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Monkeys' Memories Can Stretch Beyond What's in Front of Them

Monkeys can recognize an object they have seen before, however, scientists have shown that they are also capable of hold in mind an object without actually seeing it. Recall is a routine part of human mental activity. Scientists trained five rhesus monkeys. On a 5-by5-inch grid on a computer screen, and monkey could recognize what colors were they.
All the monkeys performed the task with a success rate significantly above chance. Chances about doing these 5-by-5-inch grid on a computer screen, and money could recognize what colors were they.

China Said to Plan Campus in Laos

SooChow University, in Jiangsu Province is planning to open an affiliate in Laos in 2012 hopefully. The affiliate plans to provide course for about 5,000 students in Laos. The campus is estimated to cost 25 million dollars, and plans to hire more employees at local place.

Beijing Blames Foreigners for Its Fears of Unrest

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Chinese and American officials are polishing off scripts for a ritual that is set to unfold in Washington on Monday and Tuesday. They smileed across conference tables and talked about cooperating on a range of issues, for example, currency, trade, and north Korea.
There are already at least 60 acctivites organized by the United States Embassy in Beijing. Such as, cultural forums, school programs, ambassadorial visits, and so on.
However, they were all canceled between Februrary and April because of Chinese authorities by interference. Chinese scholars head abroad that they not take part in "anti-China" activities or engage with groups that promote democracy.
Other practical things are like blocking twitter and Facebook.

Tens of Thousands March in Mexico City

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Javier Sicilia, the poet who has become an hero in a movement calls for an end for Mexico's drug war. People were all being silence at the city's central plaza for five minutes.
In drug war, more than 35,000 people died because of the president sent the army to fight drug cartels four and a half years ago at the time. Since then, Mexicans believe they have become the ignored victims in battles.
On Sunday, there were approximately 150,000 praying for the deaths.

Exit for Jackson Comes Sooner Than Expected

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Phil Jackson took the final stroll alone. Well-knokwn as one of the most legendary coaches, with his "triangle" Dharma, will leave the NBA. Maybe from now on, triangle offence will no longer exist.
Today the Lakers was defeated by the Dallas Mavericks more than 35 points. i was brutally swept the series to 0-4 in the post-match press conference. Phil Jackson said, "This is my last game."
Also, Jason Terry from Dallas Mavericks got 9 three-pointers with 32 points leveled three-pointers history in play-off.

Wolf Crosses the Lake Superior Ice to Become Leader of the Pack

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Isle Royale wolves might have disappeared completely if there is a wolf that did not come from Lake Superior. Obviously their looks are a little bit different from each other, the wolf was larger than most of the Isle Royale wolves, he could do a work that takes 4 wolves to do together, also as he aged, fur will grew paler, and whiter. 
Scientists cannot imagine other factors that saved Isle Royale wolves except this immigrant.

Is a Pesticide Harming All Those Bees?

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The pesticides is based on the chemistry of nicotine, are generically called neonicotinoids. Its main purpose is to kill harmful insects for growing plants, in order to make better and more healthy plant.
However, usually, there are some bees visiting part of a plant, to avoid killing bees many farms started to not using pesticides during the blooming period. But still many bees have been killed by pesticide.
So there are some solutions about this problem:
-We can use pesticides only when needed
-Use sprays or granules instead of dusts
-Apply pesticides in late afternoon or at night when bees are not working the blooms

Reference: http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2161.html

Tasting the future of farmed seafood

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"If you ate fish for dinner last night, there's a 50% chance it was not caught in the wild." - CNN
The rate of increasing average fish farming industry annually is 6.6% since 1970. A senior aquatic officer at the Food and Agricultural Organization said that "The world population on average consumers an all time high of about 17 kilograms of fish per person and with an increasing population it's going to be more in the future, so we have a big demand and that demand will have to be met by aquaculture."
But right now we don't have much natural seafood to consume, many species of fish are right now facing the extinction problem. To satisfy the demand for the sushi and sashimi market in Japan, Tuna are severely over fished recent years. Another example is shark's fin soup in Chinese restaurants. About 100 million sharks are killed every year to feed the market. 
Therefore for us right now, we have no other ways to prevent the extinction problem instead stop killing them. Eating farming seafood is a good choice for human. Maybe we can eat less wild seafood and consume more farming seafood to reduce the risk of extinction. 

Tweety Was Right: Cats Are a Bird's No.1 Enemy

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Recently researchers found out that nearly 80% of the birds were killed by predators, and 47% were eaten by cats. Death rates were particularly high in neighborhoods with large cat populations.
The American Bird Conservancy estimates that up to 500 million birds are killed and eaten each year by cats; half by pets, half by feral cats. Birds now are facing many obstacles to survive, cats, wind turbines, hunting, and many factors. Especially wind turbines kill about 440,000 birds each year!


The 13-year-old tree ambassador

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"We children understand that the adults know everything about these crises, but we children don't understand why there's so little action." -Felix Finkbeiner
Felix Finbeiner is not an common teenager, he has his own organization, plant for the planet and address the United Nations General Assembly are not an easy mission for thirteen-year-old boy, even for adults.
The movement was the presentation Finkbeiner gave in class about a Nobel Peace Prize winner who planted 30 million trees in Kenya. But Felix believes that tree reform movement can only be successful led by children. Because children are the majority in the world, if they gather together and work, it will bring a big impact and efficiency.
"We cannot trust that the adults alone will save our future, we have to take our future in our own hands." said Felix Finkbeiner.

Resiliency of youth takes stage in Japan

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In northern Japan, people are on the long way to rebuild and recover their everything. Even though the tsunami and earthquake destroy the buildings and cities, but younger people are leading an optimistic attitude and passing on others. For example, a row of tiny kindergartners took to the stage of a elementary school serving as a refugee center in Natori to sing their school song and encourage people. And that was effective! "I was encouraged by their singing," said an elderly man. "Everyone's smile makes me happy," one young graduate told TV asahi.
However not every place in northern Japan is like this optimistic, there are still some cities that are in a somber mood.

A Race Against Time to Save Oiled Penguins

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Responders to oil spill off a remote South Atlantic archipelago are in a "race against time" to save thousands of endangered penguins that have been coated in crude actions by human. Hundreds of damaged penguins have been recovered from the damaged area, and the pollution by thousands tons of fuel is scattered into the ocean. Not only penguins, birds were also got many damages. The scientists advised that better next step is to confirm a second vessel to depart from the area and with all the necessary equipment and supplies to clean up the ocean, penguins, birds, and damaged animals. 

It will be a race against time.

Oil Spill in South Atlantic Threatens Endangered Penguins

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A major spill of heavy crude oil is destroying the ecosystem and penguins from South Atlantic island is endangered. More than 800 tons of fuel oil has leaked and spilled into the ocean. The estimation of endangered penguins are 20,000. It was based on an early visual survey. 
The owner of the wrecked vessel could not be immediately identified, the registration of the ship is also unknown. 
We want them to be responsible for this disaster, there is already many natural disasters are destroying the ecosystem, so as few as we can to eliminate those man-made disasters.

Boom in Twins

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For several years, so many twins have been born in the small southern Brazilian town. Scientists analyzed six genes and found one gene that confirms a predisposition to the birth of twins. Normally it is very rare for human to have twins for generation and generation. They believe one of the most important factors is the immigrants from Germany, and there are some problem with German's  genes that contain certain thing that might effect the generation. 
If we take some twins from other countries and test them, it will probably generate a different result. Right now the entire city is supporting this research and scientists want to better understand what is behind their story.

Yemen’s Leader Offers to Hand Power to ‘Safe Hands’

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President Ali Abdullah Saleh was speaking to tens of thousands of supporters at an open-air rally and while repeating his offers to relinquish power conditionally. He promises to transfer power to safe hands. 
Also by the way, President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been in charge of 33 years. Since January 15, the Sana'a an other Yemeni cities have been incidents demonstrations. Saleh announced on February 2 that he will leave the position in 2013, and will not let his son to charge in. But there are still some people that want him to leave immediately.

Discovering in Mars!

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The Argentina air force base near the South Pole is conceivable environment that has similar features with Mars. So NASA tested their new spacesuit "NDX1" around there.
The new spacesuit that design by NASA can prevent from 75 km per hour winds, the NASA prototype spacesuit which created costs about 100,000 dollars! It consists of more than 350 materials and chemicals to protect astronomers from any gales and chills.
Obama last year said before 2030, it is possible that to design a manned orbital flight and after possible can achieve a manned landing on Mars continent.  

Strike in Libya!!!

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This morning, the sound of aircraft fire and screaming voice crossed out Libya. France, Britain and the United States allied together and bombed Libya. Obviously Libya have no power to against France, Britain and the United States individually, and right now they are allied, it makes even worse situation for Libya. 
It has been 1 month, the conflict in Libya, and eventually now caused the war. But why France and Britain join the war? and will this war become larger war and negative effects than the war was happened in Iraq? We raised a lot of problem and maybe tomorrow the United States will give a response for that.

6 minutes before death

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6 minutes before the earthquake and his plane took off from the Sendai Airport. Liang XiaoBin, 27 years old and citizen of Dalian studies in Japan. He was extremely fortunate, because in Japan local time at 14:40 he was on the Air China flight from Sendai Airport, and at time 14:46 magnitude nine large earthquake and large tsunami happened in Japan. He and the other people whom were on the plane were extremely fortunate. 

Japan Earthquake and economy

After the strong earthquake in Japan, the Japan sharply and immediately grew higher in government bond at the current time. 
No doubt, after the disaster Japan will focus on the reconstruction, which will involve tens billions of dollars in private and government funding, and I personally think that it will bring a degree of stimulus, and eventually stimulate and recover Japan economy.

Due to Japan newspaper said, reconstruction may include the construction and energy, and meanwhile they are also destroyed by the earthquake the most serious. Bank of Japan will be making regular meeting which will hold on Monday, and they may further ease monetary policy to help rebuilding plan.

Rick's "Don't ask, don't tell"

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Most people in the world dislike gay people, they feel uncomfortable feeling with them, and they afraid about them. However in military, people are all men, and we cannot assume 100% of people are straight, then the United States create a law which is don't ask, don't tell policy. 
Since ancient time, there are many documented military gay literature, and that shows the phenomenon of homosexual people in military are much more common than in social. Different countries have their own opinion about homosexuality. In ancient Greek, they even had a gay army which because they were thinking about people who love each other, they are integrated closely, and can improve combat effectiveness. 
Also for American Boy Scouts, gay people are not allowed to join it, and by the way I am a boy scout.