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2008-10-12 18:01:41 - Mongoose Pups Pick Parents (LiveScience.com) (science)
LiveScience.com - Banded mongooses live in extended-family groups, with as many as ten females breeding at the same time. When they're about a month old, pups leave the communal den to forage with the adults. That's when a pup usually begins to associate exclusively with one particular adult - not necessarily a parent - that provides nourishment and protection. One might assume that the adult chooses the pup it wishes to assist.

2008-10-12 16:01:44 - Xenophobia Founded on Faulty Assumptions (LiveScience.com) (science)
LiveScience.com - America has always been a cultural melting pot, but that pot has always been kept at a rolling bubble by the heat of xenophobia. And sometimes it boils over causing great damage. Every generation of citizens, many of them immigrants themselves or of recent immigrant ancestry, is afraid of the next wave of others looking for a better life. The fear has always been that those "other" people, the ones who are invading this country, will pollute the gene pool and degrade the culture in some manner. ...

2008-10-12 11:01:02 - Endangered species ruling could slow development in floodplains (McClatchy Newspapers) (science)
McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — A ruling that development along dozens of rivers flowing from the Cascade Mountains to Washington state's Puget Sound jeopardizes endangered salmon, steelhead and killer whales could shape future construction in floodplains nationwide.

2008-10-12 10:01:02 - Hong Kong sets panda reserve as priority Sichuan aid project (AFP) (science)
AFP - Almost half of Hong Kong's aid package to help China's quake-stricken Sichuan will be used to restore a giant panda reserve, the government said Sunday.

2008-10-12 06:01:45 - Hurricane Norbert storms Mexico's Baja peninsula (Reuters) (science)
Reuters - Hurricane Norbert smacked Mexico's Baja California peninsula on Saturday, blowing roofs off buildings, knocking down trees and forcing hundreds of people to evacuate flood-prone areas.

2008-10-12 00:01:19 - Peru's president names leftist as new prime minister (AFP) (science)
AFP - Peruvian President Alan Garcia on Saturday named Yehude Simon, a leftist governor once jailed for alleged links to outlawed Tupac Amaru rebels, as the country's next prime minister.

2008-10-11 18:01:27 - Scientists sequence giant panda's genome: report (Reuters) (science)
Reuters - Scientists have sequenced the genome of the giant panda, an achievement which may aid efforts to protect the endangered species, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.

2008-10-11 18:01:26 - Russian space chief reassures US partners (AP) (science)
AP - The ongoing global economic turmoil and increasingly strained ties between Moscow and Washington will not stand in the way of further space exploration, Russia's space agency chief said Saturday.

2008-10-11 18:01:26 - Google founder Brin visits Russian space cosmodrome (Reuters) (science)
Reuters - Google co-founder Sergey Brin, considering going into space on a private flight, made a surprise visit to Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome on Saturday to wish good luck to a fellow space tourist.

2008-10-11 16:01:06 - The 100th Crewed Soyuz Flight That (Maybe) Isn't (SPACE.com) (science)
SPACE.com - HOUSTON - As the commander of the next Soyuz launch to the International Space Station, Yuri Lonchakov was in charge of designing a patch to represent his three-person crew.

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