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...owner will tell you that canines are compassionate and can sense human emotions. But a new study suggests that dogs' emotions are closer to ours than once thought. According to a study published Dec. 10 in the American journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, along with the most primal emotions - anger, fear - dogs also feel a simple form of envy...
...central square is a traffic island with a Soviet T34 tank on a pedestal, a World War II memorial. Next to it is a farmers' market, where babushkas from nearby villages with woolly hats and dodgy teeth sell homegrown carrots and potatoes for 25¢ per pound. But look closer, and it's clear that even Lyudinovo isn't frozen in time. A shopping emporium that opened a year ago sells South Korean refrigerators, French yogurt and fake Italian pumps. Several houses are being built on the outskirts - the first new residential construction in more than a decade. And until recently...
...pursued in a mutually supportive way," he said on Tuesday. "It would be a real mistake for Europe to give the signal that we are watering down our position after all these years leading the efforts for a global solution now that others, like the Americans, are coming closer to our position...
...tested in groups of children in Africa. That could open the door to sweeping trials of the vaccines in seven African nations by early 2009 and a completed formulation ready for approval by 2011. "We are," says Dr. Christian Loucq, director of the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, "one step closer to the day when malaria will join diseases like smallpox and polio." (Read "Global Malaria Estimates Are Reduced...
...that reason the World Health Organization and other groups are stepping up their push to deliver pesticides and mosquito-resistant bed nets across Africa. Those efforts by themselves have rolled back parasite prevalence by 50% in Zambia. Add that to an even imperfect vaccine and you get closer and closer to the moment when today's plague becomes yesterday's memory...