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  • Two more officials quit Kerry campaign

    11/11/2003 12:53:58 PM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 112 replies · 136+ views
    <p>WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrat John Kerry's press secretary and deputy finance director quit Tuesday amid chaos on a presidential campaign staff that lost its manager a day earlier.</p> <p>Robert Gibbs, chief spokesman for the Massachusetts lawmaker, quit to protest the firing of campaign manager Jim Jordan, let go by Kerry Sunday night.</p>
  • Herrings converse via flatulence, researchers find

    11/11/2003 12:23:47 PM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 74 replies · 612+ views
    PARIS, Nov 11 (AFP) - Herrings appear to be sociable fish who like to communicate among themselves and use their natural flatulence to do so, a team of British and Canadian researchers has reported. A report in the British review Biology Letters describes how the researchers studied the sounds produced by two kinds of captive, wild-caught herring. "At night herring squeeze bubbles out of their swimbladders through an anal pore, producing sounds not unlike people blowing raspberries," the team of three recounts. The Pacific species (Clupea pallasii) were found to emit distinctive bursts of pulses, known as fast repetitive tick...