This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. We humans love a good story. We tell stories to entertain, to inform, even to pass the time. And weve been telling tales for, oh, the past 50,000 years.

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WASHINGTON, March 11 (Xinhua) -- The United States on Monday threatened sanctions against Pakistan as the South Asian nation pressed ahead with a gas pipeline project with Iran. As I said, if this project actually goes forward, we have serious concer

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Palestinian official expects vote on bid of UN recognition at year- end RAMALLAH, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- A senior Palestinian official expected on Friday that the vote in the UN on the Palestinian bid of recognizing the state of Palestine as a non-memb

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Palestinians Demonstrate in Support of UN Membership Bid Palestinians across the West Bank have been demonstrating this week to show support for statehood. The display comes ahead of a speech Friday by Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in which he is

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At a recent Sacramento PC User's Group meeting, a company was demonstratingits latest speech-recognition software. A representative from the company was just about ready to start the demonstration and asked everyone in the room to quiet down. Just th

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By Barry Wood Washington 11 October 2007 Last March, the leaders of Russia, Bulgaria and Greece signed an agreement to build a $1 billion pipeline to bypass the Bosporus and carry Russian and Central Asian oil directly to the Mediterranean at the Gre

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