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Oasis Near Death Valley Fed By Ancient Aquifer Under Nevada Test SiteProvo UT (SPX) Jun 09, 2010 Every minute, 10,000 gallons of water mysteriously gush out of the desert floor at a place called Ash Meadows, an oasis that is home to 24 plant and animal species found nowhere else in the world. A new Brigham Young University study indicates that the water arriving at Ash Meadows is completing a 15,000-year journey, flowing slowly underground from what is now the Nevada Test Site. The U.S. government tested nuclear bombs there for four decades, and a crack in the Earth's crust known as the ... read more |
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Beijing (AFP) June 8, 2010A group of young Chinese web addicts staged a mutiny at an Internet "boot camp", tying up their instructor and fleeing the facility over its tough military-like techniques, state media said Tuesday. The 14 mutineers, aged 15 to 22, were all caught by police when they failed to pay a taxi fare following their escape from the rehabilitation centre in east China's Jiangsu province last week, th ... more  
Baghdad (AFP) June 8, 2010Iraq's new parliament will finally convene next week, an official said Tuesday, paving the way for the formation of a new government more than three months after nationwide polls. The June 14 opening of the Council of Representatives comes after Iraq's supreme court ratified the results of the March 7 general election which put ex-premier Iyad Allawi's Iraqiya bloc in the lead, followed clos ... more  
Washington (UPI) Jun 8, 2010 The U.S. Department of Agriculture says new cultivars of a common bean might defend the legume against the fungal disease common bean rust. The new cultivars were developed by the USDA's Agricultural Research Service and university scientists. Talo Pastor-Corrales, an ARS plant pathologist in Beltsville, Md., said the new cultivars possess two or more genes for resistance to the rust fu ... more |
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Japan prosecutors demand jail for Greenpeace whale activistsTokyo (AFP) June 8, 2010 Japanese prosecutors demanded 18-month jail terms for two Greenpeace activists on trial for committing theft and trespass while investigating alleged embezzlement in the country's whaling industry. Junichi Sato, 33, and Toru Suzuki, 43, are accused of stealing whale meat in 2008 from a delivery service depot in Japan's northern Aomori prefecture. Commercial whaling has been banned worldwide since 1986, but Japan justifies its annual hunts as "scientific research", while not hiding the fact that ... read more |
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