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In China’s Wild West, A ‘Black Gold’ Rush Takes Shape
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The Personality Genes
Molecular biologist Dean Hamer has blue eyes, light brown hair and the goofy sense of humor of a stand-up comic.
Inside Gary Faulkner’s Hunt for Osama Bin Laden
How close did Gary Faulkner, the shaggy Colorado construction worker arrested in Pakistan on Sunday, come to tracking down his prey, Osama bin Laden in the mountains along the Afghan border? Very close, according to his brother, Scott, a physician in Fort Morgan, Col.
A Past Flight May Offer Clues to Air France 447
We’ll never know what it was like to be aboard Air France Flight 447 as it plunged into the Atlantic Ocean on May 31, apparently killing all 228 aboard. For now, the closest we may get is listening to the passengers on a similar Airbus 330 jet whose flight computer put it into an uncommanded dive over northwestern Australia last October
Want to Boost Your Memory? Try Sleeping on It
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‘Mentally ill’ Briton faces drugs execution in China
The brother of a convicted British drug smuggler facing imminent execution in China has pleaded for authorities to show compassion amid concerns over the man’s mental health at the time of his arrest. Akmal Shaikh was arrested carrying a suitcase containing 4 kilograms of heroin at Urumqi airport in northwestern China after arriving on a flight from Tajikistan in September 2007
Suspected U.S. drone kills 4 in Pakistan
A suspected U.S. drone strike in northwestern Pakistan has killed at least four people, a Pakistani intelligence source said.
Dozens killed in Pakistan fighting
More than 50 suspected militants in the northwestern Pakistan’s volatile tribal region have been killed by military forces on Saturday, Pakistani sources said.
Is Alzheimer’s a Form of Diabetes?
When the body refuses to make insulin, the condition is called type 1 diabetes; when the body mismanages the hormone, it’s known as type 2. Now, scientists report new evidence linking insulin to a disorder of the brain: when the brain prevents the hormone from acting properly, the ensuing chemical imbalance may help trigger Alzheimer’s disease.
27 children die in Mexico daycare center fire
Twenty-seven children were killed and more than 100 others were injured Friday when their daycare center caught fire in the northwestern state of Sonora, the local governor said, citing figures from the state attorney’s office. The victims were from one to 5 years old, said Sonora Governo Eduardo Bours Castelo.