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Katrina Cough: Illness, Allergy? Study Seeks to Find Out

BATON ROUGE, La. – Is Katrina cough a legitimate new ailment or run-of-the-mill allergy? That’s the question that a five-year Tulane University study is designed to answer. Led by Henry Glindmeyer, a professor of pulmonary, critical-care and environmental medicine in Tulane’s medical school, researchers are keeping tabs on the respiratory …

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Suspected Plane Bomber Raised No Suspicion in Amsterdam, Prosecutors Say

THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Dutch prosecutors say they have not found any evidence that a Nigerian man suspected of trying to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner on Christmas Day had accomplices at Amsterdam’s airport. Prosecutors studying more than 200 hours of security camera footage also say that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab …

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Reports: Cartoonist Attacker Targeted Clinton

Danish media say the man who attacked an artist who depicted the Prophet Muhammad in a cartoon has previously been arrested in Kenya. The Politiken newspaper reported Sunday that Danish intelligence knew the 28-year-old Somali man was held in Kenya in September for allegedly plotting an attack against U.S. Secretary …

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