins Annual Seal Cull Amid Call to Boycott its Seafood
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Army Misses Recruiting Goal Again; To Use 'Patriotic Appeal
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0324-08.htm

Insurgents Control Raided 'Qaeda-Baath' Training Camp in Iraq
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0324-09.htm

Smoking Gun? UK Foreign Office Official's Resignation Letter Reveals that Attorney General Did Change His Mind on Legality of Iraq War
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0324-02.htm

Poll: Even Evangelicals Oppose Bush, Congress on Schiavo
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Group Decries Abortion Records Searches
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U.S. to create a bird flu virus mutation

ATLANTA, March 24 : The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has begun a series of experiments to see how likely the bird flu virus could result in a human pandemic.

The six-month series of experiments seeks to simulate the mixing and matching of genes from the H5N1 avian flu virus that has plagued Asia and a common human flu virus that public-health experts fear could turn avian flu into a pandemic, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

CDC scientists inside an ultra-secure laboratory have started swapping the genes of the H5N1 avian virus with the genes of an H3N2 virus, the strain behind most recent human flu outbreaks.

The goal is to substitute the eight genes of each virus, one by one, with the eight genes from the other virus to see which of more than 250 possible combinations create flu viruses that could spread easily among humans.

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