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People carried signs saying: "I will decide for myself", "Make Austria Great Again", and "New Elections" - a nod to the political turmoil that has seen three chancellors within two months - as crowds gathered. "I am here because I am against against forced vaccinations. I am for human rights, and the violation of human rights should be stopped," one protester told Reuters Television. A parliamentary committee this week approved doubling the length of the lockdown to 20 days, which the government has said is the longest it will last.

The frozen carcass of the dark-brown baby horse is from an extinct species is up to 40,000 years old, and the animal was perfectly preserved in the Siberian permafrost in the Batagai crater in Yakutia, the coldest region in Russia. Leading researcher of the laboratory of Mammoth Museum Dr Semyon Grigoriev said: 'Fortunately, the animal's muscle tissues were undamaged and well preserved, so we managed to get samples of this unique find for biotechnology research.' South Korean cloning expert Professor Hwang Woo Suk, currently in Yakutsk, told The Siberian Times that a joint bid is underway to find a living...

Barack Obama and Democrats act like they've just won the Super Bowl or are going to Disneyland, but that begs the question, Why? Why are they acting with irrational exuberance over passing the Obamacare bill when it will only worsen the expected, 40,000 fewer primary care physicians that without the Obamacare bill are already expected across the country? Why are they acting with irrational exuberance over passing the Obamacare bill when it will only worsen the projected, 150,000 primary care physician shortfall that's expected to arrive by 2025? If you consider the fact that Obamacare will add another whopping, projected...

Story by Multi-National Division - Northeast PAO A Korean doctor treats a patient at the Zaytun Hospital. Department of Defense photo by MND-NE PAO. On a recent hot morning, a 76-year-old woman from a small village near Irbil was ushered into the hospital in a wheelchair pushed by her son. She was greeted with thunderous applause. Mariam Mhiadin had become the 40,000th patient admitted to the Republic of Korea's Zaytun Hospital since it opened Nov. 27, 2004. During the brief ceremony that followed, Republic of Korea Lt. Col. Lee Hae-Seol, commander, ROK Division's Medical Battalion, handed flowers and gifts...

See for example this thread first. A $40,000 dollar ring Enough to make a girl's heart sing! 'Cept he was a cheat (his divorce, not complete) What a high price to pay for a fling!

Protesters killed and 40,000 jailed as Blair's friend quells 'insurrection' By David Blair in Addis Ababa (Filed: 16/12/2005) A leader handpicked by Tony Blair to champion Africa has smashed his opponents with the biggest crackdown in the continent's recent history, jailing 40,000 people including boys of 15. Meles Zenawi, the Ethiopian prime minister and a member of Britain's Commission for Africa, has launched a systematic onslaught against every possible adversary. Meles Zenawi: Onslaught The entire leadership of Ethiopia's main opposition party has been locked up. Mr Meles has closed five newspapers and jailed their editors, while police have killed about...

Contact: Robert Sanders rsanders@berkeley.edu 510-643-6998 University of California - Berkeley Alleged 40,000-year-old human footprints in Mexico much, much older than thought Berkeley -- Alleged footprints of early Americans found in volcanic rock in Mexico are either extremely old - more than 1 million years older than other evidence of human presence in the Western Hemisphere - or not footprints at all, according to a new analysis published this week in Nature. The study was conducted by geologists at the Berkeley Geochronology Center and the University of California, Berkeley, as part of an investigative team of geologists and anthropologists from the...

US seeks 40,000 troops as Saddam aide surrenders By Jack Fairweather in Baghdad and Robin Gedye (Filed: 20/09/2003) Saddam Hussein's former defence minister surrendered to American forces yesterday, as it emerged that Washington has increased its demand for extra foreign troops in Iraq from 10,000 to at least 40,000. Sultan Hashim Ahmed was number 27 on Washington's list of top-ranking officials and the eight of hearts in the pack of playing cards used by American troops to identify those at the heart of Saddam's circle. He turned himself in after long negotiations in the northern city of Mosul, culminating in...