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Thursday, October 28, 2004
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 'Hobbit' joins human family tree
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 'Hobbit' joins human family tree: "Scientists have discovered a new and tiny species of human that lived in Indonesia at the same time our own ancestors were colonising the world.
The new species - dubbed 'the Hobbit' due to its small size - lived on Flores island until at least 12,000 years ago."
ABC News: Scientists Find Ancient Hobbit-Sized People
ABC News: Scientists Find Ancient Hobbit-Sized People
BBC NEWS | Technology | Bush website blocked outside US
BBC NEWS | Technology | Bush website blocked outside US: "Bush website blocked outside US
Screengrab of georgewbush.com website, BBC
Access to the site is blocked
Surfers outside the US have been unable to visit the official re-election site of President George W Bush.
The blocking of browsers sited outside the US began in the early hours of Monday morning.
Since then people outside the US trying to browse the site get a message saying they are not authorised to view it."
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Understanding 64-bit PowerPC architecture
Understanding 64-bit PowerPC architecture: " Each of the leading microprocessor manufacturers has announced the availability of one or more 64-bit desktop processors, but differences exist in architectural design, fabrication, support, and intended use of each processor. This article looks at the critical issues in a few of IBM's 64-bit POWER designs, covering 32-bit compatibility, power management, processor bus design, and the manufacturing process.
When people talk about 64-bit computing, it's not always clear what they mean. Most often, they mean some combination of register width, bus width, or address space. For the purposes of this article, it means a processor with 64-bit registers and 64-bit addressing."
Sunday, October 24, 2004
mekentosj.com | Modern Cubism
mekentosj.com | Modern Cubism: "On June 29th we won the Apple Design Award in the category 'Best Student Mac OS X Project' for our program 4Peaks. With the prize came a beautiful metal cube as trophy that glows when you touch it. While showing the cube to everyone, most people asked if we knew what was inside and how it worked. How did the cube notice that it was touched? Opening it up would be a simple solution of course, but we were afraid to break it. Still, curious as scientists can be, we thought of something more elegant to answer the burning questions. We contacted the people of the radiotherapy department in the hospital to see if they perhaps could take an X-ray of the cube and reveal its inner being, just like people had previously done with a Titanium PowerBook and iPod. Unfortunately they told us that they did not have an X-ray machine, we should contact the radio-diagnostic department for that. Instead however, they did have something else: a cone beam CT scan that would even allow 3D reconstruction!"
Maarten Steurbaut - Rubik's magic Cube
Maarten Steurbaut - Rubik's magic Cube: "When I had my first fast DSL internet-connection installed (end 2001), I could finally start searching the web. But what should I search for? Because I'm an AFOL (adult fan of LEGO), I simply entered the keyword LEGO in my search engine. The first webpage I encountered was of course the official LEGO website. I wouldn't find anything interesting there, in fact I wanted to find other AFOL's showing their creations on a webpage. There were lots of them, some of them even better than others. The best webpages I encountered in this early stage of web-searching were LEGO trucks and heavy equipment built by Dennis Bosman (some of his models would fit in the 'Model Team' series), Original Technic Models by Jennifer Clark (the best of the best, considering my own interest in LEGO Technic), and Eric Harshbarger's LEGO pages (some of his models would really fit in one of the LEGOLAND parcs). In a later stage (after I bought my own Robotics Invention System) I also discovered JP Brown's Cubesolver.
When I saw JP Brown's Cubesolver I wondered why he built something this difficult. Why didn't he - or Eric Harshbarger - build Rubik's Cube first? That would have been much easier. At least I thought it would have been much easier before I tried to build it myself. In fact, their webpages inspired me to create something special out of LEGO elements: Rubik's famous magic Cube. I can tell you: it sure was a challenge."
Saturday, October 23, 2004
Yahoo! News - Lenny Kravitz sued over toilet backup
Yahoo! News - Lenny Kravitz sued over toilet backup: "NEW YORK (Reuters) - Four-time Grammy Award winner Lenny Kravitz is being sued for more than $300,000 (164,000 pounds) by an insurance company that claims the rocker let his toilet overflow into a neighbour's apartment, causing 'catastrophic water damage.'"
Sunday, October 17, 2004
Yahoo! News - Analysis: 8 States May Decide Election
Yahoo! News - Analysis: 8 States May Decide Election: "WASHINGTON - Eight states worth just 99 electoral votes are up for grabs in the closely fought presidential race, with the White House going to whoever conquers this shrinking battlefield."
Yahoo! News - Stem Cell Debate Focuses on Morality and Money
Yahoo! News - Stem Cell Debate Focuses on Morality and MoneyThe ball contracts tightly. It releases. Then it contracts and releases again, all in the span of several seconds.
The pulsating mass is filled with bone fide heart cells, created from cells of an in a dish of orange-pink Kool-Aid-colored broth in an incubator at a Stanford University laboratory.They came from stem cells and, if chance had treated them differently, they could have become skin cells, lung cells, pieces of brain or spleen — any body tissue at all.
Yahoo! News - Mars Rovers Growing Old on the Job
Yahoo! News - Mars Rovers Growing Old on the Job: "Nights are long. The sun is a shrunken orb, appearing half its size from Earth. With temperatures plunging to a heart-stopping minus 175 degrees, there is little relief from the alien chill."
Yahoo! News - Election to Be Scrutinized for Irregularities
Yahoo! News - Election to Be Scrutinized for Irregularities: "Mounting concerns about voter registration foul-ups, election machine defects and other problems that might undermine the presidential election have spurred dozens of organizations to plan extraordinary efforts to scrutinize the polls on Nov. 2."
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "BEIJING (Reuters) - The retrievable chamber of China's 20th recoverable satellite returned to Earth with a bang, crashing through the roof of a house, the Beijing News says.
'The capsule returned back to Earth safely on Friday, but unfortunately it hit a four-storey civilian house,' the newspaper said, showing a photograph of a house in Penglai in southwestern Sichuan province that looked as if it had been all but destroyed, with wooden rafters, bricks and tiles scattered around."
Yahoo! News - India, U.S. Discuss Anti-Hacker Alerts
Yahoo! News - India, U.S. Discuss Anti-Hacker Alerts: "NEW DELHI - India and the United States agreed Wednesday to develop new ways of securing data and to expand cooperation to protect networks from destructive viruses and computer hackers.
The two countries reached the agreement at the end of a two-day conference Wednesday of the main information technology industry organizations of India and the United States."
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "CHICAGO (Reuters) - The dreaded Northern Snakehead, a voracious predator dubbed the 'Frankenfish' that can breathe out of water and wriggle across land, has invaded the Great Lakes, authorities said on Friday.
Scientists with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources identified the 18-inch-long (46-cm-long), sharp-toothed fish netted over the weekend in a harbor near Chicago's downtown by a fisherman, who put it in his freezer and posted a photograph of the creature on the Internet."
Yahoo! News - U.S. Bioterror Plan Frustrates Industry
Yahoo! News - U.S. Bioterror Plan Frustrates Industry: "SAN DIEGO - When President Bush (news - web sites) signed Project BioShield into law in July, he said he was immediately making $5.6 billion available to counter such anticipated threats as smallpox genetically engineered to render current vaccines useless."
Yahoo! News - Automakers Display Eco-Friendly Cars
Yahoo! News - Automakers Display Eco-Friendly Cars: "ANTING, China - The Habo No. 1 looks like any one of the legions of Volkswagen sedans in China. But a peek under the hood reveals an array of chrome canisters in place of the usual engine."
Yahoo! News - Unlikely Visionary Behind Race to Space
Yahoo! News - Unlikely Visionary Behind Race to SpaceSpaceShipOne visionary Peter Diamandis wasn't thinking about history as he stood in the Mojave desert and watched a small, shuttlecock-shaped craft glide back to Earth having nudged the edge of space.
He just thought it looked beautiful.
It was only the following day, after the thousands of cheering spectators had disappeared, after the jubilant speeches had dried up along with the champagne, as Diamandis was driving his father back to Los Angeles, that euphoria — and relief — swept over him.
Yahoo! News - Google's Desktop Search is valuable, yet creepy
Yahoo! News - Google's Desktop Search is valuable, yet creepy: "Google's new Desktop Search software is a muscle car among search engines, racing through personal data stored inside your computer to instantly find things you can't easily locate."
Yahoo! News - Broadband Duopoly Calms Cable, Telecom Battles
Yahoo! News - Broadband Duopoly Calms Cable, Telecom Battles: "LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - The long-promised battle between U.S. cable and telephone companies has so far been more of an uneasy peace. Thanks to their duopoly over broadband Internet access, it may stay that way.
Although the two industries face several competitors for voice and video customers, they now control about 97 percent of the 30 million U.S. broadband Internet lines to homes. Cable companies hold roughly 60 percent, but the dominant local telephone companies have been gaining more users this year."
The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Q&A: Linus Torvalds, inventor of Linux
The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Q&A: Linus Torvalds, inventor of Linux: "Linus Torvalds [pronounced LEE-nus] started a revolution of sorts in the computer industry when he created the Linux operating system and decided to share it with fellow programmers on the Internet.
He discussed via e-mail his move to Portland, the state of Linux and Microsoft."
Saturday, October 16, 2004
Yahoo! News - Pregnant Woman Caught After Jail Escape
Yahoo! News - Pregnant Woman Caught After Jail Escape: "EAST GREENWICH, N.J. - An expectant mother who climbed over a fence topped with razor wire to escape from the Gloucester County Women's Correctional Facility was captured Friday, authorities said."
Yahoo! News - UNC Starts Pilot File-Sharing Program
Yahoo! News - UNC Starts Pilot File-Sharing Program: "GREENSBORO, N.C. - Four schools in the University of North Carolina system will participate in a pilot program that allows students to download music, movies and other copyrighted material on the Internet for free."
Yahoo! News - Data Miner Free From U.S. Law
Yahoo! News - Data Miner Free From U.S. Law: "It began as one of the Bush administration's most ambitious homeland security efforts, a passenger screening program designed to use commercial records, terrorist watch lists and computer software to assess millions of travelers and target those who might pose a threat."
Yahoo! News - Border Net Has Become a Noose, U.S. Firms Say
Yahoo! News - Border Net Has Become a Noose, U.S. Firms Say: "A veteran of the U.S. oil industry, Paul Fairbanks is accustomed to the chaos and bureaucracy of countries such as Venezuela and Nigeria. But in the three years since the Sept. 11 attacks, he has faced obstacles from an unexpected source: the U.S. government."
Yahoo! News - Army Reserve Unit Reportedly Balked at Risky Mission in Iraq
Yahoo! News - Army Reserve Unit Reportedly Balked at Risky Mission in Iraq
Yahoo! News - EU Anti-Terror Plan Wants Data Retention
Yahoo! News - EU Anti-Terror Plan Wants Data Retention: "BRUSSELS, Belgium - European Union (news - web sites) governments are pushing through contentious new plans to retain data from telephone calls and e-mails for a minimum period of 12 months as part of new anti-terrorist and cybercrime proposals."
Yahoo! News - Phishers No Tech Slouches
Yahoo! News - Phishers No Tech Slouches: "Phishing attacks are on the rise because scammers are increasingly using the techniques, tools, and tactics of virus writers and spammers, a security expert said Friday."
Yahoo! News - Jumbo Flying Squid Found Off Alaska
Yahoo! News - Jumbo Flying Squid Found Off Alaska: "SITKA, Alaska - A large Humboldt squid caught offshore from Sitka is among numerous sightings of a species seen for the first time in waters of the Far North, and the first of the species recovered from British Columbia waters.
The 5-foot Dosidicus gigas, or jumbo flying squid, was shipped this week to California to be kept for research at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History."
Friday, October 15, 2004
Yahoo! News - Anti-Bush Thong Protest Charges Dropped
Yahoo! News - Anti-Bush Thong Protest Charges DroppedHARRISBURG, Pa. - Prosecutors dropped the charges Friday against six men arrested for protesting the Abu Ghraib prison-abuse scandal by stripping down to their thong underwear and forming a human pyramid during a visit by President Bush (news - web sites).
Lancaster County District Attorney Donald R. Totaro said prosecutors would not have been able to prove the defendants' actions served "no legitimate purpose" — a requirement under the state's disorderly conduct law.
"The mere presence of unwilling viewers does not determine whether unwelcome views are prohibited from public forums," he said.
He said that pressing charges "would only serve to advance the agenda of six protesters through a very public forum."
Yahoo! News - Italy's "escape king" jail breaks again
Yahoo! News - Italy's "escape king" jail breaks again: "ROME (Reuters) - Italy's 'escape king' Max Leitner has broken out of prison for a fourth time, staging his latest mystery jail-break overnight along with a Mafia arms trafficker.
Guards opened their cells on Friday morning to find only dummies, made of rags and cardboard, lying where the men should have been, Italian media reported."
Yahoo! News - Turtle Falls From High-Rise, but Survives
Yahoo! News - Turtle Falls From High-Rise, but Survives: "HONG KONG - Turtles are considered a symbol of good luck in Hong Kong, but try telling that to the taxi driver whose car was hit and damaged by a big one that plummeted from a high-rise building.
The pet turtle climbed through an apartment window on Thursday and fell more than 10 stories onto the taxi's roof, which was scratched and dented, police spokesman Anson Lo told The Associated Press on Friday."
Yahoo! News - Doctor Says Woman Has Sleep-Sex Disorder
Yahoo! News - Doctor Says Woman Has Sleep-Sex Disorder: "CANBERRA, Australia - A woman seduced and had sex with strangers while she slept and later had no recollection of her infidelities due to a sleeping disorder, her Sydney doctor said Thursday.
The middle-aged woman had no idea that she was sneaking from her house at night in search of sex with random strangers until her partner awoke, discovered she was missing from the bedroom, and found her having sex with another man, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital sleep medicine physician Peter Buchanan told The Sydney Morning Herald."
Car computer hobbyists hack XM Radio | CNET News.com
Car computer hobbyists hack XM Radio | CNET News.com: "A band of car and computer hobbyists has reconnected the XM Radio broadcasts to PCs, after the satellite radio company discontinued hardware that was being used to copy and archive digital music from the service."
Seagate's Savvio SCSI hard drive - The Tech Report - Page 1
Seagate's Savvio SCSI hard drive - The Tech Report - Page 1Seagate's Savvio 2.5" SCSI hard drive
Honey, Seagate shrunk SCSI
by Geoff Gasior — October 15, 2004
IN THE STORAGE WORLD, the notion that smaller could be better seems a little odd. After all, hard drive manufacturers have made a habit of pushing "bigger" hard drives that offer ever greater storage capacities. But hard drive size doesn't always refer to storage capacity. When it comes to physical size, smaller can definitely be advantageous for high-density rackmount raid servers, blade storage, and even small form factor and mobile workstations. Of course, size isn't everything for those applications. Performance is always important.
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "
LONDON (Reuters) - Dog-lovers are celebrating after a judge granted clemency to Dino, a German Shepherd sentenced to death for biting, in a case that had gone as far as the European Court of Human Rights.
Dino, a seven-year-old German Shepherd, got into legal hot water when he bit the hand of a woman who tried to intervene in his fight with her dog in January 2001.
He faced a destruction order, but his owners, who say the incident was out of character, spent tens of thousands of pounds on a protracted legal fight to save him."
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "Men more willing to sleep with their boss
Fri 15 October, 2004 17:53
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - More men are willing to have sex with their bosses to get a promotion or a salary increase than women, according to a Belgian human resources weekly.
According to the Vacature poll -- based on 12,078 Belgians interviewed -- 12 percent of all men would be willing to sleep with their boss to try to advance their career, compared to only 1 percent of women.
The survey did not reveal how many said they actually had sex with their bosses. It showed that 22 percent of males often fantasise about having sex with one of their colleagues, compared to 7 percent of women."
Yahoo! News - O'Reilly, Accuser Air Their Cases
Yahoo! News - O'Reilly, Accuser Air Their Cases: "Bill O'Reilly and the Fox News Channel producer accusing him of sexual harassment hit the airwaves yesterday in an increasingly ugly war of words as the anchor acknowledged that his career is on the line."
Yahoo! News - Mars Reconsidered: New Data Raises Fresh Questions
Yahoo! News - Mars Reconsidered: New Data Raises Fresh Questions: "JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming -- There is mounting evidence of the role of water in Mars' evolution. That fact appears to have been favorable to the development of life -- and the leftover calling card of past biology may be preserved in that world's geologic record.
Scientists from around the world have gathered here to present what is known, as well as agree on need-to-know essentials, at The Second Conference on Early Mars: Geologic, Hydrologic, and Climate Evolution and the Implications for Life."
Yahoo! News - Fertility Concerns Impact Breast Cancer Therapy
Yahoo! News - Fertility Concerns Impact Breast Cancer Therapy: "FRIDAY, Oct. 15 (HealthDayNews) -- Concerns about infertility resulting from breast cancer therapy influenced treatment decisions in nearly one-third of young patients, according to a study published in the Oct. 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology."
Yahoo! News - FDA Orders Strong Antidepressant Warnings
Yahoo! News - FDA Orders Strong Antidepressant Warnings: "WASHINGTON - All antidepressants must carry a 'black box' warning, the government's strongest safety alert, linking the drugs to increased suicidal thoughts and behavior among children and teens taking them, the Food and Drug Administration (news - web sites) said Friday."
Cisco Certification Books
Cisco Certification Books: "CCNA
Cisco CCNA Exam #640-507 Certification Guide, Wendell Odom, Cisco Press 2000
CCNA: Cisco Certified Network Associate Study Guide Third Edition, Todd Lammle, Sybex 2002
CCNP / CCDP
Cisco BGP Case Studies
Cisco CCNP Remote Access Exam Certification Guide, Brian Morgan & Craig Dennis, Cisco Press 2001
CCNP Switching Study Guide, Todd Lammle & Kevin Hales, Sybex 2000
CCNP Routing Study Guide, Todd Lammle & Sean Odom & Kevin Wallace, Sybex 2001
CCNP Support Study Guide, Todd Lammle & Kevin Hales, Sybex 2000
Cisco CID Exam Certification Guide, Michael Crane & Reggie Terrell, Cisco Press 2001
Cisco Internetwork Design Study Guide, Todd Lammle & Robert Padjen, Sybex
Cisco AVVID Network Infrastructure Enterprise Quality of Service Design, Cisco Press 2002
Cisco IP Telephony Solution Reference Network Design, 2003"
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "LONDON (Reuters) - Artist Damien Hirst -- known for putting rotting animals on display in museums -- is selling the contents of his iconic London restaurant 'Pharmacy', complete with its skeletons.
The restaurant, in London's Notting Hill neighbourhood, combined food with modern art, but its pharmacist's shop decor led some unwary shoppers to walk in clutching prescriptions. It shut last year.
Skeletons, apothecary jars and aspirin-shaped bar stools from the once ultra-hip eatery are among more than 140 lots due to go under the hammer at auction house Sotheby's."
Big green energy machines - The Industrial Physicist
Big green energy machines - The Industrial Physicist: "The Internet proves that to become larger, systems must become smaller. If every computer still filled the footprint of a 1960s mainframe, the Internet could never have succeeded. Miniaturizing elements from transistors to video display enabled the Internet to become pervasive and unintrusive. The elements also became less expensive, most famously in the case of chips. The shrinking of the parts in size and cost multiplied the whole in power, features, and reach.
During the 20th century, electric generators grew from 10 to 1 million kW, scaling up an astonishing 100,000 times. Yet, a power station today differs little in the space it occupies from that of 50 or 100 years ago. The Bankside power station in London, for example (Figure 1a), now a modern art gallery of the Tate Museum (Figure 1b), opened in 1953. Soaring 100 m high and occupying 3.5 hectares, Bankside provided about 200 MW at its peak. A comparable generator installed now might need 10% of the Bankside space; alternately, the site could host 10 times the power. As in the Internet, scalability and economies of scale triumph in the electric-power system."
Yahoo! News - Genesis Crash Blamed on Installation Error
Yahoo! News - Genesis Crash Blamed on Installation Error
Wired 12.10: VIEW
Wired 12.10: VIEW: "There's a pesky flaw at the core of our democracy: How do we count those who can't vote? Not those who don't vote (they can take care of themselves by voting). But those people who can't vote, because they're either too young or not yet born. How, in other words, do we reckon the future?
For most of history, this question didn't matter much. Before the atomic bomb, we couldn't really break the future. And before deficit financing, we couldn't easily bankrupt it either."
Yahoo! News - Indiana Commissioner's Car Repossessed
Yahoo! News - Indiana Commissioner's Car Repossessed: "CROWN POINT, Ind. - A Lake County commissioner's car was repossessed because the county stopped making monthly payments on the lease.
Commissioner Rudy Clay said the county wanted to buy the 2003 Jeep Liberty it had leased from Chrysler Financial but was unable to get an invoice showing how much money it still owed.
Commission bookkeeper Geraldine Stamps told the Post-Tribune of Merrillville that it 'didn't make any sense' to continue making payments. She said she finally sent the September payment on Tuesday, even though she still had not received an invoice."
Yahoo! News - Lost Pet Falcon Attacks Goose Hunter
Yahoo! News - Lost Pet Falcon Attacks Goose Hunter: "WARROAD, Minn. - It might have seemed like the birds were fighting back against a Duluth hunter on a recent trip to far northern Minnesota.
Dan Erickson was walking back to his blind with a Canada goose slung over his shoulder when he was hit from behind and driven to his knees.
A hungry peregrine falcon 'came down and smacked him,' hunting partner Bill Lord said.
Erickson dropped the goose and pointed his gun at the hovering falcon when Lord's 12-year-old son, Nate, noticed a bell on the falcon's back. He also noticed a piece of leather on the bird's foot.
It turned out that it was a pet falcon that had escaped from its owner in Canada. So the group let the falcon feed on a pile of dead geese and eventually captured it with an empty packsack.
An official from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources helped them return the bird to the Winnipeg falconer later that day.
'We just wanted the bird to get where it was supposed to go,' Lord said."
Yahoo! News - Drunk Man Steals Plane, Goes on Joyride
Yahoo! News - Drunk Man Steals Plane, Goes on Joyride
Yahoo! News - Circus Elephants Trample Homeowner's Yard
Yahoo! News - Circus Elephants Trample Homeowner's Yard: "STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A homeowner in southern Sweden filed a police complaint after four circus elephants broke loose from their trainers and ran into his back yard, trampling the hedge and the lawn, a police spokesman said Thursday.
Mattias Lindell, 29, said the elephants completely ruined his garden Monday, after animal trainers working for German-based Circus Mustang lost control of the pachyderms when removing them from the vehicles they travel in. The circus had put up its tent only a few feet away from his house outside Helsingborg, on Sweden's southwestern coast, Lindell told The Associated Press."
Yahoo! News - Police Search for Foul-Smelling Robber
Yahoo! News - Police Search for Foul-Smelling Robber: "BRATISLAVA, Slovakia - Slovaks were on the lookout for a foul-smelling bank robber Thursday after police said the thief had a nasty odor.
A gun-toting, masked man in his 20s, clad in a green sweat shirt, robbed a bank in the capital and took some $14,235 in various currencies, police said.
Police spokeswoman Alena Tosevova said what the bandit wore was not the most noticeable thing for workers inside the bank, but rather a strong smell which they reported to investigators.
Tosevova said it was unclear whether the smell was caused by the thief having stepped into dog droppings or whether he soiled himself during the robbery."
Yahoo! News - Pet Lizard Blamed for Causing House Fire
Yahoo! News - Pet Lizard Blamed for Causing House Fire: "MARY ESTHER, Fla. - A pet lizard is being blamed for causing a fire that severely damaged a house, killed the reptile and put a cat in an animal hospital.
The blaze began after the large orange lizard, one of Lynn Robinson's many pets, escaped from its cage Wednesday in this Fort Walton Beach suburb, said state fire marshal's investigator Gary Gazillo."
Yahoo! News - Man Admits Hiring Taxi to Transport Drugs
Yahoo! News - Man Admits Hiring Taxi to Transport Drugs: "RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. - A California man admits he hired a taxi driver to drive him and his concealed stash of more than 100 pounds of marijuana cross-country when they were stopped by a sheriff's deputy in Arkansas last year.
Brandon Coy Hill, 29, of Compton, Calif., pleaded guilty Tuesday in Pope County Circuit Court to possessing a controlled substance with intent to deliver. He was sentenced to six years in prison."
Yahoo! News - Papers: Litter Box Full, Woman Sets Fire
Yahoo! News - Papers: Litter Box Full, Woman Sets Fire: "PORT ANGELES, Wash. - Court documents filed in Clallam County Superior Court tie an alleged arson in an apartment complex to a smelly cat litter box.
Prosecutors on Wednesday charged Marie Adeline Calkins, 63, with first-degree arson, accusing her of setting a fire Tuesday in her apartment on South C Street. No one was injured.
She told officers she lit the fire because 'she was depressed and upset that her kitty litter box was full and smelled,' court papers said.
Judge George L. Wood set bail at $50,000 and ordered a mental health assessment."
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "
Models ace ballboys out of a job
Fri 15 October, 2004 13:33
MADRID (Reuters) - The centre court at next week's Madrid Masters tournament will look more like a catwalk than a sports arena after organisers decided to drop the traditional ballboys and ballgirls in favour of glamorous female models.
The organisers are reported to be paying the 25 women an average of 900 euros (620 pounds) to do the job previously done by enthusiastic young volunteers from local tennis clubs.
Coach Julio Nieto admitted that he had had a tough job in trying train up the models for the tournament.
'We have had to show them what the sport is all about,' he told sports daily As. 'We had to start by explaining what a game, a set and ace were and then tell them when and how to pass the players the balls.
'It's not going to be perfect, but I'll be happy if things turn out well and there are no protests from the players. Although personally I think that with such beautiful girls the players are going to be distracted.'
World number one Roger Federer leads the field at the tournament which gets underway on Monday October 18."
Yahoo! News - Mac Skeptic: Are Hackers Now Gunning for the Mac?
Yahoo! News - Mac Skeptic: Are Hackers Now Gunning for the Mac?: "In early October Apple released a small series of patches for Mac OS X (news - web sites) version 10.2 and later. Most of the fixes in this group blocked possible denial-of-service problems that are, to date, theoretical. For example, one addresses vulnerability in a Unix (news - web sites) printing system that might expose passwords to hackers, in uncommon situations."
Yahoo! News - Scientist Teaching Bacteria to Eat Coffee Plant's Caffeine
Yahoo! News - Scientist Teaching Bacteria to Eat Coffee Plant's Caffeine: "NEW YORK (Reuters) - In what could be a page taken from a science fiction novel, a scientist in his laboratory is trying to teach bacteria how to devour and destroy the caffeine contained in a coffee plant."
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "Human Lie Detectors Almost Never Miss, Study Finds
Thu 14 October, 2004 22:18
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As he lies, the young man shrugs, flutters his eyelids and shakes his head. Another, on a witness stand, grimaces for a millisecond as he answers a question.
Most people believe they could easily detect such lying behavior, but in fact most miss a good 50 percent of lies, says deception expert Maureen O'Sullivan of the University of California San Francisco."
Yahoo! News - FCC Approves Fiber-Optic Broadband Rules
Yahoo! News - FCC Approves Fiber-Optic Broadband Rules: "WASHINGTON - Federal regulators approved new rules Thursday aimed at making high-speed Internet available to more Americans. Critics contended the action will hinder competition in broadband services and keep prices high."
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "
U.S. Asks States to Probe Flu Vaccine Pricing
Thu 14 October, 2004 22:51
By Susan Heavey and Lisa Richwine
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health officials urged states on Thursday to investigate reports of price gouging by companies distributing scarce supplies of influenza vaccine and to prosecute offenders.
'It is extremely disturbing to learn of reports of price gouging by immoral individuals looking to make a quick buck off a public health challenge,' Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said in a statement."
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "New Technique Treats Heart Defect in Babies
Thu 14 October, 2004 22:53
By Karla Gale
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Cardiac surgeons at the University of Chicago have developed a technique for treating a severe congenital heart malformation that is less invasive than open heart surgery.
According to Dr. Emile Bacha, several thousand children are born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome each year in the US.
Traditionally, there have only been three options: heart transplant, major open heart surgery, or 'simply do nothing,' Bacha said at the American Medical Association's annual science reporters' conference in Washington, DC."
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "Study Confirms Ephedrine Diet Supplements Can Kill
Thu 14 October, 2004 23:00
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A study in dogs confirms that ephedrine weight loss supplements can kill, U.S. researchers said on Thursday, supporting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's action to ban them.
The supplements containing ephedrine -- originally a herbal extract taken from a shrub and also used as a decongestant -- had little effect on healthy dogs, the study found."
Yahoo! News - Vaginal Gel May Protect Women From HIV
Yahoo! News - Vaginal Gel May Protect Women From HIV: "WASHINGTON - A chemical specially designed to thwart how the AIDS (news - web sites) virus invades during sex offers scientists a new lead in the long quest for a vaginal gel that women could apply to protect themselves when men don't use a condom."
Yahoo! News - Study Suggests How Obesity Causes Diabetes
Yahoo! News - Study Suggests How Obesity Causes Diabetes: "THURSDAY, Oct. 14 (HealthDayNews) -- Scientists know that obesity is a key player in the development of type 2 diabetes, but exactly how excess weight causes the disease isn't clear."
Wired News: Lost Files? Google the Hard Drive
Wired News: Lost Files? Google the Hard Drive: "Google is setting its sights on the computer desktop with a new software program that promises to scour the clutter of documents, e-mail, instant messages and other files stored on hard drives.
The free desktop search program marks Google's latest attempt to become even more indispensable to the millions of people who entrust the company to find virtually anything on the web."
MDN: WaiWai
MDN: WaiWai: "Star-struck space lovers can now buy their own bona fide rockets, thanks to a Hokkaido University aiming for the stars, according to Weekly Playboy (10/26).
Earlier this month, Hokkaido University started putting its Camui rockets on the open market."
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Yahoo! News - Old Toilets a Good Habitat for Oysters
Yahoo! News - Old Toilets a Good Habitat for Oysters: "NORFOLK, Va. - In an unusual experiment two years ago, unwanted toilets, sinks and other porcelain products were smashed to bits and shaped into two artificial oyster reefs.
One such potty-reef was constructed in the Back River, near the runway at Langley Air Force Base in Hampton; the other was built in the Lafayette River in Norfolk.
Now the results are in: Toilets are a good habitat for oysters."
Yahoo! News - Man Found in Doghouse After Fleeing Court
Yahoo! News - Man Found in Doghouse After Fleeing Court: "JACKSON, Mo. - A man who fled from court authorities while facing charges of domestic and animal abuse was found a short time later in a doghouse.
Paul Oakley, 43, was in court Friday for a preliminary hearing on three domestic abuse charges and one of animal abuse for allegedly abusing his girlfriend and her pet kitten.
Authorities said he briefly escaped and was captured minutes later in a doghouse in Jackson.
Sheriff's deputy John Dace, serving as bailiff in Judge Gary Kamp's courtroom, stated in court documents that Kamp told Oakley his $25,000 bond was being revoked and he was being taken into custody. The judge told Oakley to take a seat in the courtroom.
Dace said he turned his back for a moment, and Oakley fled. An assistant prosecuting attorney saw Oakley leave and alerted Dace and others.
A Jackson resident sitting on his back porch spotted a man he thought was acting suspicious a short time later. He notified Jackson police when he noticed the man inside his neighbor's doghouse."
Yahoo! News - Washington Man Grows 1,229-Pound Pumpkin
Yahoo! News - Washington Man Grows 1,229-Pound Pumpkin: "HALF MOON BAY, Calif. - A retired Washington state firefighter who grows giant pumpkins in his spare time produced the winning pumpkin Monday at the 31st annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off."
Yahoo! News - Prison Raid Yields 29-Inch TVs, Luxuries
Yahoo! News - Prison Raid Yields 29-Inch TVs, LuxuriesMANILA, Philippines - It looks like prison life wasn't too tough for some of the Philippines' most notorious inmates. Authorities said Monday they had seized late-model flat-screen TVs, DVD players and stereos, assorted firearms and mobile phones from jail cells in the national penitentiary compound in the Manila suburb of Muntinlupa.
Bureau of Corrections Director Vicente Vinarao said he ordered the swoop after an upsurge in the electricity bill, and in line with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (news - web sites)'s order for all government offices to save on energy.
More than 900 assorted weapons — swords, knives, live ammunition, improvised guns and machetes — also were confiscated, Vinarao said.
Yahoo! News - Britons Fear Spiders More Than Terrorists
Yahoo! News - Britons Fear Spiders More Than Terrorists
Yahoo! News - Cemetery Puts in Artificial Turf
Yahoo! News - Cemetery Puts in Artificial Turf: "APPLE VALLEY, Calif. - The Sunset Hills Memorial Park cemetery is giving up grass in favor of artificial turf.
It's a move owners believe will save as much as $180,000 in water and maintenance costs over the next three years. The cemetery is the final resting place for cowboy stars Roy Rogers and Dale Evans."
Yahoo! News - Man Found in Doghouse After Fleeing Court
Yahoo! News - Man Found in Doghouse After Fleeing Court: "JACKSON, Mo. - A man who fled from court authorities while facing charges of domestic and animal abuse was found a short time later in a doghouse.
Paul Oakley, 43, was in court Friday for a preliminary hearing on three domestic abuse charges and one of animal abuse for allegedly abusing his girlfriend and her pet kitten.
Authorities said he briefly escaped and was captured minutes later in a doghouse in Jackson.
Sheriff's deputy John Dace, serving as bailiff in Judge Gary Kamp's courtroom, stated in court documents that Kamp told Oakley his $25,000 bond was being revoked and he was being taken into custody. The judge told Oakley to take a seat in the courtroom.
Dace said he turned his back for a moment, and Oakley fled. An assistant prosecuting attorney saw Oakley leave and alerted Dace and others.
A Jackson resident sitting on his back porch spotted a man he thought was acting suspicious a short time later. He notified Jackson police when he noticed the man inside his neighbor's doghouse."
Yahoo! News - Teen to Get Bill for $10M for Wildfire
Yahoo! News - Teen to Get Bill for $10M for Wildfire: "WENATCHEE, Wash. - The U.S. Forest Service said it plans to bill a teenager about $10 million to pay the costs of fighting a 16,000-acre wildfire.
Ryan Unger, 18, was cited last month for operating an off-road vehicle without a spark arrester, which officials believe started the August blaze in central Washington. Besides burning thousands of acres, the fire destroyed one home.
The Forest Service is required by law to try to recover costs of fighting forest fires. The state Department of Natural Resources has paid about one-third of the total $14.9 million it took to extinguish the blaze.
'It's not something we take pleasure in,' said Maureen Hanson, administrative officer for the Okanogan and Wenatchee National Forests. 'We understand a lot of these people don't go out to start a fire.'
Unger's father said the family would not comment when reached by phone Monday.
Steve DeFolo, financial manager for the national forests, said the Forest Service usually works with an individual's insurance company to negotiate a settlement."
Yahoo! News - 'High Street' Sign Is Among Most Stolen
Yahoo! News - 'High Street' Sign Is Among Most Stolen: "EUGENE, Ore. - The signs marking High Street have become a hot commodity and coveted dorm room decoration in these parts.
But what might seem like a sophomore prank is turning into a costly problem for the city, home to the University of Oregon. In the last decade, officials say they've had to replace the sign nearly 350 times.
Besides High Street, the University Street and Westward Ho Avenue signs are also frequently stolen.
The missing street markers are part of a backlog of about 100 signs that city crews will replace in coming months, said Damon Joyner, traffic technical team supervisor for the city.
'Sometimes they're hit by vehicles. Sometimes, they just seem to disappear,' he said. 'We've had instances of people just taking a chain saw to the post.'
Officials said last year alone, Eugene spent more than $50,000 on replacement signs."
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "Top US court setback for pirate hunters
Tue 12 October, 2004 20:54
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to examine a lower-court ruling that forces music-industry investigators to file a lawsuit to uncover the identities of people who may be copying their songs online.
Verizon Communications had argued it shouldn't be required to turn over customer names whenever it receives a notice from the Recording Industry Association of America.
Instead, Verizon argued the RIAA must file a formal lawsuit to get the names of suspected song-swappers, an extra step the Internet provider said would discourage frivolous requests."
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Experiments with mice show that ultraviolet A (UVA) radiation does not initiate melanoma skin cancer, but ultraviolet B (UVB) does.
Dr. Edward C. De Fabo of The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington DC, and colleagues, exposed mice to light of various wavelengths. This included UVA, UVB, solar simulation, an unfiltered sunlamp, and a sunlamp filtered to remove more than 96 percent of the UVB spectrum."
Wired News: Undecided Voter? Try This Quiz
Wired News: Undecided Voter? Try This Quiz: "For Roman Catholic Americans who base voting decisions on their religious beliefs, figuring out whom to support in the presidential election depends on where they turn for advice.
At the website of the Catholic Voting Project, the choice is unclear. The site posts a quiz in which voters mark how strongly they agree or disagree with a series of statements on issues such as stem cell research, nuclear weapons proliferation and immigration policy. Test takers then see how closely their views align with those of President Bush, challenger Sen. John Kerry and a citizenship guide written by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops."
PhysOrg: Global air pollution map produced by Envisat's SCIAMACHY
PhysOrg: Global air pollution map produced by Envisat's SCIAMACHY: "Based on 18 months of Envisat observations, this high-resolution global atmospheric map of nitrogen dioxide pollution makes clear just how human activities impact air quality.
ESA's ten-instrument Envisat, the world's largest satellite for environmental monitoring, was launched in February 2002. Its onboard Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography (SCIAMACHY) instrument records the spectrum of sunlight shining through the atmosphere. These results are then finely sifted to find spectral absorption 'fingerprints' of trace gases in the air.
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Monday, October 11, 2004
FOXNews.com - Foxlife - Out There - Dead Man Keeps Paying Bills
FOXNews.com - Foxlife - Out There - Dead Man Keeps Paying Bills: "Electronic banking can have its down side.
A Winnipeg, Manitoba, man died nearly two years ago, but thanks to automatic bill payments, no one noticed.
'How can that happen, for God's sake? Two years!' exclaimed Sam Shuster, a neighbor of Jim Sulkers, to the Canadian Press wire service."
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 'New' giant ape found in DR Congo
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 'New' giant ape found in DR Congo: "Scientists believe they have discovered a new group of giant apes in the jungles of central Africa.
The animals, with characteristics of both gorillas and chimpanzees, have been sighted in the north of the Democratic Republic of Congo."
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 'New' giant ape found in DR Congo
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 'New' giant ape found in DR Congo: "Scientists believe they have discovered a new group of giant apes in the jungles of central Africa.
The animals, with characteristics of both gorillas and chimpanzees, have been sighted in the north of the Democratic Republic of Congo."
Saturday, October 09, 2004
Developer Documentation
Developer Documentation: "Welcome to the Drupal developer's documentation. Newcomers to Drupal development should read the conceptual information provided in the 'Components of Drupal' section, and then proceed to examine one of the heavily-documented example modules below. The examples are fully-functioning Drupal modules, so you can download them from the contributions repository and alter them as you experiment."
MySQL Manual | 21 MySQL APIs
MySQL Manual | 21 MySQL APIs: "This chapter describes the APIs available for MySQL, where to get them, and how to use them. The C API is the most extensively covered, because it was developed by the MySQL team, and is the basis for most of the other APIs."
PHP: MySQL Functions - Manual
PHP: MySQL Functions - Manual: "These functions allow you to access MySQL database servers. More information about MySQL can be found at http://www.mysql.com/.
Documentation for MySQL can be found at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/."
PHP: mysql_fetch_object - Manual
PHP: mysql_fetch_object - Manual: "Some clarifications about previous notes concerning duplicate field names in a result set.
Consider the following relations:
TABLE_A(id, name)
TABLE_B(id, name, id_A)
Where TABLE_B.id_A references TABLE_A.id.
Now, if we join these tables like this: 'SELECT * FROM TABLE_A, TABLE_B WHERE TABLE_A.id = TABLE_B.id_A', the result set looks like this: (id, name, id, name, id_A).
The behaviour of mysql_fetch_object on a result like this isn't documented here, but it seems obvious that some data will be lost because of the duplicate field names.
This can be avoided, as Eskil Kvalnes stated, by aliasing the field names. However, it is not necessary to alias all fields on a large table, as the following syntax is legal in MySQL: 'SELECT *, TABLE_A.name AS name_a, TABLE_B.name AS name_b FROM TABLE_A, TABLE_B ...'. This will produce a result set formatted like this: (id, name, id, name, id_A, name_a, name_b), and your data is saved. Hooray!"
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "NEW YORK (Reuters) - This time rumours of a car bomb in a New York City commuter tunnel came from as far afield as London, and even though they weren't true, it was enough to set New Yorkers on edge yet again.
The latest illustration of the city's jitters came on Thursday when a car exploded in Weehawken, New Jersey, near the Lincoln Tunnel which links New Jersey to midtown Manhattan, killing its owner and occupant."
Friday, October 08, 2004
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "NEW YORK (Reuters) - This time rumours of a car bomb in a New York City commuter tunnel came from as far afield as London, and even though they weren't true, it was enough to set New Yorkers on edge yet again.
The latest illustration of the city's jitters came on Thursday when a car exploded in Weehawken, New Jersey, near the Lincoln Tunnel which links New Jersey to midtown Manhattan, killing its owner and occupant."
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "NEW YORK (Reuters) - This time rumours of a car bomb in a New York City commuter tunnel came from as far afield as London, and even though they weren't true, it was enough to set New Yorkers on edge yet again.
The latest illustration of the city's jitters came on Thursday when a car exploded in Weehawken, New Jersey, near the Lincoln Tunnel which links New Jersey to midtown Manhattan, killing its owner and occupant."
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "NEW YORK (Reuters) - This time rumours of a car bomb in a New York City commuter tunnel came from as far afield as London, and even though they weren't true, it was enough to set New Yorkers on edge yet again.
The latest illustration of the city's jitters came on Thursday when a car exploded in Weehawken, New Jersey, near the Lincoln Tunnel which links New Jersey to midtown Manhattan, killing its owner and occupant."
Yahoo! News - U.S. 'Almost All Wrong' on Weapons
Yahoo! News - U.S. 'Almost All Wrong' on Weapons: "The 1991 Persian Gulf War (news - web sites) and subsequent U.N. inspections destroyed Iraq (news - web sites)'s illicit weapons capability and, for the most part, Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) did not try to rebuild it, according to an extensive report by the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq that contradicts nearly every prewar assertion made by top administration officials about Iraq."
Yahoo! News - Senate Delays Approving Tax Law Overhaul
Yahoo! News - Senate Delays Approving Tax Law Overhaul
WASHINGTON - The drive to pass a $136 billion corporate tax bill hit a roadblock in the Senate on Friday when lawmakers upset about tobacco regulation, new overtime rules and combat pay employed delaying tactics to keep the measure from coming up for a vote.
Yahoo! News - Only Hussein Had Full Picture
Yahoo! News - Only Hussein Had Full Picture
WASHINGTON — Shortly before the U.S. bombing and invasion of Iraq (news - web sites) last year, Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) gathered his top generals together to share what came to them as astonishing news: The weapons that the United States was launching a war to remove did not exist.
Yahoo! News - Stern Vows He'll Rise Above FCC
Yahoo! News - Stern Vows He'll Rise Above FCC
Shock jock Howard Stern, whose raunchy antics have redefined talk radio while placing him at the center of a national debate on media indecency, told listeners Wednesday that he was abandoning traditional broadcasting for satellite radio — a money-losing, unregulated, subscriber-only medium that reaches a fraction of his millions of listeners.
Yahoo! News - Stern Vows He'll Rise Above FCC
Yahoo! News - Stern Vows He'll Rise Above FCC
Shock jock Howard Stern, whose raunchy antics have redefined talk radio while placing him at the center of a national debate on media indecency, told listeners Wednesday that he was abandoning traditional broadcasting for satellite radio — a money-losing, unregulated, subscriber-only medium that reaches a fraction of his millions of listeners.
Yahoo! News - Cops: Husband Plotted to Nab Wife's Purse
Yahoo! News - Cops: Husband Plotted to Nab Wife's Purse: "YORK, Pa. - Police had some good news and some bad news for Gloria Ent several days after a man stole her purse, along with $2,500 inside. The good news? They had some suspects. The bad news? One of them was her husband."
Yahoo! News - U.S. nuke city to correct Einstein misspelling
Yahoo! News - U.S. nuke city to correct Einstein misspelling: "SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Livermore, a California city that prides itself as a centre of advanced science, is spending thousands of dollars to correct many misspelled names on a city library mosaic, including that of Albert Einstein, a city official says.
The $40,000 (22,450 pound) mosaic outside the San Francisco area city's main library misspells the names of Einstein, the father of modern physics, William Shakespeare and other historical heavyweights. The city voted this week to spend $6,000 to fix the artwork."
Wired News: RFID Driver's Licenses Debated
Wired News: RFID Driver's Licenses Debated: "Some federal and state government officials want to make state driver's licenses harder to counterfeit or steal, by adding computer chips that emit a radio signal bearing a license holder's unique, personal information."
Yahoo! News - Webroot Gives Away Enterprise Spyware Defenses
Yahoo! News - Webroot Gives Away Enterprise Spyware Defenses: "Anti-spyware vendor Webroot Thursday rolled out two tools for enterprises that fight behind-the-scenes software plaguing client systems with ad trackers, keyboard loggers, and other spyware."
Yahoo! News - Malicious Trojan Pretends To Be Good
Yahoo! News - Malicious Trojan Pretends To Be Good: "Symantec Corp. is warning PC users about a new Trojan horse that terminates adware on a person's computer, but also deletes files and tries to download code from remote web sites."
Yahoo! News - FTC Files Case Against Spyware Suspects
Yahoo! News - FTC Files Case Against Spyware Suspects: "WASHINGTON - The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday filed the first case in the country against software companies accused of infecting computers with intrusive 'spyware' and then trying to sell people the solution.
The commission accused the companies of infecting computers with unsolicited software, showering computer screens with pop-up ads and then trying to get consumers to pay $30 to fix it. It is seeking an injunction to get the companies, owned by the same person, to stop, and to offer restitution to consumers."
Yahoo! News - Early T-Rex Relative Had Feathers -- Study
Yahoo! News - Early T-Rex Relative Had Feathers -- Study: "LONDON (Reuters) - The earliest known relative of the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex had primitive feathers, probably to help it keep warm.
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing found the remains of the early tyrannosauroid which roamed the earth between 139 and 128 million years ago, in western Liaoning, China, an area rich in fossil remains."
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bill to expand the use of DNA testing to protect the innocent and detect the guilty easily passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, but the outlook remained uncertain in the Senate.
The House voted 393-14 to approve the bill to promote wider and more effective use of DNA evidence, including post-conviction testing."
Yahoo! News - Scientists Create Genetic Map of Cattle
Yahoo! News - Scientists Create Genetic Map of Cattle: "WASHINGTON - For the first time, scientists have created a genetic map of a cow, providing researchers a new tool to reduce animal disease and improve the nutrition of beef and dairy products, the Agriculture Department announced Wednesday."
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists who synthesized two genes from the virus that caused the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic said Thursday they have a found new clues about what made it so deadly.
Between 20 million and 50 million people worldwide died in the 1918-1919 pandemic, the deadliest in the past c