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Tree-Dwelling Mammals Climb To A Longer LifeChampaign IL (SPX) Mar 04, 2010 The squirrels littering your lawn with acorns as they bound overhead will live to plague your yard longer than the ones that aerate it with their burrows, according to a University of Illinois study. Scientists know from previous studies that flying birds and bats live longer than earthbound animals of the same size. Milena Shattuck and Scott Williams, doctoral candidates in anthropology, decided to take a closer look at the relationship between habitat and lifespan in mammals, comparing terrestri ... read more |
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Tehran (AFP) Feb 10, 2010Iran on Wednesday spurned a US offer to supply it with medical isotopes if it stops further enriching uranium as world powers warned the time for diplomacy was limited and the sanctions clock was ticking. The foreign ministry shunned the US offer as "not logical," after State Department spokesman Philip Crowley floated the idea on Tuesday when Iran said it had begun enriching uranium to 20 p ... more  
New York (AFP) Feb 10, 2010Google announced plans Wednesday to build experimental ultra high-speed broadband networks that would deliver Internet speeds 100 times faster than those of today to up to half a million Americans. The Web search and advertising giant said the envisioned one gigabit per second speeds would allow to stream 3-D medical imaging over the Web or download a high-definition, full-length movie in le ... more  
Kampala (AFP) Feb 3, 2010A US decision to freeze spending on treatment for HIV in several African countries has prompted concern that some of the gains made against the AIDS epidemic since 2003 could be reversed. President George W. Bush's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), launched in 2003, focused largely on treating patients in urgent need of medicine, but the new US administration's programme has shifted a ... more |
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Nigerian rebels threaten 'all-out oil war'Port Harcourt, Nigeria (UPI) Feb 4, 2009 A 10-week-old leadership crisis that has paralyzed government lies behind a threat by southern rebels to not only resume their war against Africa's largest oil industry but expand it with an "all-out onslaught" in which "nothing will be spared." Worse, the power vacuum caused by the absence of President Uramu Yar'Adua, who has been hospitalized in Saudi Arabia with heart problems since Nov. 23, threatens to rekindle the traditional rivalry between the Muslim-dominated north and the mainly Chris ... read more |
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