03 Dec
By Dave Shiflett
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) — It takes a deeply vile person to picket military funerals, especially with signs proclaiming “Thank God for Dead Soldiers” and “God Is Your Enemy.”
Meet the Reverend Fred Phelps, whose Westboro Baptist Church congregation takes to the streets and cemeteries to celebrate
American combat deaths. Phelps and his twisted flock […]
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22 Nov
By Ángel Gonzlez
Seattle Times business reporter
Fuels derived from crops are making inroads into the global energy mix, but many wonder whether the world has enough land to feed 6 billion mouths — let alone 600 million cars.
Tom Todaro, founder of Targeted Growth in Seattle, thinks a little genetics might help.
Armed with knowledge of a growth-controlling […]
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19 Nov
(CNN) — A court in Saudi Arabia increased the punishment for a gang-rape victim after her lawyer won an appeal of the sentence for the rapists, the lawyer told CNN.
The 19-year-old victim was sentenced last year to 90 lashes for meeting with an unrelated male, a former friend from whom she was retrieving photographs. The […]
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01 Nov
It can run for hours at 20 metres per minute without getting tired.It lives longer, has more sex, and eats more without gaining weight. Could the science that created this supermouse be applied to humans?
By Steve Connor, Science Editor
Scientists have been astounded by the creation of a genetically modified “supermouse” with extraordinary physical […]
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