links for 2006-10-23
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AP) — Mayor John Rayson has seen powerful storm winds toss his boat into the trees. He’s noted the fish he catches are smaller and less plentiful. He worries about a home perched just above sea level as ocean levels rise.
And so, he will go before hi
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EPINAY-SUR-SEINE, France (AP) — On a routine call, three unwitting police officers fell into a trap. A car darted out to block their path, and dozens of hooded youths surged out of the darkness to attack them with stones, bats and tear gas before fleein
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Jane Wyatt, the television actress best known to SF fans for playing Spock’s mother in the original Star Trek series, has died, the Associated Press reported. She was 96.
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A federal judge in New York has ordered a trial in a copyright-infringement lawsuit against DreamWorks and Warner Brothers, alleging that Michael Bay’s 2005 SF action movie The Island was based on the 1979 independent movie Parts: The Clonus Horror, Varie
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The result is that over the last two years the US military has actually created an environment that is conducive to a bloody and chaotic civil war. By partnering with paramilitaries, we accelerated the development of those forces that would take the war t
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An Army effort to count the number of contractors working or living in Iraq has foundered, and a spokesman acknowledged that the census, when complete, will not meet the standards set out when it was requested.
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Out of the population of 26 million, 1.6 million Iraqis have fled the country and a further 1.5 million are displaced within Iraq, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. In Jordan alone there are 500,000 Iraqi refugees and a further 450,000 i
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A company headed by President Bush’s brother and partly owned by his parents is benefiting from Republican connections and federal dollars targeted for economically disadvantaged students under the No Child Left Behind Act.
With investments from his pa
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Senior Bush administration officials wanted North Korea to test a nuclear weapon because it would prove their point that the regime must be overthrown.
This astonishing revelation was buried in the middle of a Washington Post story published yesterday. -
The proposal by the federal accounting standards advisory board (FASAB) – which would also require the government to account for benefits accrued under Medicare and other social insurance programmes in the same way – is unprecedented internationally.
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Until recently, the glut of pending cases was so large that President Bush’s vow in 2001 to cut the standard wait to six months or less nationwide seemed unreachable. Now immigration officials say they have more than met that goal, shrinking the average
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The Wall Street Journal on Saturday examined how forms that outline the medical privacy rule under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act “essentially detai[l] the many ways a doctor can use and disclose medical information — often witho
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Scientists of the CDF collaboration at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced today (October 23, 2006) the discovery of two rare types of particles, exotic relatives of the much more common proton and neutron.
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A new study has come up with the rather bizarre theory that watching too much television at an early age may trigger autism.
The study by Cornell business professors used the methods and tools normally used in economic studies to explore the theory that -
A set of activities identified in the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) new Global pandemic influenza action plan to increase vaccine supply requires immediate and sustained action and funding, if the world is to be prepared for an influenza pandemic to
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The New Jersey Assembly Health and Senior Citizens Committee on Thursday approved a bill (A 992) that would require New Jersey’s 9,000 licensed pharmacists to fill prescriptions for all drugs, including contraceptives, despite “any sincerely held moral, p
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Whether you find the government oppressive, the economy on a devastating course, or if you simply want adventure, you’re not alone. Over 300,000 Americans emigrate each year.
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For men with healthy lifestyle habits, drinking moderate amounts of alcohol may be associated with a lower risk of heart attack than drinking heavily or not drinking at all, according to a report in the October 23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
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When stretched, a type of adult stem cell taken from bone marrow can be nudged towards becoming the type of tissue found in blood vessels, according to a new study by bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley.
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U.S. scientists say they’ve found the common wood duck and laughing gull are susceptible to the H5N1 avian influenza virus and could transmit the disease.
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Jeffrey Skilling, the former CEO of Enron, was sentenced Monday in a Houston court to 24 years and 4 months years in prison for his crimes at the collapsed energy trading giant, according to media reports. Skilling, who stood trial together with Enron fou
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