By DENNIS OVERBYE : Astronomers reported Wednesday that they had made the first detection of an organic molecule, methane, in the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system and had confirmed the presence of water there, clearing the way for a bright future of inspecting the galaxy for livable planets, for the chemical stuff […]
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BY JAMES KANTER : PARIS — Opponents of gene-altered crops won a victory in France on Wednesday when the top court upheld, at least for the time being, a ban on a corn variety produced by the American seed company Monsanto.
Growers had argued that the economic harm they faced was serious enough for the month-old […]
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By FELICITY BARRINGER : Utility executives in Kansas were shocked last fall when a state environmental official rejected two coal-fired power plants because of the millions of tons of carbon-dioxide emissions they could produce. In a state where coal generates 73 percent of the electricity, the pro-coal forces were unable to work their will.
That ineffectiveness […]
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By LANDON THOMAS Jr. and ERIC DASH : James Dimon tramped through the rain on Wednesday evening and strode into the headquarters of Bear Stearns, the embattled investment bank he hopes to buy for a mere $2 a share.
More than 400 Bear executives — seething, fearful and to their dismay, far poorer than they were […]
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Political Memo : By ADAM NAGOURNEY
WASHINGTON — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton needs three breaks to wrest the Democratic presidential nomination from Senator Barack Obama in the view of her advisers.
She has to defeat Mr. Obama soundly in Pennsylvania next month to buttress her argument that she holds an advantage in big general election states.
She needs […]
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By JESSE McKINLEY : SAN FRANCISCO — Crowds of protesters rolled through cities across the nation on Wednesday in a series of largely peaceful, and sometimes subdued, marches on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.
While there were more than 140 arrests in San Francisco and more than 30 in Washington, […]
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