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The Curio to End All Curios
What includes Jesus, the space shuttle and two American flags, and is payable in six easy installments? Why, the ultimate collectible, of course. In Table of Malcontents. Secrets Of Whales' Long-distance Songs Are Being Unveiled
Why do whales in the North Atlantic Ocean seem to be moving together and coherently? What is impelling them forward. How do they communicate with each other, seemingly over thousands of miles of ocean? And how can this acoustical habitat be protected? Gadget Lab's Weekend News
NASA's moonbase plan tackles lunar cement and inflatable living quarters; Virgin America planes play Doom; Novell could be banned from selling Linux. In Gadget Lab. Timeline: Oil-for-Food Scandal
Timeline of events related to the "oil-for-food programme (OFF) [which] was set up to allow Iraq to sell its oil in return for humanitarian relief, so it would not breach sanctions imposed after the first Iraq war. The programme was administered by the United Nations and is now [2004-2005] embroiled in a corruption scandal."Includes links to related news stories and background information about the oil-for-food program. From the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Risk Of Preterm Birth Appears To Vary By Season; Women Who Conceive In
Women who become pregnant in spring are more vulnerable to preterm birth than those who conceive in other seasons, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh. Results of perhaps the largest study of such seasonal variation in preterm birth, or birth prior to 37 weeks gestation, are being presented at the 27th annual meeting of the Society of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, being held Feb. 5-10 at the Hilton San Francisco and Towers in California. [Ironic] An Italian pensioner committed suicide after his wife fell in
Recalling the end of Romeo and Juliet, the 70-year-old man, Ettore, who had sat by his wife's bedside for four months after she slipped into a coma following a heart attack, finally gave up hope and gassed himself in the garage of his family home.Less than a day later, his wife, Rossana, woke up in her hospital bed in Padua and immediately asked for him. Library Schools in the United States and Canada
A list of links to Web sites for schools and departments that provide degrees in librarianship and information management and science. From the School of Library and Information Science at San JoséState University. Endangered Shortnose Sturgeon Saved In Hudson River
For the first time, a fish identified as endangered has been shown to have recovered -- and in the Hudson River near New York City, report Cornell's Mark Bain and colleagues in the online publication PLoS ONE. States Lacking Strong Seat Belt Laws Have More Fatalities On Rural Roa
Thanksgiving marks the heaviest travel weekend of the year and that means large increases in the number of fatal car crashes, particularly in rural areas. And nowhere is that more true than in states that don't adequately enforce seat belt laws. Researchers found a strong connection between states lacking strong seat belt laws and states with a high proportion of fatalities on rural roads. Breast Cancer Advance
A new family of genes could hold the key to winning the battle against breast cancer, according to new research at the University of East Anglia.
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