Basics :By NATALIE ANGIER
The other day I glanced out my window and felt a twinge of revulsion delicately seasoned with indignation. Pecking at my bird feeder were two brown-headed cowbirds, one male and one female, and I knew what that meant. Pretty soon the fattened, fertilized female would be slipping her eggs into some other […]
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By NICHOLAS BAKALAR A new study has found that it may be possible to train people to be more intelligent, increasing the brainpower they had at birth.
Until now, it had been widely assumed that the kind of mental ability that allows us to solve new problems without having any relevant previous experience — what psychologists […]
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By ALEX BERENSON
UNALAKLEET, Alaska — The dental clinic in this village on the edge of the Bering Sea looks like any other, with four chairs, a well-scrubbed floor and a waiting area filled with magazines. But to the Alaska Dental Society and the American Dental Association, the clinic is a place where the rules of […]
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By JEFF ZELENY
WILMINGTON, N.C. — If it was not clear before Monday, Senator Barack Obama said, it should be clear now: His presidential campaign has no control over what the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., his former pastor, says or what he does.
“He does not speak for me,” Mr. Obama said. “He does not speak […]
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By ANDREW JACOBS
BEIJING — A predawn collision between two passenger trains traveling through a rural part of Eastern China on Monday killed 70 people and injured 416 more, according to the authorities, making it one of the deadliest rail accidents in China in a decade. Officials said 51 of the injured were in critical condition.
The […]
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SUFFOLK, Va. (AP) — Three tornadoes destroyed homes, tossed cars and injured more than 200 people as they carved Monday through central and southeastern Virginia.
Gov. Timothy M. Kaine declared a state of emergency for the areas of southeastern Virginia struck by the twisters.
The National Weather Service confirmed that tornadoes struck Suffolk, Colonial […]
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