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Nearly half a million have fled Haitian capital: UNGeneva (AFP) Feb 2, 2010 Nearly half a million people have fled Port-au-Prince for the Haitian countryside following the devastating earthquake that destroyed the capital, the United Nations said on Tuesday. The UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said 90 percent of the people leaving the capital for rural areas were staying with relatives, and supporting these host families was now a priority. Prices of basic commodities such as rice and sugar are rising as a result of the influx of people, the UN ... read more |
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Geneva (AFP) Feb 2, 2010Armed men attempted to hijack a UN food convoy at a road near Haiti's Jeremie airport, the UN said Tuesday, assessing that the situation in the quake-hit country is "stable but potentially volatile." "An incident was reported at the the Jeremie airport of an armed group attacking a food convoy; warning shots were fired," said the UN Bureau for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) ... more  
Madrid (AFP) Feb 2, 2010An environmentally valuable expanse of Spanish wetlands that dried up through mismanagement of water resources and drought is once again awash with water due to heavy rainfall, an official said Tuesday. Over 1,200 hectares (3,000 acres) of the wetlands of the Tablas de Daimiel National Park are flooded, the highest level since 1997, up from just 67 hectares on January 7, a park spokesman sai ... more  
Tenerife, Spain (AFP) Feb 2, 2010Torrential rains caused flooding, disrupted travel and left thousands without electricity in Spain's Canary Islands, a popular tourist destination, local authorities said Tuesday. Classes were cancelled on all seven islands of the Atlantic Ocean archipelago located off the West African coast which is home to some two million people. "We remain in a state of emergency due to adverse weath ... more |
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Organisms Can Tolerate Mutations Yet Adapt To ChangePhiladelphia PA (SPX) Feb 03, 2010 Biologists at the University of Pennsylvania studying the processes of evolution appear to have resolved a longstanding conundrum: How can organisms be robust against the effects of mutations yet simultaneously adaptable when the environment changes? The short answer, according to University of Pennsylvania biologist Joshua B. Plotkin, is that these two requirements are often not contradictory and that an optimal level of robustness maintains the phenotype in one environment but also allows adapta ... read more |
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