SAN DIEGO, Feb. 28 —  The child’s body found by volunteer searchers near San Diego belonged to missing 7-year-old Danielle van Dam, officials said Thursday after dental records confirmed the corpse’s identity.

The latest in a line of probes sent 35 million miles to study Mars has found hard evidence of water, and lots of it.

March 1 —  Mars holds vast stores of water ice right near the surface and away from the permanently frozen south polar ice cap, scientists said Friday in announcing first major science findings from NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft.

We just got a tape of his gruesome death.

March 4 issue — “My father is a Jew, my mother is a Jew, and I am a Jew.” In the last moments of Danny Pearl’s life, his kidnappers forced him again and again to denounce his family, his country and his religion, and to warn the world that he would not be the last to suffer if the United States did not change its ways. A video camera trained on his unshaven, sleepless face, Pearl mumbled the terrorists’ script. “Americans can’t walk around free as long as our government’s policies continue,” he said. “America will bear the consequences of our government’s unconditional support for Israel.” Photographs of weeping Arab women, the supposed victims of American and Israeli aggression against Palestinians, periodically flashed on a screen as he spoke.

A "study" says fifteen thousand deaths could be due to nuclear testing and our good friend cancer.

March 1 —  Details from a progress report on fallout from nuclear weapons tests — including a rough estimate tying them to 15,000 cancer deaths in the United States — have fueled the debate over what, if anything, the U.S. government should do. Some health experts emphasized that the relative risk of cancer from fallout is low. Other activists said that regardless of how many or how few the surviving cancer victims are, they should be helped.

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