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Police release 2nd video of van believed tied to abduction of woman from Michigan gas station
2013-05-02 11:18:13| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
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Supervalu says man who filed lawsuit was believed to be shoplifting
2013-03-16 22:24:36| Grocery - Topix.net
A supermarket security guard feared a man was shoplifting after seeing him fill two produce bags with free samples, a spokesman for the White Bear Township grocery store said.
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Rate of tree die-off in Amazon higher than conventionally believed
2013-02-01 21:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The rate of tree mortality in the Amazon rainforest due to storm damage and drought is 9-17 percent higher than conventionally believed, reports a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Comparing Landsat satellite images with on-the-ground observations, researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, INPA, Tulane University, and other institutions found that roughly half a million dead trees across a 1000-square-mile plot of Brazilian rainforest...
Greenlands Ice Sheet More Stable Than Once Believed
2013-01-24 23:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The enormous sheets of ice that lie atop Greenland may not be as prone to catastrophic melting as many scientists thought, even if the planet continues to warm and temperatures remain high for hundreds of years. But while that may sound like good news, new evidence also suggests that parts of the even vaster ice sheets that lie atop Antarctica could be more unstable than once believed. That's the conclusion of scientists who have been drilling deep into the Greenland ice sheet since 2007, in a...
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Mafia 'earn less than believed'
2013-01-16 16:22:53| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
A government-funded study by the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Italy reveals the country's mafia makes less money than widely believed.