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	European Union is Angry on Microsoft
... Another warning of the European Commission goes to Microsoft. While in an anti-trust struggle with Brussels, the company faced further fines for seeking unreasonable prices from the software developers for vital data. The European Union criticized Microsoft. The EU executive stated that the latest formal charges might lead the American software corporation to additional daily penalties. Jonathan Todd, the competition ...
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	Alcohol kills faster than ecstasy
...ead to revision of ABC system. A team of 29 psychiatrists took part in the the study to classify all drugs into nine groups that were analyzed on the physical harm, addiction and social danger. Another group consisted of 16 experts did the research in several fields including chemistry, pharmacology, psychiatry and legal field to say a final word on drug ranking. According to this new drug list, alcohol is named ...
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	New chocolate can save the planet
...Imagine a sweet creamy chocolate bar melting in your mouth? And now think of the huge amount of plastic, tinfoil and other by-products thrown away. For a chocoholic, the choice between his favorite dark chocolate and environment can be too difficult to make. But what gives even more concern to the consumers is the fact that many chocolate companies use excessive amount of vegetable fat and sugar, substituting natural ...
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	Difficult child-good marriage conquers all
...he child birth on the quality of their marital relationships and later on on their interaction with the child, when he or she was 3,5 months old. Researchers focused on couple's cooperation with each other, their activity with the child and how they managed to cope with the disturbing and fussy behavior of the child. Researches came to a conclusion that good marital relationships are crucial in determining effective ma...
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	Biofuel Vehicles to Put Our Health at Risk
...0 deaths more every year in the US, with only Los Angeles at risk of 120 deaths. Even if to take into account that ozone increase in some US regions would be partially compensated by its decrease in other regions, in general there would be over 700 extra complaints to accident and emergency and almost 1000 extra hospitalizations of people suffering from asthma and other respiratory ailments. The scientists determin...
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	New Electronic Display to Be Used on Clothes and Beer Cans
...One of the latest inventions in the field of light emitting devices might change the way people light their homes and design clothes. The device represents a thin film of plastic able to conduct electricity and create solar power. Scientists working on the international project are looking forward to bring the organic light emitting devices to the masses. Thus the invention could significantly cut costs by billions of ...
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	Nano-nose to help identify illnesses
...e up the coating of the nanoparticles. Different types of proteins have different features, thus having a property to attach to various receptors, though binding with some receptors more than with others. The team's task was to identify those properties of binding for different proteins. For this purpose the team used a molecule beaming a fluorescent signal. The molecule attached to the receptor particles and then it w...
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	Google collects your web habits
... good intentions raised some concerns for privacy advocates who fear that new service threatens individual's privacy. The easier access and web sites storage suggests that user's data can be used for other purposes. Google assures that individuals who are using Web History service do not risk their privacy as this data won't be shared with the third parties. Besides, the service is optional and anyone has a choice to d...
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	Timeline of the events in Tallinn, Estonia
...icers were injured. The city-council of Tallinn banned alcohol sales in the capital. The bronze statue was disassembled during the night. During riots a 20-year old young man was stabbed to death and other 44 were injured; an employee of the Latvian embassy injured. On the Kamchatka peninsula Estonian products are off sales as a sign of protest. Estonian embassies in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg are put under intense secur...
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	Stressed at Work - Mentally Ill by 32
... the men with high levels of the above-mentioned work stress factors, they turned out to be 80 per cent more likely to get depressed or anxious than those who had the lowest levels. According to another independent research, 16 per cent of people in New Zealand suffer major depression and 6 per cent suffer general anxiety at some life point. Professor Richie Poulton who directed the Dunedin study, also mentioned tha...
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	A Memorable Speaker - Not the One Speaking Clearly
...is the same as if we were saying to ourselves "It's better to pay attention now, because what I expected was going to happen is in fact not going to happen". Politicians, broadcasters, lawyers and other speakers, often try to iron out disfluencies from their speech. Now they may be pleased to find out that their ums may be judged as a sign of clear communication. Powered by www.infoniac.com ...
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	The 2007 Winners of Ig Nobel Prize Who Made us Laugh and Think
...searchers Prof. Dr. Johanna E.M.H. van Bronswijk of Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands was applauded for the study of all the insects, bacteria, fungi, shellfish, mites, ferns and other living things that sleep with us each night. Physics L. Mahadevan of Harvard University, USA, and Enrique Cerda Villablanca of Universidad de Santiago de Chile, were awarded for finding the key to how sheets become...
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	77 Percent of Girls Consider Themselves Ugly
...g number of teenagers having low self-esteem. One 14-year-old girl wrote that images in magazines make her feel upset because she knows she could never be that beautiful. Dr Susie Orbach, a psychotherapist and the author of Time to Talk says that the effect of media images can be crucial to vulnerable psychic of young girls who are "bombarded by millions of images of digitally manipulated, airbrushed beauty every da...
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	Researchers Suggest: More Happiness Results in More Suffering
... shouldn't try to become even happier as in fact they risk to become less happy. The study conducted by psychology professor Shigehiro Oishi (University of Virginia) and his colleagues from three other institutions suggests that on average, European-Americans feel happy in general. They feel more happy than Asian-Americans, Japanese or Koreans. However, European-Americans loose their happiness more easily when influ...
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