I Can’t Wait To Be A Chinese Citizen, Says The Dalai Lama
In his first big interview with a British paper since rioting broke out in Tibet on March 10, I had expected the Dalai Lama to be in a sombre mood. As the exiled leader of his nation, he has little ...
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Olmert Inquiry Is Ordered
Israel’s attorney general ordered the police on Sunday to begin a new criminal investigation into Ehud Olmert’s conduct in government before he became prime minister....
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Nascar Braces For Foreign Competition
Toyota is making its push in the same year it expects to challenge General Motors as the world’s biggest automaker....
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One Giant Leap, Followed By Decades Of Baby Steps
It has been 35 years since anybody was on the Moon, or more than 300 miles from Earth, for that matter. What happened to the so-called space age?...
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Election In Russia Confirms Putin’s Chosen Successor
Although the results were never in doubt, Dmitri A. Medvedev’s future is, given that President Vladimir V. Putin intends to remain in the government....
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Science News

Scientists Would Turn Greenhouse Gas Into Gasoline
2008-02-20 05:30 - Two scientists are introducing a concept, which they have patriotically named Green Freedom, for removing carbon dioxide from the air and turning it back into gasoline.

Revealed: Secrets of the Camouflage Masters
2008-02-20 05:30 - After decades of dives, a scientist offers a theory to explain the spectacular deceptions of cephalopods.

As Nuclear Waste Languishes, Expense to U.S. Rises
2008-02-18 05:30 - The federal government, contractually obligated to bury the waste, is at least 20 years behind schedule.

South Korea: Give the Dog a Clone
2008-02-17 06:01 - A Seoul-based company says it has received the world’s first commercial order to clone a pet dog, from a California woman who wants to recreate her dead pit bull terrier.

For ?EcoMoms,? Saving Earth Begins at Home
2008-02-17 05:30 - Move over, Tupperware. A new wave of parties is about waste-free lunches and energy-efficient laundry.

Missile Defense Future May Turn on Success of Mission to Destroy Satel...
2008-02-17 05:30 - The order to destroy a disabled satellite before it falls from orbit carries opportunity, but also potential embarrassment, for the advocates of a missile defense program.

In Remote Valley, a Grim Redefinition of ?Fishing?
2008-02-16 06:01 - The once abundant shrimp of the legendary Rio Grande in Jamaica have become scarce and what can still be caught are often poisoned, a result of man’s impact on the natural world.

Britain: Astronaut Flight Reconsidered
2008-02-16 06:01 - Science Minister Ian Pearson said it was time to reconsider Britain’s 1986 decision not to invest in an astronaut space program.

Smaller Version of the Solar System Is Discovered
2008-02-16 05:30 - Astronomers have found a miniature version of our own solar system 5,000 light years across the galaxy ? the first planetary system that really looks like our own.

U.S. to Attempt to Shoot Down Faulty Satellite
2008-02-16 05:30 - Military officials laid out a plan to shoot down a spy satellite before it tumbles to Earth carrying toxic fuel.


 
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