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...endangerment finding is only an early step in a process that could take a year or longer - environmentalists say it's difficult to imagine that the agency would attempt to control every possible source of greenhouse gas emissions. "People running the EPA have common sense," says Frank O'Donnell, head of the environmental group Clean Air Watch. "They're going to focus the efforts on the biggest sources" like the auto industry and the utility sector...
...prefer Congressional action to federal fiat. But with cap and trade looking like it may become a victim of the White House's need to prioritize amidst a sea of crises, the EPA's actions could provide a much-needed nudge to Congress. "This is a strong message," says O'Donnell. "Congress either has to face the reality that something has to be done, or the Obama Administration will just do it itself." What's one more item on the world's longest Presidential to-do list...
...computer identified 27-year-old identical twins Hassan and Abbas O. (under German law they cannot be named in full). The unemployed and Lebanese-born brothers have lived in the northern German state of Lower Saxony since age 1 but still have not been granted permanent residency. They have criminal records for theft and fraud. (See pictures of the annual Twins Days festival...
Human blood groups—O, A, AB, and B—are defined by specific proteins expressed on the surface of red blood cells. Fuchs and his team narrowed in on pancreatic cancer as a means to reevaluate the connection between these blood types and cancerous tumors...
...Using O blood as a basis for comparison, the researchers found successively higher risks of pancreatic cancer in A, AB, and B blood types...