The latest innovations in online-tracking technology have prompted a flurry of legal challenges.
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Thursday, September 30, 2010
Dumb Crooks
Three men may be wishing they'd thought of a better hiding place when they led police on a foot chase straight to their marijuana warehouse.
Airlines want to bump air marshals to coach
The anti-terrorist agents flying incognito almost always sit in first class.
Also: Common targets for identity thieves
Criminals can find your personal, identifying information in some unlikely places.
Also: X-ray vans hit the streets, raising concerns
The high-tech vehicles are being used at sporting events to scan for bombs and contraband.
Also: Scientific 'gold rush' in the Gulf of Mexico
With $500 million and publicity up for grabs, researchers are flocking to areas hit by the oil spill.
Also: Goldilocks Planet Found
Not too hot and not too cold, the first-time discovery offers conditions with rare potential.
Also: Intriguing find holds big clue to Stonehenge
A skeleton known as "The Boy with the Amber Necklace" helps prove a key theory about the site.
Also: Cloning Neanderthals
Should we clone a neanderthal? No, really, should we? Recently, Archaeology magazine considered the scientific, legal, and of course ethical challenges of doing just that. Researchers from Roche's 454 Life Sciences and genetics firm Illumina are collecting bits of Neanderthal DNA to sequence the genome of a 30,000-year-old Neanderthal woman from Croatia. Once the genome is complete, making a clone is no easy task. But as the article explains, it's within the realm of possibility. And what happens if there's success?
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Bernard Rollin, a bioethicist and professor of philosophy at Colorado State University, doesn't believe that creating a Neanderthal clone would be an ethical problem in and of itself. The problem lies in how that individual would be treated by others. "I don't think it is fair to put people...into a circumstance where they are going to be mocked and possibly feared," he says, "and this is equally important, it's not going to have a peer group. Given that humans are at some level social beings, it would be grossly unfair." The sentiment was echoed by Stringer, "You would be bringing this Neanderthal back into a world it did not belong to....It doesn't have its home environment anymore." There were no cities when the Neanderthals went extinct, and at their population's peak there may have only been 10,000 of them spread across Europe. A cloned Neanderthal might be missing the genetic adaptations we have evolved to cope with the world's greater population density, whatever those adaptations might be. But, not everyone agrees that Neanderthals were so different from modern humans that they would automatically be shunned as outcasts.
"I'm convinced that if one were to raise a Neanderthal in a modern human family he would function just like everybody else," says Trenton Holliday, a paleoanthropologist at Tulane University. "I have no reason to doubt he could speak and do all the things that modern humans do."
"I think there would be no question that if you cloned a Neanderthal, that individual would be recognized as having human rights under the Constitution and international treaties," says Lori Andrews, a professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. The law does not define what a human being is, but legal scholars are debating questions of human rights in cases involving genetic engineering. "This is a species-altering event," says Andrews, "it changes the way we are creating a new generation." How much does a human genome need to be changed before the individual created from it is no longer considered human?
German shepherd accepts lamb as his own
They say a dog is a man's best friend, but in this case it is a lamb's best friend. Snowdrop the lamb and Quanto the dog were brought together in New Zealand at a time of chaos. Born in the midst of one of Southland's heaviest snowfalls on September 19, Snowdrop is lucky to be alive.
Otatara resident Brogan Campbell said when the lamb was born at her grandparents in Tisbury, she brought it inside out of the snow in a hypothermic state. While the lamb warmed up in front of the fire, the household pet, a 5-year-old male German shepherd, cared for the lamb, cleaning her and treating her like his own, Miss Campbell said.
When the lamb was back on her feet, she was taken outside to her mother who rejected her instantly, most likely because of the dog's smell, Miss Campbell said. "Her mum rejected her so she got hypothermia again and had to be brought back from the brink of death."
The dog took the lamb under his wing, and they followed each other like they were joined at the hip, she said. "Quanto thinks he is the lamb's mother and Snowdrop is quite happy to accept that as well." The unusual pair will be together for a while longer until the lamb could handle it back in the paddock, she said.
Otatara resident Brogan Campbell said when the lamb was born at her grandparents in Tisbury, she brought it inside out of the snow in a hypothermic state. While the lamb warmed up in front of the fire, the household pet, a 5-year-old male German shepherd, cared for the lamb, cleaning her and treating her like his own, Miss Campbell said.
When the lamb was back on her feet, she was taken outside to her mother who rejected her instantly, most likely because of the dog's smell, Miss Campbell said. "Her mum rejected her so she got hypothermia again and had to be brought back from the brink of death."
The dog took the lamb under his wing, and they followed each other like they were joined at the hip, she said. "Quanto thinks he is the lamb's mother and Snowdrop is quite happy to accept that as well." The unusual pair will be together for a while longer until the lamb could handle it back in the paddock, she said.
Dolphins attempt common language
Coffee Processing Civet Family Splits in Three
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Ten Unusual Animal Hybrids
Some animal hybrids are born in the wild due to environmental factors, while others are bred by humans for profit or scientific curiosity. Whatever the reason for their creation, new and interesting species are out there due to mixed breeding.
From the groler bear to the dzo, here are 10 hybrid species that are relatively new to the animal kingdom.
Ancient giant penguin unearthed
Plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs were warm-blooded
The best foods to fuel your workouts
Turkey has more protein and iron than chicken, and kale trumps spinach on vitamin C.
Also: How popular candy bars got their names
The creators of Baby Ruth originally claimed Babe Ruth wasn't their inspiration.
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