Over the past year, even as his problems have been amassing, the prime minister has been working behind the scenes in pursuit of a new free-trade deal. Brown has become messianic about the need to conclude the Doha round of talks, and even while on holiday he was on the phone urging fellow leaders to [...]
Whether a Jackson firm advertised home security system installation without a license will soon be decided in Jackson County District Court.
At the conclusion of a preliminary examination today, Judge Michael Klaeren said there was probable cause to bind over the case involving the Total Security Agency but only by the “barest margin.”
Russ Jennings, who is [...]
Arthur Blank, the vulnerable billionaire, paused to consider the source of his trusting nature.
It’s a trait that has been sorely tested recently. But not broken, he quickly added. Even after the fall of his franchise quarterback and the desertion of his coach, the Falcons owner insisted he will continue to believe the majority of mankind [...]
Arthur Blank, the vulnerable billionaire, paused to consider the source of his trusting nature.
It’s a trait that has been sorely tested recently. But not broken, he quickly added. Even after the fall of his franchise quarterback and the desertion of his coach, the Falcons owner insisted he will continue to believe the majority of mankind [...]
The varroa mite is considered one of the most serious honey bee pests and occurs almost worldwide. Hawaii had been one of the few places where the mite was not known to occur. It is not known at this time how the mites were introduced to Oahu. So far, surveys conducted [...]
Appleby said that even though the pest has been in the news since it was first identified in ash trees near Detroit in 2002, there are still people who are unaware of the problem and inadvertently transport the pest to uninfested areas. I talked with a homeowner in Michigan who had a number of dead [...]
Scientists at the Texas A%26amp;M University System Agricultural Research and Extension at Lubbock are studying the family tree of cotton for much the same reason.
Cotton genetic diversity has narrowed in recent years, said Dr. John Gannaway, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station cotton breeder. Many of today’s successful commercial varieties share common parents [...]
Researchers led by cognitive neuroscientist Adam Aron, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of California, San Diego, have found white matter tracts — bundles of neurons, or cables, forming direct, high-speed connections, between distant regions of the brain — that appear to play a significant role in the rapid control of behavior.
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The actual rendezvous will take place early in 2008 with the launch and docking of the most sophisticated spacecraft ever built in Europe, the Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV).
We are ready for rendezvous final approach, said the ATV Control Centre (ATV-CC), at the French space agency (CNES) facility in Toulouse, with a pronounced French [...]
What choice do you have? Part time jobs are a wretched fact of life.
Yet how much better they seem, how much more momentous and influential, when recollected from a distance! From the armchair, through a haze of pipe smoke, our part-time jobs become good, useful, lovable things. For all their hassle and muck, they marked [...]