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NEWS ABOUT: freezing temperatures

freezing temperatures stories: 5 news summaries
Cryogenic Tell-All

Ted Williams' Frozen Head Treated Like a Baseball

Former exec at cryogenics company details bizarre, unprofessional practices

Oct 2, 09 9:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ted Williams’ frozen head has apparently not received the respect usually accorded to Hall of Famers. In a tell-all, a former exec at the cryogenic facility where the Red Sox slugger’s body resides writes that his severed head was propped up in a canister on a can of Bumble... More »

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Boston Red Sox • Baseball Hall of Fame • decapitation • freezing temperatures • Ted Williams • cryogenics • head • tell-all

(Newser) - Scientists have discovered an Antarctic ecosystem of microorganisms cut off from light and oxygen for as many as 2 million years, the Guardian reports. The microbes, living under one-third of a mile of ice, in a 14-degree lake four times as salty as seawater, give researchers clues to how life... More »

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evolution • Antarctica • oxygen • microorganisms • freezing temperatures • microbes • outer space • photosynthesis • salt water

UPDATEd

 Fargo River May 
 Have Already Peaked 


Mar 28, 09 5:43 AM CDT
(AP) - The bloated Red River might already have crested lower than initially feared, forecasters said today, welcome news for weary residents and others who had spent days piling sandbags onto dikes against an expected record flood. Despite the downward revision in the forecast, however, North Dakota officials still intensified their efforts... More »

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Midwest • flooding • North Dakota • freezing temperatures • Fargo • cold

 Tongue Twister: Cold Kid  
 Copies Christmas Story 

Temperatures hit 30 below across northeast

Jan 15, 09 2:22 PM CST
(Newser) - With much of the US in a deep freeze, life imitated a holiday classic for a boy who froze his tongue to a metal pole on a dare, the Times of Northwest Indiana reports. “You’d think everybody in the country had seen A Christmas Story by now,”... More »

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weather • severe weather • temperature • freezing temperatures • winter • winter weather • A Christmas Story

Justice Memos Endorse Torture

Officials gave green light for array of painful interrogation techniques

Oct 4, 07 9:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Justice Department under Alberto Gonzales secretly endorsed the use of torture techniques during interrogation by the CIA, the New York Times reports. A classified 2005 legal memorandum authorized the harshest  techniques ever used by the CIA, the Times says, including a combination of head-slapping, waterboarding, sleep deprivation, freezing, loud... More »

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Congress • CIA • torture • Alberto Gonzales • Department of Justice • Guantanamo Bay • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • terrorist • black sites • interogation • head slapping • waterboarding • freezing temperatures • US Supreme Court

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