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...said the insects there—some of which are endemic to the island, which means they are native or confined to that area—can trace evolutionary connections between species in North and South America...
Megumi Yokota was last seen pausing at a traffic light by her home in Niigata, a badminton racquet stuffed in a white bag and a black schoolbag clutched in her hand. Then she vanished without a trace. That was 25 years ago. Her mother Sakie thought she would never know where her 13-year-old daughter had gone, until she read a series of articles in a newspaper three years later suggesting that North Korean agents were snatching Japanese citizens off the streets and whisking them to their motherland. Sakie's suspicion turned into conviction when a North Korean defector...
...Early work in mice looks promising, though any potential drug based on this discovery would have to be administered immediately after exposure, before the anthrax germ had released its toxins. In addition, scientists have found that lysin could be a useful tool for picking up the presence of even trace amounts of anthrax in samples of air or from exposed surfaces. And it yields results faster than current methods...
...panel notes that in response to the international body's clampdown, bin Laden's pursers have converted considerable amounts of cash held in banks into gold and diamonds, as well as moving it through the underworld 'hawala' networks that make it almost impossible to trace...
...sure, there have been some advances. For one thing, technology used to trace known pedophiles has helped law enforcement agencies to coordinate their efforts globally. "We've now got software we can use with an image database that can compare details in new child porno-graphy to determine if it matches previous material," says Anders Persson, a criminal intelligence officer with Interpol in Lyons, France. "The software can compare settings, furniture, rooms and body parts of people in the pictures?including those of known pedophiles?and match them with material that has already been traced back to their origins. When...