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...Luna of the Autonomous University of Queretaro, Mexico. Barcenas and Terry are members of a team of biologists currently mapping several threatened cactus species through DNA sampling, but their project is often stymied by growing threats to the plants from illegal harvesting and destruction by drug traffickers. There are almost 700 species of cactus in Mexico and a third of them are threatened; consequently scientists keep location information private in their database, Terry says, but despite their efforts, the destruction continues...
...guess its almost natural then to think that women, because they stay in one place, might make better politicians in Alaska than...
...entire roll out was targeted to women voters, who currently show less support nationwide for McCain than George W. Bush earned in 2004, according to the Gallup Poll. "This trust has been given to me 88 years almost to the day after the women of America first gained the right to vote," Palin said Friday, earning some of the loudest applause of the announcement rally. "It turns out the women of America aren't finished yet and we can shatter that glass ceiling once...
...Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called the floods "a national calamity" and ordered that the state of Bihar get nearly $230 million in aid and 125,000 tons of food. But Bihar's Kumar, who took office in 2005 with a mandate to improve governance in a state that is almost synonymous in India with misery and corruption, has come under fierce criticism for mismanagement in the last days in New Delhi. "It is a complete failure of the state government," said Ram Vilas Paswan, a minister in the central government and member of Parliament from Bihar. Mishra says that Kumar...
...other hand, he could simply be playing the media, pretending to be undecided in order to generate a little more ink about him on a day that's meant to be all about his opponent. Sources close to the Arizona Senator say he's almost certainly already decided on a running mate, but that the circle of people who know the decision remains tiny - probably just his top campaign aides Steve Schmidt and Rick Davis, and presumably his wife Cindy. "This is very tightly held," says an adviser who has been boxed out of Veep discussions. "McCain doesn't like...