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In an experiment, scientists released 6,000 genetically modified male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes into the wild.
When they mated with wild females, the offspring produced had shorter life spans and thus produced fewer offspring before they died. Results show a marked decrease in the mosquito population.
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STILL NO WORD ON THE STINKEYE INVESTIGATION
Our tax money supposedly paid for an outside investigator, but City Hall still hasn't told us what it cost us or the results of the investigation.
Folks, in our system of government, citizens are not peons with no right to know what their government is doing.
We have a right to know something.
How about it City Council? What are the facts?
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NEW DNA RESEARCH: ORANGUTANS AND HUMANS 97% THE SAME
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Not so remarkable when you realize that humans and bananas share about 50% of their DNA.
As we've written many times before, very minor changes in the 3 billion or so letters in the DNA code can have major effects on the type of life that is created from the code.
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PHOTOS FROM A CITY DESERTED BY ITS BUILDERS
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An American version of lost and found cities in the middle of jungles in South America. The present residents say it was built by people who have now disappeared.
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NOW THERE ARE ANTI-GOVERNMENT RALLIES IN YEMEN
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Seem to be spreading.
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The CM PRESS suggested to the Commission that they look at how the City is losing money by letting some "non-profit" sports teams use playing fields on school campuses for free while taxpayers have to pay around $ 200,000 per year to rent these fields from the NMUSD.
"Non-profit" just means the organization doesn't make money. It doesn't mean the organizers, employees and executives of these organizations don't make money. And, every one of these sports teams that gets to use our fields for free charges their players to play.
So, where does the money go that the players pay? Into the pockets of the organizers, employees and executives of the sports teams.
Shouldn't some of that money be used to pay for the fields? We think so. We want the City to stop charging taxpayers so some people can get free rent on our fields while making money on the deal.
We also told the Commission that if any sports teams let all their players play for free and if they don't overcharge them for uniforms or in other ways hide money going into the pockets of the organizers, employees and executives of the sports teams, then the City might consider giving free use of the fields to the teams. Barring that, the teams should pay for the use of the fields and not put this on the backs of the taxpayers.
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GOP DIVIDED OVER PLANS TO CUT MILITARY BUDGET
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Military budget should be cut. There's too much fat in it.
Why would anyone not want to cut out the fat? A couple of reasons come immediately to mind. Politicians from states with companies that manufacture military hardware don't want those companies to cut back.
And, politicians who are on the inside on intelligence matters know that some of the seeming fat (expensive toilet seats and hammers, for example) didn't really cost hundreds or thousands of dollars each as has been reported in the press. That's more than likely just creative accounting to hide secret money going into various intelligence operations.
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RUSSIA HOT ON THE TRAIL OF AIRPORT BLAST SUSPECTS
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