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In the days following the attacks on the World Trade Center buildings in 2001, a smoky pall hung over lower Manhattan. It was toxic dust that would linger for months. “It was like a horror movie,” said Jevon Thomas, 44, who worked at Ground Zero for more than a year. “Everywhere you went there was [...]
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Using an art technique called trompe l’oeil (French for “deceives the eye”), pavement and mural artists can transform a neighborhood, turning commonplace buildings and sidewalk stretches into fanciful settings, such as an enormous, interactive bowl of wontons or a walkway-bisecting gorge. But, luckily for us, it’s through a picture—taken at the right angle—that a trompe [...]
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How Hereditary Can Intelligence Be?: Studies Show Nurture at Least as Important as Nature… Researchers have long overestimated the role our genes play in determining intelligence. As it turns out, cognitive skills do not depend on ethnicity, and are far more malleable than once thought. Targeted encouragement can help children from socially challenged families make [...]
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Scams of our Time Wendy Powell Lewis, September 11th We live in a time of scams so big, and so many, that the fate of nations rest on them. For the purposes of this brief overview, I have chosen three scams. The scams left out are standing on chairs, and shouting, “What about me? What [...]
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A decline in the world’s bee population has been accompanied by a drop in pollination critical to the world’s food supplies, a Canadian researcher says. A University of Toronto scientist has found the first evidence of a downward trend in pollination and a possible link to climate change as a cause, a university release says. [...]
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The religious leader behind plans to erect an Islamic center and mosque a few blocks from New York’s ground zero said Wednesday night that America’s national security depends on how it handles the controversy. “If we move from that location, the story will be the radicals have taken over the discourse,” Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf [...]
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Every fall, Canadian Cancer Society volunteers get ready to sell yellow daffodil bulbs to help raise money in support of the fight against cancer. The daffodil is the Canadian Cancer Society’s symbol of hope. The bulbs are sold every year in Ontario and across the country. Bulbs are available NOW at the Canadian Cancer [...]
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Guy Close – The Bank of Canada raised its benchmark interest rate today for a third time this year, and said it expects households and businesses to spend even as the outlook for the U.S. economy weakens. The bank raised its target rate for overnight loans between commercial banks to 1 percent from 0.75 percent, [...]
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On playgrounds and at playdates, it’s hard to have a conversation about childhood immunizations without the word autism popping up. In fact, a recent study published in the journal Pediatrics showed that one in four parents is concerned that vaccines can cause autism. It’s no wonder when the Internet and television airwaves are full of [...]
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United We Fall is a documentary about a North American Union that is being developed right now between Canada the United States and Mexico. For years this topic has been debated in news and in political circles as being a possible future for North America. In recent years the mood has shifted and a rift [...]
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Get out your telescopes! Two small asteroids will come within moon distance of Earth Wednesday. The first, asteroid 2010 RX30, will come within 154,100 miles of Earth — about 60 percent of the Earth-moon distance — at 5:51 a.m. EDT (1251 UT). This asteroid is estimated to be about 42 feet across. The second, 2010 [...]
