Sunday, March 3, 2002

Reuters Breaking News from Around the Globe Afghan Ground Attack Stalled Amid U.S. Bombing GARDEZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S. planes rained bombs on unexpectedly strong Taliban and al Qaeda resistance in eastern Afghanistan Sunday, but a new all-out ground assault was held back due to fierce opposition, Afghan fighters said. 9:05:24 PM    comment Science News Cosmiverse.com Britain Approves Human Cloning February 28, 2002 8:10 CDT The scientific community in Britain scored a huge victory on February 27th. A very influential and powerful committee in the House of Lords ruled that embryo cloning should be allowed to proceed-but only under strict conditions. The United States currently has ban on all forms of human cloning. " 6:18:17 PM    comment Reuters Breaking News from Around the Globe Astronauts Pluck Hubble From Orbit CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - An astronaut wielding a 50-foot robotic arm snatched the Hubble Space Telescope from its orbit on Sunday, then secured it to the space shuttle Columbia for repairs that should make the orbiting observatory 10 times more powerful. 5:30:37 PM    comment BBC News SCI/TECH Parrot breeds its way to record The world's rarest and oddest parrot is doing its best By Alex Kirby BBC News Online environment correspondent One of the strangest birds in the world, the kakapo, is breeding its way back from the brink of extinction. The kakapo is the world's rarest parrot, its heaviest, and the only nocturnal and flightless parrot. 5:02:20 PM    comment CNN.com Drought 'sleeping giant' in U.S. March 2, 2002 (AP) -- Drought has engulfed nearly a third of the United States, threatening to confront some places this summer with what experts say could be their worst water shortages in years. "This is a sleeping giant," says climatologist Mark Svoboda, at the National Drought Mitigation Center in Lincoln, Nebraska. "The impact is still to come." 1:31:35 PM    comment

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