The scientists found that water lilies, an angiosperm, have two copies of their genetic material in the angiosperm. This may represent an intermediary between non-flowering and flowering plants.

Posted by at February 01, 2002 09:06 AM

The researchers followed children who played active sports such as soccer, basketball, baseball, tennis and swimming, for at least five years, starting at age 9. They found that 265 of the children were diagnosed with asthma during the study, and that those most likely to develop the disease were exercising in the most polluted cities.

Posted by at February 01, 2002 08:59 AM

Ikhlef was arrested last month after the Canadian Security Intelligence Service accused him of being close to Ressam, who was convicted of plotting to blow up Los Angeles airport.

Why would we deport a suspected Al Qaida member? Why wouldn't we turn him over to the international tribunal that's handling the US-Afghan war POWs? By the way, where is that tribunal?

Posted by at February 01, 2002 08:54 AM

The order to remove the flag "has nothing to do with [the Web site's] content, and it would be the same for any other similar instance," Mr. Dearn said.
Forces Canada, which has chapters around the world, has declared 2002 "the year of the smoker" and posts anti-smoking slogans from Nazi propagandists.

Posted by at February 01, 2002 08:51 AM

In terms of raw manpower, too, they were indistinguishable. Both, overwhelmingly, were composed of men and boys as young as 14 so poor they had no shoelaces, no socks, no gloves for the bitter winter cold, and, on the besieging side, no food of any kind, and nothing to drink but water running from the winter snows.

Posted by at February 01, 2002 08:47 AM

"This statement of President Bush is stupid and a statement that does not befit the leader of the biggest state in the world," Ramadan told reporters after speaking to a legal conference.

Careful, Dubya might hang you out a window upside down.

Posted by at February 01, 2002 08:43 AM

He also detailed the various stories he has told since that day -- that King killed his wife on his own; that Larson killed her on his own; that King held a gun to his head to force him to kill her -- all of which, Larson now says, were lies.

Posted by at February 01, 2002 08:39 AM

As you know, I have always aspired to the example of 14th century Vatican censors in all that I do. Whether it's registering patriots or losing elections to a dead man, I bring with me an almost feverish aversion to even the very thought of genitals - whether they be those of others or my own. It is for this reason that I have found myself increasingly distressed by the rampant proliferation of so-called public "art" with no shame - "art" which aggressively thrusts its impossibly large genitals directly into the eyes of our children, penetrating their little eye sockets deeper and deeper with every shameful glance! And so I say to you today, with God as both my witness and co-pilot, America must cease to be a lurid statuary of deviant sex!

Posted by at February 01, 2002 06:50 AM

A jury awarded $290,000 to two women who said they were deceived by a fundamentalist church whose leaders promised to produce Jesus Christ in the flesh.

Posted by at February 01, 2002 05:57 AM

Jonah Goldberg writes that he'll take money from just about anyone who offers it to him. In fact, he'd be happier to make a paid speech before his political opponents than before his ideological allies, because "taking free cash from your enemies is an even bigger no-brainer than taking it from your friends. It makes your enemies poorer and you richer, win-win." [. . .] Well, it's actually the radical anarchists of Chumbawumba who've been using this strategy before Goldberg thought it up.

I gather Mother Teresa did this too, but continue.

Posted by at February 01, 2002 12:14 AM

Left in the race are former leader Stockwell Day, a born again Christian who opposes gay rights; MP Grant Hill a doctor who says "homosexuality poses as great a health risk as smoking"; and MPs Diane Ablonczy and Stephen Harper.

Posted by at February 01, 2002 12:08 AM