Prostate cancer vaccine shows promise
An experiment vaccine extended the live of men with advanced prostate cancer in a clinical trial, according to the therapy's developer, Dendreon. The test results, announced Tursday, appear to
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Using Kyoto accord to Russia's benefit
Russia should move quickly to take advantage of the green investment shcmes allowed by the Kyoto climate treaty. The Kyoto Protocol aims to get industrialized countries to limit emissions of
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Bush's stance is preventing a global cloning pact
For three years, the United Nations has been trying to agree on a treaty forbidding reproductive cloning of human beings. A strong consensus for such an accord exists, but no action has been taken
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Cholera outbreak isdeclared ended
Singapore declared a deadly two-week cholera outbreak over on Wednesday and said bad seafood was to
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Overfishing reaches crisis point in Amazon
A symbol of abundance to the rest of the world, the Amazon is experiencing a crisis of overfishing. As stocks of the most popular species dimish to worisome levels, tensions are growing between
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NASA expert criticizes Bush on Climate
A top NASA climate expert who twice briefed Vice President Dick Cheney on global warming planned to criticize the administration's approach to the issue in a lecture at the University of Iowa and say
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Crocodile sex a challenge in China
Over the past decade, China has become an industrial colosus by mastering an extradinary variety of commercial skills, from the manufacture of high-speed computer chips to the production of
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Deal eases Japan's ban on imports of US beef
Japan has agreed to resume imports of some US beef after a 10-month ban that shut cattle ranchers in the United states out of their mot lucrative foreign market. Although some important details
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Japan's typhoon deaths reach 75
The death toll from Japan's worst typhoon in a quater-century rose to 75 on Friday, with 15 people still missing, as the devastation forced the government to cnsider emergency funds and new safety
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Japan's bad news bears
"Bear injures 3 in kimono sho," screamed one headline. "Five elederly people injured in bear attacks in 3 prefectures," read another. "Japan to conduct emergency survey on rash of bear attacks,"