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EU to ban pesticides in bee scareThe European Commission will restrict the use of pesticides linked to bee deaths by researchers, despite a split among EU states on the issue. |
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US ‘acts to end prisoner abuse’Washington, DC - The US has taken extensive steps to tackle the mistreatment of foreign detainees and has court-martialled 89 troops, senior US officials have said. |
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Accelerating the internet to the speed of lightSydney, Australia - Australian scientists believe they are on the verge of a breakthrough in optical circuitry that may improve the speed of the internet by a factor of 1000. |
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Tearing down the Great Firewall of ChinaToronto, ON - Looking at them you might not guess it. But deep in a basement room on the University of Toronto campus, three unassuming computer hackers with messy hair and wrinkled T-shirts are working to tear down China's "Great Firewall," the most sophisticated Internet censorship system in the world. |
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New law protects provincial ‘whistleblowers’Winnipeg, Manitoba - Employees who report wrongdoings in the province's public sector would be protected under wide-ranging new "whistleblower" legislation introduced in the legislature Monday. |
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Caribbean Leatherback Sea Turtles Stage ComebackSt. Croix, US Virgin Islands - The first week in May marked the emergence of the first hatchlings from leatherback turtles nesting on Sandy Point, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. |
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Self-repair gene therapy promiseCologne, Germany - Gene therapy experts say they have found a way to persuade cells to repair themselves. |
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Archaeological park lets visitors explore, touch ancient puebloTucson, Arizona, USA - Besh-Ba-Gowah might sound like the name of a rap music artist or some kind of exotic Middle Eastern cuisine - but actually it's a place for a hands-on encounter with history. |
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Online calculator and chemotherapy order systems reduce medication errors in childrenBaltimore, MD - Two new studies from the Johns Hopkins Children's Center show that computerizing ordering of chemotherapy and other types of intravenous drug infusions for children greatly reduces the risk of potentially dangerous medical errors. |
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Bush directs food aid to SudanWashington, DC - US President George W. Bush today said he had directed emergency food stockpiles be shipped to Sudan to help ease a humanitarian crisis and called on the US Congress to approve $US225 million ($290 million) in food aid. |
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Australian Miners Walk Free After 14 Days Trapped UndergroundBeaconsfield, Australia - Two Australian miners walked free today after being trapped for 14 days almost 1,000 meters (3,281 feet) underground in a gold mine at Beaconsfield in Australia's Tasmania state. |
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Angola’s Unique Giant Sable Gets Second ChanceLuanda, Angola - There could hardly have been a better omen for Angola after nearly three decades of war: last year, the revered giant sable antelope, unique to the central African country and feared wiped out, was spotted again. |
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deCODE Discovers Major Genetic Risk Factor for Prostate CancerReykjavik, Iceland - Scientists at deCODE genetics (Nasdaq:DCGN) along with academic colleagues in Iceland, the US and Sweden today report the discovery of a common genetic variant that predisposes to prostate cancer. |
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Iran letter to Bush lifts hopesTehran, Iran - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has written to US President George W Bush in an attempt to ease tensions between Teheran and the West. |
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Military lab also tests products for disabledAtlanta, GA - A Georgia Tech lab was created during the Cold War to conduct tests for the military, but it now has a much more grounded mission: To find ways to make everyday items more accessible to disabled people. |
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Sweetener ‘not linked to cancer’EU - The artificial sweetener aspartame is not linked to cancer, according to a report just released by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). |
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Landing on Titan: The MoviesTucson, Arizona, USA - Scientists at the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL) have made two new movies of the Huygens probe's landing on Saturn's giant moon, Titan, on Jan. 14, 2005. |
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