Oil Market Rattled By Attack On Tanker
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Offices Put High Above The High Line
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Taliban Plan Hostage Talks
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Flu Shots For Children Grow Near In New Jersey
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Science News

In Hollywood Hives, the Males Rule
2007-11-14 06:01 - In Hollywood’s animated family fare about animals, the overwhelming majority of characters are male, despite nature’s preferred sex ratio of roughly 50-50.

U.S. Prosecutors Start Investigating Oil Spill
2007-11-14 06:01 - The move by the United States attorney’s office signals that criminal charges may be filed against the crew of the vessel that lost 58,000 gallons of fuel after hitting the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

Love of Chocolate May Have Begun With Cacao Beer
2007-11-14 05:31 - New findings push the date of the first use of cacao back 500 years earlier than previously known.

Jawbone Sheds Light on Divergence of Humans and Apes
2007-11-14 05:31 - Scientists have discovered a fossil that represents a new genus of great ape.

Poisonous Mushrooms Forge Their Own Path, Genetically Speaking
2007-11-14 05:31 - Researchers have identified a genetic quirk common to a few deadly species of mushrooms.

Off Endangered List, but What Animal Is It Now?
2007-11-14 05:30 - Hybrids dominate a population of wolves near the Great Lakes that was officially removed from the endangered species list.

Challenges to Both Left and Right on Global Warming
2007-11-14 05:30 - New books on global warming steer away from partisanship and urge a move to the pragmatic center on climate and energy.

From Ants to People, an Instinct to Swarm
2007-11-14 05:30 - Researchers are discovering simple rules that allow thousands of animals to form a collective brain able to make decisions and move like a single organism.

Human Error Cited in California Oil Spill
2007-11-13 06:01 - A preliminary investigation found human error caused a cargo ship to crash into the Bay Bridge, leading to San Francisco Bay’s worst oil spill in nearly two decades, the Coast Guard said Saturday.

John Firor, 80, Early Voice on Environment, Is Dead
2007-11-13 05:30 - Mr. Firor, an environmental scholar and former director of the National Center of Atmospheric Research, was an early voice linking climate change and human activity.


 
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