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-T CONCORD MONITOR Thursday May 6 2004 Haverhill Vermont A moosetery parents to meet They-wonder whetiier-taarerelated talked with the New Hampshire 5taleT)Iice abouTTwOTcasesT Scientists looking By DAVIDf SHARP The Associated Picas said Lt Tbm Nelson of the Ver- mont State Police "We have not found anything that connects the cases in any way" While the Maitland and Murray' disappearances occurred more than a month and 6Q miles apart the cases do have similarities Both young women were alone and their cars were left damaged at night on remote countiy roads There are distinct differences are distinct i PORTLAND Maine The bulbous nose adds to the cartoonish look of the gangly creature with spindly legs and oversize antlers a combination that save rise to lovable caricatures like Bullwinkle TWo researchers intrigued by the size and shape of the I to take a closer look daughter Maura disappeared in earfy February Maura Murray a nursing student at the University of Massachusetts vanished shortly after her car went off Route 112 in Hayerhill the night of Feb Haverhill is across the Connecti-4cut River from Wells River VL Brianna Maitland disappeared after finishing work at the Black Lantern Inn restaurant in Montgomery VL the night of March 19 Her car was found a mile west of town the next day its rear end rammed into the side of an abandoned house on Vermont Route 118 The police in both states have discounted the possibility that the two disappearances are related "We have looked at that and The Associated Press BURLINGTON VL-The par ents of a missing Vermont teen will meet this weekend in Havfer-hill with the father of a young Massachusetts woman who vanished to discuss whether their disappearances are related really like it if someone would come in and look at both situations and see if a single suspect might have been involved" said Bruce Maitland1 of Franklin VL the father of 17- old Brianna Maitland of VL Bruce Maitland his wife Kelly and Fred Murray of Hanson Mass will meet a few miles north of where 21-year old however Brianna Maitland who been living at a was described as happy with her life at the time of her disappearance Friends of Maura Murray told the police she was upset by a recent phone call and left college after telling friends she needed to attend to a family emergency providing the first detailed anatomical analysis of the unconventional snout that hangs over the front lip of nfflriai state animal Among their findings: The enigmatic structure allows moose to close their nostrils while foraging for aquatic plants Witmer a pr Lawrence Officials petition for drug imports Attorneys general send Thompson letter stales can work with the Canadian authorities to develop a process The Associated Press drugs with while Theletter which BOSTON Attorneys general from 18 states including New sumedby New Hampshire Attorney General Peter Heed among others asks Thompson to allow states to be appointed as licensed wholesalers or allow them to contract with licensed wholesalers to import prescription drugs from Canada All drugs would be manufactured in facilities approved by the Food and Drug Administration and shipped to the United for the safe importation of prescription the attorneys general wrote On Tuesday Thompson said drug imports would help American consumers but warned the move would be expensive because regulators to ensure safety would have to increase inspections of fbr-eign pharmaceutical plants and packaging of prescription drugs entering this country Several bills are pending in Congress to permit drug imports from Canada and elsewhere Besides Heed attorney generals from Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Illinois Iowa Maine Maryland Massachusetts Mississippi New Mexico New' brk Otuo Oregon Rhode Island Vermont and Wisconsin also signed the letter Hampshire sent a letter to and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson yesterday asking him to allow states to ur low-cost prescription drugs Canada The letter came a day after Thompson said that legaMng prescription drug imports was inevitable ana that he would advise President Bush not to stand in the any of legislation making its way through Congress that would clear tne way for of anatomy at Ohio University has studied the noses of many animals alive and extinct from the common white-tailed deer to prehistoric 'creatures like duck-billed dinosaurs He said he was surprised by the lack of research on the moose muzzle so he and graduate student Andy Clifford went to work Their findings were published last month in the Journal of Zoology in London know little about the moose nose despite the fact that common animals in the northern half of the Witmer said in a telephone interview from his office in Athens Ohio The nose is a prominent feature on the moose an animal that can weigh in excess of 1000 pounds The nasal apparatus with nostrils up to 4 inches wide droops over the front lips giving the massive animal an appearance that sets it apart from planteating cousins like the white- tailed deer As part of their research Witmer and Clifford examined the heads of moose that were hit and killed by motorists in Canada They used hospital equipment to examine the internal anatomy and also dissected the samples to get a closer look at the physical structure including nerves cartilage and other components of the proboscis The researchers were able to discount the idea that the large size of the nasal cavity had something to do with heat regulation They also looked at whether the widely spaced nostrils gave the creatures any special capabilities such as stereo oUkction But A moose named Zero shows off his nose in a wildlife park in Gray Maine yesterday from Canada in their original packaging Special tracking technologies would be used to guard against counterfeit drugs the letter sakL believe thal with the assistance of the Food and Drug Administration the undersigned Imports In the i the fetter the attorneys gen- dwsr something zoologists suspected all along (zoologists) looked at us hinny" Clifford said believe it took us so long to figure it In Maine wildlife biologist Karen Morris said she and others had long suspected something of the sort never been underwater with a moose never observed it but it surprise Morris said from Bangor where she works for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries ana Wildlife Far from being deflated by the news the researchers were pleased that their BmUngy were validated by zookeepers and others who have spent time studying or observing moose Clifford said thqy able to make a conclusive determination on that one One of their most important findings was that the nose has a mechanism for keeping water out when the moose wades into a pond and plunges underwater to pluck aquatic plants to eat as it turns out have a mechanism to close their Witmer said part id this crazy nostril apparatus that moose have changed their faces to There are fatty pads in the nose that dose under water 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