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U.S. to Place its Antiballistic Missile Defense System in Britain |
 ...that the British troops are deployed not only in Afghanistan and Iraq but also in the Balkans and Northern Ireland.
The military ventures of Mr. Blair faced a protest on Whitehall. A small group of people protesting against Prime Minister's position submitted a letter to Mr. Blair in which they called for a meeting with him.
The letter said that it was the sixth visit of the protesters, who asked a meeting with their ... |
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China Denies the Accusations on its Military Build-up |
 ... The officials from Peoples Republic of China denied the accusations of the United States regarding its military build-up. They stated that China, as a country with the biggest number of population, always looks forward to contribute to the world peace.
Despite China's statements on world peace, Dick Cheney raised concerns regarding its military build-up. He said that testing anti-satellite missiles does not represent a... |
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Tragic Human Error Lead to Transplantation of HIV-positive Organs |
 ...d that the woman, although being HIV-positive, didn't know she was infected with the virus and after her death, caused by a brain hemorrhage, her relatives were not against donating her organs to the people who were in need.
Majno also outlined that now there is a very high risk of virus infection for the recipients of HIV infected organs.
Considering this case the director of transplants for Tuscany (a region in F... |
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First Antarctic Educational Center to be Opened Soon |
 ...as well as the representatives of corporate sponsors to Antarctica. These trips started in 2003 and their goal is to create an educational base together with the government of Russia.
A team of 60 people gather from different countries will start its trip towards the ice continent on Saturday. The meeting place is Ushuaia - the city that's the southernmost in the world. The trip is called Inspire Antarctic Expedition 5... |
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Humanoids continue invading |
 ...The 21st century is not the time, when people can be easily impressed, this can be refered to another, whether weird or wise, invention of the Japanese, that is a humanoid robot.
On the other hand the most impressive thing is that people are still striving to create somebody, or something, to resemble themselves.
This game has ended up in a demonstration of bots to help the aging population of Japan in their everyda... |
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Only 13 % People Have Internet Access |
 ...Only 13 percent of people on the planet have access to the Internet. This statement was made by the United Nations News Center. The majority of Internet users (90 %) live in industrialized countries. The gap in the field of information technology between the developed countries and those that are in development, is continuously increasing.
In its statement the UN News Center mentioned that most developing countries canno... |
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Storm virus attacks blogs |
| ... computer software that infects another computer and can use personal data of the user sending it to third parties.
Storm virus presents a real danger as it interferes in social networks. A lot of people who visit blog journals are not aware of the threat that may come from the common discussion on related topics with the author they trust. A link that will appear in blog's author site will lure them to check out an in... |
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DNA research approaches the origins of human beings |
 ...e database. Efforts of well-known scientists in geography and genetic medicine will reside in 10 world regions to find traces of human ancestry.
Aside from DNA information collected from indigenous people, other people can also have their genetic data tested and take part in the research on voluntary basis.
Scott Woodward, one of John Hopkins University researches emphasizes that a person's DNA holds an enormous amou... |
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Happiness Might Appear Before Fortunate Events Occur, Study Says |
 ... prosperity, marriage or health do not determine our subjective well being.
This theory has proved to be basically true, but only for some changes concerning the character of the event. Though most people can adapt to variety of negative and disturbing circumstances like death of a close person or significant changes in marital status, and return to a normal level of well being, individual differences still matter. Afte... |
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Aggressive women - genes' fault |
 ...ely related to hostility and ill temper in women.
As it was previously showed by various researches, the hormone serotonin plays an important part in regulating aggressive behavior for animals and people. Thus the lower level of serotonin, the more are the chances that an individual will show hostility or act in aggressive and anxious manner. The high level of serotonin will contribute to feelings of happiness, emotion... |
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Iraq Asks for Help to Stop Violence |
| ...ce in Baghdad asked Iraq's neighbors for help. 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 represe... |
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Search Information Will Go Private |
 ...Today the main search engine for millions of people, Google, announced that the servers won't keep the information on the users' searches forever.
Until recent times, Google kept the search information linked with certain computers around the world. However from now on the system will make this information anonymous after 18 to 24 months.
According to Nicole Wong, deputy general counsel at Google, the company made t... |
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Pills Against Insomnia Cause Sleepwalking |
 ...l reported missing food, wrappers in bed and traces of cooking in the kitchen and they can't recall eating, cooking or anything at all.
The more disturbing group is the one of sleeping drivers. Such people say that all they could remember was taking a pill and going to bed. However they wake up in their pajamas in the middle of the road and being interrogated by a police officer. Fortunately, there were no death reports ... |
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To live or die - computer will decide |
| ...Are you ready to entrust your destiny to a computer? Researches say that a new computer program can make life-or-death decisions for disabled people better than their closest relatives.
A new research conducted by National Institute of Health (NIH) introduced a software program that can calculate all the pros and contras for further treatment of the seriously ill patients based on the mathematical formula. The decisio... |
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A Trojan-horse strategy selected to fight bacteria |
 ...arches is the fact that bacteria become more and more resistant to antibiotics. The medicine cannot provide an effective drug to kill all the chronic infections occurring in wounds or in the lungs of people with cystic fibrosis.
This way the current study is directed at finding a new approach in fighting upper mentioned bacteria; and a result has been already found. This time scientists didn't spend their time finding su... |
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