North
Korea changes tack and tells US: Let's talk
PYONGYANG, North Korea
(AP) — After months of threatening to wage a nuclear war, North Korea
did an about-face Sunday and issued a surprise proposal to the United
States, its No. 1 enemy: Let's talk.
Conservation for big guns that opened Civil War
SULLIVANS ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Preservationists are using computer sensors and other high-tech methods to protect massive iron Civil War guns at a fort in South Carolina that fired on Fort Sumter to open the war in April 1861.
91-Year-Old Sets Bench Press World Record
Comeback stories are common in the world of sports. We hear about players
coming back from torn ACLs, broken bones and even personal trauma.
Rarely, however, do we hear about an athlete returning from pacemaker surgery.
Rarely, however, do we hear about an athlete returning from pacemaker surgery.
Snowflake the Albino Gorilla Was Inbred, Study Finds
A famous albino gorilla that lived for 40 years at the Barcelona Zoo got its white coloring by way of inbreeding, new research shows.
Snowflake was a male Western lowland gorilla. He was born in the wild and captured in 1966 by villagers in Equatorial Guinea. As the only known white gorilla in the world, Snowflake was a zoo celebrity until his death of skin cancer in 2003.
A few studies had attempted to get to the bottom of what caused Snowflake's color-free complexion, but the exact genetic mutation had never been found. Now, Spanish researchers have sequenced the gorilla's entire genome, revealing that Snowflake was probably the offspring of a pairing between an uncle and a nice.
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