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MU expert looks back to debate 1 and forward to the vice presidential debate

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 29, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The 2008 presidential campaign has been running for a very long time, but we have now entered another phase with the commencement of the debates. Friday night saw the first presidential debate of 2008, between John McCain ...





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W. Africa's last giraffes make surprising comeback (AP)

W. Africa's last giraffes make surprising comeback

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil.


Medical aid group raises alarm about AIDS funding

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The global recession and pressure to divert funds to other health crises are hurting the fight against AIDS, a medical group warned Thursday, with one health worker saying he feared a return to the days when the ...


EPA to limit mercury emissions from power plants

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

The Environmental Protection Agency will put controls on the emissions of hazardous pollutants such as mercury from coal-fired power plants for the first time by November 2011, according to an agreement announced Friday to ...


NASA's Ares 1-X rocket rolled to launch pad 39-b at the Kennedy Space Center October 20, 2009 in Cape Canaveral, Florida

NASA is 'go' for crucial rocket test

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 25, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 5

NASA is set to blast off a prototype rocket on Tuesday that carries hopes of returning humans to the Moon, and for the first time to Mars, despite deep uncertainty about the program's future.


Panel says NASA should skip moon, fly elsewhere (AP)

Panel says NASA should skip moon, fly elsewhere (Update)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (12) | comments 23

(AP) -- NASA needs to make a major detour on its grand plans to return astronauts to the moon, a special independent panel told the White House Thursday.


US President Barack Obama speaks at the White House in Washington, DC after he won the Nobel Peace Prize

Congratulations, criticism on Web over Obama Nobel

Technology / Internet

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (8) | comments 12

The surprise awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama triggered a deluge of congratulations and criticism on Twitter and across the Web on Friday.


Falling public support for health-care reform can be turned around

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Survey results published this week in the journal Health Affairs show that while only 27 percent of adults currently support the U.S. Senate Finance Committee's proposed healthcare legislation, an amended bill could gain ...


Danger of swine flu is not what it is, but what it could become

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Swine flu is not a danger for what it is, the experts say. It's a danger for what it could be. That's why officials are pushing swine flu vaccine, which should start arriving as early as Oct. 6.


Feds weigh cell phone ban for bus, truck drivers

Technology / Other

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Safety investigators told federal regulators three years ago that it was dangerous for bus drivers to talk on cell phones while driving and recommended a ban.


Analysis: Time grows short for climate deal (AP)

Analysis: Time grows short for climate deal

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(AP) -- The man from the middle of the Indian Ocean, from one of the tiniest of nations, told his fellow presidents he knew "you are not really listening."



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