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Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2008 By BRYAN WALSH - www.time.com
King penguins are supposed to be a wildlife success story. The flightless Antarctic bird — the second-biggest penguin after its movie-star emperor cousin — was hunted into near-extinction by sailors in the 19th century, who used their fat as cooking oil. When the slaughter […]

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Sunday, Feb. 10, 2008 By ALICE PARK - www.time.com
 
When it comes to dieting, most of us are willing to resort to a trick or two to help us curb our appetite and eat less — drinking water to fill up when we’re hungry, for example, or opting for artificial sweeteners instead of […]

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Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008 By BRYAN WALSH
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Maybe it was simply too good to be true. For proponents, biofuels — petroleum substitutes made from plant matter like corn or sugar cane — seemed to promise everything. Using biofuels rather than oil would reduce the greenhouse gases that accelerate global warming, because plants […]

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Sunday, Feb. 17, 2008 By TIFFANY SHARPLES
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Last month the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the sale of cloned meat in the U.S., having determined that products from cloned cattle, pigs and goats are as safe to eat as meat from their naturally reproduced brethren. That makes advocates happy: Cloning enables the […]

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By Elsa Youngsteadt
ScienceNOW Daily News
15 February 2008
BOSTON–Children with autism spectrum disorder are unable to sustain play, make-believe games, and fluid social interaction–at least with real people. But psychologist and linguist Justine Cassell of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, says that interaction with virtual peers releases hidden social skills in these children.

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