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Scientists reported that damage to one area of the brain was found to curb a smoker’s urge to smoke.
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A US Navy helicopter crashed during a training mission in the ocean about 50 miles off the southeastern coast of California. One sailor was reported dead and 3 missing.
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The Maine Legislature overwhelmingly passed a resolution objecting to the Real ID Act of 2005. The federal law sets a national standard for driver's licenses and requires states to link their record-keeping systems to national databases. Within a week of Maine's action, lawmakers in Georgia, Wyoming, Montana, New Mexico, Vermont and Washington state also balked at Real ID. Idaho approved a similar bill on March 8.
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It was reported that Dr. Robert Bohannon, a Durham, North Carolina, molecular scientist, has come up with a way to add caffeine to baked goods, without the bitter taste of caffeine. Each piece of pastry is the equivalent of about two cups of coffee.
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In Afghanistan an assailant gunned down lawmaker Maulavi Mohammed Islam Mohammadi. He was the Taliban's governor of Bamiyan province and had overseen the destruction of two Buddha statues carved into a cliff under the former Taliban regime. In 2005 Mohammadi said: "It was foreigners like Chechens and Arabs with the Taliban who made the decision. They were crazy people. Even though I was governor, I had no power." A suicide bomber blew himself up outside the offices of an aid group in the capital of Helmand province, Lashkar Gah. A policeman and two civilians were wounded.
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The last Islamic militant group still fighting in the 16-year-old civil war against Algeria's government said in an Internet statement posted that it had changed its name to highlight its allegiance to the Al-Qaeda network. The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) said that it was changing its name to the Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb (northwest Africa) on the orders of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
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Argentina authorized officials to reveal state secrets if called to testify in human rights trials, a move intended to speed up prosecution of atrocities committed during the country's 1976-1983 military dictatorship.
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- Current / Future Events
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Cameron Bright, Canadian actor
1990 –
Christopher Massey, American actor
1989 –
Emily Hughes, American figure skater
1988 –
Mia Rose, British-Portuguese singer
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Marlon Mario Brandao da Silveira, Brazilian footballer
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Vladimir Garin, Russian actor (d. 2003)
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Gerald Green, American basketball player
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Hero (singer) , South Korean singer TVXQ
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Matt Heafy, American musician (Trivium)
1986 –
Shantelle Taylor, Canadian professional wrestler
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January, 26
- Births
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2008,
Christian Brando, actor and son of Marlon Brando (b. 1958)
2007,
Hans J. Wegner, Danish furniture designer (b. 1914)
2007,
Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
2006,
Khan Abdul Wali Khan, Pakistani opposition leader and Pashtun nationalist (b. 1917)
2006,
Len Carlson, Canadian actor (b. 1937)
2006,
Carol Lambrino, son of Carol II of Romania and Zizi Lambrino (b. 1920)
2004,
Fred Haas, American golfer (b. 1916)
2003,
Valeriy Brumel, Soviet Olympic athlete (b. 1942)
2003,
Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, English historian (b. 1917)
2003,
George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, British politician (b. 1931)
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January, 26
- Deaths
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