Archive for April, 2009
Study: Plant ’stress hormone’ key to combating drought
Thursday, April 30th, 2009A team of scientists from Canada, Spain and the United States has identified a key gene that allows plants to defend themselves against environmental stresses like drought, freezing and heat.
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Climate change threatens Lake Baikal’s unique ecosystem
Thursday, April 30th, 2009Siberia’s Lake Baikal, the world’s largest and most biologically diverse lake, faces the prospect of severe ecological disruption as a result of climate change, according to team of U.S. and Russian scientists.
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Souter known as low-key, fierce defender of individual rights
Thursday, April 30th, 2009David who? was the initial reaction of Americans to a little-known judge from New Hampshire named in 1990 to sit on the nation’s highest court. Even the nominee didn’t know what to think when President George H.W. Bush called him with the news, telling supporters, “I was in a state of virtual shock.”
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Online swine flu map goes viral
Thursday, April 30th, 2009An online map showing where swine flu– or H1N1 virus– is spreading has gone viral, so to speak.
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Japan’s jobless rate rises as output grows
Thursday, April 30th, 2009Unemployment in Japan rose to 4.8 percent in March, its highest level in four years and a nearly half-point rise from February, the government reported Friday.
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Justice David Souter to retire from Supreme Court, source says
Thursday, April 30th, 2009After more than 18 years on the nation’s highest court, Supreme Court Justice David Souter is retiring, a source close to Souter told CNN Thursday.
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Souter remembered as low-key, fierce defender of individual rights
Thursday, April 30th, 2009David who? was the initial reaction of Americans to a little-known judge from New Hampshire named in 1990 to sit on the nation’s highest court. Even the nominee didn’t know what to think when President George H.W. Bush called him with the news, telling supporters, “I was in a state of virtual shock.”
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U.S. professor disappears during Japan volcano hike
Thursday, April 30th, 2009Teams in southern Japan are searching for an award-winning U.S. poet and college professor who failed to return from a hike to a volcano, his university said Thursday.