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reational uses associated with those wildlife resources," said Tony Leif, director of the Wildlife Division. "That's primarily what these rules are in force to manage."
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Pertussis cases increasing in South Dakota
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Health officials say the number of pertussis cases in South Dakota is on the rise.
• The Department of Health says that while the state saw 67 cases last year, 29 have been reported in the first five months of 2014.
• Pertussis is also known as whooping cough. It's a highly contagious disease that's spread through the air by cough.
• The department says there are several suspected cases and many close contacts. A disproportionate number of cases have been reported in the Black Hills area.
• Early symptoms resemble a common cold. The cough becomes more severe within two weeks and is characterized by episodes of numerous rapid coughs followed by a crowing or high pitched whoop.
• Officials are urging parents to make sure their children are vaccinated against the disease.
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Physics panel to feds: Beam us up some neutrinos
SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. should build a billion-dollar project to beam ghostlike subatomic particles 800 miles underground from Chicago to South Dakota, a committee of experts told the federal government Thursday.
• That would help scientists learn about these puzzling particles, called neutrinos, which zip right through us.
• The proposed invisible neutrino beam would be the biggest U.S. particle physics projects in many years, said panel chairman Steven Ritz of the University of California, Santa Cruz. Still, it would be much smaller than Europe's Large Hadron Collider, which found the critical Higgs boson.
• The neutrino beam was one of the top big-money projects the scientific panel suggested in a list of priorities for federal particle physics research. Other big projects included improvement of the European collider and the creation of a Japanese subatomic particle smasher.
• If approved and funded, the neutrino beam would take about 10 years to build (Continued on page 25)
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