Isis
ISIS is one of the most important deities in the Egyptian pantheon. The hieroglyph for her name was the throne, and she was portrayed with a headdress in the shape of a throne. Scholars postulate...
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Isis was a nature goddess whose worship, with its origins in ancient Egypt, expanded throughout the Mediterranean world in the Hellenistic period to become one of the primary faiths of the Roman Empir...
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Deals between pipeline-deficient drug makers and cash-needy biotech firms are all the rage lately. It's easy to see why after last week's reaction to a couple of transactions involving Roche Holdin...
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Antisense, commonly referred to as RNAi, is getting a lot of buzz and increasing investment by big pharma and small biotech. The company with the widest range of patents in antisense technology is ...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Independent experts have
satellite imagery of what they believe to be a Syrian nuclear
site targeted in an Israeli air strike last month, The
Washington Post reported Wednes...
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Islamabad (dpa) - Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday ordered
senior intelligence service officers to produce a German national and
two other illegally-detained men or face s...
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The Putnam Museum is sending two of its mummies on a field trip in hopes of learning more about their history.The mummies, described as among the Davenport museum's most prized and popular possessi...
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It took two months and nearly 3 billion electronic probes for researchers to create a map of the Internet. Now comes the task of making sense of their data _ and figuring out what they missed.The I...
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Sometimes divorce is the only solution -- especially when your partner takes up with your rival.Or, in this case, when your partner takes over your rival. Merck MRK and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals ALNY...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Independent experts have
satellite imagery of what they believe to be a Syrian nuclear
site targeted in an Israeli air strike last month, The
Washington Post reported Wednes...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
THE BOOMERANG EFFECT (The New York Times, New York)
For more than a decade, Pakistan's powerful and secretive
intelligence service has fu...
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New Delhi (dpa) - India and Pakistan will resume peace talks next
month in New Delhi after the dialogue was called off by India
following the July train bombings in Mumbai, ...
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