Botanists have discovered for the first time that the plants are carnivorous predators who kill insects in order to “self-fertilise” themselves. New research shows that they capture and kill small insects with sticky hairs on their stems and then absorb nutrients through their roots when the animals decay and fall to the ground
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Attack of the killer tomatoes
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A blue wave has rolled towards Westminster as thousands of people marched wearing the colour to call for action on climate change. World leaders will meet next week in Copenhagen with the aim of securing a new deal to tackle rising temperatures. Environmental campaigners, aid agencies, wildlife charities, religious groups and trade unions took part in The Wave, a march organised by the Stop Climate Chaos Coalition
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Thousands march in London for climate action
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Two weeks ago, thousands of illegally hacked emails from a British climate research center were dumped on a Russian webserver, timed to influence the politics of of the international climate negotiations commencing next week in Copenhagen, Denmark. Beginning Thanksgiving week, conservative media and Republican politicians have compared the climate scientists whose private emails were hacked to Hitler, Stalin, and eugenicists, saying they are involved in a global conspiracy to defraud and possibly take over the world.
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Watergate redux: Break-ins reported at another top climate research center
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In case you didn't know, President Barack Obama's West Point address, in which he announced his intention to escalate the war in Afghanistan, pre-empted the broadcast of A Charlie Brown Christmas on ABC.
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Good Grief: Mayor rages at Obama for preempting ‘Charlie Brown Christmas’
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The in-depth Vanity Fair profile of the infamous owner of Blackwater, Erik Prince, is remarkable on many levels–not least among them that Prince appeared to give the story's author, former CIA lawyer Adam Ciralsky, unprecedented access to information about sensitive, classified and lethal operations not only of Prince's forces, but Prince himself. In the article, Prince is revealed not just as owner of a company that covertly provided contractors to the CIA for drone bombings and targeted assassinations, but as an actual CIA asset himself. While the story appears to be simply a profile of Prince, it might actually be the world's most famous mercenary's insurance policy against future criminal prosecution
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Is Erik Prince ‘graymailing’ the US government?
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American student Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend have been found guilty by an Italian court of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher. Knox was jailed for 26 years after a jury found her and Italian Raffaele Sollecito, 25, guilty of murder and sexual violence in Perugia in 2007. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8394750.stm added by: CarolineS 0 comments
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Rush for dollars and Chinese yuan after Kim Jong-il's surprise move to reassert control over economy. (click on the link for the full article) _______________________________ This is a very interesting development – this dark economic cloud could possibly contain a silver lining for the future of the people of North Korea, although the possible transition will inevitably have to go through considerable amounts of pain, violence, abuses and even deaths.
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North Koreans dare to protest as devaluation wipes out savings
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Notice something different about Current today? Our latest feature release includes some changes to the story page layout–head over to the Current.com blog to get all the details: http://blogs.current.com/currentdotcom/2009/12/04/feature-release-changes-to-sto…
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Among the burning questions being asked as we sift through the ramifications of Comcast's move to acquire a majority stake in NBC: Whither Hulu? Will it say free, go the pay way, or morph into a some kind of pay/free hybrid?
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Hulu’s future remains cloudy in wake of Comcast-NBC deal
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A narrow majority of Americans support President Obama's revamped strategy on Afghanistan, according to a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Wednesday, but there are broad concerns that the costs of the war will sap the government's ability to address problems facing the nation at home. Though the results underscore a significant selling job ahead for the White House, they also show a willingness by Democratic voters to back Obama despite their reservations about the war.
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Poll: 51%, majority of Americans support Obama’s Afghan strategy
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