Researchers have identified seven possibilities for the next generation of mosquito repellant, some of which may work several times longer than the current standard-bearer, DEET. The next step: safety testing to make sure they’re not harmful.
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WASHINGTON – Democrats are picking up the pieces after an embarrassing technical gaffe that delayed a triumphant rejection of President Bush’s veto of a massive farm bill. Members from both parties hoped to bring the $290 billion bill, which includes election-year subsidies for farmers and food stamps for the poor, …
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JAIPUR, India – Police imposed a daylong curfew in the western Indian city of Jaipur on Wednesday to prevent any retaliatory violence after a series of blasts in crowded areas left at least 80 people dead. Authorities suspect Islamic militants were behind the blasts, and they moved quickly to stop …
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CARACAS, Venezuela – President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday warned Colombia not to allow a U.S. military base on its border with Venezuela, saying he would consider such an act an “aggression.” Chavez said he would not permit Colombia’s U.S.-backed government to establish an American military base in La Guajira, a …
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SEATTLE – Microsoft Corp. may go hostile in its bid for Yahoo Inc. as soon as Friday, according to a published report. Citing unnamed people familiar with the matter, the Wall Street Journal reported early Friday that the world’s largest software maker may be preparing to go straight to Internet …
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YANGON, Myanmar – Burma’s isolationist regime blocked United Nations efforts Thursday to airlift urgently needed high-energy biscuits to survivors of a cyclone that may have killed more than 100,000 people, U.N. officials said. Paul Risley, a spokesman of the U.N’s World Food Program in Bangkok, said three flights were waiting …
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NAPLES, Italy – Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Wednesday that he will deploy the military to protect trash dumps around Naples as he pledged to remove tons of stinking garbage from its streets and to restore the city’s image. Berlusconi has long said the garbage emergency in Naples was his top …
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NEWARK, Ohio – A teen will spend at least six months in juvenile detention for holding a toddler on her lap while her boyfriend gave the child marijuana. Sixteen-year-old Angel Dailey of Pataskala in central Ohio read a short letter of apology before she was sentenced Thursday by a Licking …
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An afternoon that was supposed to be spent running errands for his disabled wife turned into an ordeal involving an overnight stay in jail for a 54-year-old British man. Keith Hirst had just come out of the post office in Swinton, England, last month when a police officer accused him …
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SELMA, Ind. – It’s just a drop in the global oil bucket, but an eastern Indiana man is operating an oil well in his backyard in an effort to capitalize on soaring crude prices. Greg Losh’s rig produces three barrels of crude oil a day, though he told FOX News …
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