Ledes 4-16-09

California Woman Mistaken for Suspect in Girl's Killing
A woman from Manteca, California has recently been mistaken for another women who was arrested 14 miles away in Tracy, California. These women both are named Melissa Huckaby. The Melissa's are both 28 year-old Sunday school teachers. People thrashing out against her did it so often on her MySpace that she was forced to delete her account.
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Feeling Stressed? It's More Likely in Some U.S. States than Others
Geography locations effecting mood, you think not? Scientists have recently linked that different geographic location with the amount of mental distress a person has. The more, "disability or diabetes, untreated mental conditions like anxiety or depression, high unemployment rates, risky behaviors including cigarette smoking and alcohol abuse, and/or social circumstances such as lower incomes," a place has the more mentally distressed a persons mind will become.
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U.S. Unveils Plan to Tackle Piracy
Hillary Clinton has proposed a four point plan on piracy after the recent attacks in the Gulf of Mexico. A few days ago three pirates were killed in an attempt to recover a captain of a cargo ship. Another U.S. ship, the Liberty Sun, was attacked by armed pirates, but escaped them with slight damage to the vessel. The plan will send people to work out some problems that made these pirates so violent.
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Fossil Corals Show Catastrophic Sea-Level Rise
Recently corals found in Mexico have proven sea levels serged 121,000 years ago. This 4.6 meter rise in water levels was dated back to an interglacial period, or time between ice ages. This event shows patterns fitting in to how our sea levels are rising as the glaciers are melting. More research would have to be done to see if our plants exsisting now would show rapid growth patters like the fossil coarals did.
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