Quick info, July 11
Tuesday, July 11, 2006 1:00:00 PM
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Hope for natural insect repellent 4 July 2006
Mosquitoes only target people who smell nice - leaving those with unattractive odours alone.
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'Bionic' limb breakthrough made Monday, 3 July 2006
The technique, called Intraosseous Transcutaneous Amputation Prosthesis (ITAP), involves securing a titanium rod directly into the bone.
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NASA Names Rockets for Moon and Mars Missions 30 June 2006
There were hundreds of names, [...] all the constellations in the sky, all the Greek and Roman gods, all their children, cousins, it went on and on and on.
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US moves to limit online gambling Tuesday, 11 July 2006
The bill aims to limit internet gaming by making it illegal for US-based banks and credit card firms to make payments to online gambling sites.
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Big dinosaurs 'had warmer blood' Tuesday, 11 July 2006
A study in the journal Plos Biology now suggests this is not the case, but that bigger dinosaurs may have lost heat so slowly that they stayed warm anyway.
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Video 'shows tortured US troops' Tuesday, 11 July 2006
A US institute that monitors extremist video releases said the film - published on the internet - showed "extremely graphic footage" of the two men's corpses.






