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• Brazil ruling party wins at least four cities
Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's ruling Workers' Party won mayor's races in at least four state capitals on Sunday and could win several more in a run-off vote this month, exit polls and early results showed. But the Workers' Party, or PT ...
• Mail carriers to bring drugs in anthrax attack
WASHINGTON - Government mail carriers would deliver emergency supplies of antibiotics to people in U.S. cities in the case of an anthrax attack, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services officials said on Wednesday. The system has been tested in ...
• Curb sprawl to help climate? California will try
Cities and counties will not have to implement those plans, but they could lose transportation funding if they don't. "This bill is designed to have new growth be much more transit-friendly and have housing be closer to employment centers," said ...
• Smog more dangerous to some, study finds
NEW YORK - It's not just the elderly who are vulnerable to the ill effects of air pollution, new research suggests. In a study of 2.7 million deaths across 48 U.S. cities, researchers found that death rates tended to rise on days when ozone pollution ...
• AIDS virus decades older than thought
Researchers note that the newly calculated dates fall during the rise of cities in Africa, and they suggest urban development may have promoted HIV’s initial establishment and early spread. Chimpanzee virus Scientists say HIV descended from a ...