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Toys 'R' Us pulls vinyl bibs as precaution against lead problems [CHINESE IMPORTS; US COMPANY]
Post Date: 2007-08-18 13:49:25 by IndieTX
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NEWARK, New Jersey (AP) -- Toys "R" Us Inc. on Friday said it was removing all vinyl baby bibs from its Toys "R" Us and Babies "R" Us stores as a precaution after two bibs made in China for one supplier showed lead levels that exceeded Toys "R" Us standards. Toys "R" Us, which operates over 1,500 stores, said the result came in testing this month of bibs supplied by Hamco Inc. and marketed under the Koala Baby, Especially for Baby and Disney Baby labels. Tests of Hamco bibs in May were within standards, Toys "R" Us said. Vinyl bibs made by other companies have been temporarily removed to avoid any confusion among customers and ...
Hurricane Dean
Post Date: 2007-08-16 20:50:00 by IndieTX
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000 WTNT44 KNHC 162031 TCDAT4 HURRICANE DEAN DISCUSSION NUMBER 14 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL042007 500 PM EDT THU AUG 16 2007 AN AIR FORCE HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT HAS BEEN IN THE EYE OF DEAN AND THE DATA SO FAR INDICATE THAT THE MINIMUM PRESSURE HAS BEEN FLUCTUATION BETWEEN 974 AND 979 MB. MAXIMUM WINDS ARE ESTIMATED AT 85 KNOTS. THE CURRENT CONVECTIVE BANDING STRUCTURE AND THE EXPANSION OF THE UPPER-LEVEL OUTFLOW OBSERVED ON SATELLITE IMAGES SUGGEST THAT DEAN IS STRENGTHENING AT THIS TIME. DEAN IS EXPECTED TO CARRY AN UPPER-LEVEL ANTICYCLONE WITH IT...ON ITS WESTWARD TRACK ACROSS THE CARIBBEAN. THIS PATTERN IS CONDUCIVE TO STRENGTHENING. ONCE DEAN REACHES THE WESTERN ...
Dark matter mystery deepens in cosmic 'train wreck'
Post Date: 2007-08-16 18:42:07 by farmfriend
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Dark matter mystery deepens in cosmic 'train wreck' Contact: Megan Watzke mwatzke@cfa.harvard.edu 617-496-7998 Chandra X-ray Center Astronomers have discovered a chaotic scene unlike any witnessed before in a cosmic “train wreck” between giant galaxy clusters. NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical telescopes revealed a dark matter core that was mostly devoid of galaxies, which may pose problems for current theories of dark matter behavior. "These results challenge our understanding of the way clusters merge," said Dr. Andisheh Mahdavi of the University of Victoria, British Columbia. "Or, they possibly make us even reexamine the nature of dark ...
World's birds on death row: Race against time to save 189 species from extinction
Post Date: 2007-08-16 08:54:09 by robin
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World's birds on death row: Race against time to save 189 species from extinction The world's most ambitious bird conservation project will be launched this week amid evidence that hunting and loss of habitat has caused species to disappear at an unprecedented rate. David Randall reports Published: 12 August 2007 The biggest and most wide-ranging bird conservation programme the world has ever seen will be launched next week with the aim of saving every one of the planet's critically endangered species from extinction. The task is urgent. There are now no fewer than 189 birds in this most precipitous category – 51 more than there were just seven years ago. Scientists ...
Humans fostering forest-destroying disease
Post Date: 2007-08-15 21:26:48 by farmfriend
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Humans fostering forest-destroying disease Contact: James Hathaway jbhathaw@uncc.edu 794-687-6675 University of North Carolina at Charlotte Enjoying your August vacation? Well, (as they say in the summer movies) there’s a killer in the woods. Its strike has been consistently quiet, sudden, and deadly. Unknowingly, we have all been playing into its hands… But put down that rock -- you personally are not in any danger. It’s the woods themselves that are getting axed and you may be an accomplice. Melodrama aside, the threat is very serious – the killer is an invasive, forest-destroying plant disease known as Sudden Oak Death. Caused by an (apparently) non-native water ...
A Report from the Global Warming Battlefield
Post Date: 2007-08-15 13:30:43 by farmfriend
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A Report from the Global Warming Battlefield By Roy Spencer : BIO| 15 Aug 2007 In case you hadn't noticed, the global warming debate has now escalated from a minor skirmish to an all-out war. Although we who are skeptical of the claim that global warming is mostly manmade have become accustomed to being the ones that take on casualties, last week was particularly brutal for those who say we have only 8 years and 5 months left to turn things around, greenhouse gas emissions-wise. I'm talking about the other side - the global warming alarmists. First, NASA's James Hansen and his group had to fix a Y2K bug that a Canadian statistician found in their processing of the ...
Palm Tree Antennas
Post Date: 2007-08-14 19:31:23 by Esso
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Strange. If I was doing that, I'd have painted a leaf pattern on the elements to break them up. Not a lot of palm trees in NE Indiana though. Click for Full Text!
NASA to Hold Media Teleconference on Bizarre Star
Post Date: 2007-08-14 05:21:37 by Diana
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NASA to Hold Media Teleconference on Bizarre Star WASHINGTON -- Astronomers are scheduled to announce new findings about a star unlike any seen before at a media teleconference Wednesday, Aug. 15, at 1 p.m. EDT. The findings are from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer, managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The briefing participants are: - Christopher Martin, principal investigator of the Galaxy Evolution Explorer, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. - Mark Seibert, astronomer, Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Pasadena, Calif. - Michael Shara, curator at the American Museum of Natural History and professor of ...
Dark Matter: All Wrong?
Post Date: 2007-08-13 22:13:09 by rack42
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The mysterious dark matter that's been called on to make sense of the ways galaxies twirl through space may not exist, if an alternative theory is right. The surprising way galaxies rotate — as if they are much larger and heavier than they appear to be — has long implied to astronomers and astrophysicists that there is more matter out there holding things together than we see. That unseen and unseeable matter has fallen under the catch-all term "dark matter." These days, the most likely candidate for what makes up dark matter is some sort of weakly interacting particle that we've so far failed to detect. But there is another radically different possibility: ...
Study: IQ linked to virginity
Post Date: 2007-08-12 13:26:22 by farmfriend
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Study: IQ linked to virginity By Leslie Finlay Collegian Staff Writer Recent studies on sexual activity among adolescents and young adults show that being an "average Joe" may have benefits outside of the classroom. The studies show that female and male adolescents with an IQ score either below 70 or above 110 are more likely to be virgins. Adolescents with IQ scores ranging from 70 to 110 had the lowest probability of virginity, according to two researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The average IQ score is 90 to 110. Mariah Mantsun Cheng, a research associate, and J. Richard Udry, professor of maternal and child health and sociology, both from ...
3-inch gouge found on space shuttle's belly
Post Date: 2007-08-12 00:08:40 by IndieTX
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) -- NASA discovered a worrisome gouge on Endeavour's belly soon after the shuttle docked with the international space station Friday. The gouge was possibly caused by ice that broke off the fuel tank a minute after liftoff. The gouge -- about 3 inches square -- was spotted in photos taken by the space station crew shortly before Endeavour delivered teacher-astronaut Barbara Morgan and her six crewmates to the orbiting outpost. "What does this mean? I don't know at this point," said John Shannon, chairman of the mission management team. If the gouge is deep enough, the shuttle astronauts may have to patch it during a spacewalk, he said. On ...
Scientist: Apocalyptic California Quake Will Kill Thousands
Post Date: 2007-08-11 19:53:44 by Brian S
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A government scientist warns a massive earthquake three centuries in the making could shake southern California hard enough to kill thousands of people and cause "billions of dollars in damage," according to news reports. A devastating quake in California's Coachella Valley usually occurs every 150 years, but its been more than 300 years since a quake shook the region. "There will be several thousand dead and billions of dollars in damage," said Lucy Jones, a seismologist at the U.S. Geological Survey, according to the Los Angeles Times. Jones, a member of the California Seismic Safety Commission presented her "apocalyptic vision" to members of the ...
FAA Objects to Drones
Post Date: 2007-08-11 18:17:15 by IndieTX
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Reaper, the Air Force's latest unmanned aircraft, is expected to be assigned to the Air National Guard base in Syracuse by 2010. But it may not fly the skies over Syracuse because of its inability to detect and avoid other planes. Federal Aviation Administration rules bar unmanned aircraft like the Reaper from flying in civil airspace without the ability to "sense and avoid" other planes. That could be a problem for the Reaper and the Air Guard's 174th Fighter Wing, which wants to remotely fly Reapers from Hancock Field in Syracuse to Fort Drum, near Watertown, for practice bombing. The drones would have to take off from Hancock and cross civil airspace on their way to ...
THE HEAT IS ON: It's Rock and Roll In The Skies
Post Date: 2007-08-11 18:10:04 by IndieTX
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It could well be a harbinger of things to come. Increasing storms, violent thunderclaps, greater wind speeds — the din unleashed in the heavens by the weather gods between April and September (pre-monsoons to end of season) over the last two-three years has surprised and alarmed even veteran aviators. And as they struggle to steady their big metallic birds and stay calm lest it unnerve their passengers, the niggling question on their minds is: Are these severe climatic changes a sign of global warming? Scientists, in fact, predict that global warming is ominously near and will be greater after 2009. "It's been a rock and roll up there, especially during the last 2-3 ...
Link between sunspots, rain helps predict disease in east Africa
Post Date: 2007-08-11 14:42:21 by farmfriend
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Link between sunspots, rain helps predict disease in east Africa Contact: Cheryl Dybas cdybas@nsf.gov 703-292-7734 National Science Foundation The research, conducted by paleoclimatologist Curt Stager of Paul Smith's College in Paul Smiths, N.Y. and colleagues, can be used by public health officials to increase measures against insect-borne diseases long before epidemics begin. The results are published online in the August 7 issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research. The scientists showed that unusually heavy rainfalls in East Africa over the past century preceded peak sunspot activity by about one year. "The hope is that people on the ground will use this research to ...
Is This Man Cheating on His Wife?
Post Date: 2007-08-11 13:14:28 by kiki
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On a scorching July afternoon, as the temperature creeps toward 118 degrees in a quiet suburb east of Phoenix, Ric Hoogestraat sits at his computer with the blinds drawn, smoking a cigarette. While his wife, Sue, watches television in the living room, Mr. Hoogestraat chats online with what appears on the screen to be a tall, slim redhead. He's never met the woman outside of the computer world of Second Life, a well-chronicled digital fantasyland with more than eight million registered "residents" who get jobs, attend concerts and date other users. He's never so much as spoken to her on the telephone. But their relationship has taken on curiously real dimensions. They own ...
Send in the Clowns
Post Date: 2007-08-10 07:45:37 by YertleTurtle
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There is not, nor will there ever be, a shortage of energy. The universe is made of it. The only shortage lies in access to it, which is achieved through human ingenuity and advancing knowledge, and translates into better living in the form of abundant food and other resources, longer and healthier lives, and greater opportunities for richness and variety in all their forms. A good indicator of the general quality of life of a culture is the energy used per capitum. But exploiting scarcity his always provided a means for a few to enrich and empower themselves at the expense of the many, and it is not uncommon to find artificial scarcities being invented and maintained when Nature refuses to ...
Surgically alters thumbs to better use iPhone
Post Date: 2007-08-09 18:57:24 by Ferret Mike
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Thomas Martel, 28, of Bonnie Brae is a big guy. So he has a hard time using the features on ever-shrinking user interfaces on devices like his new iPhone. At least, he did, until he had his thumbs surgically altered in a revolutionary new surgical technique known as "whittling." "From my old Treo, to my Blackberry, to this new iPhone, I had a hard time hitting the right buttons, and I always lost those little styluses," explains Martel. "Sure, the procedure was expensive, but when I think of all the time I save by being able to use modern handhelds so much faster, I really think the surgery will pay for itself in ten to fifteen years. And what it's saving me in ...
Facebook - the CIA conspiracy
Post Date: 2007-08-09 04:15:33 by noone222
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Facebook - the CIA conspiracy Page 1 of 2 View as a single page 3:09PM Wednesday August 08, 2007 By Matt Greenop American Dad's conspiracy coverage could benefit from a flick through the Facebook. Facebook has 20 million users worldwide, is worth billions of dollars and, if internet sources are to be believed, was started by the CIA. The social networking phenomenon started as a way of American college students to keep in touch. It is rapidly catching up with MySpace, and has left others like Bebo in its wake. But there is a dark side to the success story that's been spreading across the blogosphere. A complex but riveting Big Brother-type conspiracy theory which links Facebook ...
U.S. Air Force Linked to Electronic Warfare Attack in Tennessee
Post Date: 2007-08-08 13:57:11 by gengis gandhi
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U.S. Air Force Linked to Electronic Warfare Attack in Tennessee By Alfred Webre, EcoNews Service (Vancouver, BC) http://www.ecologynews.com/cuenews31.html HARTSVILLE, TENN - Newly released documentary and eyewitness evidence now links an apparent July 6, 2001 electronic warfare attack on a radio station and weekly newspaper in Hartsville, Tennessee to a nearby unacknowledged secret access project (USAP). This secret project, eyewitnesses say, includes the U.S. Air Force as paymaster, U.S. government aircraft as transportation and security craft; military troops in black uniforms; and black unmarked triangular aircraft. The project may also include a secret electronic warfare unit capable ...
Physicists have 'solved' mystery of levitation
Post Date: 2007-08-08 11:50:26 by gengis gandhi
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Physicists have 'solved' mystery of levitation By Roger Highfield, Science Editor Last Updated: 1:41am BST 08/08/2007 Levitation has been elevated from being pure science fiction to science fact, according to a study reported today by physicists. Beijing saleswoman demonstrates toy which levitates by magnetic force; Physicists have 'solved' mystery of levitation In theory the discovery could be used to levitate a person In earlier work the same team of theoretical physicists showed that invisibility cloaks are feasible. Now, in another report that sounds like it comes out of the pages of a Harry Potter book, the University of St Andrews team has created an ...
Nanotechnology development bill introduced in U.S. Congress
Post Date: 2007-08-04 17:20:25 by robin
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Posted: July 31, 2007 Nanotechnology development bill introduced in U.S. Congress (Nanowerk News) US Rep. Mike Honda (D-San Jose) today introduced HR 3235, the Nanotechnology Advancement and New Opportunities (NANO) Act, comprehensive legislation to promote the development and responsible stewardship of nanotechnology in the United States. The legislation draws upon the recommendations of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Nanotechnology (BRTFN), a panel of California nanotechnology experts with backgrounds in established industry, startup companies, consulting groups, non-profits, academia, government, medical research, and venture capital convened by Rep. Honda and then-California State ...
U.S. spy satellite declared loss, to drop from orbit
Post Date: 2007-08-03 10:32:00 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The National Reconnaissance Office has deemed an experimental U.S. spy satellite a total loss and will allow it to slowly drop from orbit and burn up in the atmosphere, two defense officials told Reuters this week. The classified L-21, built by Lockheed Martin Corp at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars, was launched on December 14 but has been out of touch since reaching its low-earth orbit, put by satellite watchers at about 220 miles above the earth. It will now gradually fall out of orbit over the coming decades, said the officials, who asked not to be named. At some later date, it will burn up as it enters the earth's atmosphere, posing no danger to ...
Indian Ocean Pollution Causes Most Global Warming, Study Suggests
Post Date: 2007-08-02 15:51:40 by ghostdogtxn
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Not-So-Elementary Bee Mystery; Detectives sift clues in the case of the missing insects
Post Date: 2007-08-01 11:12:29 by JCHarris
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Not-So-Elementary Bee Mystery Detectives sift clues in the case of the missing insects Susan Milius The disappearance of large numbers of U.S. honeybees is so odd that it's attracted Ian Lipkin. Since last fall, beekeepers in at least 35 states have reported colonies that shrank rapidly for no apparent reason. Adult bees just go missing, leaving behind young bees in need of tending. This colony-collapse disorder (CCD), as it's now called, has got bee researchers coast to coast stirred up and looking for causes and remedies. a8673_1116.jpg Beekeepers in the United States tend some 2.4 million honeybee colonies, which obligingly haul pollen for many of the nation's commercial ...
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