Like most sub-Saharan African countries, Niger faces problems meeting its water needs. As part of…
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Gene Associated With Reduced Mortality From Acute Lung Injury
Researchers have discovered a gene that is associated with improved survival among patients with acute…
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New Findings On The Evolution Of Parasitism
Today, 150 years after Darwin’s epochal “On the Origin of Species,” many questions about the…
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Wipro quarterly profit rises 9 pct to $185 million (AP)
AP – Software services provider Wipro Ltd. said quarterly net profit rose 9 percent from…
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IBM sunny about 2009 despite dreary forecasts (AP)
AP – In what promises to be a dismal year for tech spending, IBM Corp….
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Like never before, inauguration experienced online (AP)
AP – In an inauguration defined by a sense of change, the experience of watching…
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Internet into overdrive as millions express Obama hopes (AFP)
AFP – The first US Internet president is an online sensation, triggering a tidal wave…
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Satellites, balloons, and math used to count inauguration crowd (CNET)
CNET – U.S. President Barack Obama was sworn in on Tuesday in Washington. But the…
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Cost-cutting Google scraps newspaper ad program (AP)
AP – Google Inc. is giving up on selling print ads for the ailing newspaper…
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Little beetle is big chopper
A remarkable dung beetle has dumped its usual dinner of faeces and begun attacking and…