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submitted by Lisa 154 weeks 1 day 19 hours 12 minutes ago
Bats hunt in groups in the dark using a form of sonar called echolocation to find snatch bugs out of the air.
Scientists have not known how bats recognize their buddies, in order to stay together, and also avoid creating interference between their echolocation calls. The screech...(more)
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submitted by Lisa 189 weeks 2 days 7 hours 36 minutes ago
Laura Meneses made the same fateful choice that thousands of local home buyers have made since 2004: She decided to spend most of her family's income on housing.
Over the last four years, the number of Santa Clara County homeowners who spend over half their income on...(more)
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submitted by Lisa 189 weeks 2 days 7 hours 37 minutes ago
Once upon a time, vacations remained true to the Latin root of the word - empty. After vacating one's home and voiding one's schedule, you emptied your mind while slurping an alcoholic slushie from a bendy straw.
But lately the travel industry has been seized by a...(more)
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submitted by Lisa 93 weeks 6 days 20 hours 2 minutes ago
The furloughs that popped up during the recession are being replaced by a highly unusual tactic: actual cuts in pay.
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submitted by Lisa for team Batboy's revenge! 164 weeks 18 hours 39 minutes ago
It might have ended so differently, if Robert Lemire had not decided on pizza for dinner or if Alex Day had not come to the apartment on Haverhill Street for Bible study.
Neither might have seen the heart-stopping sight of a girl in a diaper and...(more)
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submitted by Lisa for team Breast cancer info 245 weeks 5 days 18 hours 34 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A drug used to treat people infected with the AIDS virus has shown promise as a possible future weapon against cancer, U.S. researchers said on Friday.
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submitted by Lisa 242 weeks 4 days 19 hours 12 minutes ago
A 70-year-old man taking pictures of the full moon Wednesday evening had his camera stolen by two teenagers who later were arrested after being chased by a youth football team and its coaches, police said.
A 17-year-old boy was stunned with a Taser after he reached in...(more)
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submitted by Lisa for team Iraq news 263 weeks 3 days 1 hour 12 minutes ago
AP - A new video of al-Qaida's No. 2 leader released on Saturday mocks President Bush and U.S. legislation requiring the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, saying the bill would rob the group's fighters of the chance to kill more Americans.
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submitted by Lisa 190 weeks 1 day 21 hours 3 minutes ago
Many rookie tourists stick to Midtown Manhattan, where they can easily get the impression that in New York City everyone is always rushing, that you can barely see the sky and that nature is virtually absent. In fact, its most storied natural phenomenon, the Rockefeller Center...(more)
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submitted by Lisa for team Breast cancer info 190 weeks 1 day 21 hours 5 minutes ago
Three weeks of radiation treatment work just as well as the usual course of five weeks or more for women with early-stage breast cancers, Canadian researchers have reported, after monitoring a large group of patients for 12 years.
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submitted by Lisa 192 weeks 3 days 17 hours 38 minutes ago
As Hurricane Ike surged onto Galveston Island this morning, many of the estimated 23,000 Galveston residents who ignored a mandatory evacuation order phoned for rescues to no avail because emergency workers were called off the streets, officials said.
Help wasn't expected until after dangerous storm conditions subsided....(more)
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submitted by Lisa 223 weeks 3 days 43 minutes ago
Yahoo board of directors decided at a meeting Friday to reject Microsoft's $44.6 billion offer for the company, a person familiar with the situation confirmed to the Mercury News.
The decision, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, was reached because the board believes the $31 per...(more)
