On September 4, 1997, DIANA CAMPUZANO, an American visiting Israel, was the victim of a terrorist attack which took the lives of seven people and injured 192, 8 critically. Diana was one of the 2 most critically injured.
The attack drew international attention. Diana's picture, her face completely covered in blood, was displayed on the front pages of many major newspapers and magazines....
Astronomers are working to choose a site for a giant telescope that could read TV or radio signals from alien civilizations.
The instrument, called the Square Kilometer Array or SKA, would be the world’s most powerful radio telescope and would begin operation by 2020, if all goes according to plan.
Radio telescopes are devices that pick up radio waves, a type of light radiation that has less energy than visible light but that can provide valuable information on cosmic structures....
byWorldsci(Posted on August 01, 2006) (2081 Views)
Online marriage brokers are common in China, but a young Chinese Web site is thriving by turning the traditional idea of marriage on its head.
Called "Marriage for Asexuals" (www.wx920.com), the site claims to be the first and biggest online marriage broker for "asexual" people in China. It says it has attracted 7,000 members since it was launched last year.
Its rapid success illustrates the expansion of the Internet in China, the increasingly permissive nature of Chinese...
byMoonstruck(Posted on July 25, 2006) (3998 Views)
Most environmental protection programs are designed to safeguard wildlife. But the government of Myanmar has put an unusual twist on the idea: it has set up a protected area for a dolphin-fisherman partnership, the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society reports.
The small, gray, beakless Irrawaddy dolphins have a knack for herding fish into nets, explaining their usefulness to fishermen, according to the organization.
The government decreed protection for some 70 kilometers of...
Monkeys and apes at the Budapest Zoo drink 55 liters of red wine each year, albeit in small quantities each day. This is said to help boost their red blood cells, according to the zoo.
Budapest Zoo spokesman Zoltan Hanga said it was the 11 anthropoid apes who drank most of the wine in 2005.
"Obviously, they do not have it all at once and get drunk, but they get it in small amounts mixed in their tea," Hanga said.
"And it's not Eger Bull's Blood or some expensive wine that they are...
A 63-year-old hospital consultant is set to become Britain's oldest mother after undergoing fertility treatment, the Italian doctor who treated her said.
The Women's Technology Cluster is hosting a one-day Stem Cell conference at UCSF Mission Bay on February 7th. Over 30 internationally renowned panelists...
A Thai woman wins a prison pageant in Peru, where contestants were said to strut their stuff and preen in poise at the catwalk, all while they...
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