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Growth of Emissions Predicted in the U.S. for the Next Decade |
 ...According to the delayed United States Climate 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 ag... |
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Google is out testing new old features |
 ...n mid May last year and the developers said that the new function was to help people note and remember some sites and searches, which they may not have had time to research the same moment and had to delay it a bit.
The Google Notebook feature is available to everyone having a Google account. Try it out .
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Women Find $70,000 on Junk-Yard |
 ...An interesting case happened in Aguazul, Colombia. A group of women were gathering old paper, glass and cans, when they ran onto a rather impressive sum of money: something equivalent to $70,000.
Jose David Castaneda, the public prosecutor in the Department of Casanare, said that this discovery was a simple accident.
The finding was reported by one of the relatives of the women, thus the police could retain the mone... |
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Australia in Danger of Terrorist Attacks? |
 ...according to Nick O'Brien, a counter-terrorism associate professor.
The top 10 list includes Auckland and New Plymouth in New Zealand ranked highest; Perth in Australia -third, Brisbane - fourth, Adelaide - sixth, Melbourne - seventh and Sydney - eighth.
The recorded search numbers are partially explained by activity of criminal elements, such as bikie gangs. However, the terrorism experts are alarmed by the results,... |
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The Ultra-Rich ...Patient Enough to Buy Supercars? |
 ...slotted into the next production run. As for the much-desired Mercedes-Benz SLR high-performance car, it is said to be available from September and, so far, one may acquire the car with no particular delay.
It is interesting that the car industry experts have noticed that a rash of over-expensive cars often implies an economic slump in the nearest future. In the 1980s the leading car makers such as he Bugatti EB110 GT,... |
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8.2% Social Workers Took Drugs Last Month, Study Says |
 ...ion has raised during last 10-15 years in the USA. Similar studies from 1994 and 1997 showed 7.6% and 7.7% of social workers taking drugs, yet there were not as many people questioned.
According to Joseph Gfroerer from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, in most cases social workers confessed of smoking marijuana.
In addition the research showed that 8.8% of American social workers (10.1 mil... |
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The World Says Rest in Peace to Luciano Pavarotti |
 ...were sold all over the world.
Luciano Pavarotti took part in several daring, yet successful projects, such as the famous "Three tenors" project, which bonded Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras in one trio. In the middle of the 90's Luciano Pavarotti went further on: he joined forces with several rock and pop stars, such as Sting, Joe Cocker and Eric Clapton. He was not once criticized for these allian... |
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Doctor cut off the wrong side of woman's head |
 ...as not accurate when checking the tomography tests and started an operation on the right side of the head where there was no tumor. The doctor soon understood it was his mistake and removed the tumor delaying the end of the operation by an hour. The woman stays at hospital for rehabilitation. Hospital staff said that it will work to never repeat such mistakes.
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The 2007 Winners of Ig Nobel Prize Who Made us Laugh and Think |
 ...made a significant contribution studying the word "the" and resolving many resolve issues regarding it, such as when you try to put things into alphabetical order.
Linguistics
Juan Manuel Toro, Josep B. Trobalon and Núria Sebastián-Gallés, of Universitat de Barcelona won international recognition by demonstrating that rats sometimes cannot distinguish if person is speaking Japanese backwards Dutch bac... |
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Researchers Suggest: More Happiness Results in More Suffering |
 ...e things in our life. Professor Shigehiro Oishi made an interesting comparison - he said it is the same as when a person is used to flying first class and feels really annoyed because of a half-hour delay. Yet, a person who usually flies economy class accepts the delay easily.
Oishi himself grew up in Japan and moved to the USA at the age of 23. It was really interesting for the psychologist to compare how people from... |
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Late Risers Protest to Change Work Schedule |
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Harvey Moldofsky, director of the Centre for Sleep and Chronobiology at the University of Toronto says that it is important to recognize that late rising is genetic and their natural wake-up is delayed.
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Programmers Created Writer-Robot |
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One of the authors of the computer program Alexandr Prokopovich said that editors depend on the writers, while the latter may not have an inspiration or suffer from alcohol addiction and delay the date of the book release. With this software, you can be sure that book will be written in time, having the style that is required by editor. The software programmers had an experience of developing the plot of com... |
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Meat of Cloned Food is Safe to Eat, FDA Says |
 ...nd milk from cloned swine, goats and cattle is not different from the conventionally bred animals. The officials also said that this food doesn't need special labeling after scientific conclusion.
Joseph Mendelson, legal director of the Center for Food Safety says that food from cloned animals should be labeled as safety and ethical issues of such food is still questionable.
Carol Tucker Foreman, director of food p... |
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War in Iraq led to six trillion dollars loss |
 ... War in Iraq cost six trillion dollars resulting in enormous loss for the world , experts say.
Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel prize-winning economist said that price given for Iraq war can be compared to the price of gold and currency reserves of all countries of the world.
The US spendings on this war outreached those given in 12-year-old war in Vietnam and on war in Korea. The total expenditures, including loan coas... |
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