Great news for the Black Rhino. Sometimes private enterprise can work hand in hand with conservation as this scheme shows."A pioneering scheme which allows private landlords to own and breed wild rhinoceroses has...
" LITTLE Rhys Harris is bursting with life - after two months as the "boy in the bubble" fighting an incredibly rare illness. The brave seven-year-old is only the SECOND child in the world to be cured of the genetic...
Trevor Boddy critiques a proposed new urbanist development in South Delta as "a last-gasp attempt to reform suburbanism from within,before high energy prices and new respect for land compels much denserdevelopment." "The 13th of May brought several downer developments — and...
"MIT this week announced an important digital achievement: the completion of its pioneering OpenCourseWare project. And everyone involved seems quite happy with being unsure about why exactly it's important.
The achievement is digitizing all the classroom materials for all of...
"Doctors have saved a newborn baby from developing a disability by using a pioneering cooling technique to chill her brain for three days.
Staff at St Michael's hospital in Bristol fitted baby Olivia Templar's head with a cooling cap after she was starved of oxygen for ten...
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"Scientists say they may be on the brink of translating the thoughts of a man who can no longer speak into words after a pioneering experiment.
Electrodes have been implanted in the brain of Eric Ramsay, who has been "locked in" - conscious but paralysed - since a car crash...
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"A PIONEERING initiative aimed at getting troubled youngsters off the streets and into employment or education has seen its first success.
Jamal Haynes has graduated from the Off Da Streets project and is set to start a mechanics course at college in September.
The...
"A charity is rolling out a pioneering service that gives young people sexual health advice by text message after a successful pilot in the two boroughs with the highest rate of sexually transmitted disease in...
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Former first lady Lady Bird Johnson has died at 94. Lady Bird, born Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson in Texas, was the wife of former President Lyndon Johnson. By all accounts, she was a force of political and personal...
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UPDATE: The trial of superproducer Phil Spector, accused of murdering actress lana Clarkson, moves inotthe forensics phase, with the first witness, coroner Louis Pena, stating that the injuries found on Ms....
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HOUSTON, Jan. 5 -- The rules are different for demigods.
On
the final day of 2005, pioneering heart surgeon Michael E. DeBakey,
M.D., was alone at home preparing a lecture when he experienced sudden,
piercing chest...
"Beyonce Knowles was born in 1981, the year Dreamgirls premiered on Broadway. At 15, she was encouraged to listen to the soundtrack by her choreographer, a fan of the hit musical.
She did, and it changed her life....
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" STARTING WITH TRANSPORT, URBAN PLANNING AND DESIGN
The Hon. Alannah MacTiernan, MLA Minister for Planning & Infrastructure
Welcome to our website.
Science is clearly showing us that climate change will change our planet and...
"Today is Tuesday, Dec. 12, the 346th day of 2006. There are 19 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Dec. 12, 1906, the Senate confirmed Oscar Straus to be President Theodore Roosevelt's Secretary of Commerce and Labor; Straus became the first Jewish member...
The mainstream media censored the vast majority of the evidence of fraud, so that most Americans to this day, have never heard a fraction of what was amiss.