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The rampage came as violent crime in the city continues to drop: four people, including two Canadian tourists and a visitor from Texas, stabbed in a bloody 12-hour span.The person behind the attacks, police said, was Kenny Alexis, a homeless man who was arrested on charges including attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon.Alexis, 21, was taken into custody without incident around 4:15 a.m. Wednesday outside a fast-food restaurant in midtown Manhattan shortly after the two Montreal women, ages 22 and 25, wer
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In what either the beginning of a Michael Crichton movie or a scientific breakthrough, researchers have successfully revived a 30,000-year-old virus buried deep in the permafro
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