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  20 Million Copies of Windows Vista Sold
...Microsoft has published a report on the Microsoft's new generation operating system sales. The report stated that in the period between January 30 and February 28, 2007, 20 million copies of Microsoft Vista were sold; compared to 17 million copies of Microsoft's Windows XP sold in the same period of time in 2001, two months after its release, Vista's index could be considered as rather impressive. However, these 20 milli...
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  Forbes' List of 25 Most Valuable Soccer Teams
... function MLnkMk(str) { s=''; for(i=0;i#iuuq;00xxx/gpscft/dpn0311801403:0tpddfs.wbmvbujpot.cfdlibn.cj{.tfswjdft.dy`qn`18tpddfs`143:tpddfs`mboe/iunm#!!ubshfu>#`cmbol#?mjol=0b?'))) has published its list of 25 most valuable soccer teams in the world. The Top 25 World Soccer Teams are: Manchester United, England. Team value: $1,453 mil;Real Madrid, Spain. Team value: $1,036 mil;Arsenal London, England. Team value: $...
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  Now one blood group fits everyone
...y to convert one blood group into another. The finding can revolutionize medicine as it means there will be no lack of blood supplies. The study conducted by experts from University of Copenhagen published their results in Nature Biotechnology journal, where it is stated that O blood group can be a source for all the other blood types (A, B and AB). If earlier the mistake of giving wrong blood group could lead to...
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  Invisibility is now one step closer
...rily large, as large as a person or an aircraft", he said. This nanotechnological research is based at the Discovery Park of the Birck Nanotechnology Center at Purdue. In 2006 several researchers published their findings on optical cloaking device. Shalaev mentioned that the mathematical requirements for the device were quite general, which is why together with his team he thought of fulfilling the requirements with a...
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  The most important inventions and discoveries of the humanity
...uded after one of its researches that Mendeleev's periodic table of elements was the most important discovery the humanity made... even more important than the discovery of iron. The Community has published a list of 10 most important discoveries the humanity ever made. The results of this research were based on answers of a survey conducted by the community. According to that survey: - the second most important d...
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  Men look at face, women look down there
...and men looking at genitals. However, the results were unexpected and quite the opposite. Women were more 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 gen...
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  New Hollywood Movie Makes Japanese Feel Sick
...Japanese national newspapers warn people that watching a new Hollywood drama can make its viewers feel sick. The warnings are published on request of Gaga Communications, the movie's Japanese distributor. Babel, a Golden Globe and Academy Award winning 2006 multi-narrative drama, was released in Japan on April 28. Since then the movie's distributors have received complaints from at least 15 people who felt ill while w...
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  Israeli consul works in gay porn
...newspaper Ma'ariv reported. The consulate official, after being involved in the scandal, left his post. However, members of administration staff are not diplomatic officials, embarrassing incident published in New York press undermined Israel image once again. That is a second time when Israeli Foreign Ministry officials appear in scandals of sexual nature. At the beginning of March Tzuriel Raphael, Israeli Ambassa...
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  More Google Earth Users than People in Brazil
...m with the longitude and latitude of her children's birthplaces, three of whom she adopted. A German magazine featured a photo of the actress' tattoo, mapped the kid's birthplaces on Google Earth and published the images. Michael Jones mentioned that people got interested not only in Google Earth but specifically in digital earth. People enjoyed viewing their surroundings in a new way. An Iranian sent him mail, saying ...
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  Ten Unnoticed Effects of Global Warming
...The LiveScience Magazine has published a Top 10 global warming side-effects that not everyone knows about. Global warming is, actually, not only about ice melting in the Arctic and temperature rising. It could turn into very strange things. Here they are: 10. More aggravated and aggressive allergies (the "MAAAA") People are experiencing more aggravated and aggressive allergy fits and, partly, experts blame the global wa...
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  In Vitro Babies to Have Their Father's Name in Birth Certificates
... changes in existing fertility bill to give all IVF babies the possibility to have information on their biological parent written in their birth certificate. The previous UK fertility law that was published in May would be almost completely rewritten as substantial changes are expected in such issues as development of "savior siblings", the use of surplus babies for research purposes and having in vitro babies have the...
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  Better Bras for Women - Hong-Kong Researchers Say They Did It
...discomfort. Yet the entire system, suggested by Hong-Kong researchers could be shrunk to one factor - width and length correlation. An article in the International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, published by a team of researchers from Hong-Kong Polytechnic University, claimed that the geometry of a woman's breast was very complex and should be measured in 3 dimensions. This was the main reason the researchers suggest...
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  Van Gogh's $25 Million Painting Is a Fake
...h Museum. In 2006 followed its loan to the Dean Gallery, a public institution located in Edinburgh. During an exhibition called Van Gogh and Britain: Pioneer Collectors London's, The Sunday Times published several claims made by the specialists of Van Gogh works. They stated that "Head Of A Man" was incorrectly attributed. In August 2006, the NGV assumed the risk of responding to the claims. It outlined that it lo...
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  Web is a Fun Place for Most Users
...ites. The use of communication sources also tend to decrease by 18 percent in comparison to the results from 2003. Email and instant messaging use is also losing its popularity. The study is published by the Online Publishers Association. Powered by www.infoniac.com ...
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  Genes Permanently Turned On by Smoking
...Those who smoke tobacco should know that this habit is not considered to be sexy anymore. However, smoking can turn on permanently some of the genes. A study, which was published in BMC Genomics, an on-line open-access journal, was able to explain why those people who used to smoke still have a higher risk for lung cancer development than those who never had the bad habit. Wan L Lam and Stephen Lam, who work at the BC Ca...
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