(Untitled)- July 29, 2006 Agent Orange 'caused gene damage' (BBC News, 28 July 2006) New Zealand troops who served in the Vietnam War suffered significant genetic damage from exposure to Agent Orange, a study suggests. . . . The chemical was used by the US military in Vietnam in the 1960s. . . . It has been blamed for a variety of medical conditions suffered by soldiers and up to four million Vietnamese. . . . The UShttp://www.matrixmasters.com/blog/2006_07_01_archivescience.html#115413723613232323 (Untitled)- July 21, 2006 Bees and flowers decline in step (BBC News, 21 July 2006) Diversity in bees and wild flowers is declining together, at least in Britain and the Netherlands, research shows. . . . climate change and modern industrial farming are possible factors in the linked decline. . . . There is a chance, they say, that the decline in pollinating bees could have detrimental effects on food production. . . .http://www.matrixmasters.com/blog/2006_07_01_archivescience.html#115349709006968224 (Untitled)- July 3, 2006 Hackers stepping up attacks on Pentagon (Siobhan Gorman, Baltimore Sun, July 2, 2006) The number of reported attempts to penetrate Pentagon computer networks rose sharply in the past decade, from fewer than 800 in 1996 to more than 160,000 last year - thousands of them successful. At the same time, the nation's ability to safeguard sensitive data in those and other government computer systems ishttp://www.matrixmasters.com/blog/2006_07_01_archivescience.html#115194869256860663 |