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File-Swap Site Folds for Good
The operators of Suprnova.org apologize to the service's users and quietly pull the plug. The shutdown follows hot on the heels of Hollywood's legal moves against BitTorrent tracker servers. [Funny] A referee has sent himself off in an English amateur league ma
Andy Wain had to abandon the Sunday league match between Peterborough North End and a Royal Mail side in the 63rd minute after throwing down his whistle and marching up to confront North End's keeper. [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... Humans Trading Short-term Food Production For Long-term Environmental
In the July 22, 2005 issue of the journal Science, co-author Terry Chapin, professor of ecology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Institute of Arctic Biology (IAB), and colleagues point out that modern land-use practices may be trading short-term increases in food production for long-term losses in the environment's ability to support human societies. Part of the solution, according to Chapin, is the students in UAF's Regional Resilience and Adaptation Program (RAP). Gallery: World of WorldCon
Nerds unite for the 64th annual science fiction convention in LA, and the notoriously unphotogenic give it their all for our Wired News photographer, Quinn Norton. Toxicology-on-a-chip Tool Readies For Market
Recalls of popular prescription drugs are raising public concern about the general safety of new pharmaceuticals. A collaborative group of researchers says that identifying which drug candidates are toxic early in the discovery process can help prevent harmful pharmaceuticals from being placed on the market in the first place, and they have developed a tool to do it. New Test On Tap For Detecting Pesticide-Resistant Mites
Commercial apiarists and state bee inspectors now have a fast new way to check Varroa mites for this honeybee parasite's resistance to the pesticides coumaphos and fluvalinate. National Veterans Wheelchair Games
Website for this early summer "multi-event sports and rehabilitation program for military service veterans who use wheelchairs for sports competition due to spinal cord injuries, amputations, or certain neurological problems. ... [It] is the largest annual wheelchair sports event in the world."Features a fact sheet, event rules and results, background about participants, and a photo gallery. Also includes a presentation on "Wheelchair Etiquette for non-Wheelchair Users."From the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Scientists Reveal Secrets Of Homer's Cyclops To Help People With Holop
Scientists from Cleveland, Ohio, and Paris, France, reached an important milestone in understanding a molecular cause of a rare, but serious birth defect, Holoprosencephaly. In this February's FASEB Journal, researchers explain why and how some fetal brains fail to develop two lobes, as well as why and how the related skull and facial defects occur. Information from this study will enable researchers to pursue better approaches toward detecting, preventing, and treating this serious disorder. [Scary] Pregnant woman says 'maternal instinct' helped her kill attack
FORT MITCHELL, Ky. - A pregnant woman who killed her attacker said a maternal instinct helped her fight off the woman who investigators believe was after her unborn child."I do believe that I fought harder because it was for my child,"Sarah Brady told ABC's "Good Morning America"in interviews aired Sunday and Monday. "It is a maternal instinct to protect your child to the very end."Katherine Smith, 22, died Thursday after luring Brady to her apartment to pick up a package supposedly delivered to the wrong address. When Smith pulled out a knife and attacked the pregnant woman, Brady fought back, striking Smith on the head with an ash tray and stabbing her three times with her own knife, police said. Brady, 26, said she didn't know Smith before the two met at Smith's apartment and can't be certain why Smith wanted to kill her."I really am not sure what was going through her mind,"Brady told ABC. "The only thing I thought was that she was going to kill me and my child and that is the only thing that ran through my mind."
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