China’s winter weather threatens food supplies

Thursday, January 31, 2008
A Chinese official says harsh winter weather is threatening food production and adding to inflationary pressures. Political pressure is also building on the government for its failure to anticipate and solve the problems. A top Chinese disaster relief official was quoted by Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post newspaper Thursday as calling it the worst natural disasteRead More…

Wikinews interviews World Wide Web co-inventor Robert Cailliau

Thursday, August 16, 2007
The name Robert Cailliau may not ring a bell to the general public, but his invention is the reason why you are reading this: Dr. Cailliau together with his colleague Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, making the internet accessible so it could grow from an academic tool to a mass communication medium. Last January Dr. Cailliau retired from CERN, the EuropRead More…

Free Weight Loss Tips: 4 Positive Ways To Achieve Your Weight Loss Goals

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In order to lose weight successfully, you first have to realize that losing weight is a journey with a specific destination. Right now, you’re at the very beginning and about to take the first step towards changing your eating and lifestyle habits, so that you can have the body you really want.
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EU adopts renewable energy measures

Friday, March 9, 2007File:Angela Merkel SJ8.jpg
European Union leaders on the second day of their summit have agreed on measures to decrease emission of greenhouse gases and to start using more biological fuels. The governments of the 27 countries in Brussels endorsed 3 main binding targets: to reduce greenhouse gas emission levels by the year 2020 by 20% compared to the level of 1990
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Explosion at University of Missouri-Columbia leaves four injured

Wednesday, June 30, 2010
An explosion at the University of Missouri-Columbia (Mizzou) on Monday afternoon left four people injured, authorities say.
The explosion occurred in a science laboratory in Schweitzer Hall around 2:20 p.m. CDT (1920 UTC) Monday. The source of the explosion was first thought to have been a 2,000-pound (907.2-kilogramme) hydrogen tank, but fire officials later said that tRead More…

The Way You Choose Bookmakers Main Principles

Read An Opinion On: Golf Futures Odds So, you’ve decided to earn your living by making bets on arbitrage betting. How degree of you success will depend on many factors and the main is the bookmaker you have chosen. This is the first and the most important step for every bettor.
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NYSE to merge with Archipelago; NASDAQ to buy Instinet

Sunday, April 24, 2005
New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) announced last Wednesday that it has agreed definitively to merge with Chicago-based Archipelago Exchange (ArcaEx) and form a new publicly traded, for-profit company known as NYSE Group. This announcement was followed two days later by NASDAQ®, which independently announced a definitive agreement to purchase Instinet Group.
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US declares public health emergency over spread of swine flu

Sunday, April 26, 2009
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced today at a news conference that the U.S. has declared a public health emergency in light of the swine flu outbreak. The total number of confirmed swine flu cases in the United States stands at 20.
Secretary Napolitano said that the United States’ declaration follows suit with the “standard operating procedure” of such Read More…

Dentists Raise Affected Person Base With Acquisition Postcard Marketing And Advertising

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Saturn moon Enceladus may have salty ocean

Thursday, June 23, 2011
NASA’s Cassini–Huygens spacecraft has discovered evidence for a large-scale saltwater reservoir beneath the icy crust of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The data came from the spacecraft’s direct analysis of salt-rich ice grains close to the jets ejected from the moon. The study has been published in this week’s edition of the journal Nature.
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