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December 31 - Late Edition

• Floods Hit Indonesia's Sumatra, Thousands Flee
• Arsonists Set More Bush Fires Set in Australia; Smoke Chokes Sydney
• Torrential Rains Lead to Floods in Three Malaysian States
• Cyclone Waka Reaches Tonga's Outer Islands With Destructive Winds
• Agent Orange Hotspots Located

December 31

• What's In A New Year?
• Last Train for Pakistan Leaves India
• Snow, Rains Hit Northeastern France
• Fire Sparked by Fireworks Blast Kills at Least 235 in Peru
• England Set to be Declared Free of Foot-and-Mouth
• We Will Win Nuclear War, Says India

December 30

• New Ebola Case in Gabon Raises Fear Disease Still Spreading
• Fierce Winter Storms Cause Pileups on Pennsylvania Roads; 8 Killed
• Thick Smoke Returns to Sydney as Australian Bush Fires Rage
• Mexicans Angered by Spread of Genetically Modified Corn
• Consumers Urged to Check Corned Beef Cans in Nationwide Recall
• Quads... the New Year's Shower!
• N.A.M.N's Welcome to 2002!
• More Than 100 Feared Dead in Lima Fire

December 29

• X3-Class Solar Flare Blasts Away
• Lunar Eclipse Sunday
• Buffalo Digs Out From Snowstorm
• Natural Disasters Kill 25,000 Worldwide in 2001
• Cold 'Killed 20,000 Old People Last Winter'
• Earth Stretched by Seasonal Water Movement
• Sydney Devastated by Wild Fires
• Scientists Confirm bin Laden Weapons Tests
• Did Planetary "Belch" Cause Prehistoric Warming?
• Thousands of Australian Animals Killed or Injured by Wild Fires
• Tensions Build as Japan, North Korea Square Off Over Sunken Mystery Ship
• South Asia War Could Be Biggest Since WWII
• Western Drought Tops Canada's Extreme Weather List
• Florida Drought Over, But Water Shortage Still Critical
• Quakes Shake Hollister
• Antarctic Experts Warn of Global Warming Meltdown

December 28

• Brazil Rain, Mudslides Leave 52 Dead, More Missing
• Ebola Death Toll Creeps Up to 19 in Gabon, Congo
• The Ultimate Long Distance Call
• Buffalo Gets Pounded by Snowstorm
• Weather Records Fall In A Year Marked By Violent Storms, Unusually Late Winter Onset
• Australia Wakes to Third Day of Major Bush Fires
• Giant Icebergs, Unprecedented Ice Conditions Threaten Antarctic Penguin Colonies
• Scotland Warned to Brace for Arctic Weather
• Climatic Catastrophes Strike as US Freezes, Australia Fries

December 27 - Late Edition

• Al Qaeda Planning Next Phase
• Mars Odyssey Mission Status
• Moon and Saturn
• Brazil Rains Death Toll Hits 46 and Still Counting
• Tensions Build as Japan, North Korea Square Off Over Sunken Mystery Ship
• Buffalo Buried: Second Heaviest One Day Snowfall in History

December 27

• Al-Jazeera TV Airs bin Laden Tape Condemning United States
• India, Pakistan on War Alert
• Heavy Floods in Morocco Kill 15
• Ebola Kills Another in Republic of Congo
• How Warm Will it Get?
• 2001: A Year of Challenge and Accomplishment for NASA
• Solar System Ambassadors Chosen to Teach Earthlings about Space
• Jupiter's Shrinking Red Spot
• Food Safety Confronted by 'Bioterror' Threat
• Solar Blast
• Cold Weather Blitzes the South
• Buffalo Gets Hit Again
• Iraq Claims to Strike Allied Warplane
• Shoe Bomber '1 of 100'
• When Osama bin Laden was Tim Osman

December 26 - Late Edition

• India, Pakistan Prepare for War
• N. Korea Denies Link to Sunken Ship
• 2001 Atlantic Hurricane Season
• US Troops Step Up Efforts to Establish Fate of bin Laden
• Arsonists Blamed for Austalian Bush Fires
• Report Says Shoe Bomber May Have Had An Accomplice

December 26

• The Bomber From Bromley
• Study Links Multiple Sclerosis, Mono
• Ebola Death Toll Rises to 18 in Gabon, Congo
• Buffalo Residents Get 25 Inches of Snow
• Thousands of Firefighters Battle Wildfires in Australia
• Heavy Snow Buries Central Europe, Rains Hit Brazil
• Mad Cow Victim Dies

December 25 - Late Edition

• Arafat Absent at Bethlehem Christmas
• Pope Delivers Christmas Message
• Sad Christmas in Birthplace of Jesus
• Military Families Celebrate Christmas
• Bush Issues Christmas Message to Troops
• Christmas Lights
• Space Station Christmas
• Early Christians Hid the Origins of the Bethlehem Star

Christmas Day - December 25

• Quake Hits Southwestern Iran
• More than 4,000 Flee Malaysia Floods
• Pakistan Military Warns of Nuclear Conflict with India
• Birds Popping Up In Strange Places In This Year's Audobon Count
• UK Scientists Widen BSE Checks To Deer
• Four More People Infected With Ebola in Gabon
• From Ghosts to Jesus, Apparition Tradition Continues in Atlantic Canada
• Heavy Rains Leave at Least 34 Dead in Brazil
• Archaeological Seabed Structures to be Inspected by Museums Department
• Freezing Weather Hits Europe
• Families See a Subtle, Lasting Shift in Values

Christmas Eve

• Arafat Calls on Pope for Backing in Christmas Showdown with Israel
• Japan Sinks 'North Korea Spying Ship'
• India and Pakistan on the Brink of War
• Massive Indian Troops Build-Up Along Pakistan Border
• Bush Fires Rage Through Aussie State
• Israel Issues New Ultimatum to Arafat
• Powerful Quake Rocks Solomon Islands

December 24

• Test Finds Explosives in Shoes
• Arafat Says He Will Go to Bethlehem
• Colorado Man Builds WTC Model in Yard
• Technology Keeps Vaccines Cool
• Griffith Observatory to Close for Three Years
• Scientists 'Unlocking Body Clock'
• Do Clinically Dead Patients See and Hear?
• Mississippi, Flooding Could Lead to Soggy Spring

December 23

• 'Twas The Night Before Christ-mass
• Early Christians Hid the Origins of the Bethlehem Star
• Implantable I.D. Chip for Humans to be Marketed to Public
• Flight Diverted to Boston After Passenger Tries to Ignite Explosive
• Ex-N.J. Surgeon Offers Himself for Experiment
• Hunt for 20 Terror Ships
• Arthur Miller Accuses Bush of Abusing and curbing Civil Rights

December 22 - Late Edition

• M 5.5 EQ in the Santa Cruz Islands
• M 4.5 EQ in Central Alaska
• Climate Change Can Occur In The Blink Of An Eye
• Continental History Seen In 35 Million-Year-Old Lava
• Clean-Up for Deceptive Isle
• The Government's Top-Secret Efforts to Control Mother Nature
• Oceans Could Be Common In Our Solar System And Others
• Ball Lightning Baffles Scientists
• Superstitious May Increase Their Risk of Death
• Finland Says It Has Suspected Second Mad Cow Case
• Man's Impact on Planet Enigmatic
• Mantras, Rosary May Help the Heart, Study Shows

December 22

• WHO: Ebola Outbreak Has Peaked
• Rewriting The Timeline Of The Bronze And Iron Ages
• Much Ado About Ursids
• Science Magazine Considers Tiny Electronic Circuitry Year's Top Breakthrough
• IBM Advances Tiny Computer Power
• U.S. Issues New Anthrax Hoax Warnings
• Decoding E.T.: In Search of a Cosmic Rosetta Stone
• IBM To Build World's Most Powerful Weather Supercomputer
• Hot Galactic Arms Point To Vicious Cycle Triggered By Black Hole
• White Christmases Becoming More A Dream Than A Reality
• NASA Selects "Dawn" Discovery Mission For 2006
• Vatican Denies Fatima Rumors

December 21

• South Pacific's First Summer Cyclone Reportedly Brewing
• High Winds Strike Northeastern Iran, One Injured
• India's Northern Region Groans Under Cold, Toll 76
• Flickering Sun Switched Climate
• PNG Facing Severe Increase in HIV Cases
• Measles Nearly Eradicated in West
• NOAA Investigates Giant Deep-Sea Mystery Squid
• Global Catastrophe Losses Top $32 Billion in 2001
• Sierra Storm Socks Roads, Powders Ski Areas

December 20 - Late Edition

• Record Cold Weather Hits Europe
• Arecibo Radar Gets 11th Hour Repreive
• NASA's Terra Satellite Improves Global Vegetation Mapping
• Here Come the Ursids!
• Meteor Activity Outlook for December 21-27, 2001
• WHO: Ebola Has Spread to Congo
• Iraqi Defector Says He Worked at Bio-Weapons Sites
• U.S.: Libyan Chem-War Site Concealed Beneath Mountain
• Postal Workers Advised on Vaccine
• Congress Nears Final OK of Terror Bill
• House Passes Bill on Homestake Science Lab

December 20

• Ebola Kills 16 in Gabon
• A Chip ID That's Only Skin-Deep
• Arafat's Call to Sacrifice: 'We Are All Martyrs in Paradise'
• Sugar Compounds Found in Meteorites
• A Close Visitor Tumbles By
• URI Volcanologists’ Analysis of 1883 Eruption of Krakatau Provides Information on Accessing Volcanic Hazards in Coastal Areas
• Scientists Liken Shifts Near Anchorage to Slow-Motion Earthquake
• Tremor Shakes Buildings in Bangladesh Capital City
• Massive Flooding In Congo
• U.S. Police and Intelligence Hit by Spy Network

December 19 - Late Edition

• Planet Found Just Outside Pluto
• Mexican Volcano Erupts With Ash
• Wandering Hot Spots Worry Geologists
• New NASA/SGI Super Computer Brings "Early Spring" to Climate Models
• Magnetic Tag Lets Scientists Track Stem Cells In Living Rat

December 19

• 2001 Projected to be Second Warmest on Record
• Officials Want Alert to Continue
• Mummies Discovered Under McDonald's
• U.S. to Offer Vaccines to People Exposed to Anthrax
• Vaccines Said Not Linked to Human Mad Cow Disease
• China Simulates Attacks on U.S. Carriers
• North Korea Stockpiles Plutonium
• Sweden Investigates Possible Case of Mad Cow

December 18 - Late Edition

• NASA Bids Farewell to the Successful Deep Space 1 Mission
• Three-Quarters of New U.S. HIV Cases Resist Drugs
• Starshine, Too

December 18

• Strong Japan Quake Causes Tsunami
• Merging Science and the Esoteric
• Researchers Seek to Make the Internet More Efficient
• Beware of Leap Year When Predicting Climate Change, Warns Researcher
• Europe Battles Snow and Floods
• Now Another Island Group Sinking into the Pacific
• Temperature Rises Hint at Earthquake Prediction
• Wind May Explain Mystery Anthrax Cases
• Death Toll in Ebola Outbreak Rises to 12 in Gabon
• CDC Opens Smallpox Training Center

December 17 - Late Edition

• China Supports Palestine's Peace Efforts
• NASA Hoping Weather Permits Space Shuttle Endeavour to Land After four Months in Orbit
• Storms Sock Texas With up to 10 Inches of Rain
• National ID Card Gaining Support
• Moderate Quake Occurs Near Cairo
• Fake Grenade Delays Flight for Hours
• Some Rain, Snow Showers in East
• Sky Watch
• Winds Over European Waters Harnessed for Electricity
• Officials Begin Cleanup of Waste From Antarctic Labs

December 17

• Geophysicist Studies Life in the Early Solar System
• Genetic Anthrax Match Inconclusive
• Doctors Study Bioterror Treatments
• Study Made on Speading Smallpox
• Scientists Study Mummy's Tooth
• Scientists See 'Lens' in Milky Way
• Scientists Work On Electronic Nose
• Bioterror: All the Rules Change
• Snow and Wind Sock Nevada Roads
• Australians Fear New Breed of 'Superdog'
• Harsh Weather Kills 129 in Poland
• India Says Pakistani Intelligence Linked to Attack

December 16

• Ebola May Spread From Gabon, Health Officials Warn
• Big Mirror Gets 'Perfect' Coat
• Fossilised Rain Drops Found in India
• The Future of High Energy Physics
• Scientists Discover New Material That Expands Under Pressure
• Our Best Defense Against a Bioterrorist Attack
• Plan Found for London Attack
• Germans Warned of Possible Attack

December 15

• Be Prepared: Sudden Shifts in Climate Coming
• Scientists Warn of Abrupt World Climate Change
• Meteor Activity Outlook for December 14-20, 2001
• Moon Power "Could Plug Energy Gap
• Ebola Spreading Rapidly in Gabon: Red Cross
• Storm Brings Record Rain to Northwest
• As Predicted, Asteroid Heads Our Way
• Pope Leads Catholic World 'Fast for Peace'
• BLACKOUT: Barcelona in the Dark as Cold Wave Grips Spain
• Mild Quake in Mendocino County
• Austria Confirms First Case of Mad Cow
• UMass Chemist Working On Sensors That Could Eventually Identify Bioterror Agents
• Partial Solar Eclipse

December 14

• Television Stations Go Blank In Seattle Area
• Antarctic Mud Reveals Ancient Evidence of Global Climate Change
• Gabon Fears Possible Spread of Ebola
• U.S. Recently Produced Anthrax in a Highly Lethal Powder Form
• Atlantis - Cubans Skeptical About Sea Structures
• Effects of 2000-2001 Deadly Winter Storms Linger
• Killer Quakes May Have Ended Ancient Civilizations
• The Riddle of Indonesia's Ancient Statues
• Predicting 9-11

December 13- Late Edition

• Extreme X-Class Flare This Morning
• White Christmas Unlikely in Northeast, According to Cornell Climate Center's Revised Statistics
• Britain's Big Astronomical Plans
• Scientist: Moon Power Could Solve Energy Crunch
• Earthquake Shakes Australian Coastal Towns
• Storms Drench Texas, Deep South
• Japan's Government Suppressed Report About Mad Cow Disease Risk, Newspaper Report Says
• Meteor Shower Offers Breakthroughs Analyzing Leonid Event May Improve Forecasts
• Osama bin Laden on Tape Discussing Attacks
• Universe's end Frozen in Time
• 'Restless Earth' May Give Advance Notice of Quakes
• DNA Sequencing Researcher Dead

December 13

• More Solar Activity Stirs The Skies
• Afghan Refugees Infected with Ebola, Smallpox
• A Chip Off the Sun
• Smallpox Would Spread Rapidly in Modern World
• Volcanic Threat to Peruvian City "Ignored"
• FBI Confirms 'Magic Lantern' Project Exists
• FBI: Uncorroborated Threat Received Against Texas Schools
• Alarm Sounded on Abrupt Climate Change
• Hobart's Worst Summer Cold
• Critics Say Nuclear Plant Cleanup Won't Reduce Contamination Enough to Protect People

December 12 - Late Edition

• The Sun Comes Storming On
• American in Taliban: Biological Strike on U.S. Near
• India Tests New Missile
• Ebola Victim Disappears From Gabon Village, Raising Fears Disease Could Spread
• Scientists Warn of Climate Change
• Was Mars All Wet?
• M 6.8 EQ South of Australia

December 12

• Magnetic Convulsions Behind Violent Sun Storms
• Mexican Volcano Stirs, Spewing Hot Rocks Skyward
• Taliban, al-Qaida Troops Slip Away
• Earthquake Shakes Southern Taiwan
• WHO Lands in Africa to Fight Ebola
• UK Says Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Acid Rain Down
• Many Alaskan Glaciers Are Thinning, USGS Study Says
• Droplets in Salt Crystals Confirm Historic Ocean Changes
• Pollution in Asian Air Mass Likely Measured on Both Sides of Pacific

December 11

• The Times, They Are A Changing
• Major X Class Flare Headed for Earth?
• Conjuring Crystals
• How a Dimmer Sun Cools Earth
• Jupiter's Io Generates Power and Noise, But No Magnetic Field
• Fantastic Voyage Inside the Sun Reveals Hidden World of Surprising Complexity

December 10 - Late Edition

• Worst-Case Scenario: The U.S. Has None
• Water Droplets Say That Ocean Chemistry Has Changed
• Mission to Pluto Edges Closer to a 2006 Liftoff
• Students Develop Database to Track Virulent Bacteria
• HHS Accelerates Bioterrorism Research
• Astronauts to Take Spacewalk From Space Station
• Death Toll From Ebola Outbreak in Gabon Rises
• Massive Crater Produced by Wind, Not Meteorite
• Medical Experts Rule out Ebola Outbreak in Congo

December 10

• Bin Ladens Last Stand?
• Earthquake Rocks Eastern Indonesia
• Victims of Terrorist Attacks Honored by Astronauts
• Bin Laden TV Suicide
• Red Planet Warming
• Scrollable Screens
• NASA Satellite Will Monitor Uncharted Atmosphere
• WHO Confirms at Least One Ebola Case in Gabon
• Smart Card Aims to Cut Crime

December 9

• Earthquake Rattles Southwestern Japanese Island; No Reports of Injuries
• Moderate Earthquake Hits Near Mexico-U.S. Border
• Japan to Destroy Livestock after Mad Cow Disease Detected
• 'Sonic Flashlight' Gives Users a New Form Of Ultrasonic Vision
• Explorers View 'Lost City' Ruins Under Caribbean
• Jason Sets Sail; Satellite to Spot Sea's Solar/Atmospheric Seesaw
• Storm Hits Philippines
• Hurricanes to Come Earlier in 2002
• M 4.7 EQ in W. Arizona-Sonora Border

December 8

• Forecasters Predict Hurricane Season
• 'Kick 'Em Jenny' Volcano Causes Caribbean Quake
• Quake Rattles Southern New Zealand
• 28 Dead in Congo from Possible Ebola Outbreak
• Water Reserves Found on Mars
• Inflatable Dam to Protect Venice is Approved
• Report: in Disasters People Stay Calm, Help Others
• Weird Geminids
• Visions of a Smart Future
• M 3.9 EQ in Alabama

December 7

• Mystery Virus Kills Six in Gabon's Ebola Zone
• Pearl Harbor 60 Years Later
• Japan's Pilots Bring Peace to Pearl Harbor
• Vets of WWII and 9-11 Make Pilgrimage to Pearl Harbor
• Fed Mail Tests Positive for Anthrax
• Study Suggests Mars Ice Caps Eroding
• The Iceman Speaketh: Free Talks on Effects of Polar Change on Climate
• Hubble Eyes Giant Star Factory in Neighboring Galaxy
• NASA's Global Surveyor Sees Possible Climate Change on Mars

December 6 - Late Edition

• Weather Records: Highs! The Director's Cut!!
• 3D Brain Mappers Scan Thousands
• Suspected Ebola Kills 17 in Congo
• FDA Issues Anesthesia Drug Warning
• Explorers View 'Lost City' Ruins Under Caribbean
• Antarctic Lakes May Harbor Unique Ecosystems
• Small Quakes Rattle Washington State
• Milky Way Dark Matter Object Detected For First Time

December 6

• High Temperatures Prompt Birds to Court and Golfers to Get in One More Game
• Fake Anthrax Suspect Caught
• Papers Illuminate Pearl Harbor Attack
• Lunar Leonids Strike Again
• Mars's Bumpy Magnetism
• Happy Birthday SOHO
• Where Lightning Strikes
• Fierce Storm Hits Sydney, Two Girls Killed
• Forecasting Antarctica Weather From A Warm Distance
• Record Rains Hit Israel
• America Fears Attack on Key Islamic Date

December 5 - Late Edition

• Justice to Use FDR Precedent for Military Tribunals
• Postal Service Loses $1.7 Billion
• Suspected Bombing Shakes Jerusalem
• Britain Outlaws Baby Cloning
• Earthquake Kills 2 in Peru
• Tons of Discarded Fishing Gear Collected, Tons to Go

December 5

• Email Virus 'Worse Than Lovebug'
• Bush Calls for Economic Package
• Stimulus Centers on Tax Rate Cuts
• Green Beret Prohibited From Leaving
• U.S. Fears Bin Laden Made Nuclear Strides
• Man Dies, Haifa Roads Flood in Storm; Oil Rig Swept Out to Sea
• Minor Quake Shakes Northwestern Iranian Town
• Silt Behind Dams 'Worsens Water Shortage'

December 4 - Late Edition

• Nanoparticle Prism Could Serve As Bioterror Detector
• Billion Year Simulation Tracks Jupiter's Small Moons
• Faults In Europa's Crust Cause Its Poles To Wander
• U.S. Missile Test Succeeds After Two Delays
• Surgeon General: CDC Labs a 'National Disgrace'
• Three Taliban Claim to Be American
• Thousands of Letters May Have Anthrax
• A Probe for Pluto
• 'Bronze Age Pompeii' Found Buried by Vesuvius

December 4

• U.S. Urged to Remain on High Alert
• Genesis Spacecraft Begins Mission to Collect Samples of the Sun
• Global Positioning System May Help Measure Sea Height
• Strongest Winds in History - Australia
• Mexicans Convinced Quakes Caused by Afghan Bombing
• Japanese Observation Satellite Re-Enters Atmosphere off Coast of Antarctica
• 'Near Death Experiences' Probed
• Vitamins May Halt Repeat Blockage Of Coronary Artery
• It's a Scooter! It's a Chariot! It's Going to Fall Over!

December 3 - Late Edition

• High Winds Batter Two Cook Islands
• Israeli Gunships Fire Near Arafat HQ
• Twelve Horrific Hours of Death, Mutilation and Terror Take Middle East to Edge of War
• Argentina Close to Collapse After Run on Banks
• Bush Said to Order Plan to Topple Saddam
• Snow Causes Mayhem and Death in US 'Plains'

December 3

• Time Spills the Beans on Ginger?
• Strong Earthquake Strikes Northern Japan
• Easterners Ponder December Weather
• "Bessi" Intensifies Off India
• Mars Odyssey Mission Status
• Comet Borrelly: Black and Bent
• Disease Killer Garlic Put Under the Microscope
• Computing with DNA Comes a Step Closer
• Biotech and IT Link Up as Technologies Converge

December 2 - Late Edition

• Moderately Strong Quake Shakes Northeastern Japan
• 5.7 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Santa Cruz Islands
• Meteor Shower Lights Up Sky
• US Missile Shield Faces Test
• Haifa Area Floods; 116 mm of Rain in 2 Days
• Space Debris Enters Midwest Sky

December 2

• Olga Becomes Tropical Storm
• Keeping Its Head Above Water: New Orleans Faces Doomsday Scenario
• Dean Kamen Set to Unveil Mysterious 'IT' Invention
• African Artifacts Suggest an Earlier Modern Human
• Ashcroft Seeking to Free F.B.I. to Spy on Groups
• 12 Killed in Jerusalem Blast
• Nuclear Tests at Warp Speed
• New Details Of Earth's Internal Structure Emerge From Seismic Data

December 1

• Explosions on the Moon
• Quake Shakes Central Indonesia
• Ill-Equipped Nigeria on Threshold of AIDS Disaster
• Firefighters Suffer Lingering Trauma from Attacks, Counselors Say
• Four Counties Declared Red Tide Disaster Areas
• Pampas Flooding Adds to Argentina's Economic Crisis
• Rain, Storms Paralyze Parts of South
• Buffalo Goes Snow-Free in November