Southeast Asian business and government leaders have urged faster regional economic integration to cushion the impact of the global economic downturn. The call comes as leaders of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations gather in Thaila

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New Laser Device Helps Parkinson's Patients Walk 新激光设备帮助帕金森患者重获行走能力 Parkinsons disease slowly destroys the brains ability to control the muscles, depriving the patients of their mobility. Researchers at the Mayo Cl

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Scientists say Climate Change, Dams Threaten Mekong Livelihoods An estimated 60 million fishermen and farmers depend on the Mekong River for its rich nutrients and abundant fish. A new study by a group of scientists said by 2050 climate change could

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Unit 74 Will We Follow Dolly, the Sheep? Hearing Scottish scientists' success in cloning a sheep from a single adult cell, the world cones to an unsettling realization: the science is the easy part. it's not that the breakthrough was not decades in t

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A Cool Sunburn A listener from Ontario, California wrote to A Moment of Science with a question her sons had asked her. The boys wondered why is it that when you get sunburned you often feel chilled. It really does seem like a contradiction: youve be

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Is My Brain Static Or Constantly Changing? Scientists used to think that for all its complexity, the brain was pretty static. Once the brain matured, it essentially stopped growing and changing. And when neurons, or brain cells, were lost or damaged,

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By Naomi Martig Hong Kong 12 June 2008 Hong Kong plans to slaughter all live poultry in the territory's markets following the appearance the H5N1 strain of bird flu. As Naomi Martig reports from Hong Kong, this is the most serious outbreak of the vi

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President Obama has lifted restrictions on the use of federal money for research using embryonic stem cells. Some researchers are already making progress using stem cells from umbilical cord blood, which entails no controversy since there is no dest

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The European Union says a gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine does not threaten European supplies. But the issue is serious enough to prompt an emergency EU meeting on Monday, and fresh efforts to resolve the dispute. Pipes seen in a gas storage

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Eat, But Dont Drink Up Well. In a recent study on nutrition , participants spent one month drinking a sugary beverage , and another month eating a solid , sugary food. Anyway the researchers monitored the participants weight and eating habits. It tur

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Dark nights, twinkling lights. Beginners. It gets dark here in Wenatchee at about four thirty in the afternoon now. My children often ask me what the time is, or whether they need to get ready for bed, when it is still early. It can be a little confu

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A tough new challenge this morning aims squarely at the embattled CEO of Microsoft, a man under fire for a comment he made about women in the work place, when discussing the issue of equal pay, the CEO told a group of women, wait for it that not aski

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By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 18 July 2006 As the United States intensifies its efforts to get Americans out of Lebanon, the Bush administration has defended the handling of evacuations against criticism from some opposition Democrats in Congress. --

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 12 September 2006 United Nations disaster-management experts have gone to Ivory Coast to help with the investigation of a toxic waste dumping incident that has left at least six people dead and thousands ill. ----- A man point

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By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 15 January 2007 Angolan refugee boy stands in front of his family's shelter (File photo) The human rights group Amnesty International is protesting the forced eviction of thousands of people in Angola from their homes, some

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Tuna fishermen in France are up in arms against a European Union decision to cut short their bluefin tuna season by two weeks - arguably depriving them of thousands of dollars in income. The decision was made because France had surpassed its tuna fi

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By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 17 November 2006 In Zimbabwe, the association representing commercial farmers is reacting with caution to the government's latest offer to compensate white farmers for farms seized under a controversial land reform program

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Most people who hold babies know that the moment babies go to sleep, they seem to gain weight. Of course, a babys weight doesnt really change when they fall asleep, so why does the limp, floppy weight of a sleeping baby seem greater than it actually

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