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Then, in a process Clinton's aides call "evolution," the governor's position changed--most radically when he entered the race for the presidency. He now says he supports government funding for abortion through Medicare subsidies and opposes "any federal attempt to limit access to abortion through mandatory waiting periods...
Quite possibly the earth's most ancient life-forms, bacteria are experts at the game of survival. Throw a bunch of them onto an ice floe or into the steaming heart of Old Faithful, and one or another of the unicellular beasties will probably turn out to possess a critical...
Overuse of antibiotics has accelerated the evolution of superbugs, and hospitals, in particular, are major breeding grounds. For decades, surgeons and internists have fought infections in some extremely ill patients with massive doses of antibiotics, and when one drug didn't work, they tried another and another. From the standpoint...
Now a report in Science suggests that 370 million years ago, during the Late Devonian period, a comet or asteroid caused an even greater catastrophe, one that wiped out fully 70% of all marine species on earth. American and Belgian scientists have found tiny glass beads just .3 mm (.004...
Hawking, though, is seen mainly in tight close-up, often reflected in the TV monitor essential to his life and work. This, combined with the sound of Hawking's voice synthesizer, reinforces our sense of his isolation and immobility and the idea that we are in the presence of pure...