Born in the summer? You're more likely to be nearsighted

Babies born in the summer months have a greater chance of being nearsighted and requiring glasses than those born in the winter, a new study has found.

Crushed Glass to Be Spread on Beaches

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Engineers perfecting hydrogen-generating technology

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Vaccines and Their Promise Are Roaring Back - New York Times

As wealthy countries spend more on health care, and as poorer countries put new emphasis on prevention, many companies are jumping into vaccine innovation.

Using Muscle to Improve Health Care for Prisoners - New York Times

Never has one person attacked a problem with such force and disregard for political convention as Robert Sillen has the California prison system.

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If recent headlines are any indication, China's rap sheet of capitalist crimes is growing as fast as its economy. Having exported poison pet food and toothpaste laced with antifreeze earlier this year, the world's emerging economic powerhouse has diversified into other, equally dubious product lines: scallops coated with putrefying bacteria, counterfeit diabetes tests, pirated Harry Potter books, and baby bibs ...

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Venturing Into the Mines of Uganda, in Search of the Marburg Virus - New York Times

Researchers reported for the first time last week that they have found the virus in a nonprimate species — bats.

Useful Mutants, Bred With Radiation - New York Times

Public fears aside, scientists mimic nature’s genetic scrambling to bolster fruits and vegetables, as well as beer and whiskey.

Computer simulation shows how evolution may have speeded up

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Same gene protects from 1 disease, opens door to another

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Discovery may help defang viruses

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Chinese Anti-Graft Game Proves Popular

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Mitsubishi’s new Blu-ray converts your movies into 3D

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Researchers Hope Creatures From Black Lagoon Can Help Fight Cancer

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Cappuccino Coast: The day the Pacific was whipped up into an ocean of froth | the Daily Mail

It was as if someone had poured tons of coffee and milk into the ocean, then switched on a giant blender.

Mummies From Around the World - Photo Essays - TIME

Kids ride a zip line to go to school

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Monkeys use 'baby talk' to interact with infants

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Report links power lines to cancer

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On-Chip Silicon 'Microcoolers' for Microprocessor Hot Spots

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At a Family Gathering, an Internet Cafe Breaks Out - New York Times

The electronic and informational needs of our houseguests have expanded.

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Quarter-Degree Fix Fuels Climate Fight - New York Times

The blogosphere erupted with arguments questioning global warming after an error was found in the annual estimate of the average temperature in the United States.

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Chinese Seek to Buy a U.S. Maker of Disk Drives - New York Times

The overture for Seagate Technology has raised concerns among American officials about risks to national security.

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Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted): Wild Vervet Monkeys Wreak Havoc in Kenya

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Cheap PC, Electric Car Win INDEX Prizes

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Human derived stem cells can repair rat hearts damaged by heart attack

PhysOrg news: Human derived stem cells can repair rat hearts damaged by heart attack

Wine grape genome decoded, flavour genes found

PhysOrg news: Wine grape genome decoded, flavour genes found

BBC NEWS | Europe | Fight to save Olympic birthplace

Fires burn inside the historic site of ancient Olympia, but the famous ruins and museum are safe, officials say.

A Return to That Drop-Dead Year 1960 - New York Times

To a style aficionado, “Mad Men” is that rare TV show in which an ashtray, a lipstick or an aerosol tin gets star treatment.

Gambling Dispute With a Tiny Country Puts U.S. in a Bind - New York Times

A trade dispute filed by Antigua and Barbuda, a Caribbean nation with dozens of online casinos, challenges Washington’s effort to prohibit online gambling.

Researchers freeze ovaries, put them back

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Are civil unions a 600-year-old tradition?

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Toxic shock: immune system's anthrax link

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Free will takes flight: how our brains respond to an approaching menace

PhysOrg news: Free will takes flight: how our brains respond to an approaching menace

Researchers learn to control the dimensions of metal oxide nanotubes

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Sony Develops 'Bio Battery' Generating Electricity from Sugar

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Hackers Take Down the Most Wired Country in Europe

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Using life's building blocks to control nanoparticle assembly

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Of Church and Steak: Farming for the Soul - New York Times

In the past few years protecting the environment has emerged as a religious issue. Now, something similar is taking place in the way people of faith view their daily bread.

Researchers look at fosil fuel impacts

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Google Sky Turns Computer Into Telescope

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Nina Berman - Art - Review - New York Times

Nina Berman’s photographs of wounded Iraq war veterans have been traveling the country, and 10 are now at the Jen Bekman Gallery.

Most Dangerous Object in the Office This Month: $2 Pocket Shots

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Blueprints drawn up for quantum computer RAM - tech - 21 August 2007 - New Scientist Tech

Physicists have come up with a method for retrieving quantum information that they say will make total recall more reliable

Two Studios to Support HD DVD Over Rival - New York Times

Paramount and DreamWorks Animation said they would exclusively back the HD DVD format for the release of high-definition movies on disc.

84 Years Old and Still Driving His First Car - New York Times

Clarence Cleveland Curtiss bought his car in 1938 for $10.

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Like Ducks and Penguins, With Nervous Stomachs - New York Times

A Queens College biology student has been traveling to an island in New York Harbor to study the feeding habits of cormorants, which are prodigious vomiters.

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Soldiering On, Home to Home, in a Squeezed Health System - New York Times

Annelisa Purdie is an administrator, a teacher, scold, backstop, cheerleader — within the limited number of visits allotted by insurance.

Ancient Protein Tells a Story of Changing Functions - New York Times

Scientists have pinpointed mutations in an ancient protein that transformed its shape and function more than 400 million years ago.

Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster - Dana Thomas - Books - Review - New York Times

Dana Thomas has written a crisp, witty social history that’s as entertaining as it is informative.

Helping the carbon nanotube industry avoid mega-mistakes of the past

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In Japan, 3D images in your pocket

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Tots Getting Internet Identity at Birth

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Researchers discover 'exotic' interface between two materials

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BBC NEWS | Europe | The secret history of the Nazi mascot

The story of a Jewish boy adopted by the SS who spent his childhood as a Nazi mascot.

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Gunplay blamed for Internet slowdown - Network World

ISPs in the U.S. experienced a service slowdown Monday after fiber-optic cables near Cleveland were apparently sabotaged by gunfire.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Rare dead star found near Earth

Astronomers spot a space oddity in Earth's cosmic neighbourhood - a dead star with some unusual characteristics.

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Discovering How the Maya Fed the Multitude - New York Times

Archaeologists have reported finding what could be the earliest evidence for domestication of manioc in the Americas.

The Pernicious Allure of Lead - New York Times

The 82nd item on Mendeleev’s menu of the elements showed signs of trouble from early on.

Science of Magic - New York Times

Some magicians have intuitively mastered some of the lessons being learned in the laboratory about the limits of cognition and attention.

Rocket-powered mechanical arm could revolutionize prosthetics

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Online gamers rehearse real-world epidemics

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Thai university students win Microsoft 2007 Imagine Cup

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Buy Low, Divorce High - New York Times

After home prices rise,
unhappy couples realize
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Water, Water Everywhere, but Guilt by the Bottleful - New York Times

What was a healthy convenience is becoming a symbol of waste.

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Worlds Weirdest Animals and Creatures - Life in the Fast Lane

Our planet Earth is populated well enough with bizarre and astonishing creatures without the need for resorting to fiction. Some are rare -- some are on the verge of extinction. Here are but a mere handful of 24 of the most peculiar creatures known to mankind.

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Instructables How to save water in gardens and small-holdings: the Scrooge Bottle.

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US Slipping in Life Expectancy Rankings

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MIT creates 3-D images of living cell

PhysOrg news: MIT creates 3-D images of living cell

Draining away brain's toxic protein to stop Alzheimer's

PhysOrg news: Draining away brain's toxic protein to stop Alzheimer's

The Man Who Set Film Free - New York Times

In “L’Avventura” and other works, Michelangelo Antonioni showed the possibilities not only of cinema, but of life.

The Man Who Asked Hard Questions - New York Times

Behind Ingmar Bergman’s unblinking inquiries of God
and death and love was a filmmaker’s filmmaker.

Nantucket’s Medical Mr. Fix-It for Whatever Happens to Ail You - New York Times

Dr. Timothy Lepore’s patients include the summer rich with questions about Botox and construction workers with sawed-off fingers or ears.

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Italy probe unearths huge Iraq arms deal - Yahoo! News

In a hidden corner of Rome's busy Fiumicino Airport, police dug quietly through a traveler's checked baggage, looking for smuggled drugs. What they found instead was a catalog of weapons, a clue to something bigger.

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Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted): Bone Hormone Linked to Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes

Top Ten (10) Most Expensive Paintings Of All Time w. Pics | Karemar

Expensive Desserts | ForbesTraveler.com

This dessert, which debuted in March, was inspired by the success of the restaurant’s other gem-studded treat, the Bombay Sapphire Martini

Virent Energy Systems: Liquid Biofuel Fed Hydrogen Generator (TreeHugger)

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit - Books - Review - New York Times

In this stunning memoir, Ms. Lagnado gives us a deeply affecting portrait of her family and its journey from wartime Cairo to the New World.

Study Finds Genetic Key to a Kind of Glaucoma - New York Times

A new finding may provide a basis for devising new treatments for a leading cause of blindness.

Analysts See ‘Simply Incredible’ Shrinking of Floating Ice in the Arctic - New York Times

The area of floating ice in the Arctic has shrunk more this summer than in any other summer since satellite tracking began in 1979.

Three-tonne meteorite stolen in Russia

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Two proteins found on telomeres control DNA damage response pathways

PhysOrg news: Two proteins found on telomeres control DNA damage response pathways

Coil design confines plasma in stellarator fusion reactor

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Urban Legends Reference Pages: Questionable Quotes (Hermann Goering)

Did Hermann Goering proclaim that although 'the people don't want war,' they 'can always be brought to the bidding of their leaders'?

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Mexico's Drug Wars - Photo Essays - TIME

Photographer Anthony Suau documents the surging influence of the drug cartels in Northern Mexico and the efforts by police to maintain law and order

OHSU Turns Mouse into Factory for Human Liver Cells (08/09/2007)

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Energy geeks compete for coolest solar home | CNET News.com

Energy geeks compete for coolest solar home | Upcoming Solar Decathlon contest will judge 20 solar-powered homes built by college students. MIT's entry is already under construction.Photos: MIT's solar house | August 10, 2007, 4:00 AM PT | Martin LaMonica

The Cincinnati Post - Helping enemies in Iraq

For years, the list of enemies targeting U.S. troops in Iraq has included Sunni insurgents, Shiite militia and, more recently, a group that calls itself al-Qaida of Mesopotamia. The enemies list in Iraq also includes outsiders such as Iran and Syria, who

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When High Price Is the Allure - New York Times

This is the fourth consecutive autumn season in which a weak dollar has meant higher prices for designer clothing, yet merchants and manufacturers have seen surprisingly little resistance to the cost of luxury goods.

Turning a Beer Run Into a Relay Event - New York Times

The 197-mile Nike Hood to Coast relay race is a road trip punctuated by bursts of racing, including at least one middle-of-the-night effort.

Researchers find culprit in aging muscles that heal poorly

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'It might be life Jim...', physicists discover inorganic dust with life-like qualities

PhysOrg news: 'It might be life Jim...', physicists discover inorganic dust with life-like qualities

Scientists target future pandemic strains of H5N1 avian influenza

PhysOrg news: Scientists target future pandemic strains of H5N1 avian influenza

Ideally Ordered Nanohole Patterned Media Enables Capacity Potential to 1.2TB for 2.5'' HDD

PhysOrg news: Ideally Ordered Nanohole Patterned Media Enables Capacity Potential to 1.2TB for 2.5'' HDD

Render smoke and fog without being a computation hog

PhysOrg news: Render smoke and fog without being a computation hog

Scientists produce functioning neurons from human embryonic stem cells

PhysOrg news: Scientists produce functioning neurons from human embryonic stem cells

Arctic climate study reveals impact of industrial soot

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Threat Level - Wired Blogs

Ryan Singel and Wired News Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen explain the privacy and security issues you need to know about in Wired.com's blog, Threat Level.

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Nueva suspension electronica BOSE creada a partir de los conocimientos del audio.

Police Blotter: Defendant wins breathalyzer source code | CNET News.com

Police Blotter: Defendant wins breathalyzer source code | Man charged with drunk driving says his attorney needs access to the source code to fight the charges; state supreme court agrees. | August 9, 2007, 5:23 AM PT | Declan McCullagh

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At nine, Bethany doesn't 'feel right' without fake tan.

Baby Einsteins: Not So Smart After All - TIME

New research finds that brain-stimulating DVDs may not help but actually hinder babies' language development

China city traffic cops given 43 years to live | Environment | Reuters

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First a Hook, Then Ink: An Artist’s Catch - New York Times

Nature, art and food intersect on the East End of Long Island.

Morton Bartlett - Photography - Sculpture - Art - Review - New York Times

Morton Bartlett’s achievement gains new dimensions in a revealing show of his photographs, drawings and sculptures at the Julie Saul Gallery in Chelsea.

In Case of Apocalypse Later, a Plan to Ensure America’s Regreening - New York Times

New York’s municipal native-plant nursery is part of a global project to collect and store seeds from 10 percent of the world’s flowering plant species in case of disaster.

Cooking Up More Uses for the Leftovers of Biofuel Production - New York Times

Scientists, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are becoming increasingly interested in making more than fuel out of the raw materials for biodiesel fuel and ethanol.

Ethanol Is Feeding Hot Market for Farmland - New York Times

Skyrocketing farmland prices are stirring optimism, but for young and small-scale farmers, the news is grim.

Fossils in Kenya Challenge Linear Evolution - New York Times

Two fossils have shaken the human family tree, possibly rearranging major branches thought to be in a straight ancestral line to Homo sapiens.

Two dead as heatwave bakes US from midwest to Atlantic coast

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Love at first sight of your body fat

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China threatens to trigger US dollar crash - Telegraph

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Fat is the new normal, researcher says

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94 percent of spam-advertised online scams are hosted on individual Web servers

PhysOrg news: 94 percent of spam-advertised online scams are hosted on individual Web servers

Researchers developing diagnostic 'lab on a chip'

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A Few Transcranial Zaps and You're a Happy Genius

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The Father of Molecular Gastronomy Whips Up a New Formula

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ScienceDaily: New Way To Levitate Objects Discovered

Theoretical physicists at the University of St. Andrews have created 'incredible levitation effects' by engineering the force of nature which normally causes objects to stick together by quantum force. By reversing this phenomenon, known as Casimir force, the scientists hope to solve the problem of tiny objects sticking together in existing novel nanomachines.

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Entombed Microbes Flourish Again in Lab

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Potato chip flavoring protects concrete

PhysOrg news: Potato chip flavoring protects concrete

Side-to-side shaking of nanoresonators throws off impurities

PhysOrg news: Side-to-side shaking of nanoresonators throws off impurities

New Dark Matter Candidate Proposed

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From Fresh Ideas and Better Steel, Safer Bridges - New York Times

Aging spans may be troubled, but more recent ones are longer and stronger thanks to new ideas and technologies.

Natalie Angier - Its Poor Reputation Aside, Our Fat Is Doing Us a Favor - Science Column - New York Times

Fat’s bland and amorphous appearance notwithstanding, it represents a highly specialized organ, as finely honed to the task of energy storage as muscle is built for flexing.

Review - A Farewell to Alms - Industrial Revolution - Human Population - New York Times

Gregory Clark believes that the Industrial Revolution occurred because of a change in the nature of the human population.

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Wired magazine editors weigh in with their observations and musings on the latest science news in the Wired Science blog, including space, biology, disease, drugs and alcohol, geology, math, neuroscience, physics, religion, and television.

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Our featured photographer Lewis Bush's photographs of a nuclear fallout shelter in Switzerland.

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Chestnut tree poised for comeback | csmonitor.com

A hybrid, 25 years in the making, is designed to resist a devastating blight.

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A battle immemorial over the size of government. Today it’s about children.

Elk - Wolves - Aspen Trees - Ecology - Yellowstone National Park - Lamar Valley - New York Times

In the Lamar Valley of Yellowstone National Park, an “ecology of fear” keeps elk from a favorite food.

Obesity - Smoking - Depression - Friends - Eating Disorders - Medicine and Health - New York Times

We’re all connected, even when it comes to obesity, smoking and depression.

Health Care - Insurance - Children and Youth - Congress - Senate - House of Representatives - New York Times

A battle immemorial over the size of government. Today it’s about children.

What’s Good for a Business Can Be Hard on Friends - New York Times

Cellphone plans that encourage subscribers to talk mainly to people in the same network are having unintentional social effects.

In Silicon Valley, Millionaires Who Don’t Feel Rich - New York Times

Many members of the digital elite do not see themselves as particularly fortunate, in part because others have more.

New program color-codes text in Wikipedia entries to indicate trustworthiness

PhysOrg news: New program color-codes text in Wikipedia entries to indicate trustworthiness

Aztec Leader's Tomb Found

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Energy Search Goes Underground

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Wired Science - Wired Blogs

Wired magazine editors weigh in with their observations and musings on the latest science news in the Wired Science blog, including space, biology, disease, drugs and alcohol, geology, math, neuroscience, physics, religion, and television.

Threat Level - Wired Blogs

Ryan Singel and Wired News Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen explain the privacy and security issues you need to know about in Wired.com's blog, Threat Level.

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United Press International - NewsTrack - Top News - Bush beats Nixon for disapproval

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The Can't-Do Nation - washingtonpost.com

Even as rescue workers searched for more victims of Wednesday's deadly collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis, inspectors were dispatched to eyeball thousands of bridges nationwide, looking for other potential disasters -- of which there are, apparently, many. In a 2005 report, the ...

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Robert Dallek - Ouster By the People - washingtonpost.com

Polls showing President Bush's approval ratings in the 20s and 30s and a New York Times survey last month reporting that people across the country are eager for an end to the current administration suggest that this nation has a problem it's going to have to live with for the next 17 months -- a ...

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Second Life Avatars Consume As Much Electricity As Brazilians (TreeHugger)

The Perfect Road-Trip, Water Bottle - A 67 Year Old Design. (TreeHugger)

International Networks Archive / Map of the Month

Nose leads way for mouse on prowl | The Australian

PARIS: The enormous difference between male and female sexual behaviour may be explained, in animals at least, by a tiny organ in the nose rather than by any gender difference in brain circuitry.

It's not over for Coulter

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