Research Article Under Cover at Pre-Angiosperm Times: A Cloaked Phasmatodean Insect from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota Maomin Wang, Olivier Béthoux, Sven Bradler, Frédéric M. B. Jacques, Yingying Cui, Dong Ren mail Published: March 19, 2014 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091290 Article About the Authors Metrics Comments Related Content Abstract Introduction Materials and Methods Systematic Palaeontology Discussion Conclusion […]
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126 Million Year Old Fossil Of Stick Insect Found In Mongolia
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New dinosaur called the Chicken From Hell
Hi, bakulaji! New dinosaur called the Chicken From Hell (Courtesy of Bob Walters) – With its head crest and presumably feathered forelegs, the discovery and description of the new dinosaur was announced by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, University of Utah and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History. CAPTION New dinosaur called […]
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Khushwant Singh, 99, no More
Khushwant Singh From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about a person who has recently died. Some information, such as the circumstances of the person’s death and surrounding events, may change as more facts become known. Khushwant Singh Khushwant Singh at a reading in New Delhi Born Khushal Singh 2 February 1915 Hadali, British […]
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Who Cares for Obamacare?
March 20, 2014 ACA at Age 4: More Disapproval than Approval But Most Opponents Want Politicians to Make Law Work As the four-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act approaches, the law remains unpopular with the public. Currently, 53% disapprove of the 2010 health care law while 41% approve of the law. Opinion of the […]
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Hate Putin Club
March 20, 2014 Even before Ukraine crisis, views of Putin had grown more negative in U.S., Europe By Bruce DrakeLeave a comment Russian President Vladimir Putin makes a speech during a signing ceremony at the Grand Kremlin Palace. (Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images) Vladimir Putin’s third term as Russia’s president had already been […]
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Millennials Unbound
Fact Tank – Our Lives in Numbers March 7, 2014 Live blog: Generations in the Next America By Drew DeSilver12 comments Thanks to everyone who joined us on the live-blog of the Next America event at the Newseum. We now have an archived video of it, including the two panels. UPDATE, 1:18 p.m. An audience […]
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Fake IRS Phone Scam
IRS watchdog: Phone scam is largest ever Stephen Ohlemacher, AP Business Writer 5:11 p.m. EDT March 20, 2014 (Photo: Thinkstock) WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 20,000 taxpayers have been targeted by fake Internal Revenue Service agents in the largest phone scam the agency has ever seen, the IRS inspector general said Thursday. Thousands of victims […]
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EU Dropped the Ball on Ukraine
Europe Ukrainian Tumult Highlights E.U.’s Past Missteps and Future Dangers By ANDREW HIGGINSMARCH 20, 2014 BRUSSELS — When antigovernment protesters first took to the streets of the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, late last year, José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Union’s executive arm, applauded the demonstrators for “writing the new narrative” for a 28-nation […]
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Sabiha Al Khemir on Islam and the West
Arts|Museums Special Section Shedding a Light on Islamic Art’s Great Treasure By JUDITH H. DOBRZYNSKIMARCH 19, 2014 Dr. Sabiha Al Khemir at BYU Museum of Art SABIHA AL KHEMIR was visiting a solar energy plant in Spain about four years ago when inspiration struck. Her host, the foundation of a Spanish company with interests in […]
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March, Oops, Mars Madness
Mars One From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the one-way manned trip to Mars planned for 2023. For the first Soviet spacecraft for Mars, see Mars 1. For other uses, see Mars 1 (disambiguation). Mars One Country of origin Netherlands Responsible organization Mars One and Interplanetary Media Group Status Active Program History […]
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Sanctimonious Sanctions for Dummies
Welcome, Sid Harth How to Sanction Russia And Why Obama’s Current Strategy Won’t Work By Lee S. Wolosky March 19, 2014 People attend a rally to support the annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea to Russia in Red Square in central Moscow, March 18, 2014. (Maxim Shemetov / Courtesy Reuters) After weeks of threatening to do so, […]
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Crimean crisis: Putin Ready to Rumble
Crimean crisis: Russia and US sanction each other’s officials as White House worries Moscow may seize more of Ukraine 2 hours ago March 21, 2014 3:00PM Play video Autoplay On Off THE US and Russian presidents imposed sanctions on each other’s top government aids and officials as the dispute over Crimea intensified and the White […]
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Windows 8 leaks
Microsoft shores up Hotmail policies after Windows 8 leaks Will look in accounts, under some circumstances By Dave Neal Fri Mar 21 2014, 11:46 WEBMAIL SERVICE PROVIDER Microsoft has attempted to clarify the circumstances in which it will look into a Hotmail account and possibly disclose information about its users. The firm released information about […]
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Disband NSA, Impeach Obama
Bloomberg News Obama Invites CEOs From Google, Facebook to Discuss Spying (1) By Roger Runningen and Chris Strohm March 21, 2014 President Barack Obama meets today with six Internet and technology company executives to continue discussions about National Security Agency spying following revelations the NSA may have infected millions of computers globally with malware. Mark […]
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Google Glass Paid News
Google Glass 617,195 have them in circles Google Glass Shared publicly - Yesterday 3:45 PM The Top 10 Google Glass MythsMr. Rogers was a Navy SEAL. A tooth placed in soda will dissolve in 24 hours. Gators roam the sewers of big cities and Walt Disney is cryogenically frozen. These are just some of the […]
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Credit Suisse Settles Mortgage Litigation for $885 Million
Credit Suisse in $885 million settlement By Katie Lobosco @KatieLobosco March 21, 2014: 3:46 PM ET Credit Suisse settled a lawsuit with the FHFA over mortgage-back securities. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Credit Suisse is the latest big bank to pay for its role in the financial crisis. The Swiss bank will […]
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Hang Narendra ‘maut ka saudagar’ Modi
First Published: Sat, Mar 22 2014. 12 01 AM IST Home» Leisure» Reply to All Narendra Modi: The ‘pracharak’ who is poised to be king In Narendra Modi the RSS has its man to plant its doctrine into the mainstream, even if many of us see him as a Manchurian candidate Aakar Patel An RSS training camp. […]
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ANNALS AND ANTIQUITIES OF RAJASTHAN XIX
PANCHAYATS 171 or chiefs had no concern : a wise exclusion, comprehending also their immediate dependents, military, commercial, and agri- cultural. Even now, the little that is done in these matters is effected by the civil administration, though the Rajput Pardhans have been too apt to interfere in matters from which they ought always to […]
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ANNALS AND ANTIQUITIES OF RAJASTHAN XXV
CHAPTER 4 Samarsi, Samar Singh.— Having established Bappa on the throne of Chitor S. 784 (a.d. 728), we will proceed to glean from the annals, from the period of his departure for Iran, S. 820 (a.d. 764) to another halting point— the reign of Samarsi, S. 1249 (a.d. 1193) ; * an important epoch, not […]
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ANNALS AND ANTIQUITIES OF RAJASTHAN XXXI
AKBAR AND RAJPUT LADIES 401 softens down the unhallowed purpose of this day ; but posterity cannot admit that the great Akbar was to obtain these results amidst the Pushto jargon of the dames of Islam, or the mixed Bhakha of the fair of [345] Rajasthan. These ' ninth day fairs ' are the markets […]
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