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A man wired into AOL/Time Warner.

The human genome project will promise to provide no less then the operating instructions for a human body and will revolutionize the detection and prevention from cancer to depression to old age itself.

Several people have seen and felt an unexplainable presence in the 100-year-old Lisle train depot. According to Dan Rawes, who often works in the building late at night, the presence is the ghost of a former station master.

Lead photo in an essay on the archive room of the Country Music Hall of Fame depicting Hank William’s suit and boots.

The human genome project will promise to provide no less then the operating instructions for a human body and will revolutionize the detection and prevention from cancer to depression to old age itself.

Just before sundown, a burrowing-owl stretches outside its nest burrow on a prairie dog town in the South Dakota Badlands.

Two Buffle Head ducks float patiently on the surface of one of the outdoor aquariums at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens, Texas.

An elephant charges photographer Michael Nichols in Odzala. Poachers once overran the park, but now a guard post down river has allowed elephants to reclaim their kingdom.

A Passion Vine butterfly, less than an hour old, is free to fly in the new 6,000-square-foot butterfly wing at the Milwaukee Public Museum.

The Nature Conservancy hopes to purchase Palmyra Atoll for $37 million. The atoll was slated for a nuclear waste dump or a resort complex. The owners (whose family had lost their fortune keeping the atoll out of the hands of the U.S. Government in…