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  One Million of 100-Year-Olds by 2050, Half of Them to Face Dementia
... born nowadays in the UK are expected to live to the age of 100, while it is predicted that the number of centenarians will increase from the present-day total of 10,000 to 1million by the year 2074. However, the increased lifespan is believed to be spoiled by deteriorating health - in future half of the 100-year-olds will be dying with dementia. Dr Brown, an expert in the degenerative disease, insists that much more ...
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  The Nobel Prize 2007 Has Been Given Away
...etrieve the information. Since all devices tend to miniaturize more sensitive read-out heads are necessary to retrieve information from smaller and smaller magnetized information areas on hard disks. However, not much has changed since 1997, when the first read-out head based on the GMR effect was produced, as it was under constant development and even the hard disks of today are based upon this physical phenomenon. It s...
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  Global Warming will Launch the Global Wars
...Global warming is likely to cause political and social conflicts worldwide, the UN officials declared. Climate changes may result in global civil war, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, a leading climate specialist reported on UN climate change conference on Bali Island, Indonesia. The fight against global warming requires a lot of cooperation from countries around the world but it may as well increase the rivalry for signif...
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  Growth of Emissions Predicted in the U.S. for the Next Decade
...limate Action Report emissions of gases in the US will grow during the next decade just as much as they did previously. Despite its negative side this document, developed for the United Nations, shows that the emissions of gases causing global warming grow, but with a slower pace as the economy does. This trend corresponds completely with the goal set by the president 5 years ago, that is: the carbon dioxide emissions...
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  Ten Unnoticed Effects of Global Warming
... 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 warming. How are these things interrelated? Very simple: on one side there are changes in people's lifestyle, strengthened by pollution. The protection against allergens weakens and the results are allergies. On the other side - globa...
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  Most Spam comes from the USA, says SophosLabs
...sage. Another web-security event that happened in the 3rd quarter of 2007 was the appearance of PDF-spam in June 2007. After only two months after the PDF-spam appeared, it gained much popularity, however it was forgotten also very fast. In the beginning of August SophosLabs identified spam messages of a new format: they contained PDF-files, which persuaded the receivers to acquire stocks of a company called Prime Tim...
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  Earth Hour Will be Marked Worldwide
...As much as 13 cities around the world will turn off the lights for an hour on Saturday March 29 next year to deliver a message to all people about making some action against global warming. Earth Hour is a campaign that urges people worldwide to express their concern for global warming. The fist city that took part in the campaign was Sydney, Australia to reduce the greenhouse emissions by five percent in 2007. The e...
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  U.S. to Place its Antiballistic Missile Defense System in Britain
...ing of the U.S. antiballistic missile defense system on the territory of the United Kingdom. Before that the United States thought of setting its system on the lands of the Czech Republic and Poland. However, its initiative was met with furious objections from the Russian Federation, despite the fact that the U.S. said its defense system was to be installed to fight against Iran and not to aim towards Russia. The spokesw...
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  Scientist's call upon policy makers on global warming
... the summit is to consolidate for appeal to policy makers. The latest Congress debates held in Washington, where Bush administration was criticized for inadequate response to global warming danger, showed that there is a necessity for scientific appeal to policy makers. Thus a new committee was called to deal with the issue. The exploration of both poles will draw the latest technology, including robots and satellites...
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  River Drying Up to Lead to Freshwater Crisis
...e of destruction of the river basin's wetlands and floodplains. About 80 percent was destroyed. Another problem concerns the extraction of water for agriculture. An notable example of the issue, as showed by the report, is the Indus river, flowing in India. Water over-extraction might cause water scarcity which in its turn is a threat for the freshwater fish populations. These represent an important food source for peopl...
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  Possible Aggressive Approach from the U.S. towards China
...A bill is being considered by the U.S. legislators to force the Chinese authorities to raise the value of the yuan, the Chinese national currency. Eswar Prasad, a senior professor of trade policy at Cornell University, warned the legislators that the present bill could become more harmful to the relationship between the two countries than the legislators could expect. Taking in consideration, that prof. Prasad has had mu...
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  France Will not Put a Ban on Skinny Models
...Parisien that France should withstand this media and public pressure on the fashion industry, because when the girls weigh a bit more than needed, they are disposed of at once as though rotten goods. However, there are still some designers, who strive to make their models thinner and thinner. The city council of Paris is absolutely FOR applying more pressure against model agencies and the fashion industry, yet the Health...
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  Microsoft Comes up with New Visitor Attracting Strategies
...Half a year ago Microsoft decided to try another approach in their search engine business, so that they could at least somehow compete with the "big G" - Google. Microsoft tried to convince the public that the Google's mathematical algorithm gave too many results and actually annoys its users. Microsoft thought it would be better using some other concepts of searching. They said that they'd develop absolutely ground-bre...
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  A Bruce Lee biography movie to be filmed in China
...A television series about the Kung Fu legend born in the United States, Bruce Lee, has begun at China state television. The movie includes 40 parts about the famous actor and Kung Fu teacher. The name of the movie is "The Legend of Bruce Lee" and its budget reaches $6.4 million. The shooting began in the southern province of Guangdong. It is worth mentioning that Bruce Lee made 46 Kung Fu movies and helped Hong Kon...
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  Cartier Fights Fake Watch Business
...heir efforts with retailers and authorities to fight wide spread fake watch business and minimize its negative effect. Cartier is one of the brands facing the problem of the replica watch market. However, it is really hard to fake up Cartier watch and jewelry pieces and make them resemble the originals. Professional watchmakers and jewelers put great expertise and skills into their creation, so original Cartier st...
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