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Peanut Husks Could Be Used Clean Up Waste Water
Peanut husks, one of the biggest food industry waste products, could be used to extract environmentally-damaging copper ions from waste water, according to researchers in Turkey. Scientists describes how this readily available waste material can be used to extract toxic copper ions from waste water. [Odd] A Romanian couple has named their son Yahoo as a sign of gratitu
Daily Libertatea said on Thursday Cornelia and Nonu Dragoman, both from Transylvania, met and decided they were meant for each other following a three-month relationship over the net.They married and had a baby this Christmas, whom they decided to name after one of the worldwide web's most popular portals."We named him Lucian Yahoo after my father and the net, the main beacon of my life,"Cornelia Dragoman was quoted as saying. Blocking COX-1 Slows Tumor Growth In Mice
Blocking the COX-1 enzyme -- not COX-2 -- might lead to a way to prevent and treat the most common and fatal form of ovarian cancer, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center reported this week. My Katrina: YouTube Storm Images
Whether it's to show how much devastation still exists in New Orleans, or to find closure by creating a visual tale, close to 1000 videos posted online of Gulf Coast hurricane damage counter TV sound bites with personal stories. [Stupid] Robber Jailed After Using Banana As Weapon
LONDON - Robert Downey had the mask and the attitude to be a successful robber. But he ruined the effect when he tried to stage a hold-up at his local bookmaker's shop — using a banana. Beneficial Beetles Battle Pesky Saltcedar
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) entomologist C. Jack DeLoach, ARS ecologist Raymond I. Carruthers, and their co-investigators have found that a leafbeetle that they've investigated and helped import, Diorhabda elongata, has now defoliated hundreds of acres of saltcedar-infested test sites in Colorado, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming. Yet the beetle poses no hazard to people, pets or crops. Cowpeas Could Add Sustainability To Cropping Systems
Ground left fallow in the High Plains to store soil moisture between crops may be better off with a legume crop such as cowpeas, according to a Texas Agricultural Experiment Station researcher. Dr. Bill Payne of Amarillo said he is trying to make the region's wheat-sorghum-fallow cropping system more sustainable by getting rid of the fallow component. SF Car Service Goes Hybrid-Only
If you fly into SFO, you can do your part for the atmosphere by booking into town in a PlanetTran car. The fleet of leather-seated Priuses may be the country's first all-hybrid exec car service. In Autopia. World War II in the Pacific: Japan Capitulates, August - September 194
Images and information from the U.S. Department of the Navy's Naval Historical Center about Japan's surrender to the Allies in World War II, on August 14, 1945 (known as V-J Day). Includes images of victory celebrations, different aspects of the surrender, and related events in World War II. Tryptophan No Turkey In Boosting Immune System, Stanford Study Shows
Tryptophan is the source of Thanksgiving legend and grist for a "Seinfeld"episode, but it's not the chemical that you'd expect to find in Lawrence Steinman's lab.
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