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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Something was happening
David Spaner
The Province
20 May 2007

Something special happened to Vancouver in 1967. And the city has never been the same. At the Retinal Circus, a hippie music showcase that opened on Davie Street that year, a remarkable lineup of Vancouver bands — including the Collectors, the Seeds of... read more...

Thursday, May 10, 2007

From aardvark to zorilla, Noah’s Ark project team plans to catalogue all life on earth
Ian Sample Science correspondent
The Guardian
10 May 2007

An unprecedented worldwide effort to document every living species on Earth has been launched by scientists. Over the next 10 years, researchers will gather every scrap of information that exists on the planet’s 1.8 million known species of animals,... read more...
Gay moms just as good — if not better — for kids: study
BY JACK AUBRY CanWest News Service
Times Colonist
07 May 2007

OTTAWA — Parenting by same-sex families is just as good — if not slightly better — for children than heterosexual parenting, a study for the federal Justice Department has concluded. Commissioned by the former Liberal government in 2003 at the height... read more...