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Thursday, July 14, 2005

Stickers come off in Beebe. July 14, 2005: At its meeting on July 11, 2005, the Beebe, Arkansas, School Board voted 3-2 to remove stickers describing evolution as "controversial" and mentioning an "intelligent designer" as a possible explanation of the origin of life from the district's science textbooks. The stickers, which were apparently placed in the textbooks in the early or mid ... [National Center for Science Education]
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Dead Birds Do Tell Tales. The alarming numbers of dead seabirds washing up along the West Coast have scientists worried about rising water temperatures and a dwindling plankton population, which disrupts the entire food chain. [Wired News: Top Stories]
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Author's research digs into tall tales of saloons. Kelly Dixon talks over soil layer findings at the site of the old Boston Saloon with University of Nevada, Reno, graduate student Robert Leavitt during a 2000 dig in Virginia City. [Archaeology - Topix.net]
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New finding disputes myth of early settlers. Archaeologists think they have unearthed the first human settlement on the South Pacific island of Fiji, a find believed to be about 3 000 years old, the researchers said on Thursday. [Archaeology - Topix.net]
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Digging for clues. MULBERRY, Ind. -- Sarah Buckser held a piece of bone up to the sunlight and examined it like a seasoned archaeologist. [Archaeology - Topix.net]
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Unveil the origin of Chinese characters. During the period from the legendary coinage of characters by Cang Jie to the discovery of inscriptions on bones or tortoise shells of the Shang Dynasty over one hundred years ago, Chinese scholars of all ages ... [Archaeology - Topix.net]
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Can banana be saved?. The banana as we know it is on a crash course toward extinction. For scientists, the battle to resuscitate the worldís favorite fruit has begun ó a race against time that just may be too late to win. Some scientists say we have five years, some say 10. Others hold out hope that it will be much longer. [digg]
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Newly discovered planet has 3 suns. A newly discovered planet has bountiful sunshine, with not one, not two, but three suns glowing in its sky. [digg]
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