California high school sued over 'intelligent design' class

California high school sued over 'intelligent design' class FRESNO, California (AP) -- A rural high school teaching a religion-based alternative to evolution was sued Tuesday by a group of parents who said the class should be stopped because it violates the U.S. Constitution. Frazier Mountain High in Lebec violated the separation of church and state while attempting to legitimize the theory ...

2005: a year of archaeological harvest

2005: a year of archaeological harvest BEIJING, Jan. 10 (Xinhuanet) -- Chinese archaeologists have reaped a huge harvest in 2005, with a large number of significant discoveries reported over the past year. At the "Archaeology Forum" which opened here Tuesday, Liu Qingzhu, director of the Institute of Archaeology under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), said that the new di...

7.4% Chinese surnamed

7.4% Chinese surnamed "Li" BEIJING, Jan. 10 (Xinhuanet) -- Among every hundred Chinese people, 7.4 are surnamed "Li," dubbing the most popular family name in China, said a survey supported by China's National Natural Science Foundation. Following "Li," "Wang" and "Zhang" become the second and third biggest surnames in China, accounting for 7.2 and 6.8 percent of the total population respe...

Emergency plan for natural calamities issued

Emergency plan for natural calamities issued The State Council, China's central government, has issued a national plan on emergency response for natural calamities. The State Council issued on Sunday a national plan on emergency response to guide the prevention and treatment of various incidents including natural disasters, accidents, public health incidents and social safet...

One tofu sloppy joe to go

One tofu sloppy joe to go School cafeterias offer vegetarian-only options ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- Miriam Archibong remembers the food offerings her high school cafeteria used to serve for vegetarians: bland salads and greasy cheese pizza. But salads are "not sufficient to survive," she says. "Cheese pizza -- that's not healthy because of all that grease." Archibong often brought her own foo...

China to maintain rapid growth: economist

China to maintain rapid growth: China's economy will maintain steady and rapid growth in 2006 as investment and consumption become the major drives of growth, a government economist said in comments published on Monday. Shoppers walk past a statue of a happy Chinese family, in Shanghai. A chief ecnomist in China said China's economy will maintain steady and rapid growth in 2006 due t...

8th human case of bird flu reported

8th human case of bird flu reported China's Ministry of Health yesterday announced the country's eighth human case of H5N1 bird flu. The infected patient was a 6-year-old boy surnamed Ouyang in Guiyang County of Central China's Hunan Province, according to a report released by the ministry. The infected boy is being hospitalized and his condition is stable, the ministry said. Investigati...

District will abandon 'intelligent design'

District will abandon 'intelligent design' HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (AP) -- A Pennsylvania public school district will abandon its practice of teaching "intelligent design" before lessons on evolution after a federal judge ruled that the concept is "the progeny of creationism." U.S. District Judge John E. Jones denounced the Dover Area School Board in a ruling Tuesday, saying its first-in-the...

Study: Teen Growth Spurt Helps Moms

Study: Teen Growth Spurt Helps Moms Jan. 5, 2006 — Parents of small children may not feel like they have it easy, but compared to chimpanzee parents, they do. Research has shown that humans have evolved so that their rate of growth makes it easier on the parents, particularly the mother. And this accommodating growth rate, anthropologists say, allows human mothers to have more children — a t...

China outlines tax reforms in 2006

China outlines tax reforms in 2006 China plans to offer a series of tax incentives to facilitate its social and economic development this year. Addressing a national tax conference in Beijing yesterday, Director of the State Administration of Taxation Xie Xuren said the government will annouce a number of preferential tax policies to encourage employment and reemployment. Such favourable p...