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...RELEASED. Xiang Xiang, 4, 83-kg giant panda; into the wild, marking the first time a panda bred in captivity was freed; in a forest in Sichuan province, China, as a swath of bamboo shoots, the animal's favorite food, were starting to sprout. Xiang Xiang was reared at China's Wolong Giant Panda Research Center. Wolong officials, who spent three years training Xiang Xiang to fend for himself and will continue to monitor the panda with a satellite tracking system, said the event was a key step in boosting the population of the endangered species, which now numbers about...
RELEASED. Xiang Xiang, 4, 176-lb. giant panda; into the wild, marking the first time a member of this endangered species has been bred in captivity and freed; in a forest in Sichuan province, China, as bamboo shoots, the animal's favorite food, were starting to sprout. Officials at Wolong Giant Panda Research Center will monitor Xiang Xiang with a satellite tracking system...
...place in the boathouse and at practice, not at its races.“The people on the varsity eight haven’t changed this season,” freshman Rebekah Kharrazi said, “but having more people vying for spots and the internal competition has bred more success for the team.”And the result of this is a team that is faster and more powerful—from top to bottom.“Your boat is only as fast as the ninth person on the team,” Bates said...
...idea that the same process could be at work in cancer originated with leukemia researchers. In a series of studies in the 1990s, scientists began taking leukemia cells from human patients, separating out fractions of those cells and putting them into mice specially bred to tolerate human implants. Some of the cell fractions developed into tumors in the animals, while others did not. That was the first proof that the cells in a cancer were not homogeneous. Some cells were more dangerous than others...
...novel” to be precise—that damned Thatcherism as racist, authoritarian, and even fascist, is often juvenile, my disappointment stems form the fact that the movie could have been great. The parts of the movie that dealt with the stifling woodenness of totalitarian vocabulary, the weariness bred by constant exposure to lies, and the indestructibility of human dignity were extremely well done, but were in many ways superceded by the childish desire to score cheap political points against Bush. I take solace in the fact that the flaws of “V for Vendetta?...