Word: bacterias
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...exploring the finding. Said Clinton: "I am determined the American space program will put its full intellectual power and technological prowess behind the search for further evidence of life on Mars." The scientists found that the pinpoint-sized flecks contained hydrocarbons, which may be the fossil remains of Martian bacteria, single-celled life forms that thrived on the red planet 3.5 billion years ago. The meteorite, called Allan Hills 84001, contains organic molecules called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) which in this case are said to be the byproducts of metabolic processes. The PAH molecules were recovered from cracks...
...midsummer's meeting last night, the City Council expressed anger at not being informed by state authorities of the rupture of a sewage pipe near Newton that contaminated the Charles River with bacteria several weeks...
TOKYO: Haruo Atsuzawa is paying the price of negligence. The Japanese kindergarten prinicpal has received a two-year suspended jail sentence for inadvertantly causing the deaths of two children. Atsuzawa's students died in 1990 after he failed to decontaminate well water infected with the deadly 0157 E.coli bacteria, even after public health workers warned him about the problem. The sentence comes at a time when Japan is suffering through a new outbreak of the same bacteria, this time affecting mostly children. Seven are dead, and more than 8,700 are sick after E.coli contaminated lunches showed up in Sakai...
...course, happy to see that the mayor was drinking nothing stronger than water, but wondered what could be impairing his judgment so severely that he blamed the media and his very own health commissioner for the water panic--not the fact that tests had found unacceptably high levels of bacteria in more than 10% of the samples. After criticism from the mayor, the commissioner lifted the advisory, saying it was based on "outdated information," but then dumped a gazillion gallons of chlorine into the pipes--just in case. Officials of the water utilities association said that people would be able...
...haven't experienced anyone getting sick that we know of," he said. "Chances are that there hasn't been much more [bacteria] than usual...