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<title>Scientists: Shark Had &apos;Virgin Birth&apos;</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192557258</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 23:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  by a female blacktip shark in a Virginia aquarium contained no genetic material from a  ...  that had lived for eight years at the Virginia Aquarium &amp; Marine Science Center in Virginia Beach. No male blacktip sharks were present  ...
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<title>Elmhurst Student Attacked Because Of Religion</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192555942</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 23:50 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
... Students at Elmhurst College held a sit-in, protesting a gunpoint attack on a Muslim student  ...  in a basement bathroom of the Schaible Science Center, Elmhurst College spokesman Charles Henderson said.  ...  want something like NIU to happen, or Virginia Tech,&quot; said Caitlyn Scarpelli. &quot;It&apos;s freaky, because  ...
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<title>Female Shark Reproduces through Virgin Birth</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192555746</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 23:31 GMT</pubDate>
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... Scientists reported on Friday that a female blacktip  ...  shark, dubbed Tidbit, who resided in a Virginia Beach aquarium without any male companion, gave  ...  scientist with the Institute for Ocean Conservation Science at Stony Brook University in New York  ...
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<title>Shark &quot;Virgin Birth&quot; Confirmed</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192555095</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 23:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  wild when she was very young and reached sexual maturity in a tank at the Virginia Aquarium in Virginia Beach, where she lived for eight years. &quot;The interesting thing about that was there  ...
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<title>PR Newswire Summary of Technology Copy, Oct. 8, 2008</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192551133</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 22:51 GMT</pubDate>
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...  08:58 r f CT-GerberSci-acquires (SOUTH WINDSOR) Gerber Scientific Reaffirms Commitment to Acquire Virtek Vision International,  ...  Statewide Consulting Services Contract by the Commonwealth of Virginia DC37716 10/08/2008 09:30 r f CO-Disaboom-3Q (DENVER)  ...
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<title>Inside Operation Highlander: the NSA&apos;s Wiretapping of Americans Abroad</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192549854</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 22:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Senate intelligence committee chair Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia) opened a probe into the alleged abuses  ...  named whom she&apos;d encountered after an anti-war protest. Threat Level contacted her a couple of  ...  is now an assistant professor of political science at the University of Texas, El Paso.  ...
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<title>&apos;Virgin Birth&apos; By Shark Confirmed: Second Case Ever</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192547008</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 22:30 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  scientist with the Institute for Ocean Conservation Science at Stony Brook University, Beth Firchau, Curator  ...  University, Beth Firchau, Curator of Fishes for the Virginia Aquarium &amp; Marine Science Center, and Dr.  ...
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<title>Scientists Confirm Virgin Shark Birth</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192546089</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 22:29 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  female Atlantic blacktip shark named Tidbit in the Virginia Aquarium &amp; Marine Science Center contained no  ...  the Virginia Aquarium &amp; Marine Science Center in Virginia Beach said Tidbit was born in the  ...
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<title>&apos;Virgin Birth&apos; By Shark, Second Case</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192542164</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 22:05 GMT</pubDate>
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...  scientist with the Institute for Ocean Conservation Science at Stony Brook University, Beth Firchau, Curator  ...  University, Beth Firchau, Curator of Fishes for the Virginia Aquarium &amp; Marine Science Center, and Dr.  ...
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<title>--&gt; SpaceDev Founder Jim Benson Dies</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192540794</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 21:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  he founded; Compusearch and ImageFast of McLean, Virginia. After his successful career as a computer  ...  and introduced the Benson Prize for Amateur Discovery of Near Earth Objects. Mr. Benson Received a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from the University of  ...
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<title>State women who supported Clinton now backing Obama</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192539587</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 21:29 GMT</pubDate>
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...  supporting John McCain.&quot; Elaine Harris, a West Virginia delegate to the Democratic National Convention, also  ...  said Robert Rupp, a professor of political science and history at West Virginia Wesleyan College.  ...  indicate a record turnout on Nov. 4, uncontested races and West Virginia&apos;s non-swing state status  ...
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<title>SpaceDev Founder Jim Benson Dies</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192538666</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 21:28 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  he founded; Compusearch and ImageFast of McLean, Virginia. After his successful career as a computer  ...  and introduced the Benson Prize for Amateur Discovery of Near Earth Objects. Mr. Benson Received a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from the University of  ...
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<title>Big Obama national TV buy means one thing - he&apos;s got a lot of money</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192536269</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 21:26 GMT</pubDate>
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...  it, like Obama does, you&apos;d absolutely be stupid not to spend it,&quot; said University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato. &quot;It&apos;s really to pump up the base: &apos;We&apos;re inches from the goal  ...
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<title>Big Obama national TV buy means one thing - he&apos;s got a lot of money</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192535963</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 21:24 GMT</pubDate>
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...  it, like Obama does, you&apos;d absolutely be stupid not to spend it,&quot; said University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato. &quot;It&apos;s really to pump up the base: &apos;We&apos;re inches from the goal  ...
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<title>Test Proved that Aquarium Shark&apos;s Baby Was a Virgin Birth</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192525436</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 19:51 GMT</pubDate>
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... A shark at the Virginia Aquarium &amp; Marine Science Center in Virginia Beach produced a baby without a male shark. The Friday issue of the Journal  ...
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