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First Antarctic Educational Center to be Opened Soon |
 ... the North and South poles without any assistance. Now his aim is to build a center on a Russian base, which is situated on King George Island. The center is to teach children about several important things about Antarctica. They will learn about the climate change and most importantly they will learn about the things that they can do for protecting our planet.
The base itself has a size of 40 by 10 feet. The material ... |
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24-hours' Demonstration in front of Congresswoman's House |
 ...leave Thursday night, but the protestors intend to resist the police.
One of the officers even said that these people can stay and do whatever they wanted, but they were not allowed to have all the things they brought along there.
A spokesman of the Congresswoman said that the vigil does not disturb Mrs. Pelosi. What she was worried about were her neighbors, who have already made complaints to the police about blocked ... |
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Lawsuit to Target E-mail Harvesters and Spammers |
 ...rom various websites and pass them on to spammers.
The chief executive of Unspam Technologies, Matthew Prince, stated that today there are many Internet users who are simply sick and tired of such things and they want to stop it.
Filed under federal and state anti-spam laws, the lawsuit defined defendants as "John Doe." This means that the plaintiffs are going to ask the court for authority to subpoena records from... |
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If Google is 'BigBrother', then YES - BigBrother watches You! |
 ...on where a person had both his high speed Internet connection and the cable TV from the same service provider. After some time surfing the web he thought the TV was showing targeted ad, guided by the things he was searching for on the web earlier that day.
If this is true and not just a paranoia in its initial phase, this could mean some controversial things, i.e. a profit raise for site owners and webmasters or, on t... |
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Overcoming the Culture Shock with a Mobile Phone Game |
 ...for students in the UK to help them overcome the culture shock. This is expected to be achieved through pictures of students drinking alcohol or a couple kissing in public, integrated into the game - things not allowed in certain cultures.
The game is called C-Shock and it is being developed by Nipan Minar, who himself arrived five years ago from India to study in the UK. Nipan is being helped by his assistant - Emily ... |
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Exclusive dinners served by prisoners |
 ...es for life after the release. Many prisoners hope to use their skills after they get out of prison.
All the visitors have to pass through metal detector, present their ID and leave their personal things like cell phones and handbags. They will go past prison cells to enter the restaurant.
Restrictions were introduced into restaurants norms for those who are concerned about safety. Besides the guards watching over t... |
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Ten Unnoticed Effects of Global Warming |
 ...ished a Top 10 global warming side-effects that not everyone knows about. Global warming is, actually, not only about ice melting in the Arctic and temperature rising. It could turn into very strange 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 inter... |
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Chinese Deliver Live Rats to Restaurants |
 ...gers claim they could catch 150 kilos of live rats a night. As one of vendors from the capital of Guangdong province said, people are rich in the southern part of the country and enjoy eating exotic things, so his business develops really well.
There are restaurants in Guangdong promoting 'rat banquets'. The price for one kilo of rat meat is 136 yuan (that is $A20,7). Hunan local governments have been trying to stop... |
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How about a quotes section? |
| ...ld wake up, if ever, turn on their computers and visit a social network to see what's new all over the net. And it's not only news one can find there: there are polls, opinions, discussions and other things. Social networks are communities and not just sites. People meet there, share news and things, and what's best, will be pushed up the front paged to be seen by millions, the rest is forgotten.
What I'd like to talk ... |
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PandaLabs' List of Unusual Malicious Software |
| ...During the first half of 2007 there were dozens of new viruses and malware coming, which were based on very ingenious algorithms and did some funny things, partly. Based on this fact folks at PandaLabs have reviewed the list of most unusual and interesting malware.
The most religious virus: USBToy.A worm has been awarded this prestigious title. The reason for this was that each time an infected computer restarted, the ... |
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How to Deal With Too Much Attention at Work (for women) |
 ...rest. Psychologists suggested a "myth man" to avoid this problem: "if she has no partner, she should invent one", thus the competition should cut off much unwanted and unnecessary attention.
Other things restricted for a woman at work are compliments not regarding his professional activity, as it might again be regarded as personal interest. The greatest taboo at the office is erotic jokes - unwanted interest guarantee... |
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5-Year-Old Girl - Youngest in the World with Double Lung Transplant |
 ...iam's mother, having witnessed the amazing transformation in her child, urges more African and Asian people to undergo donor's registration. She says, that the majority of people never consider such things, still people need to become more informed about the issues relevant to organ donation. Mariam's mother says she can't imagine the tragedy the family who donated the lungs had to come through and she doesn't have words... |
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A Memorable Speaker - Not the One Speaking Clearly |
 ...ith no stumbles.
According to Dr Martin Corley, Edinburgh University's School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, a disfluency becomes a useful interruption to the expected ritual of things. It 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... |
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Women Rate Men with Deep Voices Higher |
 ...oiced men had more access to fertile women. Still, they warned men that they would not become more popular with women by affecting a deeper voice as women can easily tell when someone is faking such things.
As for female voices, the researchers discovered no link between a voice pitch and the number of children she had. But the studies have proved that when a woman has more chances of becoming pregnant, she becomes m... |
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