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Scientist's call upon policy makers on global warming |
 ...for the International Polar Year that is expected to end in March 2009. For this period the environmental experts are going to explore in detail all the aspects of seasonal changes at both poles.
Nowadays no one should feel indifferent about the serious consequences that global warming entails. One of the main goals set on the summit is to consolidate for appeal to policy makers. The latest Congress debates held in W... |
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New Saliva Test to Save 1,000 Unborn Babies Each Year |
 ...hers, women who are over their 40s, women that suffer from obesity and those that have a family history of pre-eclampsia.
The pre-eclampsia was, for the first time, identified 150 years ago. Till nowadays,however, doctors were not able to find what causes the condition.
Dr. Brian Owen-Smith, a retired hospital rheumatologist, was the one to develop the new saliva test. The test monitors increased levels of urate, w... |
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New students forced to take pregnancy tests |
| ... students describing the measure taken by the school's officials as a "warning".
The economic reforms in China resulted in a loosened state control over the personal lives of its people.
Till nowadays a birth out of wedlock in China is a taboo and heavy-handed administration of the one-child policy, this also includes forced abortions. The right groups mentioned that the one-child policy is very common in poor rur... |
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Cars to Say 'No!' to Drunk Drivers |
 ...roduce 2,000 models of Alcoguard to supply the Volvo S80, V70 and XC70. The devices will retail at 800 Euro (1,000 dollars) and are aimed to be initially used by taxi companies and municipalities.
Nowadays, no one is surprised to find out that one in three highway fatalities in Europe is caused by alcohol-intoxication. According to Ingrid Skogsmo, manager of the Volvo Cars Safety Center, the company has developed Alcog... |
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Smiley emoticon marks 25 anniversary |
 ... and irony and help us convey the message more precisely. Written phrases lack emotions without emoticons and can be wrong understood. It delivers emotions that we usually express with our voice.
Nowadays the software progress introduced a huge range of emoticons that people could hardly imagine living without just 25 years ago.
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One Million of 100-Year-Olds by 2050, Half of Them to Face Dementia |
 ...y, is warning that gradual increase in lifespan implies that more and more elderly people have to spend the last decades of their life in the struggle against disability and dementia.
Babies 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... |
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Flash Memory Will Soon Become Obsolete |
 ...ced technique of storing memory. This method, called PMC (programmable metallization cell), will increase the physical limits of storage technology by 1,000 times in comparison with flash memory used nowadays. This means that memory of digital cameras, MP3 players and laptops could be considerably expanded.
The college's Center for Applied Nanoionics (CANi), where the new technique was introduced, challenged the physic... |
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Ex-Astronaut Says Plan to Blast Asteroids With Nuclear Weapons is Bad |
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In a public meeting, held in San Francisco, the former NASA astronaut stated that politics were the ones to force NASA to come up with the idea of using nuclear missiles.
Mr Schweichart said that nowadays we are just unaware of what is heading towards our planet. However, scientists will be much more informed after new powerful telescopes go online.
"The good news is that we can do something about this. The marriage... |
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Americans Adopt More Children with HIV from Ethiopia |
 ...nal HIV-positive adoption advocacy organization, helped 52 HIV-positive children to find a family. She also adopted three children with HIV, driven by a desire to make some difference in the world.
Nowadays, HIV is more manageable with a help of medications and sometimes the costs of a treatment would reach up to $1,500 a month, though with health insurance it might be less costly. In some cases, like for adopted 9-year... |
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China and Iraq Sign Strategic Oil Service Contract |
 ... was modified from a deal on sharing oil production into set-fee service agreement.
The contract stipulates that the production from the oilfield will increase from 90,000 to 110,000 barrels a day. Nowadays Iraq extracts about 2.4 million b/d and the output is expected to increase by 500,000 b/d before the end of 2008.
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Average Daily Dose of Peace for a Person is 63 Minutes |
 ...nce but today they do it.
"I think its the way people work and I think people accept it. A newspaper would have previously got one golden moment when the reader would sit by themselves and read it. Nowadays I watch people on the train they have a walkman on and read a paper at the same time," he said.
Williams also said that noise represents a vital sense of safety and companionship for some people. Most often people ... |
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