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Long recovery from mass extinction seen
WASHINGTON, March 21 (UPI) -- House Appropriations Committee members Thursday peppered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's acting director with sometimes hostile queries regarding the Bush administration's 2003 budget request for the agency. Topics faced by Dr. David Fleming ran the gamut from gun control and occupational health to child immunization programs.
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CARACAS, Venezuela, May 31 (UPI) --
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has an aggressive cancer and only has a few months left to live, HDNet reported.
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LOS ANGELES, May 31 (UPI) --
Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" featuring Kimbra is No. 1 on the U.S. record chart for a seventh week, Billboard.com reported Thursday.
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CAMBRIDGE, England, May 30 (UPI) --
A Chinese-made microprocessor used extensively by the U.S. military has a "backdoor" that allows the chip to be reprogrammed, British researchers allege.
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