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HIV Finding Opens New Path For Vaccine Research

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The HIV-1 virus cultivated with human lymphocytes.

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Researchers in South Africa have learned something new about how antibodies fight off HIV in research that could advance the quest to develop a vaccine against the virus.

11:45 am

Mon October 22, 2012

Italy Finds Scientists Guilty Of Manslaughter For 2009 Earthquake Forecast

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One of the indicted, Bernardo De Bernardinis, who was deputy chief of Italy's Civil Protection Department, reacts during a his trial.

By Eyder Peralta

Six Italian scientists have been sentenced to six years in prison for what a judge said was a faulty forecast of the 2009 earthquake in L'Aquila.

The BBC reports that prosecutors said the scientists, who work for the National Commission for the Forecast and Prevention of Major Risks, "gave a falsely reassuring statement before the quake, while the defense maintained there was no way to predict major quakes."

11:35 am

Mon October 22, 2012

The Big Man Behind 'Shake, Rattle And Roll'

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No figure in the history of rock 'n' roll is more incongruous than Big Joe Turner.

By Ed Ward

Originally published on Mon October 22, 2012 2:59 pm

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Big Joe Turner's hardest-hitting singles have been collected on a new compilation, titled Big Joe Turner Rocks.

11:33 am

Mon October 22, 2012

How Human Beings Almost Vanished From Earth In 70,000 B.C.

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By Robert Krulwich

Add all of us up, all 7 billion human beings on earth, and clumped together we weigh roughly 750 billion pounds. That, says Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson, is more than 100 times the biomass of any large animal that's ever walked the Earth. And we're still multiplying. Most demographers say we will hit 9 billion before we peak, and what happens then?

10:36 am

Mon October 22, 2012

Russell Means, Indian Activist And Actor, Dies

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Russell Means, left, talks to media in 1973 in the village of Wounded Knee, South Dakota.

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Originally published on Mon October 22, 2012 2:48 pm

Russell Means, who was best known for his movie roles and his unrelenting and oftentimes controversial protests in favor of Native Americans, died this morning at his ranch in Porcupine, S.D.

Means starred in a number of Hollywood films including the Last of the Mohicans. South Dakota Public Broadcasting's Charles Michael Ray filed this report for our Newscast unit:

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Mon October 22, 2012