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We knew that mangroves are extremely precious as a robust habitat, refuge and food source for hundreds of wildlife species as well as for humans. And they store a disproportionately greater amount of terrestrial carbon than a lot of other ecosystems
FAO said the aid would benefit a total of five million people, adding: "The food security of tens of millions of Pakistanis is at stake with the current planting season. The next harvest for wheat will not be until spring 2011."
ortable devices with painless laser beams could soon replace X-rays as a non-invasive way to diagnose disease. Researchers say that the technique could become widely available in about five years.
The motor's rotor is a long, coal-derived molecule called anthracene, which spins around an axle composed of two ethynyl units. Each end of this axle is connected to an electrode, and a third electrode – called the gate – is located slightly below t
The two package bombs intercepted by authorities in Britain and Dubai last week appear to have been built to detonate "in flight" and to bring down the planes carrying them, President Obama's top counterterrorism adviser said. "At this point we, I th
The Federal Reserve is preparing to put its credibility on the line as it rarely has before by taking dramatic new action this week to try jolting the economy out of its slumber. If the efforts succeed, they could finally help bring down the stubborn
A judge sentenced a former teenage al Qaeda fighter to 8 more years in custody, bound by a plea agreement that compelled him to ignore a military jury that said he should serve 40 years for war crimes that included the killing of an American soldier.
Former guerrilla leader Dilma Rousseff won Brazil's presidential election in resounding fashion on Sunday and promised to stick to policies that have lifted millions from poverty and made Brazil one of the world's hottest economies. The ruling par
Alcohol is a more dangerous drug than both crack and heroin when the combined harms to the user and to others are assessed. Scientists rated alcohol the most harmful overall and almost three times as harmful as cocaine or tobacco.
Robots have been used for entertainment, rescues, construction, manufacturing, teaching…just about anything the human mind can conceive of. And of course one of the things often at the forefront of human minds is sex. So why not with robots? David Le
One of the world's top oil exporters announced that has exchanged about $15 billion of its FX reserves into gold. Earlier, Iran announced that the country has converted about 15% of its foreign exchange reserves into gold...
The amount of money being talked about is scary, and all this apparatchik can do is deny she has any knowledge of the money or the authority to revue the Fed's books. May 12, 2009
"Radiation from the scanners has been underestimated," and that "because the beam concentrates on the skin -- one of the most radiation-sensitive organs of the human body -- that (the) dose may be up to 20 times higher than first estimated,"
Researchers hope handheld mobile devices will be able to one day read these digital strips of rainbow-colored barcodes -- much like supermarket scanners -- to identify different species by testing tissue samples on site and comparing them with...
Here was a 148-photograph document of a trip that a six-man delegation from the British Legion made to Nazi Germany in July 1935, during which they met not only Hitler but also the head of the Luftwaffe, Hermann Goering...
Given the "spooky" nature of the day, it appears to be the appropriate time to make the usual rounds. Let's start with Manhattan, where a judge seems to have done the right thing:
Sen. Russell Pearce is no stranger to the prison industry. According to NPR Pearce met with a group called the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), an organization consisting of state legislators and powerful corporations last December...
"Americans today are constantly watching their speedometers and trying to conform to every little rule yet there are so many rules that it's impossible for even the most honest and hard-working Americans not to be breaking some type of law...
WKA World Championship 2010 - Scotland October 2010 - VIDEO - Thanks to all of those FreedomsPhoenix Readers that helped make his trip possible with your donations. Jordan will be back in Arizona by tomorrow.
If you believe the phony hype……. We’re gonna take back our government! Pull Obamacare out by the roots! Why! We’re going to reduce the size of government and stop all this spending! We’re gonna have government for the people! Not corporations!
“You can’t patent my DNA, any more than you can patent my right arm, or patent my blood,” said Jan A. Nowak, president of the Association for Molecular Pathology, a plaintiff in the case.
The way this works is that the slower a ship sails, the fewer times it can make a round trip per year. Thus purposely sailing slowly reduces the effective supply of ships. It's a response to insufficient shipping demand relative to the size...
The president, who is "much smarter" and "more inspirational" than any of his opponents, could benefit from a confrontation with Iran because it would strike up a war machine that would pull the US out of economic stagnation, Broder argues.
How would like like a building material that is stronger than cement and SIX TIMES lighter?
It is interesting to note that RI as a percent of GDP has declined to a post war low of 2.22%. Some people have asked how could a sector that only accounts for 2.2% of GDP be so important? (The lowest level of investment in 63 years.)
There's a good chance that the server pouring your coffee and the parking attendant valeting your car has a bachelor's degree, or even a doctoral degree.
"How are we supposed to "throw the bums out" when we can't be sure that our votes against corrupt and criminal incumbents won't be flipped and counted for them?"
These guys really are getting obvious.
The major banks and their agents have for years taken shortcuts with their mortgage securitization documents — and not due to a momentary lack of attention, but as part of a systematic approach to save money and increase profits.
What we are witnessing is nothing less than the end result of a systematic design to defraud the American people of clear title to all residential property in the United States of America.
