"Newark)-Life is full of choices. But how do individuals know what their preferences are and how do they act on them? And what leads mothers to make choices...
"Some of the great apes - chimps, gorillas, and orangutans - could be extinct in the wild within a human generation, a new assessment concludes. Human...
"WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- The head of the Food and Drug Administration's Office of Women's Health resigned Wednesday to protest the delayed approval of the...
The Associated Press Thursday, September 1, 2005; 8:07 AM BRISBANE, Calif. -- "The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first drug to treat children...
"Millions of lives have been saved by animal experiments, say scientists. Vivienne Parry examines the key research" Thursday September 1, 2005 The Guardian "If...
Richard Dawkins and Jerry Coyne warn accepting 'intelligent design' in science classrooms would have disastrous consequences. Thursday September 1, 2005 The...
"Anonymous sperm donation raises a host of tricky questions, writes Alex Wilde. Geraldine Hewitt would love to know why she has an aptitude for languages or...
"Creationists and New Agers have formed a common front to undermine mainstream archaeology and its scientific view of the human past. Are they winning?" ...
Foreign Policy asks 16 thinkers "to speculate on the ideas, values, and institutions the world takes for granted that may disappear in the next 35 years." ...
... There are a number of interesting speculations at that site, including one on the End of Monogamy. Use bovik/bovik to log on if you haven't already...
How Europe starves the world's poor Ronald Bailey "The European Union and fellow traveling anti-biotech activists may well succeed in bottling up the next wave...
Race and sex differences and contribution of height: A study on bone size in healthy Caucasians and Chinese Yuan-Yuan Zhang 1, Peng-Yuan Liu 1, Yan Lu 1, K....
Hero of the High Seas By Andreas Lorenz "This year marks the 600th anniversary of China's most celebrated admiral, Zheng He. Today, for the country's communist...
Interview with neuroscientist Gregory Berns Posted 8/29/05 By Marianne Szegedy-Maszak What could be better than happiness? "Satisfaction, says psychiatrist and...
"We're Rich, You're Not. End of Story." [makes similar points about Norway] http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/17/weekinreview/17bawer.html? ...
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TEHRAN, Iran - "Wildlife experts are celebrating the sightings of two groups of rare Asiatic cheetahs in central Iran during recent months, raising hopes that...
" A clergyman pleaded for the return of an old woman's remains allegedly stolen from a graveyard in central England by animal rights activists. The Venerable...
September 4, 2005 Political Science By DANIEL SMITH "When Donald Kennedy, a biologist and editor of the eminent journal Science, was asked what had led so many...
... Hmmm, however, stem-cell research has been being done for something like 50 years. In addition, there seems to have been effective remedies produced for...
1. the distinction is *human ES cell* research, which was brand new when Bush restricted federal funding 2. this assumes that the primary goal of human ES cell...
Public release date: 5-Sep-2005 Contact: Gina Dellios "Overweight and overt obesity are increasing in both sexes and at all ages in nearly all European...
Public release date: 5-Sep-2005 Contact: Amanda Whibley, Media Services Manager "Daddy's little girl: what's it like to grow up without a father in the family...
05 September 2005 David Shiga "Earlier this year it was reported that the sons of women exposed to phthalates during pregnancy tend to have smaller penises...
ublished online: 5 September 2005; | Cancerous mutations threaten therapeutic future for cells. Roxanne Khamsi "Embryonic stem cells that are cultured in the...
Mon Sep 5, 8:43 AM ET By ANJAN SUNDARAM, Associated Press Writer KINSHASA, Congo - "Governments and conservationists opened a week of talks Monday in Congo's...
By WARREN FARRELL Published: September 5, 2005 Carlsbad, Calif. — "Nothing disturbs working women more than the statistics often mentioned on Labor Day...
"A global 'publishing gap' condemns efforts at reducing poverty to suffer from the shortsightedness of the rich. This is because the health and science...