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Science Daily News Feed New Scientist News on KurzweilAI.net BGG’s Pandora America’s Finest News SourceScience reports on tests of the HIV virus contracted by the Libyan children:
Accumulated mutations in the virus genomes reveal that the outbreak began well before the medics arrived in the country.
Oliver Pybus and a team at the University of Oxford did the tests that showed the children were contracting disease likely due to practices such [...]
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The current Terrorism Focus (12/07/2006) from the Jamestown Foundation notes the al-Fajr Media Center (a terrorist propaganda agency) has started a high tech journal featuring the uses of technology for jihad. They specifically mention the recent call for scientists to aid the al Qaida jihad in Iraq.
Another story in this issue covers a recent [...]
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