
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, July 20, 1990                   TAG: 9007200285
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A10   EDITION: METRO 
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IN THE NATION-BRIEFLY . . .

A rare rabbit found only in the Florida Keys and named after Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner was added to the federal endangered species list, government biologists said Thursday.

\ The U.S. Geological Survey Thursday sharply increased its estimate that a major life-threatening earthquake could occur at any time during the next 30 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. The U.S. Geological Survey said that there was a 67 percent probability that a temblor of magnitude 7 or greater will occur in the San Francisco area within the next 30 years.

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