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Federal agents raid Calif. marijuana university

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by Terry Collins

April 2, 2012

Federal agents on Monday raided a San Francisco Bay area medical marijuana training school at the heart of California's pot legalization movement.

The doors to Oaksterdam University in downtown Oakland were cordoned off by yellow tape and blocked by U.S. marshals. Agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration carted trash bags of unknown materials out of the school to a waiting van. Arlette Lee, an IRS spokeswoman, told reporters that agents were serving a federal search warrant but said she could not otherwise comment on the purpose of the raid.

Dow Chemical's Water Woes Signal Trouble

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by Terri Langford

July 7, 2014

When Dow Chemical, one of the largest manufacturers of chemicals and plastics in the world, announced a multibillion-dollar expansion on Texas' Gulf Coast, Gov. Rick Perry had yet another example to add to his list of explosive economic growth.

"Texas continues to attract companies looking for the best opportunity to expand or relocate because of our low taxes, smart regulations, fair courts and predictable workforce," Perry said in an August statement on Dow's expansion, for which the governor's incentive fund had provided $1.5 million, on top of a $1 million grant the year before.

DOJ: Children Do Not Need-and Have No Right to--Mothers

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by Terence P. Jeffrey

March 4, 2013

The Obama Justice Department is arguing in the United States Supreme Court that children do not need mothers.

The Justice Department's argument on the superfluity of motherhood is presented in a brief the Obama administration filed in the case of Hollingsworth v. Perry, which challenges the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the California ballot initiative that amended California's Constitution to say that marriage involves only one man and one woman. The Justice Department presented its conclusions about parenthood in rebutting an argument made by proponents of Proposition 8 that the traditional two-parent family, led by both a mother and a father, was the ideal place, determined even by nature itself, to raise a child.

CDC: Homicide Kills 10 Times As Many American Infants as the Flu

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by Terence P. Jeffrey

November 2, 2012

Homicide killed ten times as many infants in the United States last year as the flu did, according to a new report from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The report says that 256 babies aged one year or less died as the result of homicidal assaults in calendar year 2011 compared to 25 who died as a result of influenza. That was an improvement over 2010, when homicides killed almost 20 times as many infants as the flu killed. That year 311 infants were killed by homicidal assaults and 16 were killed by influenza.

Key West residents oppose plan to release GM mosquitoes to fight dengue fever

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by Ted Purlain

July 19, 2012

Nearly 100,000 people have joined an online campaign against a plan to release genetically modified mosquitoes to fight dengue fever in the Florida Keys.

The British biotech company Oxford Insect Technologies, known as Oxitec, hopes to release genetically altered male Aeges aegypti mosquitoes into the Keys to breed with wild females. Any offspring would possess a gene that would cause them to die before reaching adulthood, helping to eliminate the dengue-spreading population over generations, according to BrowardPalmBeach.com. Mila de Mier, a Key West resident, launched a petition drive on Change.org asking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to deny Oxitec's application authorizing the release.

Yosemite's New View

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by Ted Alvarez

October 31, 2008

Yosemite's Tunnel View is a favorite for visitors-especially those who plan to just tool around on asphalt and not actually get into all that wilderness/hiking business.

But honchos at Yosemite saw room for improvement: They removed six view-blocking trees, built a viewing spot, and added other amenities to a scenic vista made famous by Ansel Adams and countless other photographers.

Fire-spotting Satellite Needed, Researchers Argue

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by Tamarra Kemsley

October 23, 2013

With another record-setting wildfire season coming to a close in the United States, researchers from the University of California, Berkeley argue it's time to invest in a fire-spotting satellite.

This year, California's firefighting arm, called CAL FIRE, responded to more than 6,000 wildfires, or 1,600 more than average -- a number that is expected to rise in coming years due to global warming, Stephens said. "If we had information on the location of fires when they were smaller, then we could take appropriate actions quicker and more easily, including preparing for evacuation," said fire expert Scott Stephens.

Rare American crocodile found in Tampa Bay area

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by Tamara Lush

September 22, 2011

Alligators are a common sight in parts of Florida, but residents of a gated community were shocked to spot one of the animal's reptilian cousins: An endangered American crocodile.

Crocodiles - which number about 1,500 in the state - are typically found some 300 miles south in the warmer Florida Keys. But the shy and reclusive animals are so rare in places like St. Petersburg that a wildlife official didn't initially believe Shondra Farner when she called to report the crocodile.

Kansas Wheat Farmer Sues Monsanto for Gross Negligence Following Discovery of Unauthorized Genetically Modified Wheat

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by Susman Godfrey Llp

June 3, 2013

A Kansas wheat farmer today filed a civil lawsuit against Monsanto alleging gross negligence and other causes of action following press reports last week of the discovery of unapproved genetically modified wheat in an 80-acre field in Oregon.

The farmer seeks compensation for damages caused by the discovery, which sent wheat export futures prices spiraling downward. The case may be the first of many Monsanto faces over alleged wheat contamination. Susman Godfrey, one of the nation's leading trial firms, along with co-counsel the Murray Law Firm and Goldman Phipps, PLLC, filed the case before the Honorable Monti Belot, in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas. "Monsanto has failed our nation's wheat farmers," said Stephen Susman , Susman Godfrey's lead attorney on the case. "We believe Monsanto knew of the risks its genetically altered wheat posed and failed to protect farmers and their crops from those risks."

New Invention Makes Ocean Water Drinkable

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by Susanne Posel

July 2, 2013

Chemists with the University of Texas and the University of Marburg have devised a method of using a small electrical field that will remove the salt from seawater.

Incredibly this technique requires little more than a store-bought battery. Called electrochemically mediated seawater desalination (EMSD) this technique has improved upon the current water desalination method. Richard Cooks, chemistry professor at the University of Austin said : "The availability of water for drinking and crop irrigation is one of the most basic requirements for maintaining and improving human health."

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