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Meeting Doctor Doom Forrest M. Mims III Copyright 2006 by Forrest M. Mims III. There is always something special about science meetings. The 109th meeting of the Texas Academy of Science at Lamar University in Beaumont on 3-5 March 2006 was especially exciting for me, because a student and his professor presented the results of a DNA study I suggested to them last year. How fulfilling to see the baldcypress ( Taxodium distichum ) leaves we collected last summer and my tree ring photographs transformed into a first class scientific presentation that's nearly ready to submit to a scientific journal...

GLENDALE, Calif. (AP) Authorities say a commuter train smashed into an SUV left on a crossing by a suicidal man this morning in Glendale, derailed and crashed into another train. Ten people were killed and more than 100 injured. Glendale Police Chief Randy Adams says the SUV driver, identified as 26-year-old Juan Manuel Alvarez of Compton, changed his mind about suicide and left the vehicle before it was hit. He says the man will be charged with homicide. Adams says terrorism was not involved. The injured have been taken to 15 different hospitals. Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn told a...