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Geologists Find Loaded Shipwreck Off Namibia Coast

WINDHOEK, Namibia – The ship was laden with tons of copper ingots, elephant tusks, gold coins — and cannons to fend off pirates. But it had nothing to protect it from the fierce weather off a particularly bleak stretch of inhospitable African coast, and it sank 500 years ago. Now …

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Head of UCLA Cadaver Program Indicted in Black Market Body Parts Case

LOS ANGELES – The former head of UCLA’s cadaver program and a businessman were indicted Friday on eight felony counts involving black market sales of donated human body parts in a scheme that allegedly cheated the university out of more than $1 million. Henry Reid, the former director of UCLA’s …

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Doctors Release Kennedy From Hospital Following Brain Cancer Diagnosis

BOSTON – Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the liberal lion of the Democratic Party, walked out of a Boston hospital Wednesday morning, flashing a smile and patting his dogs Sunny and Splash, one day after learning his weekend seizure was caused by a cancerous brain tumor. A square bandage atop the …

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