Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 4:07 am, Over one day old
AP - Even with India's last-minute revival of a languishing civil nuclear accord with the United States, it may be too late for an election-year Congress to ratify what has been one of President Bush's top foreign policy initiatives.
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Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 4:07 am, Over one day old
AP - It's not just the American dollar that's losing value. A government agency has decided that an American life isn't worth what it used to be.
Read AP IMPACT: An American life worth less today
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Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 4:07 am, Over one day old
AP - President Bush intends to block a bill protecting doctors from a cut in their Medicare pay, even though Congress seemingly has enough votes to override his veto, a White House spokesman indicated on Thursday.
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Posted Friday July 11, 2008, 1:15 am, Over one day old
AFP - Research on large Middle Eastern families has helped scientists pinpoint six new genes implicated in autism, a new study published Thursday said.
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Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 4:07 am, Over one day old
AP - Harvard researchers have discovered half a dozen new genes involved in autism that suggest the disorder strikes in a brain that can't properly form new connections.
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Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 4:07 am, Over one day old
AFP - New evidence has emerged that a large plate of floating ice shelf attached to Antarctica is breaking up, in a troubling sign of global warming, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday.
Read Antarctic ice shelf 'hanging by thread': European scientists
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Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 4:07 am, Over one day old
AP - Lu Jun, a campaigner for the rights of millions of Chinese with hepatitis B, seems an unlikely threat to the Beijing Olympics.
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Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 4:07 am, Over one day old
AFP - As the world mulls over the conundrum of how to satisfy a seemingly endless appetite for energy and still slash greenhouse gas emissions, researchers have stumbled upon an unexpected hero: algae.
Read As planet swelters, are algae unlikely saviour?
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Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 4:07 am, Over one day old
Reuters - A newborn red panda rejected by its
mother in Amsterdam's Artis zoo has been adopted by a domestic
cat, the zoo said Friday.
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Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 4:07 am, Over one day old
Bloomberg - July 10 (Bloomberg) -- Former White House political director
Karl Rove, defying a subpoena, failed to appear before a U.S.
House panel investigating whether the Justice Department
prosecuted people for political reasons.
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