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MIAMI—Dwyane Wade did something the NBA hadn’t seen in more than 31 years. It still wasn’t enough to take down the sharpshooting Toronto Raptors.
Andrea Bargnani scored a season-high 25 points, and Jermaine O’Neal added 16 points and 17 rebounds, as the Raptors were 8-for-8 on three-pointers in the second half to overcome Wade’s huge effort and beat the Miami Heat 101-95 last night.

DETROIT—The Big Three automakers are “optimistic” about keeping a continent-wide industry—even though they feel “sideswiped” by a sharp decline in U.S. sales, federal Industry minister Tony Clement said yesterday.
But he wouldn’t divulge how dire the situation is for General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler, which are pleading for government relief in Washington to stave off bankruptcy.
“It’s not my place to give an opinion on that,” Clement said in an interview with The Canadian Press.

TORONTO—Toronto police are treating the discovery of four bodies in an east-end home as a triple homicide.
While police have remain tight-lipped, they have said the case involves “family” violence and haven’t ruled out murder-suicide.
In a release, police called a news conference for 2 p.m. today to discuss three homicides.
A man was arrested and questioned by police yesterday after the bodies were found, but was released today without being charged.

TORONTO—Scientists have sequenced much of the genome of the woolly mammoth—raising the tantalizing but remote possibility that one day the long-extinct mammal could be resurrected to again trudge through the Arctic snow.
The researchers at Penn State University extracted DNA from mammoth hair found frozen in the permafrost of Siberia, where the massive beasts once roamed up until about 10,000 years ago before their species disappeared for good.

LONDON—Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs.
“This technique has great promise,” said Dr. Eric Genden, who did a similar transplant in 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.
That operation used both donor and recipient tissue. Only a handful of windpipe (or trachea) transplants have ever been done.
If successful, the procedure could become a new standard of treatment, said Genden, who was not involved in the research.