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Surgeons Who Play Video Games are More Skilled |
 ...ening. Every movement is thus viewed on the TV screen.
The study regarding the abilities of surgeons who played or play video games was made in Beth Israel Medical Center in New York. 33 surgeons participated in the test, which later showed interesting results: those who played video games with a frequency of not less than three hours per week made 37% less errors, the job they made was 27% faster. All in all these sur... |
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Scientific contribution in Iraq war undermined |
 ...aq's operations, such as Telic campaign, were the number of scientific forces reached its highest point. This could only be compared with the World War II concentration of researchers. Whereas their participation was acknowledged and more than 100 of Dstl scientists were awarded with medals, a current situation may not have a bright outlook.
There is still a significant difference between what Britain funded in scienti... |
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U.S. and Russia Found a Common Goal - Iraq |
 ...to settle the Iraq issue. The conference is to be held in Baghdad on March. Iraq and neighboring countries, as well as the representatives of the United Nations will be among the countries that will participate at the meeting.
The goal of the meeting, said Burns, is to boost the process of stabilization in Iraq. That is why there U.S. and Russia have much in common in their relation with the Middle East. The ambassador o... |
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Iraq Asks for Help to Stop Violence |
| ...lp. He opened the conference with an address to back his efforts to stop violence in Iraq by refusing to finance attacks. Mr. Nouri al-Maliki mentioned that people who cross the country's boarder to participate in attacks whether as suicide bombers or militia members represent danger for the country and they must be stopped.
His address at the conference was heard by the representatives of 13 nations and three internatio... |
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Nearly one third of Americans think Internet is useless |
 ...ss 44 percent are simply not interested in anything that Internet provides. The survey found that 22 percent do not have the opportunity to pay for the Internet or to purchase a computer.
Among the participants in the survey, who do not intend to subscribe to the service, 17 percent said that they do not know how to use the Internet. Fourteen percent stated that they are more likely to use the service at work, where they... |
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Career growth: Look from inside |
 ...nt was his mobility, so that his career would grow faster and more dynamically.
Women, on the other hand, believe that they should follow a certain, personal strategy in their behavior: they should participate in different forums, notorious projects where their qualities could be noticed and appreciated, and where was a greater possibility to achieve success. Men have thumbed-down this idea and have put it at the end of ... |
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Suicide Bomber Attack in Afghanistan |
| ...y casualties were reported, however eight civilians were wounded by the attack.
The convoy was attacked when it was passing the Kandahar western outskirts, which is the heartland of Taliban. This particular region is where the U.S. and NATO keep their military troops.
The province of Kandahar houses troops both from NATO and the U.S. and Canada is the main supplier of soldiers for NATO in the region. Six of its sold... |
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Men look at face, women look down there |
 ... attracted at sexual acts first and men would pay their attention at faces.
Previous study, published in Hormones and Behavior magazine concluded that sexual stimuli outlines gender differences, particularly for brain activity of men and women. Presumably women who took hormonal pills were more often focused on genitals and those who took no pills paid their attention to the context of the picture. Although it is know... |
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Google buys DoubleClick, Microsoft still too far from online ads |
 ...ecializing in online video. From that time DoubleClick has had about $300 million revenue and $50 million earning from online ads, which was before last year's interest, depreciation and taxes.
The participants at negotiations said that at some regard it was a mere matter of money. Yesterday Google outbid Microsoft, just as it did it about a year ago, when the two Goliaths were struggling to become an official dealer of ... |
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Schools include MySpace in the curriculum |
| ...nal purposes.
If earlier, the access to these sites were seen as a an obstacle and were banned, now many teachers see it a helpful tool as this attracts great interest among teenagers.
Every participant taking part in the project will have a blog with profile page, and have an opportunity to share photos, ideas and communicate with friends in online communities.
Some tutors fear that such innovations will be ... |
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Compliments and Money Give the Same Satisfaction |
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During a study, 19 people took part in the experiments where their brain activity was monitored with the help of fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) method.
In the first experiment, participants were offered to play a gambling game in which a person could receive a cash reward.
During the second experiment, participants were told that other people evaluated them according to the answers participants h... |
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Biofuel Vehicles to Put Our Health at Risk |
| ...nol was used for all cars. It would cause more ailments and asthma attacks. There naturally appears the question – why to use biofuels if it is not beneficial for the environment and human health in particular?
As showed by the study, the smog level increase meant 200 deaths more every year in the US, with only Los Angeles at risk of 120 deaths. Even if to take into account that ozone increase in some US regions would ... |
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A Maniac Threatens to Repeat Tragedy in Virginia |
 ...verting any possible acts of violence and try to keep under control all people who belong to school and university environment and have ever displayed signs of inadequate or violent behavior.
In particular, the police arrested a college student from the suburbs of Seattle who owned a small armory. In Florida there was arrested a 14-year old teenager who sent e-mails threatening to 'surpass' the Virginia killer and sho... |
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Nano-nose to help identify illnesses |
 ...Nanoparticles are used by U.S. researchers to 'smell' the scent of illnesses in fluids of the body. The researchers used nanoparticles of gold with different coatings to distinguish among different proteins and detect the illness, as reported by the New Scientist.
According to Vince Rotello from the University of Massachusetts the human nose has a series of receptors, which react differently to different compounds. Thu... |
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