Word: novas
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...with the highest rates of unemployment (64%) and social exclusion among Roma. Representatives of four maternity wards cited in the CRR report and contacted by Time said the allegations were untrue and biased. "It's a load of nonsense," says Stefan Pitko, head of a maternity ward in Spisska Nova Ves, eastern Slovakia. "The Roma in this district make up 14% of the population yet account for 46% of births. If we sterilized them the way the report suggests, they couldn't bear so many children." Claude Cahn, programmes director at the European Roma Rights Center, a Budapest-based human...
Biologist Ransom Myers of Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia led a team of researchers in examining the logbooks of U.S. fishing boats operating in the northwestern Atlantic from 1986 to 2000. The fleets were hunting swordfish and tuna using what are known as longlines, cables stretching as long as 20 miles that are equipped with more than 500 baited hooks. Toss a line overboard, and up should come your desired prey--plus a lot of other hungry fish that you didn't mean to snag. "Longlines are designed to collect large marine predators," says biologist Julia Baum, lead author...
Kirk followed the Miss Spider series in 1999 with Nova's Ark, a considerably darker tale of a planet populated only by robots. Instead of painting pictures, he worked with a computer-graphics company to create the images. He also has board books about baby animals for even smaller children, from infants to preschoolers. So far, he's the author of 12 titles overall. Pretty good going considering that he became an author by default...
...might help things along that a Miss Spider TV special will run on Nickelodeon at the end of March and that Callaway and Kirk are also developing a TV series based on both Miss Spider and Nova the robot. On the other hand, the territory they're entering is not unpopulated. Rolie Polie Olie, a geometric tyke who lives on a robotic planet and who, like Nova, is a computer-generated image, is already on the Disney Channel, and his catchy theme song is lodged in the junior set's hearts. (Callaway doesn't see it as a threat...
Later this month, Yale sophomore Chris Higgins will wear the sweater of the U.S. National Team at the World Junior Championships in Nova Scotia, Canada...