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Scientists start to unlock secrets of bird flight

WASHINGTON – For millennia, people have watched the birds and bees and wondered: “How do they do that?” Thanks to high-speed film and some persistent scientists, at least one of the secrets of flight is now revealed. When birds, bats or bugs make a turn, all they have to do is start flapping their wings normally again and they straighten right out.

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Jury: Colorado school wrongly fired professor

DENVER – A jury ruled Thursday that the University of Colorado wrongly fired the professor who compared some Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi, a verdict that gives the professor $1 and a chance to get his job back. “What was asked for and what was delivered was justice,” Ward Churchill said outside the courtroom.

Churchill said claims including plagiarism were just a cover and that he never would have been fired if it weren’t for the essay in which he called World Trade Center victims “little Eichmanns,” a reference to Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi leader who helped orchestrate the Holocaust. Jurors agreed.