You no longer have to worry about what came first - the chicken or the egg... now you can have both.The naturally bred Giri Raja chicken offers many benefits to farmers.They are the best of both worlds."Now...
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Well, this is just disturbing. The United States Food and Drug administration just announced that farmers have been using cloned cows to mate and produce beef. Which we're eating. The farmers are producing cloned...
"FBI agent Paul Shannon led a team sent to Afghanistan in 2001 to fingerprint and interview foreign fighters for a database of known or suspected terrorists. Here, he takes Saddam Hussein's prints after his...
A statue was unveiled in Argentina today of Ernesto "Che" Guevara on what would have been his 80th birthday.Thousands of people witnessed the unveiling of one of the most famous Argentinians." Events to mark the life...
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Here is a great backgrounder on the 3 Vision party candidates shooting to become Vancouver's next mayor."Voters won't go to the polls until November, but the contest to become the mayoral candidate for Vancouver's...
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"Four California Condors have been released to the wild in the Vermilion Cliffs Monument in northern Arizona. The young birds were bred and hatched in captivity at the Peregrine Fund’s World Center for Birds of...
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"Most carnivores bred in captivity and released back into the wild fail to cope and die, according to a study published on Monday.
Researchers are calling for a complete rethink of such reintroductions before others...
"Thanks to TV, movies, music and CNN, everybody everywhere knows America’s business. Seeing the most fearsome enemy in his underwear or on the toilet has a way of removing some of the fearsomeness. America does not have gravitas. The world’s familiarity with American life...
A mini-baby boom last year has pushed up the number of pandas bred in captivity in China to 217, state media said Wednesday.Some
34 pandas were born by artificial insemination in 2006 and 30 survived
— both record numbers for the endangered species, Cao Qingyao, a
spokesman...
I'm a New Yorker — born, bred and proud of it. So when I say it's time
to dial down on all this rude and infernal yakking on mobile phones,
you'll understand that it comes with a high tolerance for urban chatter
and in-your-face attitude.