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The world's oldest known spider web has been discovered on a beach in Sussex, England, trapped inside an ancient chunk of amber.
Scientists found the rare amber fossil in December, and have now confirmed that it contains remnants of spider silk spun roughly 140 million years ago by an ancestor of modern orb-weaving spiders.
SAN MATEO -- Not long after a San Mateo County man with a valid driver's license was sentenced to two years in jail for his ninth drunken driving conviction, a local legislator has called for a rule that would automatically revoke the licenses of motorists who are repeatedly over the limit and behind the wheel.
"It's incredible that in the state of California that we have not set an upper limit where enough is enough," state Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Mateo, said. "I don't know how judges would allow this person to drive after so many DUIs."
#10G20 Too Early To End Stimulus Of course. Gordon Brown has some good ideas in that article like creating a fund with some sort of insurance tax or tax on stocks to buffer us from future shocks.
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