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Thirty years ago, military satellites first noticed flashbulb-like gamma bursts going off throughout the cosmos. The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, opened in 1991, discovered that the bursts were surprisingly common--300 or so occur each year--and remarkably distant. "They are more than halfway to the edge of the...
Now the shroud is starting to come off that mystery, thanks to a discovery reported last week in the journal Science. Digging in Madagascar, an international team headed by John Flynn of Chicago's Field Museum has unearthed the fossil jaws of two dinosaurs that appear to be around 230...
PHILOSOPHY Cut out the carbs (no more than 20g a day, or what's found in one corn muffin) so you burn off your stored fat
Welfare reform is a success, but we can't be complacent. We have to stay with it, and we have to give the job training and child care and transportation alternatives and life-skills training that are critical to not just getting a job for people coming off welfare but...
PC FOR CHRISTMAS? Maybe not Laptops may be hard to get this holiday season because of a liquid-crystal-display-panel shortage. Analysts say manufacturers will meet only 86% of demand this year, and you can expect longer wait lists for models with larger screens and higher resolution. The September...