The Evening Standard (London, England) back issues from January 2009:
This month in Odyssey.(SCIENCE SCOOPS)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Whether it's a brand new puppy, panda, or Patrick, your newborn brother, most of us would agree, babies are legitimately cute. Nature makes them that way because they require so much work. It adds assurance that they'll be taken care of. That work begins in earnest on our first ...
Powerful eyes.(SCIENCE SCOOPS)(cuttlefish eggs)(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Think that itty bitty egg at the bottom of the ocean is mindlessly sitting there, waiting to hatch? Actually, it's watching you! Cuttlefish eggs are encased in black ink when they are first laid, but eventual]y the translucent eggs swell to the point where ...
Thanks to your twin brother.(SCIENCE SCOOPS)(influence of testosterone on girl twin)
Jan 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As boys develop in the womb, they produce a lot of testosterone, the hormone that makes them develop male characteristics. But how do these doses of hormones affect a girl twin who happens to be in the womb at the same time? She doesn't need testosterone! ...
Searching for secrets of the universe.(SCIENCE SCOOPS)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Beneath the ground, spanning the border between France and Switzerland, there is a massive human-built cavern. Thousands of magnets, wires, and high-tech equipment line the 16.7 miles of this oval-shaped tunnel to form the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The name leaves a bit to be desired ....
Eat your veggies!(SCIENCE SCOOPS)(how babies can like eating vegetables)(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] YUCK! Get those peas away from me! Does that sound like you at dinner? Next time you don't want to eat your vegetables, find out if your mom breastfed you as a baby. If she did, ask what she ate. Were peas on the dinner menu weekly, ...
Memristor discovery.(SCIENCE SCOOPS)(memory resistor)
Jan 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Watch out silicon valley, there's a new kind of memory on its way! Memristor stands for "memory resistor." Transistors, resistors, and capacitors are all fundamental building blocks of electrical systems described in electrical engineering textbooks. ...
Where don't babies come from?
Jan 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It's the most famous question of all time. Every little kid asks it: Where do babies come from? It makes some parents freak. The old fashioned ones tell stories about storks and cabbage patches. The hip ones say they shopped online at eBaby. ...
Where do frog princes come from?(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] TO find out where babies come from, a scientist named Lazzaro Spallanzani did a dandy experiment in 1777. Spallanzani dressed up male frogs in tight-fitting taffeta britches. He then introduced his "frog princes" to some attractive amphibian "ladies." ...
Nine awesome months!(human gestation)
Jan 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IT TAKES JUST 266 DAYS for a new human being to form from a single cell! That's even more amazing when you think that each tiny newborn has the potential to grow up and make the world a better place. Actually, 266 days is the average length of a human ...
Sharing a room: multiple births.
Jan 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Being pregnant with one baby is indeed wondrous. Now imagine a pregnancy that results in twins, triplets, or even more babies all sharing the same space at the same time. Normally, one woman out of 90 in the United States gives birth to twins, ...
Happy birth day!(human gestation)(Essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... HAPPY BIRTHDAY! COOL! This calls for a party with balloons and presents, right? Actually, the first birthday you ever had wasn't quite like that. No one was thinking about candles or cake. As your life changed flora floating in a quiet, warm womb to living in the outside world ...
A day in the life of obstetrician Dr. Robin Kalish.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IT'S 3:50 P.M. ON THE THURSDAY BEFORE A LABOR DAY WEEKEND. Dr. Robin Kalish is standing at the head of a corridor in the maternity ward of a hospital on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. She looks down at the clipboard in her hands. Then, just as she ...
Testing, testing ... You think you take lots of tests? Developing babies and their moms go through lots of tests and exams too. The results can mean more than any test at school.
Jan 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Expecting? Amanda Hinrichs of Emporia, Kansas, first learned about both her pregnancies with a home pregnancy test. Home tests check a woman's urine for human chorionic gonadotropin, or hCG. Women produce this hormone when a fertilized egg ...
Y am I a boy? How sex is determined in humans and other species.
Jan 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Have you ever wondered why you are a boy and not a girl or vice versa? In humans (and most other mammals), there is a specific scientific process that determines sex and it has to do with chromosomes. So what are chromosomes anyway? A ...
Celebrating life: science lends hands.(test tube babies Heather and Todd Tilton)
Jan 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "I'm pretty normal." That's the first thing Heather Tilton said during a 2008 interview on the program Today Show Health. Wearing a dark pantsuit that highlighted her blond hair, she did indeed look like other young professional women. Her ...
Helping hopeful parents: an interview with embryologist Phyllis Risch.(People to Discover)(Interview)
Jan 01, 2009; ... "The reason I work in embryology is that there are people who would like to have their own children bur who have difficulty getting pregnant .... I know bow important having, my family is. To be able to help others develop their families is pretty exciting." PHYLLIS RISCH WHERE ...
The chicken, or the egg? To learn about the science of birth, just open a carton of eggs.(ACTIVITY TO DISCOVER)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Of course, chickens won't hatch from food eggs (what embryologists call unfertilized eggs). But these supermarket eggs can help reveal some of the specialized structures that make eggs such an effective birthing system. So are you ready to try three "egg-cellent" experiments about eggs and ...
Dangerous day one: imagine as a brand new baby falling six feet as you are born! Or being born miles away from your family and having to find them before something bigger and meaner eats you! Well, that doesn't happen to human babies, but it does in the animal world. When animals are born in wild they have to fight to survive. The first day can be the most dangerous and scary of all.
Jan 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] KEMP'S RIDLEY SEA TURTLES: BEACH-BABY BATTLES Some newborns have to make it entirely on their own. Kemp's ridley sea turtles are an endangered species which fight for life from the moment they're born. Life is ...
Rebecca's first year.(a mother remembers her children's infancy)(Essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Welcome to the world! You're such a miracle and growing so fast that I can hardly do anything else but gaze 24/7 at the amazing little person that you are. You weighed seven pounds, three ounces at birth and measure 21 inches long. And you have ...
The option package.(Short story)
Jan 01, 2009; ... It was D Day. Dog Day. Decision Day. Sixty-three days since we'd visited the Best Friends Forever clinic with a vial of Rufus's blood. The vet saved it for us after Rufus drifted off into the big sleep. Dr. Wilson couldn't do much after a truck hit my best friend except to make sure he ...
The "eggcentric" zookeeper.(BRAIN STRAIN)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Molly is visiting a very strange zoo, run by a zookeeper named Ted. It consists of just two types of animals: giraffes and ostriches. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The visitor gazes across the zoo's wooded area. "How many animals do you have?" she asks the zookeeper. ...
Star chart.(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2009 ... The monthly All-Sky Chart depicts the sky (minus the Moon) as it appears at 6 p.m. on Jan. 15. Useful all month (except for planet positions), the chart is also accurate for 7 p.m. on Jan. 1 and 5 p.m. on Jan. 31. To use the All-Sky Chart, first use a compass to find the ...
Happy New Year how to find the winter triangle.(STARGAZING with Jack Horkheimer)(Cartoon)
Jan 01, 2009; ... GREETINGS, GREETINGS, FELLOW STARGAZERS. IT'S TIME TO RING IN THE NEW YEAR! AND WHAT BETTER WAY IS THER TO DO THAT THAN TO USE--NO, NOT A BELL ... BUT A TRIANGLE! THE WINTER TRIANGLE! WHERE IS IT? C'MON, I'LL SHOW YOU ... TO FIND THE WINTER TRIANGLE, LOOK CLOSE TO ...
Two years in a day.(YOU'VE GOT MAIL!)(Short story)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Neil Goldenstein glanced down at his newspaper and sighed. He already knew what it said, right down to the misused comma on page 3C, because Neil had been reading the same newspaper for 726 days straight. A Boy Scout troop was given an award, the fire department rescued Ms. Higgin's cat, ...
Your developing baby: conception to birth.(Your Developing Baby: Conception to Birth)(Brief article)(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Your Developing Baby: Conception to Birth by Peter M. Doubilet, M.D., Ph.D. and Carol S. Benson, M.D., with Roanne Weisman (McGraw-Hill, 2008) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Until recently, the captivating journey of baby development was invisible. The tiny being ...
Ouch! Don't cuddle a puggle.(ANIMAL ANGLES)(monotremes or echidna)
Jan 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If you find yourself wandering in the scrubland of Australia, Tasmania, or New Guinea, you just might be lucky enough to see one of the world's most unusual animals--an echidna (pronounced ih-KID-neh). But don't be fooled by its habits or appearance. ...
RECORD PLUNGE IN HOUSE PRICES ; 16% fall as new mortgages drop to lowest ever [broken bar] Nationwide refuses to pass on bank rate cuts
Jan 02, 2009; ... House prices plunged 16.2 per cent last year in the biggest dropfor a calendar year on record, the Halifax said today. Britains biggest mortgage lender said the typical price of aproperty now stands at [pounds]159,896 back to August 2004 levels. The number of mortgages ...
The Londoner's Diary
Jan 02, 2009 ... TORY MP Michael Goves predictions for 2009: Gordon Brown willreplace Dannii Minogue as an X Factor judge. Cheryl Cole will beappointed Parliamentary Under Secretary for Public Health andMinister for the ...
Morris battles to heal the rift between KP and Moores ; England's cricket chief faces a fight to prevent skipper or coach leaving before Windies tour. By David Lloyd
Jan 02, 2009; ... HUGH MORRIS will today move to patch up the crumblingrelationship between captain Kevin Pietersen and coach Peter Moores. England's managing director has been forced to act amid concernthat either Pietersen or Moores could step down or be replaced before the tour of West Indies ...
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY
Jan 02, 2009 ... Patrick Kidd: With the Ashes little more than six months away, itis hard to know which of the rival teams are in a worse state.Divorce lawyers reckon they get most business in the second week ofJanuary and the men running the England team may also be heading fora split next week, when ...
Israel poised to invade Gaza ; Our tanks are ready to roll, says minister
Jan 02, 2009; ... ISRAEL is ready to launch a ground offensive inside Gaza in whatwould be a major escalation of its fight against Hamas, one of thecountry's senior ministers said as the conflict entered its sixthday. Social welfare minister Isaac Herzog said that preparations for aland assault on ...
New Year: a bloody start New but it all ends in cheers ; A 999 call every seven seconds as emergency services battle to cope
Jan 02, 2009; ... VIOLENCE marred New Year celebrations in London as ambulancestaff struggled to cope with a surge in emergency calls on whatproved to be their second busiest night since the turn of themillennium. The ambulance service answered calls at a rate of one every sevenseconds and 110 ...
Jagger and Livingstone back London rally
Jan 02, 2009; ... KEN LIVINGSTONE and Bianca Jagger are backing protesters who willmarch on Whitehall calling for an end to Israeli military action inGaza. Organisers believe up to 10,000 people could turn out for themarch and rally in Trafalgar Square tomorrow following a week ofprotests outside ...
500,000 line the streets for a vintage parade
Jan 02, 2009; ... CHEERLEADERS, marching bands and vintage cars filled the streetsof London to welcome the start of 2009. Crowds lined the 2.2 mile route to enjoy the 23rd New Year's DayParade. Organisers estimate 500,000 watched the 10,000 performers,including musicians, bellringers, clowns ...
Woman killed and girl fights for life after 1.40am crash
Jan 02, 2009; ... A CAR crash in the early hours of New Year's Day left one dead,one fighting for her life and five injured. A black Chevrolet Captiva with seven passengers veered off WestHall Road in Eltham and crashed into a tree. The fatality was a 21-year-old woman who was travelling in ...
When will the recession end? ; Evening Standard
Jan 02, 2009 ... BANG on cue for the New Year's first working day, a challenge hasbeen thrown down to the Chancellor over his forecasts for theeconomy. The annual Financial Times poll of economists suggests mostbelieve Mr Darling's expectation that growth will resume in late2009 is ...
Slim with Gromit ; Evening Standard
Jan 02, 2009 ... THE ANIMATOR Nick Park of Wallace and Gromit fame is an inspiredchoice for a new advertising campaign against childhood obesity. AndLondon's Imperial College is leading the way in surgical treatmentfor excess weight gain. But the task of tackling a public healthproblem of immense ...
We will protect adults who tackle local yobs, Conservatives pledge
Jan 02, 2009; ... ADULTS will be encouraged to confront unruly teenagers withoutfear of prosecution under Tory plans announced today. Shadow home secretary Dominic Grieve pledged safeguards for thosewho challenge anti-social behaviour by youngsters. He said public-spirited adults could sort out ...
I had given up on singing but X Factor made my West End dream a reality
Jan 02, 2009; ... NIKI EVANS had turned her back on music and was concentrating onbeing a mother but now she is the star she always dreamed of being,appearing nightly in West End musical Blood Brothers. The 36-year-old quit showbusiness in 2000 after spending years asa backing singer and despairing ...
Bikers gain entry to the bus lanes
Jan 02, 2009; ... MOTORCYCLISTS will be allowed in bus lanes from Monday but themove has created safety fears. For the next 18 months, motorbikes will be allowed to share mostred route bus lanes with buses, cyclists and taxis in the capital.If the trial is successful, Mayor Boris Johnson will make ...
Get grip on knife crime, Met told ; City Hall warns new police boss
Jan 02, 2009; ... TACKLING knife crime must be top of the agenda for the newMetropolitan Police Commissioner, London's deputy mayor for policingsaid today. Kit Malthouse accused Home Office ministers of "blunderingaround" on the issue and warned "it's about time somebody got a gripon ...
Cameras roll at Tate to put works on film
Jan 02, 2009; ... THE Tate galleries have joined forces with film-makers to castnew light on its exhibitions. Young directors have been given access to Tate shows such as thecurrent Turner Prize and Mark Rothko exhibitions to create filmsthat can be viewed at Tate online. The scheme, called ...
Art students compete for giant canvas in Mayfair
Jan 02, 2009; ... ONE lucky art student is to have their work displayed on a giantcanvas in central London. Members of the public are being asked to choose from 13 pieces bystudents at the Royal Academy Schools. The winning artwork will be shown on the 14 by 24 metre canvasacross the southern ...
Woman becomes second ever to give birth on Tube
Jan 02, 2009; ... A WOMAN who unexpectedly went into labour and gave birth on theTube is only the second person to have a baby on London Underground. Julia Kowalska was travelling with her sister on a Jubilee linetrain when her waters broke. She got off the train at Kingsbury Station, north-west ...
Obese patients to be flown to London for gastric ops ; 600-mile round trip for surgery in [pounds]8.7 million campaign
Jan 02, 2009; ... OBESE patients in Belfast will be flown hundreds of miles for fat-loss operations at Imperial College trust, the Evening Standard canreveal. The trust confirmed today that it had won its bid to provide thestomachshrinking surgery. It is part of a radical plan to beat the ...
On the bargain road to shoes and ruin ; Evening Standard
Jan 02, 2009; ... I HAVEN'T found it yet, but I know it's there somewhere. I'm noteven sure what it is a belt, a beautiful wisp of lingerie, a superbleather bag but the most important thing is that it's the bestbargain in London. At this point in the sales it's no good trying tolure me with 30 per cent ...
How to save the world
Jan 02, 2009 ... CATCH, if you can, the about-to-close exhibition of Jeff Koons atthe Palace of Versailles, where the Sun King of contemporary art isshowing his camply resplendent work among the pomp and kitsch ofLouis XIV. The display reflects in its multiple-mirrored surfacesartists' fantasies of ...
I've lost my job so I buy a house
Jan 02, 2009; ... LUNCH over, I'm taking the winter air with my friend Laura andher new consort. It's mid-afternoon, and we're standing outside thefront door with the sun gloaming away low in the sky. Laura sucks down about half a Camel Light in one gasp. "Aahh,"she says, giving voice to the ...
And celebrating.. ; Evening Standard
Jan 02, 2009 ... LONDON'S New Year. The Mayor's fireworks drew big crowds despitethe cold, record numbers turned out for the New Year's Day Parade ...
My credit crunch tip: don't trust the experts
Jan 02, 2009; ... AS YOU pass through life, some things you expect. Parents and literature alert you to love, death, birth, wealthand poverty, sickness and health, debt and taxes. No one, however,bothers to tell you about financial advisors, who enter your lifewithout warning in your 20s, and then ...
An honour to know brave Gill
Jan 02, 2009; ... WE ARE used to hearing victims of atrocity cry out for vengeance.It's hard, without having had their experiences, to argue with theirfeelings, but it is also heartening when other victims have theopposite reaction. Gill Hicks, who lost both legs and almost herlife in the 7 July bombings, ...
PROPERTY BAROMETER
Jan 02, 2009; ... CHELSEA LOTS ROAD Three-bedroom, two-bathroom maisonette withriver views and a roof terrace a short walk from Kings Road andBattersea Park. Walking distance of Fulham Broadway Tube station. 2000: [pounds]249,000 2007: [pounds]950,000 NOW: [pounds]850,000 NOTTING HILL ST MARKS ...
Housing targets for South-East 'will create ghettos'
Jan 02, 2009; ... PLANS to mix social housing with private homes across the South-East are doomed, the Government was warned today. The slump in new private sector homes could lead to developmentsmade up almost entirely of housing association and other"affordable" properties, planners warned. They ...
AND WHEN YOU GET HOME ...
Jan 02, 2009 ......ONCE YOU'VE READ THE STANDARD THE BOOK SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE by Vikas Swarup (Black Swan, [pounds]7.99)Previously published as Q& A, this novel, based on a true story, hasnow been brilliantly filmed by Danny Boyle. An 18-year-old Mumbaistreet urchin wins a fortune on ...
GP centre shelved due to poorly property market
Jan 02, 2009; ... A MAJOR new health centre in London has been postponed due to theeconomic downturn. Developers pulled out of building the eight-GP centre over fearsthey would face difficulty in selling the private homes also plannedfor the site. The organisation behind the scheme is now ...
Your unborn baby cast in bronze ... it's the new foetal attraction
Jan 02, 2009; ... A CLINIC is offering mothers bronze models of their unbornbabies. The London Ultrasound Centre, near Harley Street, is the first inthe country to offer the service, which allows parents to"celebrate" their babies in the womb. A 3D printer uses ultrasound images to build a ...
A short break at cold comfort farm ; A LONDON LIFE
Jan 02, 2009; ... THE idea was to escape London during the holidays for a cosycottage in the country, so we booked to stay in a 17th-centuryfarmhouse in the Somerset village of Nether Stowey. Billing itself as the "ideal" getaway, it came highly recommendedby Alastair Sawday's upmarket website, ...
BUZZ WORD ; heart. verb
Jan 02, 2009 ... Definition: To love, but with less commitment. A popularexpression of transitory or unqualified affection, seeded by thefilm I Heart Huckabees. Hundreds of blogs and companies such asiheartmusic.net and weheartgossip.com have ...
What's to love this year? ; Some simple but satisfying things that will help you embrace 2009 (with a cheeky bit of optimism)
Jan 02, 2009; ... SO welcome, then, to 2009. Things may look bleak as we face up tothe hangover from the annus horribilis of 2008, but there arereasons to be cheerful in the year to come. As well as packed andenticing programmes in sport and the arts comprehensively coveredelsewhere on these pages today ...
How long has your New Year's resolution lasted? ; TALK OF THE TOWN
Jan 02, 2009; ... COME on, 'fess up. How many times today have you uttered thewords "I shouldn't, but&" and then proceeded to break one of yourfreshly avowed New Year's resolutions? Kept your hands off thebiscuits? Gone to the gym yet? How early were you in bed last night and who with? We may have been ...
Bring on more of this sporting glory to lift all our spirits ; The outstanding triumphs of the past 12 months herald a champion year ahead, says our sports columnist
Jan 02, 2009; ... TODAY of all soul-destroying days, the last intention of anyonehumane is to depress you further. For 2 January is the day on whichthe Godfearing take to the dressing gown and slippers, angrilytossing aside that compendium of Scandinavian drama on the groundsthat the plays are too ...
Dane accused of shooting Israelis ; WORLD IN BRIEF
Jan 02, 2009 ... POLICE in Denmark have arrested a 27-year-old man of Palestinianorigin on suspicion of shooting two Israeli youths working at ashopping mall hair salon. A court in Odense ...
Aspen bomb threat OAP is found dead ; WORLD IN BRIEF
Jan 02, 2009 ... A MAN who planted gift-wrapped home-made bombs around the US skiresort of Aspen has been found dead after an apparent suicide. Police were seeking Jim Blanning, 71, after two ...
Iraqis take charge at Basra airport ; WORLD IN BRIEF
Jan 02, 2009 ... BRITISH troops took a step closer to withdrawing from Iraq ascontrol of Basra International Airport, used as a UK military baseduring the conflict, was handed over to Iraqi civilian ...
Sarkozy hits back at car torchers ; WORLD IN BRIEF
Jan 02, 2009 ... MORE than 1,100 vehicles in France went up in flames on NewYear's Eve, leading President Nicolas Sarkozy to call for arsoniststo lose their licences until they have paid ...