By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD : Coming upon the Grand Canyon long ago, an old prospector is supposed to have said in amazement, “Something awful happened here.” The something appears to have started happening 17 million years ago, geologists concluded in a study in the journal Science on Friday. If correct, […]
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By ANDREW C. REVKIN : Illegal loggers have chopped their way deep into unique forest reserves in a mountain range in central Mexico where millions of monarch butterflies from eastern North America roost for the winter, according to researchers who posted satellite photographs of the area on a NASA Web site Wednesday evening.
Forests of […]
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By KENNETH CHANG : Here’s a place that’s unlikely ever to be a vacation spot for Yankee pitcher Joba Chamberlain: Lake Myvatn, in Iceland. Myvatn, translating from Icelandic to English, means Midge Lake. Midges, baseball fans recall, are the gnat-like insects that rose from Lake Erie last October and descended upon […]
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By DOREEN CARVAJAL : PARIS — The MO1 beginner mobile phone is not as cuddly as a teddy bear, but manufacturers of the curvy crimson-and-blue handset for 6-year-olds promise a similarly warm and fuzzy relationship. They boast about socialization, emotional health and the comforts of “peace of mind.” And yet such shiny […]
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By CARTER DOUGHERTY and ELISABETH ROSENTHAL : FRANKFURT — The German authorities said Friday that they had asked all German producers of the blood thinner heparin to check whether their ingredients came from China, after allergic reactions to the drug there were linked to two Chinese suppliers.
In cases where China did […]
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By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY Roger Federer’s intriguing season continues Monday with a singles match in New York that will not count in the rankings but has still managed to sell out 19,000 seats in Madison Square Garden.
Federer’s latest exhibition duel with Pete Sampras is just that: an exhibition. But it comes at […]
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