VIAGRA

" New York Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens, who was recently outed by a New York tabloid for using Viagra to increase his performance on the field, is among many professional athletes who make unorthodox use of pharmaceutical drugs. (ABCNews Photo Illustration) Experts believe...

Science 2.0 Debuts at Scientific American

Scientific American comes out boldly with a wiki experiment that invites readers to  edit an article and weigh in on some of the "meta publishing" issues that crowd sourcing via wiki technology brings to science, including consideration of the impact of this kind of...

"Contact" Radio Telescope In Peril

The World's largest radio telescope made famous in the film Contact starring Jodie Foster may have to close because of a lack of funds."Arecibo Observatory, the largest and most sensitive radio telescope on Earth, looks like a secret outpost built by aliens. In fact, one...

No pride for Air Canada

Air Canada, homophobic? Not exactly. Canada's largest airline has just pulled sponsorship funding of Vancouver's pride parade (as well as Toronto's Pride Week and Montreal's pride events). The reason, however, is...

Bush jabs Shi'ite radicals, Iran conciliates Arabs

"Wed Jan 24, 2007 7:42am ET | | By Alistair Lyon, Special Correspondent - Analysis | BEIRUT (Reuters) - President Bush has called Iranian-backed "Shi'ite extremists" as great a peril to his nation as al Qaeda, singling out Lebanon's Hezbollah rather than the Shi'ite Islamist...

Protecting the Iconic Polar Bear

After intensive pressure by environmental groups (the Centre for Biological Diversity, Natural Resources Defence Council and Greenpeace) the Bush Administration has agreed to place Polar Bears onto the Endangered...

Yellow peril

"Bitter and Blue - With one eye beyond this weekends quarter-finals, the semi-finals and final itself being to loom large and with the second round dominated by controversial refereeing decisions there are several players who will be a little nervous as they step onto the...

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