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Two patients have died at St. Joseph hospital in Colorado this year from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human form of Mad Cow Disease, and there is concern that other patients may have been exposed to it, a hospital spokeswoman said.

The outbreak is not believed related to Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis, but the specific prion involved has not yet been identified.

The patients, who were both over 60, died in January and February. Six other people had brain surgery at the hospital, using the same set of instruments used on the CJD victims before their diagnosis was confirmed. The brain tissue of the victims was sent to the Mayo Clinic for analysis.
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According to a newly declassified document, the CIA planted propaganda directly on news wire services during the Bay of Pigs incident in the 1960s.

The document says that the agency?s headquarters had ?the capability of placing items directly on the wire service tickers? as part of its ?regular propaganda apparatus.?

It was declassified under the Freedom of Information Act after efforts by Jon Elliston, a journalist and author of the book “Psywar on Cuba: The Declassified History of US Anti-Castro Propaganda.”
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NASA astronomers have proved that 2 telescopes are better than one, by linking two Hawaiian 10-meter telescopes together to form the world?s most powerful optical system. The linked telescopes, which are called the Keck Interferometer, will eventually search for planets around nearby stars and help NASA develop missions to search for habitable, Earthlike planet outside of our solar system.

?Successfully combining the light from the two largest telescopes on Earth is a fabulous technical achievement for science,? said Dr. Anne Kinney, Director of NASA?s Astronomical Search for Origins program. ?This will open the possibility of obtaining images with much greater clarity than ever before possible.?
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New York could be the next American city to experience electricity blackouts, as the power crisis spreads East from California. Power managers in Boston and other New England cities said they could keep the power running through the summer unless an especially hot summer caused customers to use more air conditioning that usual.
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