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It was anticipated NBC would broadcast repeats of Leno's programme, The Tonight Show, plus Late Night with Conan O'Brien and Saturday Night Live from Monday if the walkout went ahead, the Hollywood Reporter said. It also said old episodes of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report would be screened under contingency plans by the Comedy Central channel.

he ride monitors attempt to leave empty seats on many boats to compensate for the hefty, but this routinely antagonizes the hundreds of paying customers waiting in line. When a boat does bottom out, a long line of other boats backs up behind it, their passengers slowly going mad from listening to the ride’s theme song.

They hope knowing this could help find a cure for HIV

HIV-1 group M subtype B" predominates in the US, Europe, large parts of South America, Australia and Japan.

they recreated a family tree for the virus, which they believe shows conclusively that the strain came to the US via Haiti - probably via a single person - in around 1969.

Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

The mice were produced to study the biochemistry at play in metabolism and could aid the understanding of human health and disease.

five to six kilometres at a speed of 20 meters per minute on a treadmill, for up to six hours before stopping.

they utilise mainly fatty acids for energy and produce very little lactic acid,"

many more mitochondria.

10 times more

The mice over-express a gene responsible for the enzyme phosphoenolypyruvate carboxykinases (PEPCK-C). Normal expression is in the liver, in the production of glucose.

eat twice as much as normal mice - but weigh half as much.

athletes resorting to gene therapy to try to improve their performance.

rather aggressive

The timing of the Trojan horse suggests there are more to come, say some computer and Internet security professionals.

As Apple's popularity rises, "the bad guys are taking Macs seriously now,"

Symantec's Web site of suspicions that a wave of attacks and viruses are due.

"If we see a rise in Mac malware, then we will have to assume that there are profits to be made in malware for Macs as well,"

the parasite takes over the rat's freaking brain, and intentionally makes it scurry toward where the cats hang out.

that half the human population on Earth is infected with toxoplasmosa

Watson

Watson, who won a Nobel Prize in 1962 for discovering, along with Francis Crick, the double-helix structure of DNA

In London earlier this month to promote a new book, Watson was quoted in the Sunday Times Magazine of London as saying that he's "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas all the testing says not really."

Watson added that while he hopes everyone is equal, "people who have to deal with black employees find this is not true."

He also said people should not be discriminated against on the basis of color, because "there are many people of color who are very talented."

Watson stepped down from his post as chancellor of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory,

Its board of directors suspended Watson after his remarks were made public last week.

On Thursday, chairman Eduardo Mestre said the board respected Watson's decision to retire.

Watson apologized for his remarks in London before cancelling the remainder of the tour to promote his new book, "Avoid Boring People: Lessons From a Life in Science."

I can only apologize unreservedly,

Instead, press officers asked questions many described as soft and gratuitous. A spokeswoman for Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff called the incident "inexcusable and offensive".

Fema employees posed as reporters at Tuesday's "news briefing" with Deputy Administrator Harvey Johnson because an agency was providing a live video feed to

TV networks

"I'm very happy with Fema's response," Mr Johnson said in reply to one query from an employee.

After the Washington Post published details of the briefing

Mr Johnson apologised for the "error of judgement" and promised to do better in future.

It wants all air-freighted food to meet tough "ethical trade" standards.

could harm African farmers.

The rules will affect the 1% of the organic food market in the UK which is flown in from abroad, about 80% of which comes from low to lower-middle income countries.

overseas producers would find it impossible to meet the standards.

eliminate the casual use of air freight,"

It says it aims to balance the importance of the organic market for developing countries with rises in CO2 emissions.

"African companies and cooperatives want to trade internationally. To get value-added organic foods on to retail shelves, they have an overwhelming amount of standards to meet.

Meeting these standards costs money - laboratories, audits and more. Too many standards will hurt African farmers, which is just the opposite of what British consumers want.

"Unless teleportation becomes viable in the next few years there is no other alternative for them to get their fresh produce to market in good time."

taste: buttery and slightly nutty

The eggs have the consistency of cottage cheese.

eat them is in a taco with guacamole,

Sardinia, Italy.

Casu Marzu is a sheep' milk cheese that has been deliberately infested by a Piophila casei, the "cheese fly." The result is a maggot-ridden, weeping stink bomb in an advanced state of decomposition.

requires eye protection while eating.

pass through the stomach undigested, sometimes surviving long enough to breed in the intestine, where they attempt to bore through the walls, causing vomiting and bloody diarrhea.

This cheese is a delicacy in Sardinia, where it is illegal.

Norway.

Lutefisk is a traditional Norwegian dish featuring cod that has been steeped for many days in a solution of lye, until its flesh is caustic enough to dissolve silver cutlery.

lye (potassium hydroxide/sodium hydroxide) is a powerful industrial chemical used for cleaning drains, killing plants, de-budding cow horns, powering batteries and manufacturing biodiesel.

Korea.

Baby mice wine is a traditional Chinese and Korean "health tonic," which apparently tastes like raw gasoline.

Little mice, eyes still closed, are plucked from the embrace of their loving mothers and stuffed (while still alive) into a bottle of rice wine.

Iraq.

It' a sheep' head. Boiled.

The Philippines

Balut are duck eggs that have been incubated until the fetus is all feathery and beaky, and then boiled alive. The bones give the eggs a uniquely crunchy texture.

sold by street vendors at night, out of buckets of warm sand.

When you've looked death in the face at breakfast time, what the hell else can the day throw at you?

Gene therapy has generated much hype but little clinical success.

Modified viruses have been used in experimental gene therapies to "fix" faulty inherited genetic code.

Researchers at Stanford University and Jennerex Biotherapeutics have tweaked the cancer-killing vaccinia virus JX-963 so that it also stimulates the body to generate cancer-fighting white blood cells.

cold, herpes and smallpox viruses.

These viruses infect and kill cancer cells while leaving healthy cells alone.

Until now, virus therapies have had limited success targeting and killing all the cancer cells in the body, and not just some. With the new JX-963 therapy, the virus doesn't have to do the work alone -- it elicits the body's own defenses to mop up cancer cells.

The chemical that the virus secretes, granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor, or GM-CSF, is a protein that stimulates the production of white blood cells.

not to overstimulate the immune system

virus might mutate into a deadly form

move beyond federal regulators in Washington

“I believe that states have to step into a void created by a failure of federal action,” Mr. Spitzer

“The global warming issue is one where the current administration has first denied the scientific evidence and only recently begun to discuss the matter in a serious way.”

sue the Environmental Protection Agency is aimed at prodding the Bush administration to remove obstacles to more than a dozen states seeking to regulate global warming emissions

implement the first regulation in the United States requiring reductions of greenhouse gas emissions from cars. The E.P.A. has not yet granted the waiver, keeping the regulation from taking effect.

federal court in Vermont rejected attempts by automakers to block the regulation

United States Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide.

E.P.A. has violated legal requirements that federal agencies act on such requests within a reasonable time.

cut global warming emissions from power plants 16 percent by 2015, but that reduction is based on 1990 emissions levels

regulations will favor alternative energy approaches, like wind power, and will not be favorable for coal producers

cap the amount of emissions permitted and force producers to purchase allowances for their carbon emissions

involves nine other states in principle

Independent Power Producers of New York

“We don’t want to put more burden on the rate payers of New York, and the last thing I would think this governor wants to do is send the message that investment should go in other states,” said Gavin J. Donohue

urged Congress to maintain the 45-year-old U.S. trade embargo on Cuba's regime

fails to acknowledge that American citizens are the greatest ambassadors of democracy, freedom and hope to the Cuban people

Our policies make such contact virtually impossible, and threaten to make the United States irrelevant on the island.

As long as we demand that the Cuban regime reform before we help, we allow Raul Castro a veto over empowering the Cuban people

Bush said the U.S. is prepared to help the Cuban people

`freedom fund'

assist the Cuban people when the time comes for the government to change.

put aside its differences and prepare for Cuba's transition to a future of freedom and progress and promise,'' Bush said.

Once such changes are underway, the fund would grant Cuban entrepreneurs access to grants, loans and debt relief to help rebuild the country

kept in the smoker in a storage facility after he lost his home

an auction held by the storage company because Wood had missed his monthly payments.

Whisnant initially gave it to police

charging adults $3 and children $1 for a look, now wants the leg back.

struggling to increase the size of its force amid an increasingly unpopular war

70 percent of cervical cancers

cause of cervical cancer

Merck is the same company that made headlines in 2004 for failing to disclose that its painkiller Vioxx raised the risk of cardiac arrest and stroke in patients

limited testing

most Americans don't even know they have it

genetic comparison only being made between a child seeking to join a mother

immigrants take a language test and an exam on fundamental French values

sets a minimum income level for the relative in France

the effects of the common cold in children. And they said that it was time to throw out the assumption that drugs that help adults will always work just as well in children

ameliorating

a pediatrician from the University of California Davis Medical Center.

said Dr. Jesse Joad

Children are not just small adults,

Children’s cough and cold medicines were approved in the early 1970s when doctors assumed that adult drugs were always helpful in children. Since then, studies of dozens of drugs have found that some that are effective in adults do not work at all in children

The panel’s vote is a reminder that many drugs that Americans commonly use have never been examined closely and may not work. Standards for clinical trials have changed dramatically over the last 30 years, but thousands of drugs presently sold were approved under older, less stringent standards