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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Canada Standard.com http://www.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/10/id/a9927dde6777aafc/ en-us Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:23:25 -0500 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:23:25 -0500 30 Most spiral galaxies in the Universe have a bar structure in their centre. http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203227832/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:40:33 -0500 ANI http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203227832/cs/1/ Iran plans to establish a national satellite launch base in the southeast of the country, adjacent to the Sea of Oman and the Indian Ocean, Press TV reported. http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203212971/cs/1/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:50:02 -0500 IANS http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203212971/cs/1/ Myanmar will draft a media law with help from the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco), the official media reported Saturday. http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203227362/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:10:06 -0500 IANS http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203227362/cs/1/ TVA screen capture. The city’s chief of police has ordered an internal probe into allegations of use of force by an officer at a January student protest. A YouTube clip posted Feb. 1, which ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203239726/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:15:18 -0500 CNews http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203239726/ (Thinkstock.com) Ontario's proposed anti-bullying legislation received a huge boost from the Canadian Union of Public Employees on Saturday. "Bill 13 is an important step forward towards ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203239727/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:15:12 -0500 CNews http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203239727/ That's why we must never downplay active parenting. It's not the teacher's responsibility to teach our children about money, sex, relationships, or even instil discipline. It is a ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203238230/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:30:47 -0500 Daily Nation http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203238230/ Most of us diet sometime or other - and we want fast results. But that rarely works. Lose weight quickly and it's usually all back, plus a bit more, within three ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203238238/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:30:42 -0500 Daily Nation http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203238238/ Students at the University of Alberta won the Guinness World Record for the most players in a dodgeball game. They had 4,979 people partcipate. (University of Alberta/HO) That's a lot of ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203238236/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:15:27 -0500 CNews http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203238236/ The remains of Fribjon Bjornson in found in a vacant home on the Nak'azdli reserve in B.C. Friday. (RCMP/HO) Police in B.C. have identified the human remains found in a vacant home on the ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203238237/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:15:25 -0500 CNews http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203238237/ Bjork told a journalist recently that she'd always wanted to be a music teacher. And so she was, in her own dazzling style, during the first show of a six-night residency at the New York Hall ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203235236/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:17:23 -0500 NPR http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203235236/ This southeast Asian mystery bird is atypical amongst those species with similar habits. Can you tell me in what way it is atypical? Can you identify this mystery bird's taxonomic family and ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203236648/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:10:23 -0500 The Guardian http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203236648/ Nasa has released the first ever moving images of the dark side of the Moon, the side never visible from Earth, filmed by the spacecraft GRAIL. . Report ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203236649/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:46:16 -0500 Mideast Posts http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203236649/ Russia 's space agency and training center for cosmonauts is launching a campaign to choose a new team of cosmonauts to train for a special mission, most likely for the moon this ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203235598/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:39:36 -0500 Fox News http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203235598/ Suncor's tailings reduction operation (TRO) site in Fort McMurray: The oilsands industry is footing the bill for a new pollution monitoring program that has some ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203236647/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:33:43 -0500 The Gazette http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203236647/ ), Linnaeus, 1758, also known as the hedge sparrow, the shuffle-wing, or as the dunnock accentor, the European dunnock or, most famously (especially in Britain), just as the dunnock, photographed ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203234868/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:54:17 -0500 The Guardian http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203234868/ more precious . The metal packs as much of a punch against cancer cells as a leading chemotherapy drug, and could reduce the negative side effects that accompany such ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203233428/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:59:08 -0500 New Scientist http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203233428/ The trouble with this lifestyle is that it consumes a lot of power. If everyone in the world started living like wealthy Americans, we'd need to generate more than 10 times as much energy each ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203233468/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:59:02 -0500 New Scientist http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203233468/ YOU'RE running late for work and you can't find your keys. What's really annoying is that in your frantic search, you pick up and move them without realising. This may be because the ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203234867/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:58:58 -0500 New Scientist http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203234867/ The Tolonews website runs a story on its front page reporting about the news of the death of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar in Kabulin this May 23, 2011, file photo. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood/Files ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203234865/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:41:04 -0500 CNews http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203234865/ Workers in protective hazmat suits clear the belongings of protesters from the Occupy DC protest movement at the Occupy DC encampment in McPherson Square, Washington Feb. 4, 2012. REUTERS/Jonathan ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203234866/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:41:01 -0500 CNews http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203234866/ It was probably a rather small step for LEGO but it was certainly one giant leap for a LEGO man when he was launched into space by a couple of Canadian teens recently. The mission was the result of ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203231889/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:37:12 -0500 WLOX http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203231889/ They are tiny, ugly, disease-carrying little blood-suckers that most people have never seen or heard of, but a new discovery in a one-of-a-kind fossil shows that "bat flies" have been ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203232937/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:28:04 -0500 RedOrbit http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203232937/ Internet information giant Google updated ocean data in its Google Earth application this week, reflecting new bathymetry data assembled by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, NOAA ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203232841/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:28:03 -0500 RedOrbit http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203232841/ . When natural gas is cooled (to -160 C) it becomes a clear, colourless, odourless liquid.Because LNG weighs less than half the weight of water, it floats if spilled on water.. Much of the ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203231476/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:57:24 -0500 Vancouver Sun http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203231476/ ELECTRONS can orbit the nucleus of an atom in the same way a class of asteroids orbits the sun. The work could allow for new levels of control over chemical ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203232936/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:21:38 -0500 New Scientist http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203232936/ Jellyfish have become the subject of what resembles a modern myth, some say. The story goes like this: Around the world, more and more massive blooms of the gelatinous creatures are cropping up, ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203230786/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:00:50 -0500 MSNBC http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203230786/ Teacher Mary Felber troubleshoots a problem with a robot with sophomore Sarah Kane at Mojave High School Monday, Jan. 30, 2012. Senior Marco Garcia is at ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203230788/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:58:54 -0500 Las Vegas Sun http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203230788/ Here's an astronomy video about cats, just in time for our Caturday morning video smile! This video is a chat with (a man whose name will delight birdwatchers everywhere) Brant Widgeon, who is ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203230787/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:53:45 -0500 The Guardian http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203230787/ The bitterly cold weather sweeping Britain and the rest of Europe has been linked by scientists with the ice-free seas of the Arctic, where global warming is exerting its greatest ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203228499/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:31:34 -0500 The Independent http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203228499/ album_info = [{"title":"Marbled Earth, Rolling Dunes on Mars and a Nebula With a Mouth ","aidesc":"From a stunning image of our marbled earth to city lights from ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203230785/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:16:25 -0500 Space.com http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203230785/ Professor Stephen Hawking, one of the most famous theoretical physicists in the world, just celebrated his 70th birthday, despite suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease that has rendered him wheel ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203230790/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:29:21 -0500 SINA http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203230790/ BEIJING, Jan. 09 (Xinhuanet) -- Among all the fields of international research on giant pandas, breeding is the most prominent, experts said. Since cooperative research started in 1994, the Chengdu ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203230789/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:29:20 -0500 SINA http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203230789/ In science, it's not enough to think something is so. Researchers must show that what we believe to be true is in fact true, proven through statistically significant and reproducible results. ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203230791/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:28:57 -0500 SINA http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203230791/ Specialist Michael Wagnon is seen in this undated handout. The U.S. Army dismissed all charges against the last of five soldiers to face court-martial in the murder of unarmed Afghan civilians, ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203230784/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:27:28 -0500 CNews http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203230784/ The Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light years from Earth, are shown in this composite image from NASA's Great Observatories - the Chandra X-ray Observatory [blue], the Hubble ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226643/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:51:07 -0500 VOA http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226643/ Dr. Stanley B. Prusiner, Nobel Prize-winning neurologist and biochemist, will become chair of the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health's Scientific Advisory Board, the clinic ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226645/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:33:26 -0500 Las Vegas Sun http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226645/ In first of three letters written by Albert Einstein, the father of relativity tells 'Friends of the Truth' it was right not to accept Jews into the organization because it would weaken ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226637/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:27:02 -0500 Haaretz http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226637/ The Russian space agency has announced it is to boost cooperation with its partners in the US and the European Union, and has called for the creation of a permanent base on the ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203223871/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:03:04 -0500 RT http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203223871/ The bank has so far identified three office buildings it will sell, in N.Y. and N.C. It also has substantial real estate holdings in Southern ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203221923/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:32:57 -0500 Associated Press http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203221923/ Have you ever asked yourself ';Where am I?'; ';What am I?'; ';Who am I?';; Have you ever just stopped to ask ';where is the universe?'; Let us deviate from ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226644/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:31:40 -0500 Web Pro News http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226644/ Follow this company , the two restaurant companies announced Friday. At Lakewood-based Einstein (Nasdaq: BAGL), O'Reilly has been head of corporate marketing and branding for three ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203221873/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:21:06 -0500 Business Journal http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203221873/ There are reasons for optimism about the future of the world's fish stocks despite their currently dire state, said the Prince of Wales at the launch of a report from his green think-tank. ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226642/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:19:18 -0500 BBC http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226642/ -; Sequencing a patient's entire genome to discover the source of his or her disease is not routine -- yet. But geneticists are getting ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226638/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:03:15 -0500 Science Daily http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226638/ -; Newly divorced middle aged women are more vulnerable to contract HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, according to Christopher Coleman, PhD, MPH, RN, associate professor at the University ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203222583/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:03:13 -0500 Science Daily http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203222583/ -; If the proven long-term benefits of smoking cessation are not enough to motivate young adults to stop smoking, a new study shows that 18- to 24-year olds who stop smoking for at least two weeks ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203222233/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:03:11 -0500 Science Daily http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203222233/ -; Jim Black is fighting the meanest, most aggressive, most common kind of brain tumor in the United States: recurrent glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). In the United States, each year, approximately ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203222633/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:03:09 -0500 Science Daily http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203222633/ Researchers will present their solution at the GSMA Mobile World Congress from 27 February to 1 March, 2012 in Barcelona. The journey for the family holiday can be a long one. To avoid the incessant ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226639/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:03:07 -0500 Science Daily http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226639/ -; Many living organisms suffer from parasites, which use the hosts' resources for their own purposes. The problem of parasitism occurs at all levels right down to the DNA scale. Genomes may ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226640/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:03:05 -0500 Science Daily http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226640/ -; One of the big mysteries in biology is why cells age. Now scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies report that they have discovered a weakness in a component of brain cells that ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226641/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:03:02 -0500 Science Daily http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226641/ Wrigley Field here in Chicago was shortly after my husband and I were married and we were moving into our first home together. It wasn't the easiest of days, and we'd both had to make hard ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226475/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:53:13 -0500 Christian Science Monitor http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226475/ Shelby Herchak. (Stuart Dryden/QMI Agency file photo) CALGARY -- The city mom charged with murdering her infant son will face a two-week jury trial this fall. Shelby Anna Herchak appeared briefly ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226622/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:41:33 -0500 CNews http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226622/ LONDON, Ont. -- Jurors trying Michael Rafferty for the murder of Victoria Stafford will visit the remote spot where the eight-year-old girl’s body was found, and where the Crown alleges she ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226624/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:41:30 -0500 CNews http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226624/ (Shutterstock) STRATFORD, ONT. - Susan Campbell is afraid to look in her mailbox. Lately, it’s been nothing but bad news addressed to "The Estate of the Late Susan Campbell." The ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226625/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:41:28 -0500 CNews http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226625/ Firefighters remain on scene following the Jan. 19, 2012 fire at the Heatheridge Estates condos in Edmonton on Jan. 21, 2012. (Amber Bracken/QMI Agency) ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226627/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:41:23 -0500 CNews http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226627/ Mohammad Shafia leaves the Frontenac County Court house in Kingston, Ont., after he was convicted of four counts of first degree murder on Jan. 27, 2012. He along with his wife Tooba Mohammad Yahya ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226628/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:41:20 -0500 CNews http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226628/ Qatar emir suggests sending troops to Syria BEIRUT -- More than 200 people were killed in shelling by Syrian forces in the city of Homs, activists said on Saturday, as the U.N. Security Council ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226629/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:41:15 -0500 CNews http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226629/ TEHRAN - Iran's supreme leader threatened on Friday to retaliate against the West for sanctions, a day after a U.S. newspaper said defense secretary Leon Panetta believed Israel was likely to ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226630/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:41:13 -0500 CNews http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226630/ Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign stop at Western Nevada Supply Company in Sparks, Nevada February 3, 2012. REUTERS/Brian ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226631/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:41:10 -0500 CNews http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226631/ Top Totty beer was removed from the bar at the British House of Commons after a female MP complained. (Twitter/Alison1mackITV photo) A beer with a bosomy half-naked blond on its logo has been banned ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226632/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:41:08 -0500 CNews http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226632/ MP Joe Comartin speaks during a year end news conference in Ottawa Dec 15, 2011. (Andre Forget/QMI Agency) OTTAWA - Opposition parties said the Canadian economy needs stimulus instead of austerity ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226634/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:41:03 -0500 CNews http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203226634/ TINGIRA HEIGHTSMore than $1.25millionAddress: 3 Victoria Road.House:: Cavity brick and Colorbond on 9940square metres.Inspect:: By appointment.Agent:: Neil Fry, McGrath Estate Agents, 0418 494 183. ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203220104/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:43:26 -0500 Newcastle Herald http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203220104/ In what sounds like the opening scene to a bad monster movie, a team of Russian scientists are on the verge of drilling down to a lake buried under more than two miles of ice that hasn't seen ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203220097/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:35:52 -0500 RedOrbit http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203220097/ Millions of eyes will be glued to the gridiron this Sunday as the New England Patriots face the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLVI. It's the game of the year in American sports, and fans and ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203220099/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:29:06 -0500 MSNBC http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203220099/ It may seem a prestigious post for a rodent, but the guinea pigs that are fixtures in elementary school classrooms today were once ambassadors from a new land. The third-ever guinea pig skeleton ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203214609/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:29:02 -0500 MSNBC http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203214609/ A one-of-a-kind fossil shows that so-called bat flies -- tiny vampire insects that survive on the blood of bats -- have been parasitizing the winged mammals and spreading bat malaria for at least 20 ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203220098/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:28:57 -0500 MSNBC http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203220098/ One of the best discussions I've had in the comments on this blog was about entropy, and it took us from black holes to a cup of tea. This excellent video completes the journey, and then ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203219965/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:17:56 -0500 The Guardian http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203219965/ Hot on the heels of a major study showing malaria deaths are twice what everybody thought - and that the disease kills older children and adults as well as babies in large numbers - comes a WHO ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203220101/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:17:42 -0500 The Guardian http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203220101/ When it comes to science education, it’s always important to note the general public’s attitude. I’ve asked my readers on multiple occasions, ';which would you rather have ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203212904/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:15:14 -0500 Forbes http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203212904/ NASA 's newest Earth-watching satellite is beaming back spectacular views of our home planet - huge mosaics of many images stitched together at the highest-resolution yet obtained. But ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203220096/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:06:43 -0500 Christian Science Monitor http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203220096/ Two space-defense missile plants will be built in central Russia, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Friday. The first, to be based in Nizhny Novgorod, will employ 5,000 workers and have ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203214878/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:43:03 -0500 RIA Novosti http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203214878/ The Progress space freighter blasts off from its launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan October 30, 2011. Russia launched its first unmanned space flight to supply the International ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203214544/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:36:03 -0500 National Post http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203214544/ (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ) The technologies needed back in the days of the Apollo space missions were well understood. But with NASA's current missions, it faces a broader and more ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203213818/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:24:37 -0500 CNet http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203213818/ Dropbox, the popular cloud storage utility for synchronizing files among many devices, ordinarily limits free accounts to 2GB, but those who test a new feature to automatically upload photos can get ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203214581/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:24:33 -0500 CNet http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203214581/ This photo from NASA's Suomi NPP satellite shows the Eastern Hemisphere of Earth in "Blue Marble" view. The photo, released Feb. 2, 2012, is a companion to a NASA image showing the ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203220093/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:16:51 -0500 Space.com http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203220093/ earliest known pet dog owned by Altay hunter-gatherers .)The scientists received written consent to take DNA samples from nearly 500 people, many of whom were living in remote areas and had never ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203215291/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:12:04 -0500 National Geographic News http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203215291/ Using both fossil and living specimens, scientists calculated growth rates for 28 different mammalian groups during the past 65 million years--and found that, for mammals, getting big takes longer ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203219951/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:11:59 -0500 National Geographic News http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203219951/ International Space Station .The brightest lights at bottom center come from Belgium and the Netherlands, while the glow of the British Isles is partially obscured by the solar arrays at ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203219953/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:11:52 -0500 National Geographic News http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203219953/ groundhog -- took the stage at rural Gobbler's Knob to introduce what Vice President Mike Johnston called "the Great Oz of weather forecasting." ( ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203219952/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:11:44 -0500 National Geographic News http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203219952/ San Jose State's research center received the largest federal award in university history this week: $73 million to help NASA Ames Research Center improve the safety and efficiency of air space ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203213819/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:09:51 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203213819/ Wyatt Brand, a public relations, design and social media agency, has moved to The Corners development on South Lamar Boulevard. The new location, at 3001 South Lamar Blvd., is in the same shopping ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203213711/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:55:11 -0500 Business Journal http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203213711/ Dallas Business Journal by Bill Hethcock, Staff Writer Date: Friday, February 3, 2012, 12:13pm CST - Last Modified: Friday, February 3, 2012, 2:47pm ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203217032/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:51:29 -0500 Dallas Business Journal http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203217032/ Despite it being the middle of winter, there is an explosion of summer colour in one of the big greenhouses at the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew in west London. Visitors are being invited to dive into ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203220094/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:49:57 -0500 BBC http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203220094/ Chris Huhne's departure from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) sees the exit of a minister who is generally regarded as having fought tenaciously for "green" policies ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203220095/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:49:55 -0500 BBC http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203220095/ Russian Mars probe Phobos-Grunt was lost because space radiation disrupted its computer system, a commission investigating the incident said on Friday. The investigation found no faults with the ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203220103/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:47:53 -0500 RIA Novosti http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203220103/ -; Could the use of vitamin and mineral supplements in a regular diet help to reduce the risk of colon cancer and protect against carcinogens? A study published in ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203214269/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:34:14 -0500 Science Daily http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203214269/ -; People who suffer a traumatic experience often don't talk about it, and many forget it over time. But not talking about something doesn't always mean you'll forget it; if you try ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203220078/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:34:11 -0500 Science Daily http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203220078/ -; Placebos reduce pain by creating an expectation of relief. Distraction -- say, doing a puzzle -- relieves it by keeping the brain busy. But do they use the same brain processes? Neuromaging ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203213876/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:34:05 -0500 Science Daily http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203213876/ -; In the largest and longest head-to-head comparison of two anti-clotting medications, warfarin and aspirin were similar in preventing deaths and strokes in heart failure patients with normal heart ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203220079/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:34:01 -0500 Science Daily http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203220079/ -; An innovative approach to genome screening has provided clues about rare mutations that may make people susceptible to brain aneurysms, predisposing them to brain bleeds, according to preliminary ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203220080/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:33:58 -0500 Science Daily http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203220080/ -; A new drug that showed promise in animal studies and an early clinical trial didn't improve disability among stroke patients, according to late-breaking research presented at the American ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203214391/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:33:55 -0500 Science Daily http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203214391/ -; The anti-blood clot regimen that adds the drug clopidogrel (Plavix) to aspirin treatment is unlikely to prevent recurrent strokes and may increase the risk of bleeding and death in patients with ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203220081/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:33:52 -0500 Science Daily http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203220081/ -; An experimental blood clot-removing device outperformed the FDA-approved MERCI; retriever device, according to late-breaking science presented at the American Stroke Association's 2012 ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203220082/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:33:49 -0500 Science Daily http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203220082/ -; Increased exposure to sunlight may reduce the risk of both food allergies and eczema in children, according to a new scientific study published this ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203219981/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:33:46 -0500 Science Daily http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203219981/ -; A painstakingly detailed investigation shows that mass extinctions need not be sudden events. The deadliest mass extinction of all took a long time to kill 90 percent of Earth's marine life, ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203212744/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:33:43 -0500 Science Daily http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203212744/ -; After years of existing only in fiction, social robots are finally being designed that can more closely emulate how people express themselves, interact and learn – and doing so while ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203220083/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:33:40 -0500 Science Daily http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203220083/ -; The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1073, which is found in the constellation of Cetus (The Sea Monster). Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is a ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203220084/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:33:37 -0500 Science Daily http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203220084/ -; When a patient afflicted with schizophrenia hears inner voices something is taking place inside the brain that prevents the individual from ... http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203214379/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:33:34 -0500 Science Daily http://story.canadastandard.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a9927dde6777aafc/id/203214379/