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NYC cloning historical trees for future AP New York Squat, homely, dwarfed by stately oaks and poplars, and unnoticed by the tourists passing in horse-drawn carriages, it's a tree that only birds and nut-hungry squirrels could love. But the 100-year-old European beech on Central Park's Cherry Hill was the center of attention Thursday, chosen by city officials as the first of 25 "historical" trees to be cloned as part of a plan to add a million new trees to public spaces over the next decade. ... |
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Embryonic Stem Cells Created Without Harming Embryo, for Real This Time Wired.com  Scientists hope a new method for producing embryonic stem cells without damaging embryos will finally place the cells in the labs of scientists searching for cures to now-untreatable diseases. In a study published Thursday in Cell Stem Cell, Wake Forest University Institute for Regenerative Medicine researchers plucked single cells from two-day-old human embryos without harming them, then transformed them into embryonic stem cells, also known as ESCs. ESCs are nature's own alchemical miracle, capable of becoming almost any type of cell in the human body. ... |
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Twins separated at birth met and married LONDON (Reuters) A couple discovered after they had married that they were twins who had been split up at birth and adopted by separate families, according to a member of Britain's House of Lords. British peer David Alton recounted the story to parliament last month to support his argument that artificially conceived children should be told who their biological parents are. ... |
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What are you doing here? - man asks wife at brothel WARSAW (Reuters) A Polish man got the shock of his life when he visited a brothel and spotted his wife among the establishment's employees. Polish tabloid Super Express said the woman had been making some extra money on the side while telling her husband she worked at a store in a nearby town. ... |
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Police hunt escapees who left taunting note CNN A manhunt is under way Tuesday for two inmates who chipped their way out of a New Jersey jail and left behind a note wishing authorities "Happy Holidays." They used a long metal wire to scrape away mortar around the cinder block between their cells and in the outer wall in Espinosa's cell, police said. ... |
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Where Others Saw a Big Old Barn, They Saw a Home New York Times DEREK AND MICHELLE SANDERS had been hunting for a vacation place for several months when they heard about a property in Roxbury, N.Y., three hours north of Manhattan, and drove out on a wintry day in 2002 to have a look. Rounding a scenic ridge, they caught sight of it ‹ a rambling old Dutch-style barn nestled in the valley below. The barn was a windowless shell being used to store cars. But the Sanderses were captivated by the lofty, open-air interior and the simple beauty of the structure itself, built in 1897. ... |
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Web plagiarism a serious problem: UK teachers LONDON Reuters More than half of teachers in a survey said they thought plagiarism from the Internet is a problem. Some students who steal essays wholesale from the Web, they said, are so lazy they don't even bother to take the adverts off the cut-and-pasted text. ... |
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Shouting Macaw scares off burglar at pet store BOSTON (Reuters) BOSTON (Reuters) - Watch dogs are a pretty common first line of security for U.S. homes and businesses. Watch birds not so much. But that didn't stop Merlin, a seven-year-old blue-and-gold macaw who scared off a burglar at a Massachusetts pet store this week. Intruders smashed the front window of Pet Palace in Leominster, about 45 miles west of Boston, and as they entered the store the bird began to shout, said store manager Lori Oltman on Thursday. ... |
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Oprah effect brings microlending to Main Street Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters) - The credit crisis may be fouling up billion-dollar takeover deals, but if you're a poor African seamstress who needs a loan for a new sewing machine, you could not ask for a better borrowing market to expand your business. Anyone with $25 to spare and an Internet connection can now become an international microfinancier through Kiva (www.kiva.org), an organization that matches individual lenders with impoverished entrepreneurs in the developing world. ... |
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