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West Coast Green, America's largest residential green building conference, today announced plans for its 2007 event, which will include more speakers, exhibitors and interactive learning spaces for its expected 12,000+ attendees.

West Coast Green, America's largest residential green building conference, today announced plans for its 2007 event, which will include more speakers, exhibitors and interactive learning spaces for its expected 12,000+ attendees.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at West Coast Green 2006.

The suspect being sought by police for making threats against biology lab faculty at a Colorado university now appears to be on the run.

Menachem "Michael" Korn, a member of the Young Earth Creationist group suspected of sending death threats to various biology faculty and others at the University of Colorado at Boulder, is apparently missing. Although police said they will not identify their suspect until an arrest is made, previous reports and comments by University faculty and staff have indicated that Korn is the man in question.

The last installment in the Potter saga has hit the shelves. Fans around the world stand in line to discover who lives and who dies.

The final book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, went on sale today. The book was launched simultaneously across the world.

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The line at Whitcoulls bookstore in the Northlands Mall, Christchurch,
New Zealand.

Organizers announce the upcoming Opportunity Green Conference 2007 along with UCLA organizations; The GSA Sustainable Resource Center and the UCLA Anderson School of Management's Net Impact Chapter.

Opportunity Green announced today the launch of the Opportunity Green Conference 2007 to be held at UCLA on November 17, 2007.

Don’t expect "The Deathly Hallows," released on July 21, to be the last Harry Potter story ever written. According to Salisbury University professor Ernie Bond, children are creating stories of their own on the Web with popular "fan fiction."

For fans of the Harry Potter series - movies and books - this summer is bittersweet: The latest movie installment Order of the Phoenix, one of the darkest and most difficult in the series, has been getting glowing reviews by critics. Yet in less than two weeks the final book in the saga will make its debut and author J.K. Rowling sees no more in the immediate future.

SheKnows.com is now providing its visitors with entertaining and insightful horoscopes, tarot readings, numerology and more.

Lovers compatible? What about heading to Vegas for that big gamble? SheKnows.com is now providing its visitors with entertaining and insightful horoscopes, tarot readings, numerology and more.

A Cornell University study of genome sequences in African-Americans, European-Americans and Chinese suggests that natural selection has caused as much as 10 percent of the human genome to change in some populations in the last 15,000 to 100,000 years, when people began migrating from Africa.

A Cornell study of genome sequences in African-Americans, European-Americans and Chinese suggests that natural selection has caused as much as 10 percent of the human genome to change in some populations in the last 15,000 to 100,000 years, when people began migrating from Africa.

Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, Headmaster of the Grey School of Wizardry, is known as "the real Albus Dumbledore." He and other genuine Wizards will be appearing at bookstores around the country at midnight of July 20 to collect the final book in the Harry Potter series.

At midnight on July 20, when the final Harry Potter book, The Deathly Hallows, is released at thousands of bookstores throughout the world, many of the costumed witches and wizards attending the bookstore release parties will be the real thing. Hundreds of students and teachers from the online Grey School of Wizardry will be showing up in full regalia to collect the grand finale of their favorite fantasy series. So look for those robes, cloaks, and pointy hats, and ask them: "Are you a real witch or wizard?" They just might be.

Scientists at Arizona State University's Mars Space Flight Center are using the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter to monitor a large dust storm on the Red Planet.

Scientists at Arizona State University's Mars Space Flight Center are using the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter to monitor a large dust storm on the Red Planet. The instrument, a multi-wavelength camera sensitive to five visible wavelengths and 10 infrared ones, is providing Mars scientists and spacecraft controllers with global maps that track how much atmospheric dust is obscuring the planet.

USC’s Space Sciences Center wins a grant to study solar rays that influence weather and radio traffic.

Solar observatories in space have an Icarus problem: the object of their desire is the agent of their demise.