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Archive for March 20th, 2007

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

A Father Addresses George Bush

By Mona
As The Chicago Tribune reports, Richard Landeck, 56, of Wheaton, IL recently sent off a letter to President Bush, signing it as the “proud father of a fallen soldier.” Landeck’s son, Captain Kevin Landeck, died this past February in Iraq; his emails home indicated a misguided war run by idiots.
This was Kevin Landeck:

This [...]

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

Better but itchy living through genetic engineering

By Thoreau
Scientists have created a mosquito that doesn’t transmit malaria.  The best part is that when populations of regular and engineered mosquitos were mixed and allowed to feed on mice the malaria-resistant strain gradually came to dominate over the malaria-prone strain.
It will probably be a while before they’re released into the wild, but if these [...]