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Whaling ship attacked by activists: Japan
Tokyo (AFP) March 3, 2008Militant environmentalists hurled stinging acid for more than an hour onto a Japanese whaling ship off Antarctica on Monday, hurting three crew members, officials said. Both Japan and Australia, the leading opponent of whaling, condemned the latest attack by the Sea Shepherd group, which has vowed to stop Japan's controversial expedition by force if necessary. Members of Sea Shepherd ... more Tiny Pieces Of Deep Time Brought To The Surface 
London ON (SPX) Mar 04, 2008Three-billion-year-old zircon microcrystals found in northern Ontario are proving to be a new record of the processes that form continents and their natural resources, including gold and diamonds. The discovery was made recently by an international research team led by Earth Sciences professor Desmond Moser at The University of Western Ontario. Measuring no more than the width of a human ... more Team Probes Mysteries Of Oceanic Bacteria 
Cambridge MA (SPX) Mar 04, 2008Microbes living in the oceans play a critical role in regulating Earth's environment, but very little is known about their activities and how they work together to help control natural cycles of water, carbon and energy. A team of MIT researchers led by Professors Edward DeLong and Penny Chisholm is trying to change that. Borrowing gene sequencing tools developed for sequencing the human ... more Outsourcing The Answer For EU Forces, Commander Says 
Brussels, March 3, 2008In order to fill critical logistical gaps in EU forces' crisis-management missions, the best solution could be provided by outsourced logistics contracts to the private sector, Henri Bentegeat, chairman of the EU Military Commission, said at a European Defense Agency conference. Although the private sector already ... more Humans Show Innate Ability To Detect The Snake In The Grass 
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 04, 2008Adults and very young children apparently have an innate ability to very quickly detect the presence of a snake from among a variety of non-threatening objects and creatures such as a caterpillar, flower or toad, according to a new study by psychologists at the University of Virginia. The study appears in the March 2008 issue of the journal Psychological Science. The paper is available for ... more |
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Evanston IL (SPX) Mar 04, 2008Although researchers have long agreed that girls have superior language abilities than boys, until now no one has clearly provided a biological basis that may account for their differences. For the first time -- and in unambiguous findings -- researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Haifa show both that areas of the brain associated with language work harder in girls ... more Criticism, arrests overshadow Medvedev landslide 
Moscow (AFP) March 3, 2008Western criticism and dozens of opposition arrests in Moscow on Monday overshadowed Dmitry Medvedev's triumph in a presidential election to replace Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Medvedev won 70.2 percent of Sunday's vote, crushing his nearest rival, Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, who got 17.8 percent, the central elections commission said. Medvedev, the first deputy prime ... more Culture-shaping elite go to TED for mind-bending inspiration 
Monterey, California (AFP) March 2, 2008Comedian Robin Williams scrutinizes grim images of abuses perpetuated by US soldier guards at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Actress Cameron Diaz twirls a lock of her blond hair with a finger as she leans back in a bean bag chair and listens to a vaunted paleontologist speak of an inevitable end to humanity's golden age in the cosmos. Queen Noor of Jordan debates with Google co-founder Serge ... more Britons waste $40 billion in food annually 
London, March 2, 2008Britain is throwing away nearly half of all the food it produces, costing the nation an estimated $40 billion a year, it was reported Sunday. About 20 million tons of food is thrown out each year, with most of it -- 16 million tons -- wasted in British homes, restaurants and hotels, The Independent reported. Lord Haskins of Skidby, a former government adviser on rural affairs and ... more EU, US file WTO complaint over Chinese media restrictions 
Geneva (AFP) March 3, 2008The European Union and United States said Monday they had filed complaints at the World Trade Organisation over Chinese restrictions on foreign financial news providers working in the country. The dispute has been brewing since September 2006 when China renewed the monopoly held by state news agency Xinhua, which prevents foreign providers of financial information services from dealing ... more |
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Schenectady NY (SPX) Mar 04, 2008Renewable Energy Systems Americas has signed agreements exceeding $700 million to receive GE Energy 1.5-megawatt wind turbines for projects in 2009 and 2010. GE Energy will supply RES with nearly 500 megawatts of new wind energy capacity, and will provide commissioning and operations services as well as maintenance support. "Throughout the United States we continue to witness strong ... more LS Power Becomes Strategic Partner In Carbon Capture Research Program 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Mar 04, 2008As part of its continued commitment to bring forward environmentally responsible energy solutions, LS Power Development has announced that it is providing funding and has become the Strategic Partner for the "LS Power Pilot Plant Initiative" under the University of Texas at Austin's existing carbon capture research program. The goal of the research program is to advance scientific ... more CCTI And Benham Support Commercialization Of Clean Coal Technology In China 
Coral Springs FL (SPX) Mar 04, 2008Clean Coal Technologies has announced that it has signed an agreement with The Benham Companies to support commercialization of CCTI's coal cleaning plants in China. Benham is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Science Applications International Corporation. SAIC has supported Clean Coal Technologies and its predecessor companies since 1996 in the advancement of CCTI's proprietary technology ... more Wind farms could drive bird species to extinction: conservationists 
Washington (AFP) March 3, 2008More than 60 years after it was pushed to the edge of extinction, one of North America's rarest birds, the whooping crane, faces new danger from environmentally-friendly wind farms, conservationists warned. "Companies want to put their farms where the best wind is, and that overlaps with the migration corridor of the whooping crane," Tom Stehn, the whooping crane coordinator of the US Fish ... more Study casts doubt on Mars water find 
Tucson (UPI) Mar 03, 2008A U.S. scientist said high resolution images raise doubt that liquid water has been found on the surface of Mars. Jon D. Pelletier of The University of Arizona in Tucson said topographic data from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows that a bright streak in a gully on the side of a crater is probably not water. ... more
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