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February 6, 2008 - 12:39pm

WASHINGTON - Several outbreaks of ciguatera fish poisoning have been confirmed in consumers who ate fish harvested in the northern Gulf of Mexico, the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday.

The FDA said that fish such as grouper, snapper, amberjack and barracuda represent the most significant threat to consumers. They feed on fish that have eaten toxic marine algae. The toxin is stable in the tissue of living fish and does them no harm. But larger carnivores have higher concentrations of the toxin in their tissues. As a result, the greatest risk of poisoning for humans comes from the largest fish.

A new threat has been discovered that affects the entire Internet. The most widely used search engines; including Google, Yahoo, and MSN; contain links to malicious websites that appear near the top of search results. Seemingly legitimate searches may lead users to sites that contain viruses, trojans, and other malicious code that can be easily transferred to the browser’s computer.

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October 31, 2007 - 8:07am
By JAKE COYLE
AP Entertainment Writer

(AP) - Hulu.com, the new online video site developed by Fox and NBC, had an uphill battle to begin with.

Soon after News Corp. and NBC Universal (a unit of General Electric Co.) first announced their intention to compete with YouTube and other video-sharing sites, the then-unnamed service was derided by the blogosphere as "Clown Co."

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October 23, 2007 - 7:16am

WASHINGTON -- School and public health officials are trying to calm the fears of parents who have flooded their phones with questions about an antibiotic-resistant strain of staph infection.

D.C. Officials have confirmed at least one case of staph infection in D.C. Public Schools. A teacher from Davis Elementary School in Southeast is the latest person to be diagnosed.

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By Patrick Worsnip Tue Oct 16, 12:11 PM ET

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Libya, Vietnam and Burkina Faso were elected to nonpermanent seats on the United Nations Security Council for the years 2008-09 on Tuesday.

The three countries were unopposed and obtained the required two-thirds majority of votes in favor from the 192-member U.N. General Assembly.

Ngày 26 tháng 9, 2007 - Một phái đoàn người Việt vinh danh Dân Biểu Christopher Smith về công lao của ông trong việc mở lại các chương trình định cư tị nạn dành cho các thành phần liên hệ đến Hoa Kỳ trong Chiến Tranh Việt Nam.

Sau khi thành công trong việc đưa ra chương trình ROVR nhằm định cư vào Hoa Kỳ các thuyền nhân bị hồi hương, DB Smith đã không ngưng nghỉ trong nỗ lực mở lại các chương trình định cư cho các cựu tù nhân cải tạo và cựu nhân viên Hoa Kỳ.

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who take multivitamins before and during pregnancy apparently reduce the chances that their offspring will develop certain types of childhood cancers, researchers report.

Dr. G. Koren, from the University of Toronto, and colleagues conducted a systematic review of numerous studies and found that taking a multivitamin before and in early pregnancy reduced the risk of childhood leukemia by 36 percent.

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By LISA LEFF, Associated Press Writer Tue Sep 18, 11:28 AM ET

SAN FRANCISCO - A package of Dole salad mix that tested positive for E. coli has triggered a recall in at least nine states, prompting new produce fears almost exactly a year after a nationwide spinach scare.

September 18, 2007 - 6:19am

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - A new regulation went into effect Aug. 1 that requires would-be gun buyers to sign a waiver release their mental health records to the state police.

The O'Malley administration's rule was issued after the killings at Virginia Tech. It applies to those who have been ordered to undergo treatment by a court, or who have been admitted to a state psychiatric hospital for at least 30 days.

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September 18, 2007 - 4:41am

Hank Silverberg, WTOP Radio

WASHINGTON - An oily substance on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the National Mall is vandalism, U.S. Park Police say.

National Park Service rangers noticed what they call a light, oily substance on the memorial's wall panels and paving stones on Sept. 7.