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<title>Tahitian Vanilla Originated In Maya Forests, Says Botanist</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=184432118</link>
<pubDate>21 Aug 2008 23:35 GMT</pubDate>
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...  investigators led by Pesach Lubinsky, a postdoctoral researcher with Norman Ellstrand, a professor of genetics  ...  commercial vanilla, and is grown principally in Madagascar and Indonesia. V. odorata has never been  ...  Graduate Research Fellowship Program of the National Science Foundation; the University of California Institute for  ...
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<title>Tahitian vanilla originated in Maya forests, says UC Riverside botanist</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=184398047</link>
<pubDate>21 Aug 2008 19:45 GMT</pubDate>
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...  has long eluded botanists. Known by the scientific name Vanilla tahitensis , Tahitian vanilla is  ...  commercial vanilla, and is grown principally in Madagascar and Indonesia. V. odorata has never been  ...  Graduate Research Fellowship Program of the National Science Foundation; the University of California Institute for  ...
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<title>Tahitian vanilla originated in Maya forests</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=184386271</link>
<pubDate>21 Aug 2008 18:32 GMT</pubDate>
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...  has long eluded botanists. Known by the scientific name Vanilla tahitensis , Tahitian vanilla is  ...  commercial vanilla, and is grown principally in Madagascar and Indonesia. V. odorata has never been  ...   Next Article in Space &amp; Earth science - Environment: ...
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<title>Rwanda: When HIV Carriers Could Be Guilty for Transmitting the Virus</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=184370556</link>
<pubDate>21 Aug 2008 17:10 GMT</pubDate>
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...  may willfully transmit HIV. But HIV/Aids activists, researchers and the UN Aids Agency - UNAIDS  ...  Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Madagascar, Tanzania and Uganda, are proposing similar laws.  ...  tell your spouse just because of your conscience to protect them. &quot;But when you are  ...
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<title>Community calendar</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=184265344</link>
<pubDate>21 Aug 2008 03:21 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Tots-n-Tykes Tuesdays: Kite Day and Kids Mad Science on Sept. 9. Wild Animal Kingdom on  ...  pool watching movies such as &quot;Cars&quot; and &quot;Madagascar.&quot; With the water at 87 degrees, children  ...
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<title>Dot Earth: Enhanced Geothermal: The Next Killer App?</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=184209699</link>
<pubDate>20 Aug 2008 19:30 GMT</pubDate>
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... What do Sicily and Madagascar have in common? Google.org announced a new  ...  and other resources on a planet where, scientists say, humans are already shaping climate and  ...
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<title>New book further supports controversial theory of &apos;Man the Hunted&apos;</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=184208056</link>
<pubDate>20 Aug 2008 19:28 GMT</pubDate>
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...  The philosophical question of how a new scientific paradigm gets accepted is also discussed. &quot;Once  ...  ago to two million years ago, many scientists theorized that those early human ancestors were  ...  behavior and ecology in Costa Rica, Guyana, Madagascar and Mauritius. He is the author and  ...
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<title>South Africa: South Africa Beats Deadline On Water, Sanitation</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=184206543</link>
<pubDate>20 Aug 2008 19:19 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the deadline on water and sanitation, but Madagascar is lagging far behind on two of  ...  we are not talking about designing the latest computer. We are talking about helping people  ...  roofs.&quot; This, he said, is not rocket science. &quot;All it requires are common sense strategies,  ...
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<title>Enhanced Geothermal: The Next Killer App?</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=184181706</link>
<pubDate>20 Aug 2008 16:30 GMT</pubDate>
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... What do Sicily and Madagascar have in common? Google.org announced a new  ...  and other resources on a planet where, scientists say, humans are already shaping climate and  ...
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<title>Global study shows widespread sewage use on farms (08/18/2008)</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=184106995</link>
<pubDate>20 Aug 2008 07:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the poorest countries,&quot; said Liqa Raschid-Sally, a researcher at the institute. &quot;It&apos;s a widespread phenomenon,  ...  Water Week, a conference attended by 2,500 scientists, politicians and officials from 140 countries. The  ...  the weeklong water meetings. Other participants include Malagasy President Marc Ravalomanana, Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander  ...
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<title>Cheaper, fast internet on schedule for Africa next year</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=183943452</link>
<pubDate>19 Aug 2008 10:33 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Southern Africa by connecting South Africa, Mozambique, Madagascar, Kenya, and Tanzania with India and Egypt  ...  studies have been completed by scuba diving scientists, giving the company the go-ahead for rolling  ...
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<title>Global study shows widespread sewage use on farms (Yesterday)</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=183904279</link>
<pubDate>19 Aug 2008 05:16 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the poorest countries,&quot; said Liqa Raschid-Sally, a researcher at the institute. &quot;It&apos;s a widespread phenomenon,  ...  Water Week, a conference attended by 2,500 scientists, politicians and officials from 140 countries. The  ...  the weeklong water meetings. Other participants include Malagasy President Marc Ravalomanana, Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander  ...
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<title>Basics: Life Is Short...</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=183902990</link>
<pubDate>19 Aug 2008 05:12 GMT</pubDate>
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...  egg. A small, speckled, asparagus-green chameleon of Madagascar, by contrast, holds a world speed record  ...  barely a year. That hypercondensed biography, the scientists said, may well make the chameleon the  ...  year. No such luck for our bug-eyed Malagasy friends, which live in the arid, scrubby  ...
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<title>Mobile telephony to reach 400,000 people in remote African villages</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=183897378</link>
<pubDate>19 Aug 2008 04:26 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Earth Institute at Columbia University, is a science-based bottom-up approach to lifting rural villages out  ...  Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Madagascar, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and  ...  the next generation of global leaders, advancing scientific research, and implementing practical solutions to create  ...
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<title>Top scientist calls use of biofuels &apos;frightening&apos;</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=183858240</link>
<pubDate>18 Aug 2008 21:19 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Water Week, a conference attended by 2,500 scientists, politicians and officials from 140 countries. Allan  ...  said. Other participants include the president of Malagasy, Marc Ravalomanana, and Crown Prince Willem-Alexander of  ...
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