North American finding

hNorth American finding
INDIANAPOLIS -- Paleontologist Dr. Robert Bakker talked about a dinosaur skull during a news conference Monday announcing the discovery and acquisition of a 66-million-year-old fossil, at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis. According to the museum, the fossil, found in central South Dakota, is the first-of-its-kind discovery in North America of a flat-headed dinosaur from the pachycepahlosaur family.
Eating fish to improvehealth? Then don't fry it
WASHINGTON -- Trying to eat more fish for a healthy heart? Fish sticks don't count. So says a study suggesting only fish that's broiled or baked actually protects against heart disease. Most fish served fried are types that contain only small amounts of omega-3 fatty acids, the healthy fat that can improve cholesterol and other cardiac risk factors, scientists reported Monday at a meeting of the American Heart Association. "All fish meals may not be equal," said Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian of the Harvard Medical School. A diet high in fish has long been linked with lower levels of heart disease, so much so that the heart association recommends two or more weekly servings -- especially of oily fish such as salmon and tuna that are particularly high in the omega-3 fatty acids. Those healthy fats are thought to increase the so-called good HDL cholesterol and lower unhealthy triglycerides.
Part of finger in custard
WILMINGTON, N.C. -- A man who ordered a pint of frozen chocolate custard in a dessert shop got a nasty surprise inside -- a piece of severed finger lost by an employee in an accident. No questions of truth have been raised about the finger served up to go at Kohl's Frozen Custard and found later at home by Clarence Stowers. Officials from the state departments of agriculture and labor went to the shop Monday, and the owner confirmed one of his employees lost part of a finger in an accident with a food-processing machine. "I thought it was candy because they put candy in your ice cream ... to make it a treat. So I said, 'OK, well, I'll just put it in my mouth and get the ice cream off of it and see what it is,'" Stowers said. He said he spit the object out, but still couldn't identify it. So he went to his kitchen, rinsed it off with water -- and "just started screaming."
Boys talk of rescue at sea
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Lost at sea for nearly a week, Josh Long and Troy Driscoll huddled together at night for warmth while sharing a wet suit they found in their boat. One wore the top, the other wore the bottom. They spent their days searching the horizon for help, praying and singing hymns, and Driscoll, 15, resorted to eating raw jellyfish, which made him sick. They tried to sleep during the day, when the seas were calmer. At night, the boys were buffeted by 8-foot waves. "It was the first time I got mad at God in my life," Driscoll recalled Monday. "I asked 'Why me? What did I do to deserve this?'" Then they saw a fishing boat on the horizon late Saturday. They were later rescued off the North Carolina coast, more than 100 miles from where they set out off South Carolina to fish. Long, 17, was to leave the Medical University of South Carolina Children's Hospital late Monday.
Chilean to lead OAS
WASHINGTON -- The Organization of American States on Monday elected Chilean Interior Minister Jose Miguel Insulza as secretary general, filling a post that had been vacant since October. Insulza will serve a five-year term and is eligible to be re-elected. The 34-nation OAS was founded in 1948 and includes every country in the hemisphere except Cuba, which was suspended in 1962. Insulza won a drawn-out election to the secretary general's post after two U.S.-backed candidates withdrew. The Bush administration first backed Francisco Flores, the former president of El Salvador, but he left the race because of lack of support.
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