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ANSA: Petrolio: chiude in calo a Ny a 94,4 dlr

Posted: 01 Nov 2013 11:09 AM PDT

Quotazioni perdono il 2,03%

ANSA: Cgia, 1,1 mld tasse in più nel 2014

Posted: 02 Nov 2013 12:54 AM PDT

Effetti positivi nel 2015 e 2016 se sarà tagliata spesa pubblica

ANSA: Bankitalia: spero credito a chi merita

Posted: 02 Nov 2013 04:50 AM PDT

Istituti aumentino capacità per una intelligente selezione

ANSA: Inps chiede indietro sgravi assunzioni

Posted: 02 Nov 2013 06:12 AM PDT

Imprese che hanno ottenuto sgravi dovranno restituirli

Aljazeera: Two French journalists executed in Mali

Posted: 02 Nov 2013 10:51 PM PDT

French Foreign Ministry confirms that RFI journalists were abducted and killed by gunmen outside town of Kidal.

Aljazeera: Kenyan president vows to review new media law

Posted: 03 Nov 2013 12:10 AM PDT

Disputed bill, which must be signed by Kenyatta before taking effect, could impose fines of up to $234,000 on offenders.

Financial Times: Pakistan uproar over Taliban drone death

Posted: 03 Nov 2013 12:42 AM PDT

Fallout from death may complicate America's efforts to withdraw from Afghanistan and shatters hopes for peace talks between Islamabad and militants

Aljazeera: Iran supreme leader backs nuclear talks

Posted: 03 Nov 2013 02:16 AM PST

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei voices support but also pessimism days before world powers meet for new round of negotiations.

Financial Times: Third plenum Xi’s chance to alter course

Posted: 03 Nov 2013 06:02 AM PST

Meeting is first real opportunity for Xi Jinping to flesh out his economic vision for the country after a year at the helm of the Communist party

Aljazeera: Pakistan summons US envoy over Mehsud killing

Posted: 03 Nov 2013 06:29 AM PST

Islamabad says drone strike which killed Taliban leader was a murder of peace and stability in Pakistan and the region.

Huffington Post: Jay Ratliff, Former Dallas Cowboys Defensive Tackle, Agrees To 1-year Deal With Chicago Bears

Posted: 03 Nov 2013 08:04 AM PST

CHICAGO -- CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Bears agreed to a one-year contract with former Dallas Cowboys Pro Bowl defensive tackle Jay Ratliff, hoping he can boost their struggling line once he's ready to play.

Agent Mark Slough confirmed the move Saturday. He said Ratliff will join the team sometime next week and should be ready to play in two to four weeks.


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Huffington Post: Adult Dinosaurs Were Still Growing When They Died, Fossils Suggest

Posted: 03 Nov 2013 08:07 AM PST

Presenting this week at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology's meeting in Los Angeles, California, palaeontologist Jack Horner of the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, revealed that when he cut open the fossilized bones of dinosaurs in the museum's collection and studied the layers of bone within, he found signs in most specimens that the animals were still growing at the time of their death.

In fossils labelled as juveniles, the outer bone layers contained canals that would once have held blood vessels, as well as large groups of osteocytes — cells that are important for bone formation. But the researchers were surprised to find similar signs of growth in adult fossils, because in most animals that are alive today, the skeleton tends to stop growing once adulthood is reached.

The key thing that Horner was looking for was arrested growth: closely packed bone layers bereft of osteocytes and blood vessels that are almost always found in skeletons that have finished growing. He did find them in a few fossils, indicating that dinosaur bones had the potential to eventually stop growing. But the vast majority of the bones he looked at did not have them.

Key among the fossils that he studied was the largest Allosaurus in his collection, a 13-year-old animal of 10 metres in length. "It's a big one, and it was undeniably still growing — ripping along, really — when it died," says Horner.

Included in the fossils were six Tyrannosaurus rex specimens, all showing continuing growth. When asked whether any of the bones of the famed species have ever been found to contain layers of arrested growth, Horner gives a telling smile and says, "I think all the T. rex specimens found so far were still growing when they died."

As to what continued growth looked like, Horner argues that it involved larger, rather than longer, bones that bulked the dinosaurs up as they got older. Thus, a larger T. rex would not be much taller or longer, just more massive overall.

"For years we've been finding robust and gracile forms of skeletons that are otherwise very similar," says Kevin Padian, a palaeontologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who was not involved in the work. "Some have suggested the robust ones were males and the gracile ones were females. Others have argued they were different species. Now it looks like they were actually just different ages."

This story originally appeared in Nature News.


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Huffington Post: 'SNL' Parodies 'What Does The Fox Say?' Except With Girlfriends

Posted: 03 Nov 2013 08:10 AM PST

Viral smash "The Fox" has officially achieved mainstream status: "SNL" did its own parody of the bizarre Norwegian dance song. In the spoof, Jay Pharoah gets an eternal headache from his girlfriend played by Kerry Washington, forcing him to pose the question: "What does my girl say?"


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Financial Times: François Hollande, a hapless president

Posted: 03 Nov 2013 08:13 AM PST

French leader must start cutting bloated public spending. While he vacillates over tax and spend policy, the far-right National Front is winning support

Huffington Post: Nick Offerman: 'Parks & Rec' Is NBC's 'Boner,' Show Must Go On

Posted: 03 Nov 2013 08:13 AM PST

Yes, "Parks & Rec" is off NBC's schedule for a bit, but the stars of the show aren't really worried. Nick Offerman opened up about the hiatus status to The Hollywood Reporter, saying "We don't really bat an eyelash."

"It's not the first time, nor the second, that we've been shuffled around by the network," Offerman said when asked about the fervor. "We want the best for the network."

Offerman, who plays no nonsense Ron Swanson on the NBC comedy now in its sixth season, had an interesting analogy about the show's place at NBC. "They are a larger organism of which we're a living breathing part. I dare say we are the throbbing, turgid boner of NBC. Perhaps, more appropriately, we're also the second ovaries since our show is a matriarchy under Amy [Poehler]," Offerman told The Hollywood Reporter. "But like any organism, sometimes you're proud of your genitals, and you want to use them to give pleasure to others. And other times you have to focus on the other parts of your body -- if you have a bad tooth or an ear infection. In those instances, you don't generally want your genitalia exposed. And so you put it away while you pay attention to your haircut. If you're getting your lips or ears pierced, you don't want your genitalia stealing the thunder."


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Financial Times: Red flags wave over Asian corporate debt

Posted: 03 Nov 2013 09:06 AM PST

China's foreign currency loans are estimated to have grown 35% in the year to March. Some see this as the 'canary in the coal mine'
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