A Conversation With Robert D. Hall: The Fine Art Of Watching A Bug’s Life To Explain A Death
Robert D. Hall is a sort of Sherlock Holmes with a fly swatter and tweezers....
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Defense Closes Arguments In Trial Of Ex-Qwest Chief
Defense lawyers for Joseph P. Nacchio said he never exaggerated the company’s growth rates to enhance the value of his personal stock....
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Pakistan Sends Deposed PM Back Into Exile
Pakistan sent former prime minister Nawaz Sharif back to exile in Saudi Arabia yesterday, hours after he returned home vowing to topple President Pervez Musharraf, the man who ousted him in 2000....
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Role Of Telecom Firms In Wiretaps Is Confirmed
The Bush administration has said for the first time that American telecommunications companies played a crucial role in domestic eavesdropping....
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Trump Entertainment Loss Grows
Trump Entertainment Resorts, the casino company founded by Donald J. Trump, posted on Wednesday its biggest loss since emerging from bankruptcy in 2005....
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Science News

120 Million Years Old, Fossil Shows Divergence of Platypus and Anteate...
2008-01-30 05:31 - New research suggest that the platypus diverged from its closest relatives much earlier than previously thought.

Agricultural Practices Found to Contribute to Bicarbonate in River
2008-01-30 05:30 - Researchers have figured out why the amount of bicarbonate in the Mississippi has increased substantially in the last 50 years.

Remembering When U.S. Finally (and Really) Joined the Space Race
2008-01-30 05:30 - Fifty years ago this week, Explorer took the United States into space.

Hitting It Off, Thanks to Algorithms of Love
2008-01-30 05:30 - As online matchmakers compete for customers using algorithms in the search for love, the battle has intrigued academic researchers who study the mating game.

The Preservation Predicament
2008-01-30 05:30 - Ecologists fear that global warming will make protected landscapes inhospitable to prized species.

A Dying Breed
2008-01-28 06:01 - As the Holstein rapidly replaces the longhorn Ankole cow, will the genes that allowed cattle to survive in Africa’s harsh climate be lost forever? A cautionary tale of well-intentioned development.

Can Darwin’s Lab Survive Success?
2008-01-28 06:01 - A sizable growth in tourism has had a sizable effect on the fragile ecosystem of the Galápagos Islands, the globe’s first World Heritage Site.

U.S. Spy Satellite, Power Gone, May Hit Earth
2008-01-28 05:30 - A disabled American spy satellite is rapidly descending and is likely to plunge to Earth by late February or early March, posing a potential danger from its debris, officials said Saturday.

New Plan for Logging in Alaska Forest
2008-01-27 06:01 - More than three million acres in Alaska would be open to logging under a federal plan that supporters believe will revive the state’s struggling timber industry.

Howling Over Expanded Wolf Killing
2008-01-27 05:30 - Federal wildlife officials allow expanding killing of ?non-essential? gray wolves in the northern Rockies.


 
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