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Geneva atom smasher sets record for beam energy (AP)
March 20, 2010
AP - Operators of the world's largest atom smasher on Friday ramped up their massive machine to three times the energy ever previously achieved, in the run-up to experiments probing the secrets of the universe.
Nevada wild-horse roundup death toll rises (AP)
March 20, 2010AP - Activists in Nevada are questioning the rising death toll from a government roundup of wild horses from the range north of Reno.
Arizona state employee fired over jaguar capture (AP)
March 20, 2010AP - The Arizona Game and Fish Department has fired an employee based on results of an internal investigation into the capture and death of what was the only known wild jaguar in the U.S.
Media Too Optimistic about Cancer, Scientists Say (LiveScience.com)
March 20, 2010LiveScience.com - The news media paints an overly optimistic picture of cancer. That's according to one of a series of papers being published in the March 17 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association and in six of JAMA's sister journals this month, as well as at presentations at a two-hour media briefing today at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
Japan sighs relief as bluefin tuna ban fails (The Christian Science Monitor)
March 20, 2010The Christian Science Monitor - Sushi chefs and fish dealers across the Japanese archipelago were letting out small sighs of relief Thursday night as news filtered in from the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Qatar that a proposed export ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna had failed to pass. Japan consumes around three-quarters of the globeâs bluefin tuna catch, with almost all of it served raw as sushi and sashimi, of which it is the most sought-after variety.
Rio protests: Sharing Brazil's oil revenues will hurt 2016 Olympics (The Christian Science Monitor)
March 20, 2010The Christian Science Monitor - Thousands of Brazilian schoolchildren and city and state workers were given the afternoon off to gather in Rio de Janeiro today and protest a federal law that would reduce the amount of petroleum royalties the energy-rich state now gets.
Crippled Mars Rover is Chilled, But Still Alive (SPACE.com)
March 20, 2010SPACE.com - NASA's crippled Spirit Mars rover is still awake as it prepares for the oncoming Martian winter, which has already left it colder than ever before.
British boy receives pioneering stem cell surgery (AFP)
March 20, 2010
AFP - British and Italian doctors have carried out groundbreaking surgery to rebuild the windpipe of a 10-year-old British boy using stem cells developed within his own body, they said.
Cloak of invisibility takes a step forward (AP)
March 20, 2010
AP - From Grimm's fairy tales to Harry Potter, the cloak of invisibility has played a major role in fiction. Now scientists have taken a small but important new step toward making it reality.
Activists urge Australia to charge Japanese whalers (AFP)
March 20, 2010
AFP - Anti-whaling activists have lodged a legal complaint against the captain and crew of a Japanese trawler which hit and sank their hi-tech speedboat, a politician said Friday.
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