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“It's not easy being green,” Kermit the Frog once warbled. Wasabi, a golden retriever puppy who was born green, is still thinking it over. Wasabi was born in the Alhambra home of Peter Tseng on Nov 3. The puppy is the daughter of AKC (American Kennel Club) registered golden retrievers Goldie (mom) and Coco (dad) but, unlike her shiny blond siblings, her fur has an pale olive green sheen.

Feds Indict 2 in Missile-Smuggling Scheme 47 minutes ago LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury indicted two men Wednesday for allegedly conspiring to smuggle surface-to-air missiles into the United States for use abroad. Such missiles are designed to bring down aircraft. The U.S. attorney's office said the charges marked the first time a 2004 anti-terrorism law has been used. The law calls for a mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years and the possibility of life in prison without parole if convicted. Chao Tung Wu, 51, and Yi Qing Chen, 41, are naturalized U.S. citizens born in China, authorities said....

BARWANA, Iraq (Oct. 28, 2005) -- While many service members view a deployment to Iraq as a long separation from their family, Cpl. Yousef A. Badou sees it as a chance to visit his family who live in Kuwait near a U.S. military base. Badou was born in Qurain, Kuwait, which he describes as the “Beverly Hills of the Middle East.” He lived there happily until the Iraqi invasion in 1991 when he and his family left for America, and it was there that he would find his calling in life. “There were a lot of military members during that...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dozens of massive stars, destined for a short but brilliant life, were born less than a light-year away from the Milky Way's central black hole, one of the most hostile environments in our galaxy, astronomers reported on Thursday. On Earth, this might be a bit like setting up a maternity ward on the side of an active volcano. But researchers using the Chandra X-ray Observatory and other instruments believe there is a safe zone around black holes, a big dust ring where stars can form. Black holes, including the one at the center of our galaxy, are...

PRESIDENTS Bush, Clinton and Carter would support it. Cherie Booth is proof of it. The first born achieves the most success in life.

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Tucson Marine Cpl. Jeff Lawrence wouldn't have wanted sorrow over his death to spoil the joy of his baby's birth, loved ones say. So, early Saturday, his little girl was welcomed into the world with awe and excitement, four days after her father was killed in Iraq. "Right now it's a happy occasion," said Heather Kuntz, Jeff Lawrence's cousin, of the birth of 7-pound, 11-ounce Cadence Freedom Lawrence.

British-born man admits bomb plot By Nick Squires in Sydney (Filed: 29/05/2004) A British-born Muslim convert was convicted yesterday of plotting to bomb the Israeli embassy in Canberra. Convicted: Jack Roche Jack Roche, 50, who discussed the plot with Osama bin Laden at a camp in Afghanistan, had originally pleaded not guilty at Perth district court. But halfway through the trial his lawyers asked for the charge to be read out again and he replied: "Guilty". Roche, who was arrested in November 2002, is the first Australian citizen to be convicted of a terrorist offence and faces a maximum 25...

Monkey born after ovarian tissue transplant 12.03.2004 LONDON - A monkey has given birth to a healthy baby created from an egg taken from transplanted ovarian tissue, in a breakthrough scientists say could lead to new fertility treatment for women with cancer. The baby, named Brenda, is the first primate born using an egg taken not from a working ovary but from parts of the ovary implanted elsewhere in the mother's body. This tissue contains cells that can develop into eggs, without needing a full ovary. The egg was then removed, fertilised and the embryo was transplanted into a surrogate...

Determining at what point life begins in the womb. To resolve the issue, then, let us take a look at life as it is born into the world. The new baby, most of the time, is said to be "alive," depending upon various and sundry "vital- signs, "Vital" from "vivus" being LAtin for "life, living." Yet, we do not conclude that the baby "became" alive at the moment of birth, for then we must concern ourselves with the prebirth "kicking" of the babe in the womb. Is it alive? Or is it just "thinking about life to come? ("For lo,...

During the 1990s, the nation’s immigrant population grew by 11.3 million — faster than at any other time in our history. Using newly released data from the 2000 Census, this report examines the changing distribution of the nation’s immigrant population by country of origin at the state level. The findings show that in one sense, today’s immigration is more diverse than ever because people now arrive from every corner of the world. In another sense, however, diversity among the foreign born has actually declined significantly. One country — Mexico — and one region — Spanish-speaking Latin America — came to...

The orbit of the microquasar through the Milky Way galaxy (red line); our Sun's orbit (yellow) is shown for reference [Pic: NRAO/AUI/NSF] Download an animated version here.  The deadly embrace between a collapsing cannibal star and its hapless companion probably began in a globular cluster some 30 million years ago, a French-Argentinian team announced. The neutron star and its captured companion, called Scorpius X-1, were originally discovered in 1962. Dr Felix Mirabel and Dr Irapuan Rodrigues, astrophysicists at the French Atomic Energy Commission, used a number of published observations to calculate the path of the duo over the past...

AMERICAN BY BIRTHMUSLIM BY CHOICE Two female converts explain why they feel liberated by Islam By Katherine Millett. Katherine Millett is an Elmhurst lawyer and free-lance writer who wrote about identity theft in the Aug. 19 MagazinePublished December 2, 2001 In the aftermath of Sept. 11, struggling to understand mysteries of Muslim culture that had suddenly become frightening and dark, I picked up the phone and called Seema Imam, an American woman who had converted to Islam. She had made a strong impression on me two years earlier, when I listened to her tell a civil rights conference about the...

Springfield, IL -- On Tuesday, two of three born alive infants protection bills, which had earlier passed the Illinois Senate, were defeated by a vote of 8-2 in the Illinois House of Representatives Health Care Committee. One legislator, Howard A. Kenner (D-Chicago) walked off the Committee floor, shortly before the vote was taken. Sponsored in the Senate by Patrick O'Malley, and in the House by Jonathan Wright, SB 1661 and 1662 were similar versions of born alive infants protection bills that were defeated in the last session of the General Assembly. That legislation also met its doom in the House,...