11/29/2008 -
Fishy research leads to the plight of the blue crab
Yonathan Zohar is director of the Center of Marine Biology at the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute in Baltimore.
Source:
Baltimore Examiner
http://www.baltimoreexaminer.com/local/zohar112898.html
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11/27/2008 -
Mercer Arboretum and Botanic Gardens reopens
Mercer Arboretum and Botanic Gardens in Humble will finally reopen on Monday, Nov. 17, after the nature nook was left in disarray from Mother Nature?s offspring Hurricane Ike.
Source:
Humble Observer
http://www.hcnonline.com/articles/2008/11/27/humble_observer/news/47homercerarbo
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11/28/2008 -
Multiracial families see Barack Obama as 'Other' like them
Some consider the president-elect's rise as a form of vindication in a society that hasn't always been kind to those who aren't easily defined by race. A rainbow runs through Tyler Winograd's veins.
Source:
Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-multiracial-pride28-2008nov
28,0,2496216.story?track=rss
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11/28/2008 -
Epic History Of Kentucky Takes To Stage
Robert Schenkkan?s ?The Kentucky Cycle, Part Two,? directed by Trevor Biship for Cal Rep at the Armory, is riveting, monumental, powerful, panoramic, ambitious and wholly satisfying.
Source:
gazettes.com
http://www.gazettes.com/articles/2008/11/28/lifestyle/off_broadway/doc492daaf1f1
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11/28/2008 -
A really weird medical practice
When a four-bedroom house inhabited by 50 tenants partially collapsed in October in Honolulu, at least 10 of the residents said they had been pressured to let the property manager give them experimental "stem-cell" injections.
Source:
Corpus Christi Caller-Times
http://caller.com/news/2008/nov/28/a-really-weird-medical-practice/?partner=RSS
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11/27/2008 -
Even if You Can?t Buy It, Happiness Is Big Business
A recent conference of scientists, philosophers, navel-gazing Googlers and Tibetan Buddhists in San Francisco is the latest manifestation of the booming happiness industry.
Source:
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/27/us/27happy.html?em
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11/28/2008 -
Bird experts: Trim trees now to avoid baby bird massacre
Audubon campaigns against trimming in spring and summer nesting season
Source:
Orange County Register
http://greenoc.freedomblogging.com/2008/11/26/bird-experts-trim-trees-now-to-avo
id-baby-bird-massacre/1358/
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11/28/2008 -
New genetic resources for cereal crops
An Agricultural Research Service scientist has developed a special population of plants of the wild grass Brachypodium distachyon (Brachypodium) that will help speed up scientists' search for genes that could help wheat and other major crops resist diseases such as Ug99, a form of stem rust that threatens 80 percent of the world's wheat.
Source:
High Plains Journal
http://www.hpj.com/archives/2008/dec08/dec1/Newgeneticresourcesforcerea.cfm
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11/28/2008 -
Baggy green mojo goes walkabout
THIS will be remembered as the week Australian cricket lost its mojo, the week our much vaunted Baggy Greens succumbed to India while barely being seen to fire a shot in anger to stop it. Our blokes! The Baggy Greens! The Masters of the Universe, we thought!
Source:
Lithgow Mercury
http://lithgow.yourguide.com.au/news/national/national/sport/baggy-green-mojo-go
es-walkabout/1343176.aspx
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11/28/2008 -
Entertainment for the whole family in Las Vegas
Las Vegas for ... families? Yes, the Strip overflows with live entertainment, roller coasters, exotic animal displays, diverse museums and over-the-top swimming pools. It all adds up to a great trip, and we?ll show you where to take the whole family for fun in the Vegas sun.
Source:
MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27770016/
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11/28/2008 -
Pillowtalk: Graham Norton tackles readers' problems
Comedian Graham Norton on knowing when to give up in a relationship casual sex in your 60s and the perils of the office Christmas party.
Source:
Daily Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthadvice/pillowtalk/3530985/Pillowtalk-Gra
ham-Norton-tackles-readers-problems.html
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11/28/2008 -
Society is reflection on streets?
Does living in flats improve people's interaction? AB Mehta: Today most of the people in cities are living in flats, if you exclude those who occupied individual HIG/MIG/LIG houses unto nineties. Individual houses being constructed now are having common walls and are thus like flats.
Source:
Central Chronicle
http://www.centralchronicle.com/20081129/forum.htm
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11/25/2008 -
Missouri Chihuahua and offspring hit the silver screen
COLUMBIA, Mo. ? When Rhoda Hewett bought her Chihuahua pup, Rocky, three years ago she knew he had a championship bloodline. But she had no idea he was going to be a movie star.
Source:
Southeast Missourian
http://www.semissourian.com/article/20081125/NEWS03/711251994/-1/RSS
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11/28/2008 -
Movie Screener
Mark Herman crafts a taut World War II drama that packs a controversial wallop. It's Germany in the 1940s and the tenor is sheer apprehension.
Source:
Palo Alto Weekly
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/movies/moviescreener.php?id=002716&type=long
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11/28/2008 -
In historic schoolhouse, B is for Bat
Relocation: Lower Saucon plans to help colony graduate to a home of their own. It has a fascinating history, storybook charm and a possible place in a national listing of historic structures. It is one of the crown jewels of Lower Saucon Township, where students and visitors flock for a glimpse of what classrooms looked like more than half a century ago.
Source:
The Morning Call
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-b1_4bats.6685413nov28,0,2946752.story?track=
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