Archive for March, 2008
Monday, March 31st, 2008
The Polar Bear Conservancy will begin relocation of the first Arctic polar bears to Antarctica on Earth Day, April 22. The relocation will be the initial step in a planned five-year program to migrate 3,000 polar bears from the Northern Arctic to the southern continent of Antarctica. Scientists say polar ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
A polar bear shot outside Fort Yukon traveled farther inland than any previous animal of its kind, according to federal biologists. The bear, a female estimated to be 3 years old, walked about 250 miles to the Yukon River community.Read the full story
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
According to interviews and recent surveys, younger voters tend to be not just consumers of news and current events but conduits as well -- sending out e-mailed links and videos to friends and their social networks. And in turn, they rely on friends and online connections for news to come ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
There is no way that Senator Clinton is going to win enough delegates to get the nomination. She ought to withdraw and she ought to be backing Senator Obama. Now, obviously that's a decision that only she can make frankly I feel that she would have a tremendous career in ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
The Pentagon entrusted a 22-year old previously arrested for domestic violence and having a forged driving licence to be the main supplier of ammunition to Afghan forces at the height of the battle against a resurgent Taliban, it was reported today. AEY, essentially a one-man operation based in an ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
American researchers have pieced together a 10-second audio clip of a French folk song which they believe is the oldest recognisable recording of the human voice.Read the full story
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
After two decades, Sean Reid of Surrey, British Columbia, discovered that he had a son. Fred Turley of Des Plaines, Ill., learned he didn’t have a daughter. And Wendy Lieb of Lewis Center, Ohio, made certain she wasn’t going to be a grandmother quite yet.Read the full story
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Turns out the comedian has been quietly visiting soldiers at Walter Reed and Bethesda hospitals, trips he began in 2004 to better understand the Iraq war. "I felt that I was living in a world of theory," he told the audience, "but I hadn't touched the reality and the humanity ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Recent wave of violence includes 20 students killed since SeptemberRead the full story
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
A vast ice shelf hanging on by a thin strip looks to be the next chunk to break off from the Antarctic Peninsula, the latest sign of global warming’s impact on Earth's southernmost continent.Read the full story
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