Provides the latest RSS feeds for Science News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page India Gazette.com http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/10/id/a9927dde6777aafc/ en-us Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:39:43 -0400 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:39:43 -0400 30 It is not just companies sending work offshore, computer science students in Australia are outsourcing assignments to programmers in India and other countries. http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/378426/cs/1/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:00:57 -0400 India Gazette.com http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/378426/cs/1/ AUSTIN (AP) -- A former Texas Education Agency science director is suing to get back the job she lost when she resigned under pressure. News 8 Austin reported on its Web site Christina Castillo-Comer&... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15965159/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:42:47 -0400 KXAN 36 http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15965159/ By Michael Kahn London - An imbalance of a key brain chemical could cause crib death, researchers said on Thursday in what they called a chance discovery. They created mice whose sudden deaths r... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15965572/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:39:49 -0400 IOL http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15965572/ A lockdown at the Edmonton Institution continued yesterday after a Canada Day brawl that sent several prisoners to hospital. Prisoners will be confined to their cells, without access to educational ... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15965780/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:13:41 -0400 CNews http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15965780/ Qingdao, China - The clock that once counted down to the start of the Olympics in the centre of Qingdao, the sailing venue for August's Games, now reads zero days, zero hours and zero seconds. It i... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15965573/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:39:52 -0400 IOL http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15965573/ Randy Ottenbreit and his daughter Avery in a family photo. The family of a 15-year-old quadriplegic girl is outraged after the teenager was denied a seat on a WestJet flight for failing to meet airlin... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15965779/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:13:41 -0400 CNews http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15965779/ George Washington was a war hero, first president, and the guy on the one dollar bill. Beyond that, most Americans only know about a cherry tree he cut down as a boy and the rest is a boring blur. Now... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15965206/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:14:24 -0400 The Epoch Times http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15965206/ The federal government is spending $113 million to celebrate Quebec City's 400th anniversary, including more than $3 million for a national advertising campaign. More than $1 million of that ad mone... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15965783/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:13:40 -0400 CNews http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15965783/ OTTAWA - Momin Khawaja personally outlined the workings of an electronic detonation device to the British-based leader of a terrorist bomb plot, the Ottawa software designer's trial has heard. In... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15965781/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:13:39 -0400 CNews http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15965781/ The dramatic and large-scale volcanism probably took the form both of humongous lava flows and violent eruptions, based on surface features seen in the images, Head said. http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15963690/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:46:59 -0400 Reuters http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15963690/ Evolving Scientific Research Project, a 501 (c) (3) corporation, expands to three divisions with conservation projects in process: In Africa: baboons, vervets, coastal leopard, Knysna elephants; In US... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15963178/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:41:34 -0400 PR Web http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15963178/ Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt stands at the tarmac of a military base in Bogota waiting for the arrival of her family from France on Thursday. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Ricardo Mazalan) http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15964456/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:34:21 -0400 CNews http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15964456/ By By Jeanna Bryner A world without females may not be worth living in. And in fact extinction would be imminent. That's the lonely and dire prospect faced by the tuatara. With rising temperatures, th... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15962585/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:48:27 -0400 MSNBC http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15962585/ Posted on: Friday, 4 July 2008, 00:00 CDT By Ken Ward Jr. Staff writer A federal judge on Wednesday quizzed a toxicologist who says DuPont Co. has poisoned Parkersburgs city water supply with dangero... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15962316/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:46:20 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15962316/ Posted on: Friday, 4 July 2008, 00:00 CDT GOVERNMENT: Federal, state, county and city offices, courts, libraries and animal shelters will be closed. MAIL: The U.S. Postal Service will not deliver mai... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15962317/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:46:18 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15962317/ Posted on: Friday, 4 July 2008, 00:00 CDT Controllers for Allegheny County and Pittsburgh will work together to audit the finances and performance of the county's sanitary authority, or Alcosan, offi... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15962318/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:46:17 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15962318/ A Belorusian woman passes an explosion site in downtown Minsk, Belarus. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Sergei Grits) MINSK, Belarus - Belarusian health officials say more than 50 people have been injured in a... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15964455/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:34:20 -0400 CNews http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15964455/ Posted on: Friday, 4 July 2008, 00:00 CDT By The Associated Press BIG SUR, Calif. (AP) - Authorities ordered the remaining residents of this scenic coastal community to leave Wednesday because an out... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15962320/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:46:16 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15962320/ Taking note of the allegations, the bench issued notice to the ministry of environment and forest as well as the Gujarat government and sought their responses to the PIL. As an interim measure, it ord... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15962314/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:46:15 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15962314/ SASKATOON - Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan are working on designing a ventilation system that could protect schools, hospitals, and other public buildings from chemical warfare and biot... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15962516/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:33:50 -0400 CNews http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15962516/ SEOUL, South Korea - UN chief Ban Ki-moon called on South Korea to contribute more foreign aid and peacekeepers abroad, saying Friday his homeland owes the international community for its help rebuild... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15962515/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:33:49 -0400 CNews http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15962515/ Posted on: Thursday, 3 July 2008, 21:00 CDT By The Monterey County Herald, Calif. Jul. 3--A woman walking near Monterey High School was being followed by a mountain lion as she was walking her dog to... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15959749/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:44:23 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15959749/ Posted on: Thursday, 3 July 2008, 21:00 CDT By BRUCE RUSHTON CANTON, Mo. - Levee failures on the other side of a flooding river often bring respites. While one side gets flooded, levees on the other ... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15959743/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:44:28 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15959743/ Why? Why wait to fish the restored Thompson and Flag lakes when biologists say the fishery is ready? This is where the knuckleheads in Springfield come in - the main reason for a delay appears to be f... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15959744/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:44:27 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15959744/ Posted on: Thursday, 3 July 2008, 21:00 CDT By Kristen Moulton, The Salt Lake Tribune Jul. 3--LAYTON -- Water conservation, says the manager of a large new demonstration garden here, is not so hard. ... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15959748/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:44:23 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15959748/ Posted on: Thursday, 3 July 2008, 21:00 CDT By Stephen Hunt, The Salt Lake Tribune Jul. 3--A Clearfield mother whose infant son died after she left him in a sweltering vehicle last month was charged ... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15959747/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:44:24 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15959747/ Posted on: Thursday, 3 July 2008, 21:00 CDT California Chief Information Officer Teri Takai today announced the members of the Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) Task Force. Governor Schwarzenegger... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15959751/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:44:20 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15959751/ Posted on: Thursday, 3 July 2008, 21:00 CDT By The Wisconsin State Journal Jul. 3--The Department of Natural Resources gave a mixed review of the state of VHS in a release Thursday. The agency said t... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15959745/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:44:26 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15959745/ WASHINGTON: Scientists have new evidence that the brain chemical best known for regulating mood also plays a role in the mystifying killer of seemingly healthy babies, sudden infant death syndrome, or... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15960178/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:32:47 -0400 KeralaNext http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15960178/ Posted on: Thursday, 3 July 2008, 21:00 CDT By CHRIS WETTERICH City Water, Light and Power general manager Todd Renfrow acknowledged Tuesday he's talking to aldermen about "retention and compensation... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15959752/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:44:20 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15959752/ Posted on: Thursday, 3 July 2008, 21:00 CDT By Steve Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune Jul. 3--A 20-year-old man was booked into Salt Lake County Jail on Wednesday after allegedly beating his fiancee wit... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15959750/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:44:21 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15959750/ 14 questions they sent to the candidates and hope to discuss with them at a science-only debate. The questions cover innovation, climate change, energy, genetics, space, and health, among other topics... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15958472/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:12:12 -0400 Wired News http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15958472/ Posted on: Thursday, 3 July 2008, 21:00 CDT By Cumberland Times News, Md. Jul. 3--GRANTSVILLE -- Despite a site complaint issued by the Maryland Department of the Environment, progress is continuing ... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15959746/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:44:25 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15959746/ Beatie, 34, who kept female reproductive organs after initiating a transgender transformation and legally changing his name from Tracy Lagondino in his 20s, confirmed the birth to the magazine. http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15958747/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:46:41 -0400 Reuters http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15958747/ Posted on: Thursday, 3 July 2008, 21:00 CDT By JOHN REYNOLDS After dealing with weather delays and a two-month work stoppage to protect a rare snake, work has resumed on restoring the lagoon in Linco... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15958349/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:44:19 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15958349/ WASHINGTON - The White House said Thursday that dangerous detainees at Guantanomo Bay could end up walking the streets in the United States in the wake of last month's Supreme Court ruling about detai... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15959923/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:33:20 -0400 CNews http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15959923/ STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Sweden will pay $502,000 in compensation to an exonerated Egyptian terrorism suspect who was handed over to CIA agents and deported in 2001, the government said Thursday. Chan... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15959926/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:33:19 -0400 CNews http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15959926/ NEW YORK - He's gone from hot-dog top dog to underdog. Renowned competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi is aiming to chomp his way back to the top of the annual Fourth of July hot dog eating competiti... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15959924/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:33:18 -0400 CNews http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15959924/ Posted on: Thursday, 3 July 2008, 15:55 CDT A new study published on Thursday found that none of the G8 countries have come even close to fulfilling their pledges to fight climate change.The environm... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15956201/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:39:52 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15956201/ Today the gas is said to be accumulating in the atmosphere, although its levels have not been measured. Scientists have calculated that it has a half-life in the atmosphere of 550 years. NF3 is used i... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15956205/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:39:50 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15956205/ Posted on: Thursday, 3 July 2008, 18:00 CDT By T.J. GREANEY A recent round of water-quality testing at the Lake of the Ozarks indicates that five of 53 coves tested positive for high levels of E. col... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15956202/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:39:41 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15956202/ Posted on: Thursday, 3 July 2008, 15:00 CDT By FRASER, Bruce in Te Anau FIORDLAND rock lobsters and Fiordland fishermen are both thriving following the recovery of the species from a long decline. Fi... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15956211/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:39:39 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15956211/ By RANDOLPH E. SCHMIDAP SCIENCE WRITER WASHINGTON -- From climate change to volcanoes and earthquakes, the world's growing challenges have leaders in earth science proposing a merger of agencies th... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15956319/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:21:16 -0400 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15956319/ BBC News, Abidjan Ivory Coast is calling on the United Nations to lift an arms embargo that it says has prevented the defence of its waters from illegal fishing boats. http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15956199/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:14:48 -0400 BBC http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15956199/ INTERNET giant Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has watched any clip on YouTube, the popular online video-sharing service, a US court ruled yesterday. http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15955227/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:12:37 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15955227/ had "presided over these enormous cuts".Officials said 11 staff were expected to go "in the immediate future", with others to follow among the 107 full-time and 24 part-time workers. Kirk Ramsay, the ... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15952642/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:14:57 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15952642/ Posted on: Thursday, 3 July 2008, 18:00 CDT By Matt Weiser, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Jul. 3--Salmon fishing closures on Central Valley rivers took effect today to protect what's left of the fall-ru... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15956203/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:39:45 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15956203/ Posted on: Thursday, 3 July 2008, 18:00 CDT By Melissa Moody, The Evening News and the Tribune, Jeffersonville, Ind. Jul. 3--Clark County Surveyor Bob Isgrigg told the county's Drainage Board on Wedn... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15956207/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:39:47 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15956207/ Posted on: Thursday, 3 July 2008, 18:00 CDT By BETH REESE CRAVEY There's been some monkey business going on in Clay County, specifically in OakLeaf Plantation's Eagle Landing subdivision. A primate h... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15956208/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:39:46 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15956208/ BANGALORE, India: Bangalore-based Institute for Social and Economic Change is organising a three-day national seminar on 'Institutional Structure of Social Science Research' here from July six. http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15953105/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:43:40 -0400 KeralaNext http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15953105/ After giving a lecture on conspiracy theories to a largely US audience, I was stopped in the corridor by an intense-looking member of the audience. He icily recited my reason for questioning the popul... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15957337/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:00:53 -0400 The Guardian http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15957337/ Mandatory heart screening should be introduced for all athletes taking part in competitive sports, doctors said.Regular heart check-ups could dramatically reduce the number of athletes who die from su... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15957338/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:00:55 -0400 The Guardian http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15957338/ Posted on: Thursday, 3 July 2008, 18:00 CDT If Greensboro leaders became convinced the years of cheap fuel are gone forever, what would they do? Residents could soon find out. A citizen effort to edu... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15956210/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:39:42 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15956210/ Posted on: Thursday, 3 July 2008, 18:00 CDT By Angie Mason, York Daily Record, Pa. Jul. 3--A group of Mechanicsburg friends dropped inner tubes into the Yellow Breeches Creek around Messiah College i... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15956204/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:39:48 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15956204/ Posted on: Thursday, 3 July 2008, 18:00 CDT By Sheri McWhirter, The Record-Eagle, Traverse City, Mich. Jul. 3--VANDERBILT -- The Pigeon River still doesn't run clear, nearly two weeks after a large s... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15956209/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:39:44 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15956209/ Mosquitos are the carrier of the parasite Plasmodium, the agent of malaria. Photograph: Rex features The number of people returning to Britain with a potentially fatal form of malaria has risen shar... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15957339/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:00:57 -0400 The Guardian http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15957339/ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The solar system may not be a nice round shape, but rather a bit squashed and oblong, according to data from the Voyager 2 spacecraft exploring the solar system's outer limits, ... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15954192/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:32:57 -0400 Reuters http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15954192/ Meanwhile the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) announced last week that it is willing to buy nearly 187,000 acres (75,700 hectares) from the United States Sugar Corporation—which ... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15954076/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:26:32 -0400 National Geographic News http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15954076/ Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks during his campaign stop in Fargo, N.D. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Jae C. Hong FARGO, N.D. - Democrat Barack Obama opened the door Thursday to refining his plan to bring U... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15956686/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:20:04 -0400 CNews http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15956686/ INDIANAPOLIS - One of the fireworks bursting above Indianapolis for tonight's 4th of July show will include the cremated remains of Meredith Smith. He ran the annual event for 40 years before dying ea... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15956685/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:20:02 -0400 CNews http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15956685/ July 3, 2008—Many Bolivians feel that coca has been unfairly stigmatized in the country, where the plant has traditional medicinal uses and features in many everyday rituals.© 2008 National... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15951455/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:43:00 -0400 National Geographic News http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15951455/ LONDON - British police appealed Thursday for witnesses to help solve the deaths of two French students who were stabbed dozens of times in the head and neck before being set on fire in their southeas... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15952069/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:36:39 -0400 CNews http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15952069/ TOKYO - The Group of Eight countries, holding their annual summit in Japan starting Monday, have always been a club for the world's biggest and brightest economies. Now a growing chorus is saying it's... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15952070/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:36:39 -0400 CNews http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15952070/ KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The fired police chief of Kandahar has denied any involvement in an explosive prison break last month. In his first public comments since being dismissed last week, Gen. S... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15952073/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:36:38 -0400 CNews http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15952073/ Two Toronto Police officers are among those facing numerous charges relating to an extensive drug operation after cops executed dozens of search warrants this morning. In all, 20 people were arrest... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15952074/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:36:37 -0400 CNews http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15952074/ BERLIN - Bettina Schardt knew that the combination of drugs she drank in the living room of her home in Wuerzburg last week would kill her, and she died alone. But this was no ordinary suicide. A... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15950683/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:58:55 -0400 CNews http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15950683/ Dozens of search warrants were executed throughout the GTA this morning targeting marijuana grow operations, police say. Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair is scheduled to update the media regarding 6... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15950682/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:58:56 -0400 CNews http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15950682/ OTTAWA - Momin Khawaja discussed the technical details of an electronic detonation device with the British leader of a terrorist bomb plot, the Ottawa software designer's trial has heard. A recor... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15950681/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:58:53 -0400 CNews http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15950681/ Yoga Vasishtha God has created the world in play, as it were. This is called Mahamaya, the Great Illusion. Therefore, one must take refuge in the Divine Mother, the Cosmic ... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15949991/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:59:59 -0400 Times of India http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15949991/ By Michael Kahn London - An increase in Britons travelling to malaria-infested countries has steadily increased the number of imported cases of the disease over the past 20 years, researchers said ... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15949056/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:41:51 -0400 IOL http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15949056/ Dhaka - Environment ministers from South Asian countries adopted a three-year action plan on Thursday for regional cooperation to combat climate change effects. The meeting agreed to share informat... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15949055/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:41:49 -0400 IOL http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15949055/ TORONTO - Researchers say a southern Ontario woman who suffered a serious stroke two years ago now speaks like a Newfoundlander. Rosmarie Dore suffered a stroke in 2006, triggering a rare medical... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15949410/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:19:01 -0400 CNews http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15949410/ Israelis wait at a bus stop on a section of Jaffa Road where a Palestinian attacker driving a bulldozer killed three people Wednesday, in Jerusalem, Thursday, July 3, 2008. The attacker went on a grue... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15949411/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:19:00 -0400 CNews http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15949411/ Has the last session of parliament made you lose faith in the Tories? Yes. I want a new party in power. No. They're still the best party around. I never had faith in the Tories. http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15949412/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:18:58 -0400 CNews http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15949412/ MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Archeologists are opening a cave sealed for more than 30 years deep beneath a Mexican pyramid to look for clues about the mysterious collapse of one of ancient civilization's l... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15947383/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:47:32 -0400 Reuters http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15947383/ A smoke rises after explosions at an army ammunition depot near the Bulgarian capital Sofia. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Valentna Petrova SOFIA, Bulgaria - A string of powerful explosions erupted Thursday a... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15948024/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:33:53 -0400 CNews http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15948024/ MIAMI - Tropical storm Bertha, the second named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, has formed off the coast of Africa. Forecasters say the centre of the storm was about 300 kilometres south-... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15948025/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:33:53 -0400 CNews http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15948025/ ELYRIA, Ohio - A raging fire at a warehouse in Ohio forced about two dozen residents of nearby homes to flee in the middle of the night. Officials say the evacuation order was issued after fire b... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15946451/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:52:02 -0400 CNews http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15946451/ BERLIN - Henry Kissinger will honor former President George H.W. Bush on Thursday for his commitment to Germany amid the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification. The Henry A. Kissinger Prize is... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15946447/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:52:01 -0400 CNews http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15946447/ MANILA, Philippines - Military and police officials say Suspected communist guerrillas hurled a grenade in front of a bakeshop that refused to pay extortion demands in the southern Philippines. T... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15946446/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:52:00 -0400 CNews http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15946446/ VIENNA, Austria - Legal experts from around the world say they have devised a way of measuring how countries meet the basic principles of law and human rights. The "Rule of Law Index" - unveiled ... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15948023/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:33:51 -0400 CNews http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15948023/ KABUL, Afghanistan - A police chief says a roadside blast has killed five Afghan soldiers in central Afghanistan. Provincial police Chief Mustapha Khan says the blast hit an Afghan army convoy la... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15946445/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:51:59 -0400 CNews http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15946445/ BEIJING - China says the Dalai Lama must prove he does not support outright independence for Tibet or the disruption of the Beijing Olympics if autonomy talks are to continue. China's state media... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15946455/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:52:00 -0400 CNews http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15946455/ U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon waves upon his arrival at Seoul University to attend a ceremony for the Conferment of the Honorary Doctoral Degree in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, July 3, 2008. THE... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15946449/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:52:04 -0400 CNews http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15946449/ U.S. Ambassador to Poland Victor Ashe, left, and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk shake hands prior to talks in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, July 3, 2008. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Alik Keplicz WARSAW, Pola... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15946450/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:52:03 -0400 CNews http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15946450/ I felt like a 12-year-old at Canada's Wonderland waiting to go on the Drop Zone. I met the ride's height and weight requirements, submitted my belongings, and signed my life away on a waiver. The di... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15946444/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:51:57 -0400 CNews http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15946444/ BERLIN - German authorities have returned a baby to his parents after agreeing that their offer to sell him on EBay was just a joke gone awry. Prosecutor Johannes Kreuzpointer confirmed Thursday ... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15946454/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:51:56 -0400 CNews http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15946454/ BERLIN - A new study suggests Canada ranks second to last among G8 countries when it comes to addressing global warming. Only the United States scores lower on the Group of Eight Climate Scorecar... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15946443/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:51:55 -0400 CNews http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15946443/ Qingdao - China scrambled on Thursday to clear tons of algae that is covering a third of the Olympic sailing course and causing huge embarrassment for authorities trying to promote a "Green Games". ... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15943973/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:18:47 -0400 IOL http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15943973/ Paris - European Union (EU) environment ministers began an informal two-day meeting on Thursday aimed at clearing some of the many obstacles besetting their goal of slashing carbon emissions by 2020. ... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15943974/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:18:45 -0400 IOL http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15943974/ Canberra - Environmental activists chained themselves to a coal conveyor at one of Australia's largest power stations on Thursday and more than a dozen were arrested in a protest against climate polic... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15943975/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:18:41 -0400 IOL http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15943975/ More than 6,000 people have already signed up to David "The Hoff" Hasselhoff's new social networking site since its recent launch. He set up his own so-called Hoff Space because he was tired of fak... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15943104/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:54:55 -0400 BBC http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15943104/ He's the deserter who isn't. Or is he? An ABC News report that Iraqi war resister Corey Glass, who fled to Canada after deserting the U.S. National Guard in 2006, isn't facing punishment south of th... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15944622/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:51:55 -0400 CNews http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15944622/ Posted on: Thursday, 3 July 2008, 03:00 CDT By Einsiedel, Bert Morrison, Karen COMMUNITY-BASED SOCIAL MARKETING With an average diversion rate of 39 percent, a household composting pilot project in t... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15941773/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:35:00 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15941773/ Posted on: Thursday, 3 July 2008, 03:00 CDT By Steve Cahalan, La Crosse Tribune, Wis. Jul. 3--Diana Henry, former co-anchor for the 6 and 10 p.m. news on WXOW-TV in La Crosse, has been named the even... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15941781/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:35:03 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15941781/ Posted on: Thursday, 3 July 2008, 03:00 CDT By Spencer, Robert MANAGING COLLECTION COSTS A Vermont solid waste district, an area hauler and a farm-based composter in neighboring Massachusetts are wor... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15941774/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:34:57 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15941774/ Posted on: Thursday, 3 July 2008, 03:00 CDT By Ron Sylvester, The Wichita Eagle, Kan. Jul. 3--The grand jury investigating Wichita abortion provider George Tiller adjourned this afternoon without an ... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15941777/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:34:51 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15941777/ Posted on: Thursday, 3 July 2008, 03:00 CDT By Anonymous Florida City, Florida The South Bade Soil and Water Conservation District (SDSWCD), a nonprofit governmental subdivision of the state of Flori... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15941779/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:35:04 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15941779/ Posted on: Thursday, 3 July 2008, 03:00 CDT By Anonymous The New Zealand government recently gave Envirocomp, owned by Karen and Karl Upston, the Green Ribbon Award for their system to compost dispos... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15941780/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:35:04 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15941780/ Posted on: Thursday, 3 July 2008, 03:00 CDT Text of report by state-owned KBC (Kenya Broadcasting Corporation) Radio on 3 July [Presenter] The government has imposed a ban on the sale of cooked food ... http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15940242/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:34:55 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/15940242/