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Thousands of miles apart, two families noticed their toddler sons gravitated toward toys, colors and clothes generally associated with girls. Each family eventually decided to go with radically different approaches to their child's identity issues, as directed by their therapists.Web Extra: Q&A; with Child Therapists
Therapists talk about the ethics of supporting and suppressing kids' desires to be the opposite sex.
The platypus doesn't just look funny — its genes are odd, too.
May 7, 2008 · Six sea lions were found dead along the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington. The sea lions feed on chinook salmon, much to the annoyance of fisherman. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife had set traps to catch and remove the sea lions. Agency spokesman Rick Hargrave talks about the investigation into their deaths.
May 7, 2008 · The massive City Center development in Las Vegas is huge, expensive and environmentally friendly. It meets the building industry's green building, or LEED, standards. But critics knock LEED's one-size-fits-all point system and the cumbersome certification process.
May 7, 2008 · With demand for biodiesel on the rise, the market value of fry grease that can be used to make it has tripled in recent years. "Grease bandits" are stealing used fry grease from restaurants and rendering plants, reports Ben Arnoldy of the The Christian Science Monitor.
May 6, 2008 · Four of New York's six species of hibernating bats are suffering from "white-nose syndrome," which is decimating bat populations throughout the Northeast. Biologists from New York's Ulster County go underground as they try to work out what is killing the bats.
May 6, 2008 · Planners hope to transform an empty stretch of desert into Masdar, a city of 50,000, within a decade. They aim for it to be powered entirely by renewable energy, to reuse water and to recycle even human waste.Web Extra: Video: Take a fly-through, animated tour of Masdar City.
May 6, 2008 · A new study suggests that many people are being diagnosed as bipolar even though they do not meet the criteria for the disorder. Researchers at Rhode Island Hospital found that about half of 700 patients who'd been diagnosed as bipolar should not have been.
May 6, 2008 · When commentator Jay Keyser's mother moved into an assisted-living community, he noticed a change in her behavior. At their weekly lunches at a Chinese restaurant, she would order only one thing: chicken chow mein. Keyser says he thinks there may have been a deeper meaning behind her dependence on the dish.
May 6, 2008 · Official media in Yangon say 10,000 people were killed in one town alone after Cyclone Nargis. Another 30,000 people are said to be missing and aid has reportedly been delayed by government reluctance to grant visas.
May 6, 2008 · A new study finds that, while most adopted youths are psychologically healthy, they face twice the risk for some emotional and behavioral disorders than their non-adopted counterparts do.
May 5, 2008 · Fifty years ago, a fungus called stem rust was a major threat to the world food supply. But scientists came up with new wheat varieties that kept the disease in check. Now, a new variety of rust has arisen in Africa and is rapidly spreading around the globe.
May 5, 2008 · In the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi sits on nearly 10 percent of the world's oil reserves. So it may be surprising to hear that climate leaders there have launched a major initiative in sustainability. Masdar, a demonstration city of 50,000 inhabitants, will have a zero carbon footprint.
May 5, 2008 · A pollution sensor in a state park in a remote area of Kansas is registering ozone levels in the unhealthful range on some summer days. The park is hundreds of miles from anything approaching a major city.
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