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Sri Lankan Air Attack

This week, in Sri Lanka, 2 aircrafts hit the Sri Lanka capital. "Two Tamil rebel aircraft swooped into the Sri Lankan capital Friday, with one dropping a bomb that killed at least two people and wounded 47 just before it crashed," officials said. This unfourtunte event, occured around the head office building of the Department of Revenue. However, the remaining pieces of the plane including the top, were found on top of the building. It was not clear if the aircraft was shot down or if the pilot had intended a suicide attack, but, two blocks down is the Air Force Headquaters where they believe the suicidal attacker meant to strike. "Military officials believe the second aircraft had been headed toward the nation's main air force base, which adjoins the international airport.The air force spokesman said the body of the rebel pilot and wreckage of the aircraft lay in a nearby area."

Fruit Flies Sick of Mating

-"When fruit flies mate, the females' genes are activated to roughly the same extent as when an immune reaction starts."
-This discovery was made at Uppsala University.
-This discovery is now appearing in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology.
-"Using a combination of behavioral studies and genomic technology, so-called microarrays, researchers at Uppsala University can show how fruit fly females are affected by mating."
-' "We monitor how genetic expression is impacted by mating and show that the most common process that is affected is the immune defense system," says Ted Morrow at the Department of Ecology and Evolution, Uppsala University.'
-Past researches show that if this problem wasn't a factor, female flies would produce 20% more offspring.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090219081040.htm

Eathquake in New Jersey

This week in Trenton there was minor earthquake ranging from 2.5 to 3 on the Richter Scale. Won-Young Kim, a seismologist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, was the one who make this observation of the earthquake. Some residents didn't even realize there was an earthquake brewing up right beneath their feet as they casually did what they needed to do. Some people felt this occurring and mentioned that it felt like an explosion and you could hear your house shake. Won-Young Kim says that,"small earthquakes are not unlikely in New Jersey. This also occurred in Morristown, New Jersey with the same affects.

Orphan Chimpanzees Cleverer Than Humans, Study Finds

-This discovery was made at the Centre for the Study of Emotion at the University of Portsmouth, by a psychology expert, Professor Kim Bard.
-It states that when some baby chimpanzees were "mothered" by women, they turned out to be smarter than the average 9 month old baby child.
-Prof.Kim Bard also stated,“The attachment system of infant chimpanzees appears surprisingly similar to that found in human infants."