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362 articles from MONDAY 9.1.2012

• MONDAY 9. JANUARY, 2012
• 02:38 Exotic Animal Flashcards Come to Life in 3D

  Read the story at Discovery
  Animal Planet's trading card game inspires learning about the Serengeti with photos, videos and animation.  

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• 02:32 Crime scene forensics: 360 image

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  How does it all work?  

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• 01:31 Alien hunters: Searching for life

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  What the future holds in the search for chatty ETs  

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• 01:28 Boreal ducks threatened by climate change

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  Scientists long puzzled by the rapid decline in millions of Canadian boreal ducks since the 1970s think they may finally have the cause: global warming.

   

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• 01:10 Have two drink-free days, MPs say

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  People should have at least two days a week completely clear of alcohol, a group of MPs say.  

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• 00:24 Boston lawsuit claims DES-breast cancer link

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  (AP) -- Arline MacCormack first heard about DES from her mother when she was 17. Three decades later, MacCormack believes that the drug her mother took to prevent miscarriages caused her to develop breast cancer at age 44.  

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• 00:24 Fisherman's gold: Shark fin hunt empties west African seas

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  Retired fisherman Sada Fall is upbeat. His two sons are returning from sea with a boatload of "gold", as he calls shark fins, whose value has near-obliterated the ocean's top predator in these seas.  

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• 00:24 Lions Gate nears $400M deal for 'Twilight' maker

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  (AP) -- Lions Gate is close to buying Summit Entertainment, the maker of the teen hit "Twilight" series for about $400 million in cash and stock.  

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• 00:24 NPD: US holiday electronics sales drop 5.9 percent

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  (AP) -- U.S. sales of consumer electronics fell 5.9 percent this past holiday season, as smartphones cannibalize sales of standalone gadgets like cameras, camcorders and GPS navigation devices.  

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• 00:24 Slovenian adventurer embarks on eco-friendly world trip

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  Slovenian adventurer Matevz Lenarcic flew out of the capital Ljubljana on Sunday at the start of an eco-friendly trip around the world in an ultra-light plane boasting super-low fuel mileage.  

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• 00:24 Swiss pharma giant Novartis recalls drugs in US

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  Swiss pharmaceutical firm Novartis said Sunday it was recalling four different products sold over the counter in the United States over reports of a malfunction at one of its plants.  

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• 00:24 Global warming caused by greenhouse gases delays natural patterns of glaciation

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  Unprecedented levels of greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere are disrupting normal patterns of glaciation, according to a study co-authored by a University of Florida researcher and published online Jan. 8 in Nature Geoscience.  

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