SCIENCE / NEWS Thu Mar 15, 2007 @ 9:33am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- The clouded leopard of Borneo — discovered to be an entirely new species — is the latest in a growing list of animals and plants unique to the Southeast Asian country's rainforest and underscores the need to preserve the area, conservationists said Th.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Thu Mar 15, 2007 @ 9:32am mrmdc

SF Gate -- The anti-Iraq-war movement's concord with the Democrats is getting a testy edge as advocates accuse them of not moving fast enough to end the war that enters its fifth year next week, even though the party has controlled Congress for the past two months... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Mar 15, 2007 @ 9:31am mrmdc

CNN -- President Robert Mugabe's authoritarian regime came under growing international condemnation following a violent crackdown on a weekend gathering of opposition activists that has bolstered Zimbabwe's opposition movement. The main opposition leader, Mor.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Mar 15, 2007 @ 9:30am mrmdc

ABC News -- The World Food Program has launched an appeal for $1.7 million to help feed tens of thousands of Iraqi refugees who are continue to arrive in Syria and increasingly without the resources to sustain themselves. Worsening violence in Iraq has forced many.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Mar 15, 2007 @ 9:30am mrmdc

ABC News -- One woman committed suicide by setting herself ablaze after her father-in-law tried to rape her. Another set herself on fire because her brothers would not let her marry, preferring that she remain their servant at home. Yet another told her mother before.. Read More