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POPSItalian snail colony discovered in UK after 112 years Then this summer a sharp-eyed volunteer came across it while cleaning statuary in the grounds of the estate. Realising it was a species that might not have been seen before, the volunteer sent it to Janet Ridout Sharpe, a snail expert based in Oxford. She identified it as Papillifera papillaris – now nicknamed the Cliveden snail.
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POPSKites could provide electricity for 100,000 homes Several other scientists are investigating the use of kites to harness energy from the wind - which some researchers estimate provides more than 100 times the amount required to power the entire planet. In 2007, Google´s philanthropic arm invested about $10 million in a US kite company called Makani. An Italian company called Kitegen has a multi-kite scheme that could generate a gigawatt of power, as much as a standard coal plant.
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POPSRice Says She Won't Block Strikes Against Nuclear Sites "We don't say yes or no to Israeli military operations; Israel is a sovereign country," Ms. Rice said. "Every day that the centrifuges continue to spin brings Iran closer to a nuclear weapons capability and threatens the stability and security of the region and the world," Israel's ambassador in Washington, Sallai Meridor, said. "The international community should immediately apply additional robust sanctions." The Security Council, which has imposed three rounds of mild sanctions on Iran since 2006, has traditionally taken its time before agreeing on compromise action that manages to satisfy Russia, China, and several European countries that prefer conducting business with Iran to halting its nuclear run . The process is also very slow, the American U.N. ambassador, Zalmay Khalilzad, acknowledged yesterday.
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POPSAmerican Lynching: Roll Call of Victims of Vigilante Mobs Dan Davis, 1912 Leo Frank, 1915 Jesse Washington, 1916 The Porvenir Massacre, 1918 Kirven, Texas 1922 Rosewood, Florida 1923 Marion Indiana, 1930 Henry Argo, 1930 Cleo Wright, 1942 Emmett Till, 1955 Mack Charles Parker, 1959
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POPSBritish crime lords rule £40 billion underworld “British gangs are quite unlike the Italian Mafia model or the Turkish groups,” he said. “There are no set ranks, rules and structures. They are more fluid, flexible and opportunist.” Many foreign gangs active in Britain are based overseas and exploit the 11,000-mile coastline and security weaknesses at sea ports to smuggle drugs, guns and counterfeit goods into the country. Much of the media coverage of gangs has concentrated on turf wars and feuds, but serious criminal activity is focused on making money.
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