Gaining increasing global awareness, climate change is sure to be a hot issue during the next administration. Where do the candidates stand?
Coal fired power plants,? said McCain are being proposed to be built all over this country?If you can generate that power and set up a station that is powered by solar, by God I would love it, but you know we dont have that…
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But actor isn’t trying to be senator’s running mate: ‘Movie stars tend to have a little bit higher approval rating than politicians.’
Unlike some of his fellow action brethren, though, such as California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Smith said he's content to keep his political aspirations confined to the screen. Reminded that Obama has yet to pick a running mate, Smith…
By Lizbeth Diaz TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - U.S. motorists are risking rampant drug violence in Mexico to drive over the border and fill their tanks with cheap Mexican fuel, some even coming to blows over gas shortages and long queues. The gap…
“It's worth taking the risk even with the violence,” said a retired California engineer named Terry, who declined to give his surname, as he filled his red Ford pick-up truck in Tijuana, over the border from San Diego. “I…
The newly identified planets range in mass from slightly bigger than Earth to about twice as massive as Neptune.
Part of the reason that such unusual systems have been found first is that the detection method is biased toward finding large planets close to their stars. Both Dr. Mayor’s and Dr. Marcy’s groups use what is called the wobble…
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One recent week, William Shatner did something he hadn’t done for many years — watched the original “Star Trek.” It was kind of an accident.
"I haven't seen myself playing Captain Kirk in a long, long time," he says. "And I watched it now, from my perspective of 40 years later, and I thought, 'You know, that's rather good.' It's a starship…
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In 2002, he compared death rates among more than 1 million American adults who, as part of a study on cancer prevention, reported their average nightly amount of sleep. To many his results were surprising, but they’ve since been corroborated by similar studies in Europe and East Asia.
One of the reasons I like to publicize these facts is that I think we can prevent a lot of insomnia and distress just by telling people that short sleep is O.K. We've all been told you ought to sleep 8 hr., but there was never any evidence. A…
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) — Five Europeans rescued Saturday after an Indonesia diving trip went wrong had to fight off a Komodo dragon while they were waiting to be found, according to reports.
They were one of two groups of divers who entered the water off Komodo National Park on Thursday and were supposed to be gone for an hour, said an employee of the dive company, Reef Seekers. The second group came back after the hour passed, but…
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State health officials met with representatives of law enforcement and medicine Monday, another step in their legislatively mandated mission to define the “60-day supply” of marijuana granted in state law to patients with serious health conditions.
Although the health department sought public comment in an unusual set of workshops around the state before drafting a rule — which will start the clock on a set of formal hearings — Gov. Christine Gregoire directed it to seek…
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When Sheri Diehl, a Chicago-area flight attendant, got — and finally stayed — pregnant after four miscarriages in the 1990s, she contacted her supervisor and asked to stop flying immediately. Her biggest worry? Radiation. She knew the airplane’s shell didn’t protect her from the sun’s rays at high altitude.
At some time in your life, of course, you'll need a radiation-based medical treatment or diagnostic test. Radiation therapy may be the best way to shrink a cancer or save a life. But you should weigh each diagnostic test carefully, experts…
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Nine skydivers leapt from a plane in eastern Spain on Friday when the aircraft lost a wing and plunged to earth, killing the pilot and one passenger, according to the country’s Interior Ministry. The News network Cadena Ser, citing local witnesses, reported that four of the parachutists were injured, two of them seriously…
The plane took off from Lillo, in the province of Toledo. The cause of the crash was not immediately known, the spokeswoman said. E-mail to a friend Share this on: Mixx Digg Facebook del.icio.us reddit StumbleUpon Myspace | Mixx it | Share
