|Appalachian School of Law Shootings|
Thu, 17 Jan 2002
Scientists say the organisms are very similar to life as it might exist on Mars and other planets.
The one-celled organisms, known as Archaea, grow by consuming hydrogen that is produced by hot water reacting with bedrock 600 feet below the Beaverhead Mountains. They produce tiny amounts of methane as a byproduct of their metabolism.
Although types of Archaea have been found before, this community is unlike anything else on Earth. Details of the discovery appear in today’s issue of the Nature.
Microbes like these have been the subject of speculation for 30 years. But finding them was another matter. A team of seven government and university scientists found the microbes at the Lidy Hot Springs near the Idaho-Montana line.
Two professors and student
killed in law school shootings
VIRGINIA - A student who had been dismissed from law school student went on a campus shooting spree yesterday, killing the dean, a professor and a student before he was tackled, authorities said.
The attacker also wounded three students at the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy. They were hospitalized in fair condition.
Dean Anthony Sutin and Professor Thomas Blackwell were gunned down in their offices, according to school officials. Police said the third person slain was student Angela Dales, 33.
Peter Odighizuwa, a 42-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen from Nigeria, had gone to the school to meet with the dean about his academic dismissal, which went into effect yesterday, police said.