Yemen Blast Kills 6 Spanish Tourists
SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen said seven Spanish tourists and two Yemenis were killed in a suspected al Qaeda suicide car bomb attack on their convoy in the province of Marib on Monday....
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Schlumberger Profit Up On Global Demand
The oilfield services company said profit rose 35 percent to $1.35 billion in the third quarter, as strong demand in Latin America, Russia and Asia offset weakness in domestic markets....
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World Briefing | Europe: Poland: Bus Driver Fired For 38,000 Text Messages
Leszek Wojcik, a bus driver in Slupsk, has been fired for sending 38,000 text messages on his company cellphone in a losing effort to win a contest jackpot, a spokesman said. He ran up a tab of $34,00...
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The Day The Pixels Froze: When A Digital World Was Stopped By A Natural Disaster
The earthquake off the coast of Taiwan was a reminder of the world’s increasing dependence on communications technology....
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NBC Developing Web Site For Students
Imagine Tim Russert introducing a classroom history lesson about the Articles of Confederation, or Brian Williams describing the reverberations of the Stamp Act....
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Science News

Why Pregnant Women Don?t Tip Over
2007-12-13 05:30 - Researchers have found evidence that evolution produced a stronger and more flexible lower spine for women.

Fin Whale at Feeding Time: Dive Deep, Stop Short, Open Wide
2007-12-12 06:01 - Scientists are tracking the ocean’s biggest whales to figure out how exactly they get enough food to build their giant bodies.

Observatory: The Gene That Tells Planaria Worms Which End Is Up
2007-12-12 05:30 - A single gene lets a flatworm know if it should regrow a head or a tail, based on where the wound is.

Observatory: Scientists Blend Materials to Create Oil-Repellent Surfac...
2007-12-12 05:30 - Scientists have succeeded in making oil-repellent, or superoleophobic, surfaces.

Observatory: When Removing One Predator Harms the Prey
2007-12-12 05:30 - Elimination of the top predator can actually be worse for the prey.

From a Japanese Satellite, Here Comes the Sun
2007-12-12 05:30 - Telescopes aboard the Hinode satellite have been returning some of their first results.

Warming Trends: In Duck Blinds, Visions of Global Warming
2007-12-12 05:30 - Wildlife agencies are re-examining some longstanding approaches to cultivating waterfowl populations.

Selection Spurred Recent Evolution, Researchers Say
2007-12-12 05:30 - Researchers analyzing variation in the human genome have concluded that human evolution accelerated enormously in the last 40,000 years under the force of natural selection.

Basics: An Ancient Medicine (Enjoy in Moderation)
2007-12-12 05:30 - If we humans are congenitally inclined to drink, researchers caution, we are designed to do so only in moderation.

Scientist at Work | Shinya Yamanaka: Risk Taking Is in His Genes
2007-12-12 05:30 - After years of searching, Shinya Yamanaka found a way to turn adult skin cells into the equivalent of human embryonic stem cells without using an actual embryo.


 
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