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- 'Vandals trash Alton's Piasa Bird (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Alton police want to know who trashed the community's best-known landmark -- the Piasa Bird painted on limestone bluffs above the Mississippi River. Sometime late Saturday or early Sunday, vandals hurled a tar-dipped brush or stick at the painting of the mythical bird, Alton police said today.
'Sharing bird flu virus samples must benefit all: WHO (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
The sharing of virus samples found in bird flu victims must be fostered by providing equal access to vaccines resulting from that information, the World Health Organization's top bird flu official said on Tuesday.
'Huge Bird-Like Dinosaur Discovered (LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News)
A gigantic bird-like dinosaur weighing as much as a car towered over its relatives about 70 million years ago, a new finding suggests. The unearthed beaked dinosaur was not full-grown, yet it tipped the scales at more than 3,000 pounds. Paleontologists who discovered its remains estimate the behemoth was just 11 years old when it perished. Chinese scientists unearthed the skeletal remains of the ...
'Gigantic dinosaur bird discovered in China (MSNBC)
A gigantic bird-like dinosaur weighing as much as a car towered over its relatives about 70 million years ago, a new finding suggests.
'Glaxo to donate bird flu shot to global stockpile (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
GlaxoSmithKline is to donate 50 million doses of its "pre-pandemic" bird flu vaccine for humans to a global stockpile for distribution in the world's poorest countries.
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