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by Kosuke Kawaguchi, Hiroya Yurimoto, Masahide Oku, Yasuyoshi Sakai
by Kosuke Kawaguchi, Hiroya Yurimoto, Masahide Oku, Yasuyoshi Sakai
One of the city's 17,000 vacant lots succumbed this summer. If you were around Boyle Street when the season was young, you might have seen a clutch of teenagers unearthing head-high weeds and lugging bricks and concrete to a pile. Weeks later, they were installing rain barrels and planting vegetables in the raised beds of locust boards they had hammered together.
Yao Ming and Richard Branson are teaming up to help put an end to the cruel trade of shark fins for use primarily in shark fin soups in China.
At least one protester was killed and another 14 injured by pro-government forces during demonstrations Sunday.
A York scientist funded by Yorkshire Cancer Research has won a prestigious international award for his groundbreaking research into prostate cancer.
Looking online for medical information? Viewers beware, doctors caution. After reviewing the most frequently watched YouTube videos about movement disorders, a group of neurologists found that the people in the videos often do not have a movement disorder.
Russian democracy, civil society, and economy may all look bad from the outside. But to hear Putin talk, it’s the West that should be embarrassed.
