240 News Items Found. Displaying Results 81-90
| 15:14:39 GMT - 2008-08-31 |
| Bush to skip Republican convention
(Reuters)
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
President George W. Bush will not
attend the Republican convention and will instead address the
assembly via satellite so he...
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| 14:51:07 GMT - 2008-08-31 |
| Changing of the guard: Talks over bearskin hats
(AFP)
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LONDON (AFP) -
Military chiefs are to meet with an animal rights group on Tuesday to discuss alternatives to the traditional bearskin hats famously w...
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| 17:44:07 GMT - 2008-08-30 |
| Plague threatens prairie dogs, endangered ferrets
(AP)
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INTERIOR, S.D. - On the grasslands a few miles from the pinnacles and spires of Badlands National Park, federal wildlife officials have been waging a ...
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| 16:09:06 GMT - 2008-08-30 |
| Lights out? Experts fear fireflies are dwindling
(AP)
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BAN LOMTUAN, Thailand - Preecha Jiabyu used to take tourists on a rowboat to see the banks of the Mae Klong River aglow with thousands of fireflies. ...
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| 10:20:30 GMT - 2008-08-28 |
| Cells change identity in promising breakthrough
(AP)
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NEW YORK - Talk about an extreme makeover: Scientists have transformed one type of cell into another in living mice, a big step toward the goal of gro...
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| 19:26:25 GMT - 2008-08-27 |
| Growing new ear hairs that can boost hearing: study
(AFP)
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PARIS (AFP) -
Scientists have used gene therapy on mouse embryos to grow hair cells with the potential to reduce hearing loss in adult animals, accor...
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| 07:27:58 GMT - 2008-08-27 |
| Japan celebrates birth of panda
(AFP)
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TOKYO (AFP) -
A giant panda cub has been born at a Japanese zoo, the first to be successfully bred in Japan through artificial insemination in two de...
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| 20:45:26 GMT - 2008-08-26 |
| Hijackers force Sudanese plane to Libya
(Reuters)
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) -
The men who hijacked a Sudanese
passenger plane to Libya are from a branch of the Sudan
Liberation Movement (SLM), one of the ...
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| 21:02:43 GMT - 2008-08-25 |
| Cows seem to know which way is north
(AP)
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WASHINGTON - Talk about animal magnetism, cows seem to have a built-in compass. No bull: Somehow, cattle seem to know how to find north and south, say...
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| 21:01:21 GMT - 2008-08-25 |
| Monkeys reward friends and relatives
(AP)
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WASHINGTON - For capuchin monkeys, it seems, it's better to both give and receive, than just to receive. At least, that's what researchers at the Yerk...
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