Mumbai Journal: Human Rat Trap Knows His Enemy. They?re Winning.
An obsessive, fearsome rodent assassin in Mumbai, India, is a dying breed in a city whose dreams of being rat-free recede year by year....
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Iran Celebrates Revolution, And Muzzles Reformers
Iran celebrated the 29th anniversary of its Islamic revolution as the government appeared to be taking steps to bury the chances of Parliamentary reform....
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Report Showing Rise In Iran’s Nuclear Activity Exposes Split Between U.S. And U.N.
The I.A.E.A. report has exposed a new divide between the United Nations inspectors and the United States over how to contain Iran’s atomic program....
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Science Panel Calls Global Warming ?Unequivocal?
The report said warming and its harmful consequences could be substantially blunted by prompt action....
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China Braces For Biggest Reform In A Generation
Every year the National People’s Congress is fairly predictable, a strictly stage-managed event where just under 3000 carefully-chosen Communist Party delegates invariably publicly rubber-stamp decisi...
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Science News

Dot Earth: Warming Takes Out Defense Radars
2007-12-09 05:30 - The Pentagon is closing 3 of the 20 Norad early-warning radar sites in northern Alaska because they are in danger of falling into the ocean.

Dot Earth: Bali Update: Pushing for Action, Not Talk
2007-12-09 05:30 - The diplomats and officials gathered in Bali to shape talks leading to a new climate treaty are beginning to feel the heat.

Q & A: Trunk Line
2007-12-08 06:01 - How keen is an elephant’s sense of smell, and where in the trunk is it handled?

Shuttle Mission Is Delayed by Problems With Fuel Sensors
2007-12-08 06:01 - NASA officials delayed the launching of the space shuttle Atlantis at least until Saturday after canceling Thursday’s attempt because of problems with a pair of fuel sensors.

Seymour Benzer, Geneticist, Is Dead at 86
2007-12-08 05:30 - Seymour Benzer made scientific history by discovering that genes were structured like words and went on to do pioneering work on the ties between genes and behavior.

House Sets Higher Goal for Vehicle Fuel Efficiency
2007-12-08 05:30 - Brushing aside a veto threat from the White House, the House passed a package of energy measures that includes a 40 percent increase in fuel economy standards for cars and light trucks sold in the United States.

Manatees Retain Endangered Status
2007-12-07 06:01 - Manatees remain on Florida’s endangered species list, for now.

Theater Review | ’Trumpery’: Don?t Dillydally, Darwin, It’s Survival o...
2007-12-07 06:01 - Peter Parnell’s play is a tightly focused study of Darwin, his family and his intellectual circles.

News Analysis: Crossing a Threshold on Energy Legislation
2007-12-07 05:30 - Congress is poised to act on the first bill to increase vehicle fuel efficiency significantly since 1975 and on the first economywide bill to address global warming since scientists raised the alarm in the late 1980s.

Senate Panel Passes Bill to Limit Greenhouse Gases
2007-12-07 05:30 - The bill would be a major step toward passage of a measure that would for the first time slow and then reverse emissions of the gases that scientists blame for the warming of the planet.


 
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