31.   Andrus said the new study supports the earlier findings.

32.   But the accuracy of the earlier findings have been called into question and researchers have started digging for new answers.

33.   Last October, those investigators confirmed their earlier findings that the malignant tumors seemed more than a random cancer cluster.

34.   The earlier finding had been questioned in a report published last year in Nature, a scientific journal.

35.   The government had appealed the earlier finding, which also was protested by American officials.

36.   The government had appealed the earlier finding.

37.   The results supported earlier findings that human-to-human transmission of the virus, if possible, remained ineffective, the statement said.

38.   Unlike earlier findings by the IOC and the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, it delivered no blockbuster revelations, focusing instead on what needed to be changed.

39.   The two countries are divided on what caused the tanker to sink, and Tokyo rejected earlier Russian findings that it had collided with an unidentified floating object.

40.   Tokyo rejected earlier Russian findings that it collided with an unidentified floating object.