NewsBlog: Plague in New Jersey? Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 17th September 2005 11:32 PM GMT] On Thursday, the Associated Press reported that mice carrying Yersinia pestis ? the bacteria that cause bubonic plague -- had disappeared from a laboratory at the Public Health Research Institute, part of the campus of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. The university says it does not know what happened to the mice, first discovered missing two weeks ago. According to the AP, health experts reassured... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Passion of the Penguins Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 14th September 2005 11:01 PM GMT] The Science Times section of the New York Times ran a story yesterday describing how the increasingly popular documentary ?March of the Penguins? is being used by conservatives to justify their positions on abortion, monogamy and intelligent design. One conservative film critic is calling the film ?Passion of the Penguins.? Huh? I?ve seen this movie, and what are these people talking about? Here?s the evidence the Click to continue Comment on this blog

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