By Andrew C. Revkin
After several years of planning and digging, the world has its first secure, deep-frozen repository for backup supplies of seeds from hundreds of thousands of plant varieties that underpin agriculture. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault was built into a frigid mountainside in Norway’s northernmost archipelago, deep in the Arctic. It had its […]
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By FELICITY BARRINGER
RENO, Nev. — Maddie Smith took a deep breath, the better to get in touch with her inner elk. Nine and nervous, she turned her back on the denim-and-camouflage-clad audience below her. Slowly she bent over, put a piece of soft corrugated plastic pipe to her lips, and began to recreate the soprano […]
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By MIGUEL HELFT
SAN FRANCISCO — Are Internet users clicking on fewer Google ads and putting the company’s growth prospects at risk?
Those questions are weighing on investors, who have cut the value of Google shares by 38 percent since they peaked at $747.24 in early November.
The slide continued Tuesday when Google shares dropped 4.6 […]
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By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
WASHINGTON — President Bush sided with banks and mortgage lenders on Tuesday, threatening to veto a bill being offered by Senate Democrats that would give more bargaining power to homeowners who face foreclosure.
Opening what is likely to be an intense political battle in the deepening mortgage crisis, the White House said […]
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By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN
Drug-resistant tuberculosis cases in parts of the former Soviet Union have reached the highest rates ever recorded globally, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. The rates could soar even higher, spreading the potentially fatal disease elsewhere, a top W.H.O. official said, releasing findings from the largest global survey of the problem.
The […]
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By PATRICK HEALY and JEFF ZELENY
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton confronted Senator Barack Obama on health care, Nafta, Iraq and his political tactics on Tuesday night in one of her most pugnacious debate performances of the campaign, as she fought for fresh momentum before four potentially decisive nominating contests next Tuesday.
Mr. Obama, pursuing […]
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