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Robotic Cameras Join Search For 'Holy Grail Of Bird-watching'
A high-resolution intelligent robotic video system, developed by researchers at UC Berkeley and Texas A&M University, has been installed in the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge in Arkansas as part of a major effort to obtain conclusive proof that an elusive bird is not extinct. The bird, the famed ivory-billed woodpecker, is also called the "Holy Grail of bird-watching." The Federal Reserve Board: Testimony of Federal Reserve Board Official
Transcripts of testimony by Federal Reserve Board officials (Chairman Alan Greenspan and others) to the U.S. Congress, committees, and related groups. Topics include the economic outlook (such as changes in oil prices, interest rates, and housing prices), budget reforms, Social Security, and taxes. Includes transcripts back to 1996. Browsable by date. Two Explosive Evolutionary Events Shaped Early History Of Multicellula
Scientists have known for some time that most major groups of complex animals appeared in the fossils record during the Cambrian Explosion, a seemingly rapid evolutionary event that occurred 542 million years ago. Now paleontologists, using rigorous analytical methods, have identified another explosive evolutionary event that occurred about 33 million years earlier among macroscopic life forms unrelated to the Cambrian animals. Women's Learning Partnership (WLP) for Rights, Development, and Peace:
Bibliographies, statistics, and other resources on international women's issues. Some of the topics covered include women and leadership, women's human rights, violence against women, and technology for women's empowerment. Provides a list of "local, national, regional and international women's organizations in the Global South, especially in the Middle East and North Africa."From the Women's Learning Partnership, a group "dedicated to women's leadership and empowerment." Apple Gives Video the IPod Touch
The week's worst-kept secret is confirmed as Steve Jobs introduces a new iPod that plays video and an expanded iTunes store. A new flat-screen iMac also makes its debut. Leander Kahney reports from San Jose, California. How The Discovery Of Geologic Time Changed Our View Of The World
In 1911 the discovery that the world was billions of years old changed our view of the world forever. Imagine trying to understand history without any dates. You know, for example, that the First World War came before the Second World War, but how long before? Was it tens, hundreds or even thousands of years before? Before radiometric dating there was no way of knowing. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Agriculture Street Landfil
"This web page provides background information and details about the Agriculture Street Landfill Superfund Project in New Orleans"that began in 1998. Includes updates on water sampling and other EPA activities related to flood cleanup after Hurricane Katrina of this Superfund site that housed "debris and waste resulting from cleanup efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Betsy"and that was found to have "elevated levels of lead, arsenic and carcinogenic polyaromatic hydrocarbons (cPAHs)." Protein 'Bar Code' In Spinal Fluid Could Lead To First Diagnostic Test
Scientists collaborating at Cornell University in Ithaca and Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City have identified a panel of 23 protein biomarkers in cerebrospinal fluid that acts as a neurochemical "fingerprint,"which doctors might use someday to identify patients living with Alzheimer's disease. The research will be published in the December online edition of the journal Annals of Neurology. [Ironic] LONDON: A jailed cocaine dealer is working as Santa Claus on
John Tams, who dons beard, boots and red suit to work in a cafe's Christmas grotto, said he wanted to give something back to the community... In Pix: GM's Electric Car
Take a first look at the new Chevy Volt, with under-the-hood diagrams and interiors.
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