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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: In our final installment on how communities around the world are adjusting to climate change, we go to India. Pollution there from the burning of fossil fuels is encouraging the spread of solar energy. But as NPR's Julie Mc

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By Pat Harris Washington, DC 09 May 2006 watch Virus report Marburg Ebola Virus The Marburg and Ebola viruses have caused fatal outbreaks in Africa for the past four years. A recent study shows a vacc

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The remains of a Mexican woman have now been buried in her home state of Sinaloa after 150 years at a research facility in Norway. She had been on display since Victorian-era Europe because of a rare genetic condition. The move puts an end to an era