The Evening Standard (London, England) back issues from March 2008:
Panda Poop paper.(Science Scoops)
Mar 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Everyone loves pandas. They're cute, fuzzy, and their poop makes some super-duper products! The Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Center in Sichuan Province in China is turning tons of panda poo into wrapping paper, photo frames, and souvenirs just in time for ...
This month in Odyssey.(Science Scoops)
Mar 01, 2008; ... Some amazing science is coming from a most unlikely source--the waste we animals create as the end result of digestion. Or put more bluntly--from poop! Yes, it can be smelly and gross to analyze poop (scientists use names like dung, guano, and paleofeces), but the work is ...
Dirty diaper discovery.(Science Scoops)
Mar 01, 2008; ... Did you know that the number of all the human cells that make up your body is less than the number of bacteria cells that live in it? In fact, the bacteria outnumber your cells ten to one! And most of these little creatures live in your intestines, commonly called your gut. ...
Cave of Wonders.(Science Scoops)
Mar 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Imagine creeping through the dark, a thousand feet below Naica Mountain in the Chihuahuan desert in Mexico. Suddenly, you stumble forward and find yourself in a room filled with sparkling crystals as long as school buses and as heavy as small herds of ...
Jumping jaws!(Science Scoops)
Mar 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Just how does a long, slippery, snake-like moray eel force a struggling fish down into its stomach? Scientists always assumed they used suction like most aquatic predators, until an amazing discovery was published in the September 2007 Journal Nature ....
Have a science snack.(Science Scoops)
Mar 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sit down and get yourself a snack--a nice, crispy one! Do you have any idea how that cheese puff got so puffy? Or how those nacho chips got so crunchy? The answer is extrusion. No idea what that means? Never fear: Sajid Alavi, an engineer and assistant ...
Sloth sleuths and Dung balls: no matter what you call it--dung, guano, feces, or scat--"poop" is filled with scientific gold about our past.
Mar 01, 2008; ... In I994, I began my graduate work at the University of Munich to understand how and why DNA, molecules containing the genetic material of life, can persist in fossils that are up to thousands of years old. What novel techniques could I devise to pull small snippets of DNA from ...
Probing poop for DNA.
Mar 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Poop is a great source of DNA because it contains the DNA of the source (in sloughed off intestinal cells), the DNA of what it ate (plant or animal remains), and the DNA of any parasites it may have harbored. The trick, though, is how to get it out of the ...
Where does it go? The scoop on post-flush poop.
Mar 01, 2008; ... The atmosphere on the competition floor is tense. Teams country have gathered to battle for this year's national Hundreds of spectators surround a 15,000-square-foot for their home teams. But you won't find any of those teams bears, or other fierce forest animals in this competition--the ...
Behind closed doors.(High-Tech Toilets )
Mar 01, 2008; ... Hovered around a drawing board, top engineers pore over their plans. Their work is secret; no reporters or photographers allowed. Are they developing a new super computer or a super-efficient car? No, they're developing a ... toilet! [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It may ...
Plumb crazy.(Activity to Discover)
Mar 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Your toilet is the launching pad for a long, twisting journey through household plumbing, underground pipelines, and ...
The clean machines: dung beetles at work.
Mar 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Poop tends to accumulate. Getting rid of it so our planet won't reek has always been a problem for humans, their dogs, and even birds and bugs. But one insect--the dung beetle--is a bug with a mission. It eats the dung of almost every animal in ...
Smelly sewage solution.(Brain Strain)
Mar 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ole Factori works at a sewage treatment facility. As you might imagine, his office doesn't smell very good. One day, Ole's boss brings him a puzzle--a 15 by x 5 array of letters. "Tell you what, Ole," the boss says, "I'll install the ultimate ...
Much a doo-doo about dinosaur poop Karen Chin: the doo-doo detectives: in the United States, there are only about 10 people who qualify as being ancient poop scientist. Meet three of them here.
Mar 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] JUST WHAT DID DINOSAURS EAT? If we could go back millions of years in a time machine, we could answer that age-old question. But since we can't, paleontologist Dr. Karen Chin of the University of Colorado has discovered a lot about dinosaurs eating habits ...
Mysteries of ancient people poop: Vaughn Bryant and Kristin D. Sobolik.
Mar 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] YES, THE CAVEMEN POOPED! They peed as well--but if the urine didn't sink quickly into the soil, the Sun dried it up within minutes. Today the fact that these ancient people used to pee is a scientific yawn. But, if an archaeologist can locate a pile of ...
Wealth of nations, tool of science--bird poop!
Mar 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Explorers have crossed oceans in hopes of finding it. Mighty armies have waged wars to win it. Guano, the nitrogenous waste from seabirds and bats, once provided farmers with a rich source of nutrients before artificial fertilizers became ...
Poop on parade.(Places To Discover)(The Scoop on Poop traveling exhibit at the Virginia Living Museum )
Mar 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] CAN YOU IMAGINE your morn taking cattle clung and shaping it in her hands to waterproof your home? The women of the Masai tribe of East Africa do just that. Do you think a groom should present his bride-to-be with a giant ball of waste as a ...
The house made of gold.(Short story)
Mar 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] URSULA HAD POOP THAT TURNED INTO GOLD, but no one wanted to touch it after they learned what it came from. That was very discouraging. She took the bus to the next town over, where they gladly gave her money for the gold, until someone from her town told ...
Poop to the rescue! Yes, poop is helping to save out planet.
Mar 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Experts estimate the average person excretes half a pound of poop a day. Multiply that by the number of people on the planet (6,602,224,175 and counting) and you have one gargantuan pile of poop. That could make for a very stinky planet! ...
Star chart.(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2008 ... The monthly All-Sky Chart depicts the sky (minus the Moon) as it appears at 7 p.m. (your local time) on March 15. Useful all month (except for planet positions), the chart is also accurate for 8 p.m. on March 1 and 6 p.m. on March 31. To use the All-Sky Chart, first use a ...
In like a lion out like a lamb.(STARGAZING)(Cartoon)
Mar 01, 2008; ... GREETINGS, GREETINGS, FELLOW STARGAZERS AND BOY, DON'T YOU JUST LOVE SPRING? I ESPECIALLY ENJOY THE SOFT MUTED STARS OF SPRING THAT ECHO THE GENTLE COLORS OF EARTH'S LANDSCAPE! [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] YOU KNOW, I'VE ALWAYS BEEN FASCINATED BY FOLKLORE--ESPECIALLY ...
Hairy tongues and a hungry galaxy!(Ask Dr. Cy Borg)
Mar 01, 2008; ... Dear Dr. B, How large is our galaxy? Mattias Lambert, Concord, NH Good question, Mattias. We live in the Milky Way Galaxy, which includes our Sun (a relatively small star), all of the stars you can see at night without a telescope, and more than 100 billion more stars ...
You've got mail!(Letter to the editor)
Mar 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] we reported that scientists had been able to closely examine Comet Wild 2, thanks to the NASA Stardust spacecraft. We asked you to think about whether comets, which have delivered organic material to Earth in the past, might be the parents of humanity ....
Everything you Need to Know About the World.(KIDS' PICKS)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
Mar 01, 2008; ... Everything you Need to Know About the World by Simon Eliot (Thomas Dunne Books, 2004) Do you know what the word for poop is in Swahili? Ever wonder how some rock bands got their names? Or where the first hamburger came from? You'll find the answers to these and many, many more ...
Catapulting caterpillars.(Animal Angles)
Mar 01, 2008; ... Having your house filled with poop is bad. Being devoured by predators is worse. For the silver-spotted skipper caterpillar (Epargyreus clarus), the two go hand in hand. Skipper caterpillars build shelters out of leaves. If wasps smell caterpillar poop, called frass, inside a shelter, then ...
Nurse murdered frail women with lethal jabs
Mar 03, 2008; ... A STAFF nurse has been found guilty of murdering four frailpatients by giving them overdoses of the diabetes drug insulin. Colin Norris, 32, of Glasgow, who once said he disliked caringfor "geriatric patients", killed the women and tried to murderanother two at Leeds hospitals in ...
Shares suffering as US worries take their toll ; MARKET ROUND-UP
Mar 03, 2008; ... STOCK-MARKET investors faced a difficult start to the week today,with share prices driven sharply lower across the board amidcontinuing fears about the outlook for the US economy. The Dow slumped 315 points in New York on Friday, with theselling spilling over into the Far East this ...
Oil soars as AA asks for duty-rise delay
Mar 03, 2008 ... OIL prices hit new record highs tonight as motorists urged theChancellor to put off the proposed 2p-a-litre rise in fuel duty. Oilhit $103.51 a barrel in New York while in London Brent crude was ...
We're still on course for the title, claims Cole
Mar 03, 2008; ... JOE COLE vowed today to prove Chelsea's critics wrong by the endof the season, writes Ken Dyer. The Blues thrashed West Ham 4-0 on Saturday to stay in thePremier League title race after a week of upheaval at StamfordBridge. Last Sunday's Carling Cup Final defeat by Tottenham ...
Hardy ready to take on World
Mar 03, 2008; ... TRIPLE Festival hero Hardy Eustace will tackle the LadbrokesWorld Hurdle over three miles at Cheltenham next week in preferenceto another crack at Tuesday's two-mile Smurfit Kappa ChampionHurdle. Trainer Dessie Hughes had been weighing up the merits of bothraces for the dual ...
Mikele's get-tough message
Mar 03, 2008; ... Stoke 0 QPR 3 MIKELE LEIGERTWOOD today urged his Queens Park Rangers team-mates to repeat their mauling of promotion hopefuls Stoke againstthe Championship's weaker sides. Rangers are eight points outside the play-offs with 11 gamesremaining after a brace from Leigertwood and ...
Arsenal don't need friendly firepower ; Arsene Wenger isn't worried if Bendtner and Adebayor don't get on, as long as they score goals
Mar 03, 2008; ... ARSENE WENGER sees no reason why Emmanuel Adebayor and NicklasBendtner cannot put their differences aside to forge a formidablestrike partnership. Substitute Bendtner struck the lastgasp equaliser against AstonVilla after latching on to a knock-down from Adebayor. The Togo ...
Scrap business tax call by CBI chief ; IN BRIEF
Mar 03, 2008 ... CBI BOSS Richard Lambert today called on the Chancellor to do theunthinkable in next week's Budget scrap all the business-taxmeasures that have been announced ...
Internet gamblers boost Paddy Power ; IN BRIEF
Mar 03, 2008 ... PADDY POWER, the Irish bookmaker whose smart new shops havebecome a fixture around the capital, is to double its outlets in theUK to more than 100 and plans to expand to Glasgow and Manchester.The bookie ...
Floods don't dampen Hiscox's record year ; IN BRIEF
Mar 03, 2008 ... SPECIALIST insurer Hiscox made record profits last year despitethe British floods. The group, which covers high-end households andis one of the bigger Lloyd's syndicates on ...
The Sage of Omaha uses the R word ; IN BRIEF
Mar 03, 2008 ... LEGENDARY American investor Warren Buffett today declared thatthe US economy is in recession. The billionaire, known as the Sageof Omaha, said: "From a common-sense standpoint, right now we're ...
Shock warning has Sepura in nosedive ; TELECOMS
Mar 03, 2008 ... THE telecoms company with which Goldman Sachs chief MichaelSherwood famously made more than Pounds 40 million from a 25pinvestment, saw its shares crash today on a shock profit warningjust three weeks after its latest trading update. Sepura, which designs and supplies digital radio ...
Asia helps HSBC beat blow from subprime ; BANKING
Mar 03, 2008; ... HSBC, Europe's biggest bank, today reported a 10% jump in full-year profits as a strong performance from Asia helped to offsetincreasing bad debts in the United States and writedowns as a resultof the credit crunch. The bank, headed by chairman Stephen Green with chief ...
Tube takeover delay could cost millions ; TRANSPORT
Mar 03, 2008; ... MAJOR problems are preventing Tube chiefs from taking overdisgraced maintenance giant Metronet until after the Mayoralelection in May. The fiasco could add tens of millions of pounds more to thetakeover money which will have to be paid by fares and thetaxpayer. Insiders ...
Shares suffering as US worries take their toll ; MARKET ROUND-UP
Mar 03, 2008; ... STOCK-MARKET investors faced a difficult start to the week today,with share prices driven sharply lower across the board amidcontinuing fears about the outlook for the US economy. The Dow slumped 315 points in New York on Friday, and was set forfresh falls when trading resumed this ...
Training grounds for London 2012 revealed ; SPORT IN BRIEF
Mar 03, 2008 ... MORE than 600 sports facilities across the United Kingdom havebeen lined up to host visiting Olympic teams ahead of the 2012London Games. Around 35 per cent of venues are in the south-east. The 96 inLondon include Twickenham, Barnet Copthall Stadium, ...
McGeechan backs Croft over Wasps ace Worsley ; RUGBY
Mar 03, 2008; ... IAN McGEECHAN, the London Wasps director of rugby, is backingLeicester's Tom Croft to take over from James Haskell if an ankleinjury rules the England flanker out of Saturday's clash withScotland. As Wasps flanker Joe Worsley is also in the running to replaceteam-mate Haskell, ...
Singh cleared new storm Under
Mar 03, 2008 ... HARBHAJAN SINGH will not face disciplinary action after matchreferee Jeff Crowe dismissed claims the Indian spinner (above) mademonkey gestures and spat at the crowd during the ...
Fit-again Sidebottom England smiling ; CRICKET
Mar 03, 2008; ... RYAN SIDEBOTTOM has given England the perfect start to their bigweek by declaring himself fit for Wednesday's opening Test againstNew Zealand. Sidebottom missed both of the practice matches in Dunedin becauseof a hamstring injury and was put through a make or break work-outhere ...
Kaka plea: Protect me or I will be hurt like Eduardo ; (1) Milan star believes he is being 'booted' out of game by bullies(2) EXCLUSIVE
Mar 03, 2008; ... AC MILAN striker Kaka has pleaded for more protection fromreferees ahead of tomorrow's Champions League clash with Arsenal. The world and European footballer of the year has voiced his fearthat he may suffer the same terrible injury inflicted on Eduardolast week. The Arsenal ...
Platini in new blast at 'debt clearing' 39th game
Mar 03, 2008; ... UEFA president Michel Platini today claimed the Premier League's39th game plan was hatched as a solution to the mounting debts ofEngland's top clubs. The former France international has been a fierce opponent of thePremier League's idea to stage a fixture overseas since it ...
The main contenders counting on your vote
Mar 03, 2008 ... KEN LIVINGSTONE Age: 62 Experience: Junior lab technician,leader of the Greater London Council, Labour MP, Mayor of LondonFamily: Father of two, partner Emma Beal Hobbies: Keeping newts,science fiction, gardening Gaffes: Only some ghastly, dehumanisedmoron would want to get rid of the ...
DONT MISS
Mar 03, 2008 ... Al Pitcher Tonight, 8pm, Arts Theatre, WC2 (0844 847 1608) Pounds8 The crowd-pleasing Kiwi reveals his most embarrassing moments.Pitcher hit the comedy scene almost a decade ago, reaching thefinals of So You Think Youre Funny in 1999. Despite a small windowin which Pitcher then picked ...
ONE NIGHT ONLY
Mar 03, 2008 ... Ether 2008 Southbank Centre, 18-28 April,(www.southbankcentre.co.uk, 0871 663 2500) Free-Pounds 30 EtherFestival brings together music and technology, finding commonthreads between pop, jazz and classical musicians. This years line-up kicks off with Goldfrapp performing tunes from their ...
BOOK NOW ; In London Tonight
Mar 03, 2008 ... The Wasteland Tonight, 6.30pm, The British Library, NW1, (01937546 546), Pounds 7.50 TS Eliots master work is read by Damian Lewisand Harriet Walker in this special edition of the Josephine HartPoetry Hour. No doubt the dashing Lewis will help make sense ofEliots intention and whether ...
Teenager shot in attack at leisure centre
Mar 03, 2008; ... A TEENAGE boy was shot in a leisure centre reception during aweekend of gun crime across the capital. The 18-year-old was shot in front of children as young as 11after an argument at the sports centre in Camberwell. He was one offour victims injured in three separate gun incidents ...
Family is left distraught by 'intruder' death
Mar 03, 2008; ... THE family of a man who allegedly killed his drunken neighbourwhom he mistook for a burglar was today said to be "distraught" overthe mistake. Building contractor Edwin Pitkin, 58, has been warned by policethat he could be charged with murder and might face prison. Mr Pitkin ...
Gang on cocaine rampage nearly killed PR man
Mar 03, 2008; ... A MAN was stabbed by a drug-fuelled gang as he told his wife onthe phone that he was almost home. PR executive Nick Rappolt, 31, nearly bled to death after he wasattacked near his Pounds 1million house just off Clapham Common.With his wife Lucy still listening, he was stabbed in ...
Tory shadow minister plans civil partnership ; NEWS IN BRIEF
Mar 03, 2008 ... ALAN DUNCAN, 50, right, is to become the first Tory MP to enterinto a civil partnership. The shadow business secretary and partner of 14 months JamesDunseath, 39, will ...
New drive to target off-licences selling drink to under-18s
Mar 03, 2008; ... GORDON BROWN today pledged action on binge drinking as councilleaders warned the new licensing laws had been a "miserablefailure". The Prime Minister promised a "two strikes and out" rule for off-licences, shops and supermarkets which sell alcohol to underagedrinkers. The new ...
Cameron: I'll make offenders wear uniforms
Mar 03, 2008; ... OFFENDERS on community service should be made to wear a uniformin public, David Cameron said today. The Tory leader said they should be visible and carry out properwork so the public would have confidence they were being punishedproperly. His pledge came as the party ...
Bank worker jailed for stealing traffic cones ; NEWS IN BRIEF
Mar 03, 2008 ... A MAN was jailed for stealing two traffic cones as a practicaljoke. Bank worker Masum Ahmed, 27, from Burnham, Buckinghamshire,spent four hours in a cell after stealing Pounds 10 road markers. MrAhmed ...
12 years for crime lord who built Pounds 1 m empire ; NEWS IN BRIEF
Mar 03, 2008 ... A FORMER dentist who built a Pounds 100 million drugs empire fromhis home in Ilford making him Britain's richest criminal has beenjailed for 12 years. UK-born Asnat Akram, 37, and his gang smuggled ...
Our money troubles add up to sleepless nights ; NEWS IN BRIEF
Mar 03, 2008 ... ANXIOUS Britons spend 225 days of their lives more than sevenmonths worrying about money and an estimated 18 million take theirfears to bed with them, research among 1,000 ...
Second homes tax 'is threat to rural families' ; NEWS IN BRIEF
Mar 03, 2008 ... ALISTAIR DARLING is being urged to dump the cut in capital gainstax on second homes. The call comes from countryside advisers whoclaim wealthy Londoners are pricing rural families out of themarket ....
BA talks in bid to halt pilots' strike at Easter ; NEWS IN BRIEF
Mar 03, 2008 ... LAST-DITCH talks are being held today to prevent British Airwayspilots striking over the Easter holidays. The pilots have voted infavour of a series of strikes which threaten major disruption ....
Feed the pigeons or Sid gets it ; Ransom note for gull taken from Dad's Army show
Mar 03, 2008; ... AS kidnaps go, it was not exactly run-of-the-mill. The victim was a stuffed seagull, snatched from the stage of theHackney Empire during a production of Dad's Army. Now, more than a week after the Evening Standard reported thecrime, we have received a bizarre ransom note ...
Chef's TV show ends after 'royal' lies
Mar 03, 2008; ... A BRITISH chef who became a television star in America afterclaiming he had a knighthood and had cooked for the royal family hasbeen exposed as a fraud. Robert Irvine, 42, from Salisbury, has had his hit Dinner:Impossible show on the Food Network cancelled after BuckinghamPalace ...
A last party as Black begins his life behind bars
Mar 03, 2008; ... CONRAD BLACK enjoyed his last hours of freedom today as itemerged that the man who has protested his innocence loud and oftenhas finally admitted he might have got a few things wrong. While the disgraced press baron is still far from admitting hisguilt, he conceded as he was about ...
Schools lottery as families wait for pupil places offer
Mar 03, 2008; ... THOUSANDS of London pupils find out this week if they have won aplace at a desirable secondary amid warnings that up to half will berejected by their chosen schools. Around 600,000 parents nationwide are bracing themselves today "national offers day" for the letters from ...