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Athletes caught using cannabis, a banned substance under rules set out by the World Anti-Doping Agency, face a ban of up to two years.

Phelps has never failed a drugs test and even offered to take extra tests before the Olympic Games in August to promote an anti-doping campaign.

What's revolutionary is how the DNA fragments the work is based on were dead. 

The original samples had been kept in a jar of ethanol for over a century, and considering how DNA breaks down over time even putting Col2a1 together was a massive success.

The research is extremely well-timed, with current conservation efforts focusing on salvaging as many species as possible with biotissue cataloging efforts and seed vaults around the world.

While the reconstruction of complete animals is a long way off, if possible at all, this research demonstrates that the basic steps are possible - it's only our time and technology that are lacking.

non-religious

not one member of Congress would even admit to being in the dreaded minority of non-believers.

a religious person can say that an atheist will burn in hell as a result of their beliefs, and that is not considered offensive;

but if an atheist says that believing in God makes no sense, that is considered deeply offensive.

minority that is not silent by choice but by decision of the people in power

the memorandum will order the Office of Science and Technology Policy to "assure a number of effective standards and practices that will help our society feel that we have the highest-quality individuals carrying out scientific jobs and that information is shared with the public,"

the Bush Administration unduly influenced

ideological beliefs.

Firstly, you need a 3D image of the bone you want to copy. If the bone has been lost or destroyed, you can make a mirror image of its surviving twin.

several steps

This image is then fed into a 3D inkjet printer, which deposits thin layers of a pre-selected material on top of one another until a 3D object materialises.

Weinand loaded the printer with tricalcium phosphate and a type of polylactic acid - natural structural materials found in the human body. The resulting bone "scaffolds" contained thousands of tiny pores into which bone cells could settle, grow and eventually displace the biodegradable scaffold altogether.

The team extracted CD117 cells from bone marrow left over after hip-replacement operations.

CD117 cells grow into primordial bone cells called osteoblasts, which the team syringed onto the bone scaffolds in a gel designed to support and nourish them

Finally, the scaffolds were sewn under the skin on the backs of mice where they grew for up to 15 weeks, until the scaffold had changed into human bone

Finnish team

reconstructed a man's jawbone

on a "scaffold" left for nine months in his abdomen. In that case, the stem cells came from the patient's own fat cells.

"dark energy"

2 Life

The phenomenon we call life is something that biologists have almost given up trying to define

3 Death

in biology, things eventually die, but there's no good explanation for it.

4 Sex

why almost everything in biology uses sexual reproduction rather than asexual cloning - sex is a highly inefficient way to reproduce.

The suggestion that sex's gene shuffling makes us more able to deal with changing environments seems plausible, but the evidence is scarce

5 Free will

Neuroscientists are almost convinced that free will is an illusion. Their experiments show that our brains allow us to think we are controlling our bodies, but our movements begin before we make a conscious decision to move.

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It is based on the part of Islamic law derived from a statement by the prophet in which dealing with alcohol in any form--including purchase, sale, transport, consumption, and manufacture--is strictly prohibited.

the statement was not a fatwa but simply his own opinion.

He noted that any ban would extend beyond Islamic countries to cover observant Muslims in other countries. This might include tourists, students abroad, and other groups.

Defined as consuming more than the equivalent of seven cups of coffee a day, a high caffeine user was three times more likely to have heard a person speak when there was nobody there, compared to low caffeine users (those who had less than the equivalent of one cup of coffee a day),

200 students

One possible explanation, said the authors, was that caffeine amplifies the effects of stress, by boosting the release of the stress hormone cortisol.

Readers should note that this study merely showed a link between caffeine intake and propensity to hallucinate in a group of students: it did not establish the direction of the relationship,

But he was quick to add that law enforcement officers will target anyone who tries to "use medical marijuana laws as a shield" for illegal activity.

Heriot Watt University's

Family and Personal Relationships Laboratory in Edinburgh

40 Hollywood romantic comedies released between 1995-2005

They found that problems typically reported by couples in relationship counseling at their counseling center reflect misconceptions about love and romance depicted in Hollywood films.

if your partner truly loves you they'd know what you need without you communicating it,

that your soul mate is predestined.

watched a David Lynch drama.

Serendipity,

violent movies

be cautious about watching too many romantic comedies

needed source of hope and inspiration for the unattached.

University of North Carolina

Americans today drink about 192 gallons of liquid a year—or about 2 liters a day. To put it into perspective, this is nearly twice as many calories as we did 30 years ago. 

consuming sugary-tasting beverages--even if they're artificially sweetened--may lead to a high preference for sweetness overall. That means sweeter (and more caloric) cereal, bread, dessert--everything.

forces out the healthy beverages you need. 

100 percent nutrition-free

Aspartame is 180 times sweeter than sugar

brain tumors and lymphoma in rodents.

The FDA maintains that the sweetener is safe, but reported side effects include dizziness, headaches, diarrhea, memory loss, and mood changes.

A long hollow tapering cone of muslin coated with wax is inserted into the ear and lit to create a vacuum.

a single breath of air contained more oxygen than a bottle of oxygenated water.

99 out of every 100 marihuana arrests in the United States are made under state law

Although federal law currently prohibits any use of marihuana except under very limited circumstances, states are not required to enforce federal law or prosecute people for engaging in activities prohibited by federal law.

Debilitating medical condition

Cancer, glaucoma, positive status for human immunodeficiency virus, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, hepatitis C, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Crohn's disease, agitation of Alzheimer's disease, nail patella, or the treatment of these conditions.

"Medical use" means the acquisition, possession, cultivation, manufacture, use, internal possession, delivery, transfer, or transportation of marihuana or paraphernalia relating to the administration of marihuana to treat or alleviate a registered qualifying patient's debilitating medical condition or symptoms associated with the debilitating medical condition.

Usable marihuana

primary caregiver

2.5 ounces of usable marihuana

primary caregiver will be allowed under state law to cultivate marihuana for the qualifying patient, 12 marihuana plants kept in an enclosed, locked facility; and

shall not be seized or forfeited.

limited contributions, following the example of his campaign, banning contributions from corporations, political action committees, registered lobbyists, foreigners and registered foreign agents.

The public will be able to fully track donations from those giving $200 or more toward the Jan. 18-21 event

http://www.pic2009.org/donors,

donation amount, and the contributor's name, home town and employer.

Bangkok, Thailand

Los Angeles, California

Permits are required

research, enhancement and conservation purposes

Rhesus monkeys are known to carry viruses and parasites that can be transmitted to humans

Authorities found journals and handwritten notes describing the mother and daughter's attempts to find a monkey small enough to smuggle back to the United States.

effort to get some foreclosures off the market and to partner with outside groups and companies to convert those properties into affordable housing.

When you go up and down the streets, 20 to 40 percent of the houses there don’t even have people living in them,” said Cynthia Miller, Tampa’s growth management and development services administrator. “We have to do the best with what we’ve got, so we’re just looking at certain streets so that we can have some land assemblage. This is all about neighborhood stabilization, and we want to make sure vacant structures don’t become a problem.”

Currently, four out of every five songs purchased on the Internet come from the iTunes store, according to a release from Reuters. 

consumers should be able to switch to Nokia, Blackberry In Motion Ltd or other MP3 players without having to dump their entire music library.

The iPhone and iPod Touch both use a new version of an Apple file format known as iTunesDB.

order for software to sync with an iPod, iTunesDB must be used.

$34 billion requested this week by General Motors, Ford Motor, and Chrysler,

salad mixes

adds spices

University of California, Berkeley and UC, San Diego

Storm network, which uses hijacked home PCs to relay much of the junk email

"The best way to measure spam is to be a spammer,"

managed to control 75,869 hijacked machines to conduct their own fake spam campaigns.

'proxy bots'

two of the most popular ploys currently used by spammers

firstly offering a fake pharmacy site and, secondly, offering a herbal Viagra-style remedy to boost libido.

"After 26 days, and almost 350 million email messages, only 28 sales resulted,"

$7,000 (£4,430) a day

$3.5m (£2.21m) over a year.