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Inventor Dean Kamen has finally unveiled ?It? (aka ?Ginger?). It?s a one-person, battery-powered scooter that resembles a lawn mower that?s easy to ride and hard to fall off.It?s officially called the Segway Human Transporter and has gyroscopes to keep it upright and a sensitive steering mechanism that starts it moving when the rider leans forward. It has a top speed of 12 miles an hour, and can go 15 miles on one battery charge. ?All the knowledge that went into knowing how to walk goes into this machine,? says Kamen. ?It kind of walks for you.?
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There is little risk of mad cow disease turning up in American cattle despite the spread of the illness in Europe and Japan, according to a Harvard University study. Harvard researchers briefed Congress about the chance of mad cow disease, formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), infecting U.S. livestock. The disease, for which there is no known cure, destroys an animal?s brain and may spread to humans who eat tainted meat. The study concluded that ?the risk of an introduction (of mad cow disease) was next to nothing.?
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A prehistoric village has been unearthed in Italy, more than 3,500 years after it was buried by Mount Vesuvius, the same way the Roman city of Pompeii was destroyed centuries later.

Experts call the find at Nola, near Naples, ?sensational? and say the site could be the world?s best preserved early Bronze Age village. Professor Stefano De Caro, the head archaeologist for the area, says it?s a ?new Pompeii,? with everyday life frozen in a suspended state, just as it was in Pompeii in 79 AD.

The site is north of both Pompeii and Vesuvius, and it looks as if the community was thriving when it was surprised by the eruption. ?We knew that Vesuvius erupted a number of times, before and after Pompeii, including in particular in about 1750 BC,? says De Caro.
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George Bush has ordered a plan to destroy the government of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, according to the Sunday Observer newspaper in the U.K.

The Pentagon plans air attacks on Iraqi installations as well as attacks by Iraqi opposition forces on Baghdad, the same way the Northern Alliance was used to attack Khabul in Afghanistan after we first bombed the area. Washington plans to launch the military campaign early in 2002.
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