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A bucardo, a type of Spanish ibex that went extinct in 2000, was successfully cloned by scientists in 2003, a new study reveals.
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Climate change could cause global conflicts as large as the two world wars but lasting for centuries unless the problem is controlled, a leading defence think tank has warned.
The Royal United Services Institute said a tenfold increase in research spending, comparable to the amount spent on...(more)
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Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin on Friday blasted wasteful federal spending and insisted that she opposed the bridge to no where that she once supported
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Maura Kelly: The governor of Alaska is being branded as 'one of us' - but so was George Bush, and we know how well that turned out
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A top Russian general said Friday that Poland's agreement to accept a U.S. missile interceptor base exposes the ex-communist nation to attack, possibly by nuclear weapons, the Interfax news agency reported.
The statement by Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn is the strongest threat that Russia has issued against the...(more)
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Despair over the economy has sent Wall Street plunging again, propelling the Dow Jones industrials to their second-largest point loss ever. Stocks fell on a combination of disheartening economic data, including a big drop in retail sales and a Federal Reserve report...(more)
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With the economy deteriorating rapidly, the nation’s employers shed 533,000 jobs in November, the 11th consecutive monthly decline, the government reported Friday morning, and the unemployment rate rose to 6.7 percent.
The decline, the largest one-month loss since December 1974, was fresh evidence that the economic contraction...(more)
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submitted by AB 156 weeks 12 hours 59 minutes ago
Composer imagines the music that Neanderthals rocked out to
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The Rocky Mountain News publishes its last paper tomorrow.
Rich Boehne, chief executive officer of Scripps, broke the news to the Rocky staff at noon today, ending nearly three months of speculation over the paper's future. He called the paper a victim of a terrible economy and...(more)
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submitted by AB 198 weeks 11 hours 4 minutes ago
Food riots in Haiti, strikes over rice shortages in Bangladesh, tortilla trouble in Mexico and bread wars in Egypt.
Soaring food prices are causing more misery round the world than the credit crunch. But what is the cause?
Biofuels are part of it, clearly. A quarter of...(more)
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submitted by AB 198 weeks 11 hours 9 minutes ago
Families have been warned that the prices of basic foods will rise steeply again because of acute shortages in commodity markets.
Experts told The Times yesterday that prices of rice, wheat and vegetable oil would rise further. They also forecast that high prices and shortages — which...(more)
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submitted by AB 177 weeks 6 days 9 hours 56 minutes ago
John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate sent a signal that he would end business as usual and cronyism in government. Her record shows the Alaska governor engaged in some of the same practices she and McCain now condemn.
Palin's office approved a state...(more)
