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The Energy Debates: Small Wind Power (LiveScience.com) Mon, 12/01/2008 - 20:27 news.yahoo.com LiveScience.com - Editor's Note: "The Energy Debates" is a LiveScience series about the pros, cons, policy debates, myths and facts related to various alternative energy ideas. We invite you to join the debate by commenting directly on each article. The Facts The picture that wind power often brings to mind is that of giant turbines on wind farms, which produce megawatts of electricity using rotors up to hundreds of feet in diameter. Small wind power systems, on the other hand, use comparatively petite turbines to support individual homes. ...	Why College Football BCS Rankings Are So Mysterious (LiveScience.com) Mon, 12/01/2008 - 15:57 news.yahoo.com LiveScience.com - As the new President-elect, Barack Obama faces one of this country's most vexing problems.
Dirty teeth reveal ancient diet (AP) Mon, 12/01/2008 - 15:01 news.yahoo.com AP - Thanks to poor dental hygiene, researchers are getting a more detailed understanding of what people ate thousands of years ago in what is now Peru.	Wintry storm strands travelers in Chicago airports (AP) Mon, 12/01/2008 - 14:32 news.yahoo.com
Some Men Need Mammograms (LiveScience.com) Mon, 12/01/2008 - 13:24 news.yahoo.com LiveScience.com - Mammograms are pretty commonly sought by women, especially once they hit 40. But men, who represent 1 percent of all breast cancer cases, are much less likely to get mammograms, in part due to stigma. Breast cancer kills some 40,000 women and about 450 men in the United States each year, according to the National Institutes of Health.	Iceman Mummy Had Moss in His Tummy (LiveScience.com) Mon, 12/01/2008 - 11:19 news.yahoo.com LiveScience.com - A new study of the well-known "Iceman" mummy finds that he ate moss, though perhaps not on purpose.
Global Environmental Court Could Punish U.S. and Others (LiveScience.com) Mon, 12/01/2008 - 09:33 news.yahoo.com LiveScience.com - The United States' dodge of the Kyoto Protocol and other environmental initiatives might no longer go unpunished in the future.	Endeavour touches down in California (Reuters) Mon, 12/01/2008 - 08:52 news.yahoo.com
High court turns down pipeline company appeal (AP) Mon, 12/01/2008 - 08:08 news.yahoo.com AP - The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a pipeline company over denial of environmental permits for a proposed natural gas pipeline through Long Island Sound.	Brazil leader asks God to halt rains, proposes aid (AP) Mon, 12/01/2008 - 06:57 news.yahoo.com
Weather around the U.S.A. (AP) Mon, 12/01/2008 - 06:35 news.yahoo.com AP - Weather around the U.S.A.	Some Brains Are Wired for Change (LiveScience.com) Mon, 12/01/2008 - 06:05 news.yahoo.com LiveScience.com - If you're among those who think it's time for change, your attitude may be strongly influenced by how your brain is wired.
Head of British-Russian oil firm resigns (AFP) Mon, 12/01/2008 - 05:50 news.yahoo.com	OPEC to slash December output: secretary general (AFP) Sun, 11/30/2008 - 23:21 news.yahoo.com AFP - The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) will cut its December production by a "good amount," its secretary general Abdalla Salem El-Badri told reporters on Monday.
Winter weather slows travel in Midwest, Northeast (AP) Sun, 11/30/2008 - 21:04 news.yahoo.com	Space shuttle Endeavour lands safely in California (AFP) Sun, 11/30/2008 - 20:46 news.yahoo.com
The Nation's Weather (AP) Sun, 11/30/2008 - 19:56 news.yahoo.com	Food crunch opens doors to bioengineered crops (AP) Sun, 11/30/2008 - 18:28 news.yahoo.com AP - Zeng Yawen's outdoor laboratory in the terraced hills of southern China is a trove of genetic potential rice that thrives in unusually cool temperatures, high altitudes or in dry soil; rice rich in calcium, vitamins or iron.
Despite drop in oil, Americans seal up for winter (Reuters) Sun, 11/30/2008 - 17:26 news.yahoo.com	Chavez seeks reelection, eyes presidency through 2021 (AFP) Sun, 11/30/2008 - 14:39 news.yahoo.com AFP - Venezuela
Mandates driving surge to the river for hydropower (AP) Sun, 11/30/2008 - 13:16 news.yahoo.com AP - Many decades ago, cost-conscious Henry Ford turned to hydroelectric plants to power his car (driving games) factories like the one by the Great Miami River, near this Cincinnati suburb. That assembly plant is long gone, but the power plant and the technology behind it isn't.	Congo's war-baby gorillas bring hope for endangered species (AFP) Sun, 11/30/2008 - 13:08 news.yahoo.com AFP - High above the war-battered plain, a giant silverback gorilla ruminatively strips a plant of its leaves with green tombstone teeth. Five females nearby suckle their babies.
Food crunch opens doors to bioengineered crops (AP) Sun, 11/30/2008 - 09:48 news.yahoo.com AP - Zeng Yawen's outdoor laboratory in the terraced hills of southern China is a trove of genetic potential rice that thrives in unusually cool temperatures, high altitudes or in dry soil; rice rich in calcium, vitamins or iron.	Problems prompt manual docking at space station (AP) Sun, 11/30/2008 - 09:18 news.yahoo.com
Poland adopts 24-bln-euro economic aid package (AFP) Sun, 11/30/2008 - 09:03 news.yahoo.com	Bad weather cancels shuttle's first landing bid (AFP) Sun, 11/30/2008 - 07:56 news.yahoo.com
Shuttle crew prepares for Sunday homecoming (Reuters) Sun, 11/30/2008 - 01:05 news.yahoo.com	NZealand air force to monitor Japanese whalers: defence minister (AFP) Sun, 11/30/2008 - 00:47 news.yahoo.com AFP - The New Zealand air force is to track the Japanese whaling fleet in Antarctic waters this season, Defence Minister Wayne Mapp announced Sunday.
OPEC braces for tough times as global recession bites (AFP) Sat, 11/29/2008 - 20:55 news.yahoo.com	Endeavour set to land in Florida, weather permitting (AFP) Sat, 11/29/2008 - 19:50 news.yahoo.com
Live Earth concert in Mumbai cancelled: organisers (AFP) Sat, 11/29/2008 - 16:18 news.yahoo.com	Rare downpour swamps Baghdad (AFP) Sat, 11/29/2008 - 14:56 news.yahoo.com
Shuttle crew prepares for Sunday homecoming (Reuters) Sat, 11/29/2008 - 11:42 news.yahoo.com	Death toll rises to 109 in southern Brazil flooding: officials (AFP) Sat, 11/29/2008 - 09:19 news.yahoo.com
OPEC maintains crude output quota (AFP) Sat, 11/29/2008 - 08:37 news.yahoo.com	Unraveling the Wonders of Spider Silk (LiveScience.com) Sat, 11/29/2008 - 08:10 news.yahoo.com LiveScience.com - This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation.
Scientists find meteor debris in Canada (AP) Sat, 11/29/2008 - 07:30 news.yahoo.com	Cornell astrophysicist Edwin Salpeter dies at 83 (AP) Sat, 11/29/2008 - 07:29 news.yahoo.com AP - Edwin E. Salpeter, an astrophysicist whose work in the "Salpeter-Bethe equation" showed how helium changes to carbon, has died. He was 83.
Sri Lanka: 7 killed, 98,000 displaced by floods (AP) Sat, 11/29/2008 - 06:52 news.yahoo.com	OPEC set to defer output move to December (AFP) Sat, 11/29/2008 - 06:00 news.yahoo.com

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