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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

LIFE / NEWS Thu Mar 15, 2007 @ 9:29am mrmdc

News.com.au -- A RARE work by Charles Darwin, once owned by the naturalist's great-grandson, will go on display at the New South Wales State Library next week. The first edition of On the Origin of Species was purchased by the library at auction for $191,000 and is t.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Thu Mar 15, 2007 @ 9:28am mrmdc

The Register -- The landslide of bad news from Registerfly has continued, as ICANN created a forum for dispute resolution for this mess, and Registerfly customers desperately tried to shift their domains to other registrars before they vanished into cyberspace. The ro.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Thu Mar 15, 2007 @ 9:27am mrmdc

BBC News -- US oil giant Exxon Mobil is considering its future in Venezuela as the country's president drives through nationalisation plans. Exxon has said it will comply with a decree by President Hugo Chavez to hand over its multi-billion dollar Orinoco reserve.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Thu Mar 15, 2007 @ 9:27am mrmdc

BBC News -- US producer prices have jumped by more than analysts forecast in February. According to the latest Labor Department figures, prices climbed by 1.3% in February compared to last year. In January, prices dipped by 0.6%. The driving force behind the in.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Mar 14, 2007 @ 9:27am mrmdc

ABC News -- An avalanche swept away three cross-country skiers Tuesday, killing two, authorities said. The skier who survived was not buried and called for help on a mobile phone, Pitkin County sheriff's patrol director Jeff Lumsden said. That skier, Jason Luck.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Mar 14, 2007 @ 9:26am mrmdc

Associated Press -- Arkansas' grammar got a tweak on Tuesday - or rather, Arkansas's grammar did. Legislators will send Gov. Mike Beebe a resolution declaring "Arkansas's" the proper possessive form of the state's name, but the governor is way ahead of them. His office be.. Read More

EDUCATION / NEWS Wed Mar 14, 2007 @ 9:25am mrmdc

AZ Central -- Arizona State University has gone dry - at least for the next few weeks. University officials have banned alcohol in the fraternity houses on Alpha Drive near Sun Devil Stadium through spring break and until March 24. ASU instituted the temporary ba.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Mar 14, 2007 @ 9:24am mrmdc

mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp -- A curry that was boiled up with a rat in the pot has been served to 18 people at a noodle stand at JR Shin-Koiwa Station in Tokyo, the operator of the stand said. Nippon Restaurant Enterprise Co. (NRE), the operator of the noodle stand, has apologized.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Mar 14, 2007 @ 9:22am mrmdc

Guardian Unlimited -- Two-thirds of Canada's rapid population increase over the past five years came from immigration - a force that in coming decades will account for almost all of the country's growth, according to census figures released Tuesday. Unlike the United States.. Read More

ENTERTAINMENT / NEWS Wed Mar 14, 2007 @ 9:22am mrmdc

News.com.au -- SYLVESTER Stallone may be forever barred from Australia if found guilty of importing illegal human growth hormone. The Rocky star would have to seek permission from the Immigration Department to make a return trip after he was allegedly discovered with 4.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Mar 14, 2007 @ 9:21am mrmdc

Associated Press -- A small bar of radium is missing from a former uranium enrichment plant in southern Ohio, the U.S. Department of Energy reported Tuesday. The radioactive ingot, about the size of a medical gel capsule and stored in a glass vial, is not a health or secu.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 13, 2007 @ 9:56am mrmdc

ABC News -- An enormous mulch pile that has been spewing smoke for nearly three months could take another month to put out, a state environmental official said Monday. Firefighters discovered a section of the fire burning underground, creating the possible monthlo.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Mar 13, 2007 @ 9:55am mrmdc

TheSun.co.uk -- A BOY’S top lip was ripped off when his family’s dog tried to snatch a biscuit from his mouth. Nine-year-old John Henderson needed two hours of surgery after the attack by a Staffordshire bull terrier cross. He had a skin graft and must wait six.. Read More

HEALTH / NEWS Tue Mar 13, 2007 @ 9:54am mrmdc

Reuters -- High rates of mental health disorders are being diagnosed among US military personnel soon after being released from duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to investigators in San Francisco. They estimate that out of 103,788 returning veterans, 25 per.. Read More

LIFE / NEWS Tue Mar 13, 2007 @ 9:54am mrmdc

Telegraph -- The traditional theory of beauty says that for every man who chases the voluptuous type, such as Jordan or Marilyn Monroe, there is another who prefers to woo a waif such as Twiggy or Kate Moss. But this and the idea that beauty is subjective and ever-.. Read More