Daily Archive: September 15, 2006

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I For One Welcome Our New Vole Overlords

The vole, a mouselike rodent, is not only the fastest evolving mammal, but also harbors a number of puzzling genetic traits that challenge current scientific understanding … [voles have] evolved in the last 500,000...

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This Army’s Broken, Can We Have Another?

Fully two-thirds of the [US] Army’s operating force, both active and reserve, is now reporting in as “unready”—that is, they lack the equipment, people, or training they need to execute their assigned missions. Not...

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Beware Of Goths Bearing Blogs

The gunman who went on a shooting rampage at a Montreal college Wednesday apparently left an online journal … Kimveer Gill was the author of an online diary posted at the website vampirefreaks.com …...

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MySue, YouSue

Jessica Reif Cohen, a Merrill Lynch analyst, wrote in a note to clients Thursday that remarks two days before by Universal Chief Executive Officer Doug Morris meant Universal was getting set to sue not...

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Beef Inflation

Ethanol production in the US was growing so rapidly it might drive up corn prices and push livestock producers into a costly scramble for grain … One-fifth of this year’s corn crop would be...