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...while being big is still an advantage - size offers a better survival cushion if food proves hard to find - there are other factors that limit how easily that trait is passed down. Coulson and his colleagues identified what they call the "young mum" factor. Sheep, unlike many other mammals, tend to have offspring quite early in life - mothers can have lambs at one-year-old, before they're fully grown. Since the size of the lambs is limited by the size of the mothers, younger mothers have smaller babies. Thanks to the milder winters, more sheep are able to survive...
...Despite the layoffs, Jaeger said he remained optimistic that all laid-off HUCTW staff would be able to find replacement jobs at the University, especially given the generous severance packages and job placement services provided for affected workers. The number of jobs posted throughout the University is sizable and growing, Jaeger said, adding that on the day the layoffs were announced last week, he counted 233 available jobs on the University's Web site. On Thursday, he said he noticed 17 new HUCTW job postings...
Both the Air France and Yemenia Airbus flights crashed into the ocean, which makes their black boxes incredibly hard to recover. The devices are built to withstand depths to well more than the 15,000 ft. in which Air France flight 447's boxes probably now find themselves. The boxes send out a homing signal, activated on impact, that lasts for 30 days. The time is pretty much up for Air France's beacons, but it's a good bet they'll turn up eventually; of the 20 airplanes that have crashed into water over the past 30 years, only...
...University of California, Sokhoeun needs every penny of financial aid she can find. And that aid is almost certain to be cut in the coming round of budget slashing. The Cal Grant program is on the chopping block as Gov. Schwarzenegger proposes the elimination of grants for incoming freshman and the gradual phasing out of the program. Now Sokhoeun and thousands of outstanding students - the human capital for California's future economic growth - stand to see their dreams dashed...
...lawmakers continue to struggle to find a way to pay for a health reform that could cost $1 trillion or more over the next decade, Barack Obama seems to be opening the door a little wider to an approach he soundly rejected when John McCain proposed it during last year's presidential campaign: taxing the health benefits that employers provide their workers. "This argument has evolved," he said Wednesday at a town-hall meeting on health care in Annandale, Va. And it appears that Obama...