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2 hrs ago | Boston.com

Scientists: New dinosaur species found in SAfrica

Scientists say they've discovered a new dinosaur species in South Africa that may help explain how the creatures evolved into the largest animals on land.

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Related Topix: Dinosaur, Paleontology

6 hrs ago | Seattle's WB

US crop production estimates may ease fears about rainy harvest season cutting into production

Newly released estimates for U.S. wheat, corn and soybean crops may put to rest fears that a wet harvest season in many parts of the country could cut into production.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, US News, United States Department of Agriculture, Minnesota, Marketing

Tue Nov 10, 2009

NY Daily News

Vatican looks to heavens for signs of alien life

Pope Benedict XVI has made strengthening the relationship between faith and reason a key aspect of his papacy.

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Related Topix: Roman Catholic Church, Religion, Pope Benedict XVI, Astronomy, Biology, University of Arizona

Newsday.com

Ex-Gates Foundation exec named foreign aid chief

President Barack Obama has chosen Rajiv Shah, a medical doctor and currently a senior official at the Department of Agriculture dealing with food security, to run the U.S. Agency for International Development, the officials said.

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Related Topix: Charitable Organizations, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Agriculture, Hillary Clinton

www.scientificblogging.com | Cash

Why Physicists Like Ratios

A good part of basic research in fundamental physics focuses on the definition, the prediction, and the measurement of quantities which put the current theory -the standard model- to the test in the most stringent way possible.

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WXIA-TV Atlanta

Ga State University Joins Virtual Computer Lab

Georgia State University is joining with 16 other colleges across the country to form a network of virtual computer labs that make educational and research resources available online 24 hours a day.

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Related Topix: Computers, Georgia State University, Computer Science

KXAN-TV Austin

King Tut's tomb to undergo renovation

Egypt and the Getty Conservation Institute announced Tuesday a five year project to restore the Tomb of Tutankhamun, the boy king whose golden mask and artifacts have long awed the world.

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Related Topix: Archaeology, Anthropology

People's Daily

'China sets example to world in beating hunger'

The United Nations World Food Program on Monday hailed the declaration of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, adding that China has set an example to the world that hunger can be beaten in a generation.

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Related Topix: Agriculture

Mon Nov 09, 2009

MSNBC

After letdown, solar-sail project rises again

An artist's conception shows the LightSail-1 craft, consisting of three CubeSats at the center of four lightweight triangular sails.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Space, Astronomy, San Luis Obispo Metro

PhillyBurbs.com

Google snaps up mobile ad startup for $750 million

Google Inc. is buying mobile advertising network AdMob for $750 million, underscoring the Internet search leader's determination to ensure its marketing machine reaches the growing number of people surfing the Web on phones.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Startups, AdMob, Marketing, DoubleClick, Advertising, Computer Science, iPhone

Independent Online

Strong quake hits Fiji

A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 hit off the Pacific island nation of Fiji late on Monday but it was too deep to generate a destructive tsunami, US geologists said.

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Related Topix: Earthquake, Natural Disasters, Tsunami, Geology

The Straits Times

Nobel winner Ginzburg dies

VITALY Ginzburg, a Russian physicist who survived Stalin's purges by working on the Soviet atomic bomb project and later won the Nobel Prize for physics, died in Moscow late on Sunday after a long illness.

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Related Topix: Physics

Q13.com KCPQ TV

Nonprofit comes to injured farmers' rescue during harvest, sends volunteers to bring in crops

A broken pelvis and injured knee nearly put an end to North Dakota farmer Dustin Lien's harvest, but a group that helps injured farmers and the families of those who have died came to his aid.

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Related Topix: Agriculture

Sun Nov 08, 2009

DNJ.com

Forest Service excavates fort along Trail of Tears

COKER CREEK, Tenn. - The U.S. Forest Service has begun to uncover the remains of a fort used to temporarily house migrating Cherokee along the Trail of Tears more than 170 years ago.

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Related Topix: Monroe County, TN, Archaeology, Anthropology, Knoxville Metro

WSMV-TV Nashville

Earthquake Measuring 6.7 Reported Near Indonesia

A strong earthquake was reported in the ocean off Indonesia on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News, Indonesia, Earthquake, Natural Disasters, Technical Services, Geology

WWLP

Mass. to look for signs of beetles

Massachusetts authorities plan to survey trees in Boston and Springfield for signs of the invasive Asian longhorned beetles.

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Related Topix: Boston Metro, Entomology

Kentucky.com

Indian PM hopes for 7 percent growth next year

The Indian government is pushing ahead with economic reforms aimed at achieving a growth rate of more than 7 percent next year but will make sure the benefits reach the poor, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Sunday.

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Related Topix: World News, India, Asia, Manmohan Singh, Agriculture, Fredrik Reinfeldt

Boston Globe

Burdened by wars, military counselors feeling the strain

Many of the patients who fill the day are bereft, angry, broken. Their stories are gruesome, their distress lasting, and the process of recovery exhausting.

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Related Topix: Psychology, US Military, US Army, Fort Hood, Life, Veteran Affairs

Sat Nov 07, 2009

Military-World

For Marines in Afghanistan, IEDs Are a Constant Fear

There are few songs as mournful and haunting as Taps played for a fallen warrior, and on an isolated combat outpost in southern Afghanistan it has been sounded for David Baker, a 22-year-old Marine lance corporal who was just six weeks short of going home when he was killed in an explosion.

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Related Topix: Asia, Afghanistan, World News, Explosion, Agriculture

KCRG

Culver Eases Propane Rule, Looks to Help farmers

Gov. Chet Culver is easing road rules for truck drivers who are carrying propane into Iowa.

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Related Topix: US Governors, Chet Culver, Agriculture

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