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...producers, whose domestic economic arrangements depend on high prices, are prepared to cooperate with gas-guzzling consumers. "It's an idea which works in abstract, " says Priddy, but in reality, such cooperation is "absolutely impossible". So enjoy the pump price while you can, because oil markets are likely to remain unpredictable for the foreseeable future...
...world's first near-total facial transplant, lifting a face nearly whole from a recently deceased donor and grafting it onto an anonymous woman who had suffered extreme disfigurement to more than 80% of her own face. Her upper eyelids, forehead, lower lip and chin are all that remain of her original features. The rest is entirely new - and so, the doctors say, is the life that has been restored to her. (See TIME's Top 10 scientific discoveries...
...part is particularly important; an Associated Press investigation earlier this year found trace amounts of prescription drugs in the drinking water of more than 40 million Americans.) Lastly, the filtered water is treated with the disinfectant hydrogen peroxide, and then dosed with ultraviolet light, which neutralizes anything that might remain. What's left is as pure as distilled water - and I can say from personal experience that it tastes perfectly fine. "This is the future of water treatment," says Markus...
...existence of the Cupola, taken for the Italian word for dome, first came to light in the 1960s and was confirmed by the turncoat witness Tommaso Buscetta, whose testimony to legendary magistrate Giovanni Falcone in the 1980s unlocked many of the Mafia's secrets. Allowing each family to remain autonomous in its own geographic area, the Cupola was effectively tasked with preventing disputes that would threaten the whole system...
While the Flores/McLeod ticket can no longer campaign, the EC has decided that their Web site can remain active...