The UN refugee agency says it is worried about the security of people living in isolated villages near the former conflict zones of Georgia. It says some 2,300 people from villages in the buffer zone between the Georgian town of Gori and the breakaw

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Many people remember the colors of the rainbow by the acronym ROY G. BIV. For red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Well, the color indigo just made news. Indigo gets its name from the plant Indigofera tinctoria and its relatives, whic

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In a jungle there lived a pack of jackals. They would hunt together to eat from the left-overs of the lions meal. One of the jackals was getting a little old. All the younger jackals bullied him and did not allow him to share the food. I have to do s

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By Carol Pearson Washington, DC 29 May 2006 watch Autism Gene report Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern have been able to genetically change mice so their behavior is similar to some people with autism. The researchers hope their di

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: There was a gathering here in Washington, D.C. last week that had nothing to do with the inauguration or with politics. It was an occasion for matchmaking, although not a romantic kind. Here, farmers got set up with chefs in an e

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By Melinda Smith Baltimore, Maryland 05 September 2006 watch report Celiac Disease For thousands of years, human beings have suffered from a genetic disorder that has received attention only in the last few decades. The disorder is called celiac dis

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