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72 percent of adults are text-messaging now

More American adults have taken to texting in the past year, but teens still take the crown when it comes to using their phones for text-messaging, with 87 percent of them doing so, a new study says.

 

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Others - msbbc - 2010-09-03 17:12:09.

Ancient Nubians drank antibiotic-laced beer

The yellow film in the laboratory flask represents tetracycline residue extracted from dissolved bones. Scientists say the analysis shows that ancient Nubians regularly consumed tetracycline, most likely in their beer.People have been using antibiotics for nearly 2,000 years, suggests a new study, which found large doses of tetracycline embedded in the bones of ancient African mummies.


 

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New cables tie West Africa closer to Internet

This map provided by Main One Cable Co., shows the Main One undersea fiber-optic cable, which extended to Lagos, Nigeria this summer, bringing vastly greater communications capacity to West Africa. For a decade, West Africa's main connection to the Internet has been a single fiber-optic cable in the Atlantic, a tenuous and expensive link for one of the poorest areas of the planet.


 

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Plant and spiders compete for food

The carnivorous sundew and the wolf spider eat the same prey in the wild. Wolf spiders and carnivorous plants called sundews may compete with each other for food in the wild, a new study finds.


 

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Labor Day weekend for astronauts: Space toilet cleaning

American astronauts Doug Wheelock, Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Shannon Walker, all NASA spaceflyers and Expedition 24 flight engineers, pose for a photo with an American flag while aboard the International Space Station during their summer 2010 mission. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station won't be throwing any burgers on the grill this Labor Day weekend, but at least they'll get the U.S. holiday off after they clean the space toilet.


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A Child Psychiatrist Responds

Dr. Mary Margaret Gleason answers some readers' questions.

 

 

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