SCIENCE News, Jul 19, 2011

Report Some voters swayed by looks alone

Politico
First impressions matter in politics — and according to new research, they may be all some voters get before heading to the polls. A new Massachusetts Institute of Technology study found that so-called “low-information voters” — those who watch a lot ...
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UP, DOST embark on automated monorail project Newsbytes Philippines Montejo and Pascual were joined by DOST-Metals Industry Research and Development Centerdirector Arthur Lucas Cruz, UP Diliman chancellor Caesar Saloma, DOST-Philippine Council for Industry, Energy, and Emerging Technology Research and Development ... See all stories on this topic »

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Equinome Launches Elite Performance Test for Thoroughbred Horses

Science Daily (press release)
The test is based upon research carried out by Dr Emmeline Hill, a leading horse genomics researcher, and her research group at UCD's School of Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine. Equinome was established in 2009 by Dr Emmeline Hill in ...
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Two Gustavus Students Spend Summer at NASA Airborne Science Program Gustavus Adolphus College News (blog) Atkins' personal research project is dealing with the Hydrocarbon seeps in the Santa Barabara Channel. By using NASA technology, he is attempting to both qualitatively and quantitatively locate and analyze the location of Hydrocarborn seeps in the ... See all stories on this topic »

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Hartwell grant supports research to prevent preterm births The JHU Gazette While studies indicate that the SHG technique could work, the technology now requires a bench-top microscope about the size of a mini-refrigerator, far too large to be used in real-world situations. To address this clinical need, Li proposes to develop ... See all stories on this topic »

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Good Vibrations: Can Body Vibration Machines Help You Get Fit?

Huffington Post
So I looked up the published research on WBV and found a lot of very positive results. For example, the Journal of Sports Science and Medicine published a study in 2007 from the Department of Sport and Exercise Science at the University of Athens ...
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Life Science Leader Magazine
“We are very pleased to be working with Dr. Nash and his team and to offer our clients the highest standards in industry-sponsored clinical research,” said Mike Murphy, MD, PhD, Chief Medical and Scientific Officer of Worldwide Clinical Trials. ...
See all stories on this topic »Study Compares Trends in News Coverage of Energy Policy in the UK and Finland

Big Think
At the journal Public Understanding of Science, a forthcoming study provides one of the first cross-national comparisons of how energy policy has been covered and debated in news coverage [abstract]. To date, a growing number of studies have offered ...
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Corvallis Gazette Times
Since 1985, the IFTSA College Bowl has tested the knowledge of student teams from across the United States in the areas of food science and technology, history of foods and food processing, food law, and general IFT/food-related facts. ...
See all stories on this topic »How a Mission to Mars Could Kill You

Discovery News
But science is finding new ways to lessen the impact of the worst space will throw at our delicate physiology. A manned mission to Mars will push human ingenuity into the next frontier of space exploration, but are the health risks worth it? ...
See all stories on this topic »Student Has a Winning Research Formula

University of Texas at Dallas (press release)
He attended the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai, one of the top schools for science in his home country. He entered a specialized program in chemistry that covered a broad range of topics, where he began exploring current research trends. ...
See all stories on this topic »USDA Tests New Bird Detection Technology

USDA.gov (press release) (blog)
Recently, USDA-Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) scientists at the National Wildlife Research Center (NWRC) tested two new scare devices developed by private companies that include species recognition technologies─the Sonic Dissuader® ...
See all stories on this topic »Feds pay for study of gay men's penis sizes

Daily Caller
NDRI has received taxpayer money since 1985 for “behavioral science research on drug abuse, AIDS and crime.” NIH records show that NDRI has received more than $15 million since 2000. The gay men penis-size study falls under the NDRI's drug abuse, ...
See all stories on this topic »BGI and National Wolfberry Engineering Research Center launch Chinese ...

PhysOrg.com (press release)
However, wolfberry genome research lays the foundation of the studies on the gene resource, species genetic diversity, variations of ecological factor, among others, which will facilitate applications in exploring high-quality germplasm resources, ...
See all stories on this topic »History or business studies? The lowdown on employability by degree

TARGETjobs
You might have thought that graduates of creative arts and design courses or social studies would be more likely to struggle to find employment than engineers or computer science graduates. Not so. According to HESA's analysis, computer science ...
See all stories on this topic »Alkermes Provides Outlook for Alkermes plc and Update on Advancing Product ...

MarketWatch (press release)
According to IMS Health, an estimated 266 million prescriptions were written for opioids in the United States during 2010, and many studies indicate that a high percentage of patients receiving opioids are likely to experience side effects affecting ...
See all stories on this topic »Executive Profiles: Disruptive Tech Leaders In Social Business -- Lyle Fong ...

Forbes (blog)
The next wave of innovations, case studies, and stories will showcase organizations making strategic transformative moves hand in hand with their best and most passionate customers. This whole move will be all around the social customer. ...
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Donna Bryant, Administrative Assistant, graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in General Studies at Wilmington University this May. She will begin her Master of Science in Information Systems Technology in the fall, while simultaneously ...
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Previously, he was the John Hazen White Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Director of the Taubman Center for Public Policy at Brown University. His current research focuses on technology policy, the Internet, digital media, ...
See all stories on this topic »Slingshot SEO Signs On As Platinum Sponsor of Connections 2011

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The company's results are driven by a tireless passion to master the science of search. In May 2011, Slingshot SEO was recognized as the "IT Company of the Year" at TechPoint's Mira Awards, the premier technology awards program in the state of Indiana. ...
See all stories on this topic »IPAB and PCORI Must Go: 6 Points From Dr. Scott Glaser on Why Repeal is Necessary

Becker's Orthopedic & Spine (press release)
"Our field has opened up through research, innovativeness and the use of technology," says Dr. Glaser. "This has completely revolutionized the treatment of spinal pain." With some what interventional pain management physicians do under fire, ...
See all stories on this topic »NSVascular, Inc., a NeuroSigma Subsidiary, Signs an Exclusive License Covering ...

PR Newswire (press release)
"We are very excited that NSVascular will be moving this technology through translational studies and hopefully ultimately to patients thereby benefitting both society and the economy at large," said Earl Weinstein, Associate Director of UCLA's Office ...
See all stories on this topic »Pa. turbines cost farmers by killing insect-eating bats | Philadelphia ...

Philadelphia Inquirer
Technology is being developed to equip turbines with sound generators that would drive bats away with a high-pitched noise that only they hear. Some studies suggest slowing down blades would also help. But new technology is expensive, ...
See all stories on this topic »Conservative Media Misled Light Bulb Consumers At Least 40 Times In 7 Months

Media Matters for America
"There's a massive misperception that incandescents are going away quickly," said Chris Calwell, a researcher with Ecos Consulting who studies the bulb market. "There have been more incandescent innovations in the last three years than in the last two ...
See all stories on this topic »BOEMRE's Renewable Energy Workshop Focuses on Environmental Considerations for ...

The Maritime Executive (press release)
Under this framework, we continue to use principles of adaptive management to integrate results from environmental studies and lessons learned from onsite monitoring into our project oversight and planning. The science and research programs within ...
See all stories on this topic »Old Dominion U. professor is trying to save Internet history

Washington Post
Michael Nelson, a computer science professor at Old Dominion University in Virginia, is thinking those terrible thoughts. His research team has spent the past couple of years studying how much of the Internet is being saved — what portion of the vast ...See all stories on this topic »

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LIBYA, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen News, Jun 19, 2011

'Libya, Yemen dictators doomed to fall' Press TV Other uprisings have erupted in Bahrain and Yemen, where the regimes have resorted to violent crackdowns on the anti-government protesters. Syria has been experiencing unrest over the past months, with demonstrations held both against and in support of ... See all stories on this topic » Press TV

Trends and dynamics Daily News Egypt Revolutions in other Arab countries — Yemen, Syria and Libya — are still in the process of struggle and bloody confrontation with a regime; or are still budding, as in Algeria, Morocco and Bahrain; or have yet to commence — in Oman, Kuwait, ... See all stories on this topic »

Arms Trade Treaty May Bypass Anti-Riot Weapons Inter Press Service ... regulation of the global arms trade were concluded last week, there was one missing link in the proposed treaty: riot control equipment used recently against peaceful demonstrators in the streets of Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Syria, Yemenand Jordan. ... See all stories on this topic »

Articles by Omar Ashour The Moscow Times Those threats were heard in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria and — rendered in black-comedy style — in Libya. But there is a strong belief across the region that the costs of removing autocracies, as high as they might be, are low compared with ... See all stories on this topic »

Trade deficit up by 10 percent in first five months of 2011 The Daily Star It added that about 12 percent of Lebanon's exports are directed to Syria, Egypt,Libya, Tunisia, Yemen and Bahrain, all of which witnessed political and security troubles this year. Moreover, although Lebanon's direct exposure to Syria is small (only ... See all stories on this topic »

Jordan's Olive Branch theTrumpet.com Jordan, which borders Saudi Arabia, has in recent months witnessed pro-democracy demonstrations inspired by uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. The leaders' statement also alluded to ongoing unrest in Yemen, Syria, Libya and Bahrain, where Saudi Arabian ... See all stories on this topic »

What is the most powerful force in the modern Middle East? (Hint: It's not change) Foreign Policy In Jordan, Yemen, and Tunisia, promises of reform have thus far outnumbered any substantial steps in that direction. (See, for a thoughtful analysis, my Carnegie colleague Marina Ottaway's "Tunisia: The Revolution Is Over, Can Reform Continue? ... See all stories on this topic » Foreign Policy

Constructing a New Libya After Colonel Gadhafi Is Gone The Moscow Times Those threats were heard in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria and — rendered in black-comedy style — in Libya. But there is a strong belief across the region that the costs of removing autocracies, as high as they might be, are low compared with ... See all stories on this topic »

MIddle East unrest LIVE - latest developments in #Syria, #Libya ... unrest LIVE - latest developments in #Syria, #Libya, #Egypt #Yemen + ... Syria,Libya and Middle East unrest - live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk ...Report: Doctors targeted in Bahrain - Middle East - Al Jazeera English ... inagist.com/.../MIddle_East_unrest_LIVE_-_latest_developme...

Syria, Libya and Middle East unrest Browse · Search · News/Activism · Topics · Post Article ... There were reports of army and police raids in several Syrian towns and cities from the ... Bahrain'smain opposition group Wefaq says it is pulling out of a national ... Libya Muammar Gaddafi, Yemen Ali Abdullah Saleh, Son of former Egyptian President ... www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2750010/posts

Syria, Libya and Middle East unrest - Friday 15 July 2011 | World... guardian.co.uk, UK and World news, User comments, Web ...Protests in Yemen, Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia · Tweet this · reddit this ... www.guardian.co.uk/.../syria-libya-middle-east-unrest-live

Tunisian Soldiers Break Up Clashes with Tear Gas, Gunfire « VOA ... Voice of America ®. A Trusted Source of News & Information since 1942 ... to citizens calling for reforms in Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen Jordan and Libya. ... blogs.voanews.com/.../tunisian-soldiers-break-up-clashes-with-...

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Syria, Libya and Middle East unrest - 18 July 2011 | World news ... Syria sees one of its bloodiest weekends since the start of the uprising ... www.guardian.co.uk/.../syria-egypt-middle-east-unrest-live

BBC News - Arab Spring: Unfinished business for protesters Ruler overthrown: Tunisia and Egypt; Uprising in progress: Libya, Syria andYemen; Major protests and clampdown: Bahrain; Stirrings of dissent: Jordan, ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14153583

The Arab Spring Has Given Way to a Long, Hot Summer News and Analysis of Assyrian and Assyrian-related Issues Worldwide. ... Tunisia , Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, and Libya have had their turn; now Syria occupies ...Syria's future rests on whether a handful of Alawite generals are prepared to ... www.aina.org/news/20110706190653.htm

Soldiers break up clashes in Southern Tunisia | Libya TV The Tunisia state news agency said the army fired shots in the air to disperse ...saw revolution quickly spread to Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Bahrain and Syria. ... english.libya.tv/.../soliders-break-up-clashes-in-southern-tunisi...

Realpolitik Returns: Western Leaders Turn Cold On Arab Spring ... Delivered in English. Worldcrunch all news is global. ... Protestors in Tahir, Egypt(Jan. 30, 2011) by: admin Protestors in Tahir, Egypt (Jan. ... From Bahrain toYemen, Libya to Syria, those first bursts of exhilaration have turned to ... www.worldcrunch.com/realpolitik-returns-western.../3456

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LATEST World News, Jul 19, 2011

Chengdu on global top 15 emerging business cities list China Daily The Fortune magazine says Chengdu has become increasingly more attractive to the world's top 500 companies. Latest statistics from the Chengdu Municipal Investment Promotion Committee show that by the end of May this year, 193 of the world top 500 ... See all stories on this topic »

UPDATE 2-FSB backs bank surcharge, imposing bondholder loss Reuters By Daniel Flynn and Leigh Thomas PARIS, July 18 (Reuters) - The world's top banks will face a surcharge to keep them safe and only top-quality capital can be used, a global regulatory task force said on Monday. A separate measure to wind up banks ... See all stories on this topic »

MNCs focus on senior Indian professionals for top global roles Economic Times Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, is also betting on Indian talent (as it is on business in the country itself) for its global recovery in market share. With this is mind, it has rolled out a series of restructuring measures. ... See all stories on this topic »

After World Cup, still a long way to go ESPN And a little more than a year from now, the best female athletes from around the world will appear on the biggest global stage of all when the 2012 Summer Olympics get under way in London. Clearly, there are many positives to report. ... See all stories on this topic »

Ortsbo's Live & Global Platform Launches Commercial Release for Windows Azure ... MarketWatch (press release) Ortsbo's Top 10 user countries have a combined population of over 3.4 Billion people. International rock legend, accomplished global entrepreneur and one of the world's most recognized personalities, Gene Simmons has endorsed Ortsbo.com, having signed ... See all stories on this topic »

Ithmaar report wins awards Gulf Daily News MANAMA: Ithmaar Bank's 2010 annual report earned international praise, trouncing thousands of entries from around the world, to clinch multiple top prizes at one of the major global award schemes for annual reports. The report, which was developed ... See all stories on this topic » Gulf Daily News

The Pacific is Canada's future Vancouver Sun By Jack Austin, Special to The Vancouver Sun July 18, 2011 6:13 PM Asia has become the world's top investor in new infrastructure and Asian businesses are becoming more aggressive about investment in world resources. It's time that our provinces got ... See all stories on this topic »

UPDATE 1-SMIC's management woes add fuel to fire amid sector slowdown Reuters HK) (SMI.N), the world's No. 4 global contract chip maker, lost a tenth of their value on Monday amid worries over its management shakeup, a foundry sector slowdown and delays in technology upgrades. China's chipmakers, including SMIC and Grace ... See all stories on this topic »

Top-Tier Law Firm Minter Ellison Selects Cisco to Deliver "One Firm ... MarketWatch (press release) As one-on-one interactions between staff and clients are key in professional services firms, implementing the latest in social networking (supported by business-grade security and policies) is important in retaining and recruiting the best and the ... See all stories on this topic »

Murdochs, Brooks face questioning by lawmakers Albany Times Union Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. struggled but failed to contain a UK crisis undermining his global media empire. (STR / AP) Tom Mockridge, the newly appointed CEO of News International is being driven from the headquarters of the company in London, Friday, ... See all stories on this topic »

Will the debt crisis spell the 'end of euro as we know it?' Globe and Mail Get the top business stories through the day on BlackBerry or iPhone by bookmarking our mobile-friendly webpage. Given global developments - actually, lack thereof - you'd be tempted to think the World Series of Poker is being played in Washington and ... See all stories on this topic »

RBA's new normal on interest rates Sydney Morning Herald The view is different from the top of the Reserve Bank headquarters in Sydney's Martin Place. While most of us can't see past the thicket of headlines trumpeting the latest possible disaster or hear ourselves above the political screaming match and the ... See all stories on this topic »

Report: Top swimmers blocked in China FOXSports.com It is understood many of the Australian swimmers will opt to not use the sites as the only way for them to tap into their accounts is via their home mobile networks, which could cost hundreds -- perhaps thousands -- of dollars in global roaming fees. ... See all stories on this topic »

Get Yourself A Global Strategy Fast Company This can be a qualitative statement such as "Be the number 1 player in mobile gaming in the top 5 world markets by 2014", or a quantitative target such as "Generate 50% of our revenue from outside the US by 2016"--or a combination of both. ... See all stories on this topic »

Whitecaps in pursuit of Owen Hargreaves Globe and Mail Hargreaves, 30, grew up in Calgary, left for Bayern Munich at 16 and has starred at top levels of global soccer. The highlight reel includes his leadership for England at the 2006 World Cup and two UEFA Champions League crowns, with Bayern and ... See all stories on this topic » Globe and Mail

Can Harry Potter Charm His Way to a Best Picture Nomination? Reuters By Steve Pond at TheWrap "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2" has gone where no movie has ever gone before, setting box-office records both in the United States and around the world. But can it go where no Potter film has gone before at the ... See all stories on this topic »

New Global Model of Alzheimer's Risk Suggests a 25 Percent Reduction in ... PR Newswire (press release) In fact, Alzheimer's is the only cause of death among the top 10 in the United States that cannot be prevented, cured or even slowed. The World Alzheimer Report 2010 by Alzheimer's Disease International says that dementia is significantly affecting ... See all stories on this topic »

Seven realizations from the World Cup ESPN Here are seven realizations that have been indelibly etched into my sporting consciousness: Joern Pollex/Getty Images Homare Sawa, who finished as the tournament's top goal scorer, celebrates winning the World Cup with Japan coach Norio Sasaki. ... See all stories on this topic »

World Bank chief slams US leadership on Doha round Economic Times The former top US trade negotiator under President George W. Bush says Washington is still the best candidate to lead an effort to close the 10-year-old round of talks meant to add billions to the global economy. Zoellick told a meeting in Geneva on ... See all stories on this topic »

IBM Earnings Rise, Top Estimate; Boosts Outlook RTT News The company's global technology services group reported second quarter revenue of $10.2 billion, up 10.9% from a year earlier. Global business services group's revenue rose 8.5% to $4.9 billion in the second quarter. IBM is the world's biggest computer ... See all stories on this topic »

Hacking whistleblower found dead in home TVNZ The affair has prompted Murdoch to shut down the 168-year-old News of the World, Britain's top-selling Sunday paper, and to drop a bid for highly profitable BSkyB that was a key part of News Corp's global expansion in television. ... See all stories on this topic »

Foreign Kick for Toy Sales Wall Street Journal Both have increasingly enjoyed the tonic of the weak dollar, which has contributed several percentage points to recent top line growth. But just as those benefits have been outsized, the negative effects could present challenges if the dollar were ... See all stories on this topic »

The Creators Project Returns to NY to Throw Colossal Cultural Extravaganza MarketWatch (press release) NEW YORK, Jul 18, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- --Original Studio works include the world premiere of Karen O's psycho-opera at St. Ann's Warehouse The Creators Project, a global cultural and technology initiative by Vice and Intel Corporation, ... See all stories on this topic »

European shares fall on banks, euro zone debt worries Reuters By Joanne Frearson LONDON, July 18 (Reuters) - European shares fell on Monday to a four-month closing low, led by banks on worries this week's euro zone meeting would fail to agree a second bailout package for Greece and concerns that the latest bank ... See all stories on this topic »

Yanks Steinriede and Smith tops at Roxy Pro Biarritz Global Surf News Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 18 July, 2011 : - - Huntington Beach -- The first stop of the 2011 ASP Women's World Longboard Tour saw a dominant performance by the Californian contingent with Lindsay Steinriede (Dana Point), CA), 28, ... See all stories on this topic »

Aguila American Gold Limited (V.AGL) Reports: Growing Global Confidence in the ... MarketWatch (press release) A recent Thompson Reuters report released on June 8th, 2011 cited comments from top economic advisors of the president-elect Humala reiterating assurances to soundly manage one of the world's fastest-growing emerging market economies. ... See all stories on this topic »

What next? BBC News The damage to Rupert Murdoch's multi-billion-dollar global media empire, News Corp, has already become much more extensive than most would have imagined only two weeks ago. The News of the World (NoW) - the UK's most read newspaper - has been shut down ... See all stories on this topic » BBC News

The price of gold: as influential as a global power MinnPost.com (blog) Experts believe that, if all the opportunities to salvage and recycle gold were exploited, natural resource-poor Japan would be among the world's top five gold-producing nations. In 1511, King Ferdinand of Spain famously declared, "Get gold, ... See all stories on this topic »

Mulberry Is World's Top-Performing Fashion Retailer FashionEtc With stocks gaining 24-fold over the past two years, the label emerges as the top gainer in the FTSE AIM All-Share Index of 805 British stocks, while overseas revenue doubled to £40.5 million (around $65.1 million US) for the year ending March 31. ... See all stories on this topic »

SE Asia Stocks-Jakarta, Manila at record high; debt woes cut volumes Reuters John Teja, director at Ciptadana Securities in Jakarta, said he expects consumer-related stocks to continue to boost the index despite global worries about possible debt defaults in the United States and Europe. In the Philippines, top property ... See all stories on this topic »

PRESS DIGEST - Thai newspapers - July 19 Reuters Mitr Phol Sugar Corp, the world's fifth-largest sugar producer, will spend 9 billion baht next year on a new mill in Loei and expansion of its Kalasin mill as the group increases its output on the back of strong global prices. ... See all stories on this topic »

London's top 2 police resign in 'News of the World' hacking ... By Associated Press The high-profile resignations have made it even harder for Cameron to contain the intensifying scandal that is threatening his leadership and knocking billions off of Rupert Murdoch's global media empire. ... Brooks' arrest was the latest blow for Murdoch, the once all-powerful figure courted by British politicians of all stripes. Now Murdoch is struggling to tame the scandal, which has already destroyed the News of the World, cost the jobs of Brooks and Wall Street ... Staten Island Real-Time News

News Corp Faces Global Investigation Into Bribery [Headlines] - PSFK News Corporation faces a global investigation of all its businesses to ascertain whether they engaged in the same acts of bribery revealed to have taken place in the UK between News of the World reporters and police. ... “The US justice department traditionally responds to fast-breaking news developments and the fact that there have been resignations and arrests in the UK make it more likely than not that the US authorities will pursue this matter,” he said. ... PSFK

A Complete List of the Arrests and Resignations in the News Corp ... The number of people arrested or out of work in connection to phone hacking and bribing police at News Corp. papers is rising practically by the hour. After her resignation of Friday, former chief executive of News International ... And these are just the top level News Corp. folks. At London's Metropolitan Police, both the commissioner Paul Stephensen (pictured above) and the assistant commissioner John Yates have now stepped down and more resignations seem imminent. ... Latest Posts | The Atlantic Wire

poker news: Global Poker Index tracks player's stats By Mark McKenna According to USA Today Sports, The Global Poker Index ( GPI) is, “a patent pending system that ranks and tracks the weekly performance of the world's top 300 live tournament poker players.” These tracked rankings will be available at ... Online Gambling News

Dole becomes official supplier to the Rugby World Cup - Sports ... By comment@sportspromedia.com Dole becomes official supplier to the Rugby World Cup, Rugby Sponsorship news from SportsPro Media Oceania. ... SportsPro Daily Deal. Sign up for the latest deals! SportsPro Magazine · Read the latest edition of SportsPro Magazine ... SportsPro Media - Latest News

Polluted China plans carbon emissions trading scheme | MAARS News By Valkyries MAARS News Global - The Hot Breaking News, Sport, Financial, Entertainment, Politics and everything on the headlines. Top Global Headlines! ... But it remains unclear what a future new protocol would call for, with China under pressure to rein in emissions growth since it surpassed the United States as the world's largest greenhouse gas source in recent years. As part of the carbon-trading push, China will promote development of green technologies and products through ... MAARS News

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Ethics Newsline® » News » Murdoch Ethics Scandal Continues to Widen By Carl Hausman From top world-press stories about what is emerging as one of the major media-ethics cases in recent years: Murdoch published full-page apologies in every national newspaper in Britain last week, reports the New York Times, ... Murdoch's former top editor, Rebekah Brooks, who led the News of the World from 2000 to 2003, during the time when phone-hacking scandal unfolded, was arrested Sunday afternoon on charges related to suspicion of hacking and bribery, NPR reports. ... Ethics Newsline®

Manufacturing sector performance in FY12 | Pakistan Today | Latest ... By fraaz Manufacturing sector performance in FY12. News Comments ... Whereas on the international front export base is likely to suffer as growth prospects weaken in the Euro-area (a major export partner contributing to approx. 25 per cent of the total exports). This along with weakened cotton prices on the global level ($139/lb as of Jun 2011) will fuel pessimistic growth of agri-industrial production. Food Sector: High crop production. Food which contributes almost 19 per cent ... Pakistan Today | Latest news,...

Cameron defends actions as scandal fells police ... - Network News By Arystydes The affair has prompted Murdoch to shut down the 168-year-old News of the World, Britain's top-selling Sunday paper, and to drop a bid for pay-TV network BSkyB that was a key part of its global expansion in television. ... Network News

Breaking news! Trees store carbon! | Watts Up With That? By News Staff The report includes comprehensive estimates of carbon for the world's forests based on recent inventory data. The scientists included information on changes in carbon pools from dead wood, harvested wood products, living plants and .... If we accept that man made CO2 is responsible for global warming (and I don't). Then all we have to do is preserve the forests that we have already and plant new ones. The trees will provide valuable wood which can be harvested and the ... Watts Up With That?

Cops And Robber Barons Mowed Down In Britain | Culture of Life News By emsnews His empire is crashing as investors flee so the News Corp. is now selling at a 50% Discount. His happy wealth is melting away like glaciers in global warming. Desperately appealing to his investors to give him a break, he has used his ... Culture of Life News

New News Corp Strategy: Become an Even More American Company ... By Ken Doctor News Corp can try to make itself over, as completely and quickly as it can, as an American entertainment company, with global investments (Britain, Italy, Germany, India, the Middle East). That initiative -- we may presume a new CEO some ... For the Journal's sake, as well as for the journalists who work there, it's best to strongly advise the public that it has never practiced what News International did in the UK, and won't. Beyond the Journal, might the focus on News ... Newsonomics

Strauss-Kahn's ex questioned in attempted rape case | World News ... By admin ... a case in which he is charged with trying to rape a hotel maid. He denies wrongdoing. The French judicial official spoke Monday on condition of anonymity because the investigation is under way. Source: The Globe and Mail. Top news ... Cash allowances of $500 a day, and an additional $250 for their wives or girlfriends. The 24 members of the executive committee of FIFA — the association that governs the global game and organizes the World Cup — form [...] More news » ... World News: the latest local...

AMERICAblog News: Murdochs have lost $1bn from stock free-fall due ... By John Aravosis (DC) The value of the Murdoch family's shareholding in News Corp has fallen by $1bn since the political firestorm erupted over the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World. I hadn't realized that the British Prime Minister's former ... He was replaced on 2 February 2011 by former BBC Global News Controller of English Craig Oliver. Coulson was arrested by the Metropolitan Police Service on 8 July 2011 "in connection with allegations of corruption and phone hacking". ... AMERICAblog News

journalists and News of the World | Mamamia By Mia Freedman This is not an entirely surprising position for us to be in (yes, I do consider myself a journalist, it's what I write in the 'occupation' bit of forms so it must be true) because traditionally, journalists have not topped the list of most- trusted ... Since the News Of The World (NOTW) hacking scandal has intensified and recieved global coverage these past few weeks, journalists in Australia are being accused – explicitly and implicitly- of some heinous things. ... Mamamia

Global News Roundup: UN Shipping Agency Sets Efficiency & Carbon ... A round-up of recent international climate and energy news. ... The IMO says shipping was responsible for 2.7 percent of global carbon emissions in 2007, ... The answer as can best be judged at this stage is probably 'No'. ... thinkprogress.org/.../global-news-roundup-un-shipping-agenc...

World Bank chief urges broad global trade accord - NewsWires ... In a speech to the World Trade Organisation that he is to deliver Monday in ... euronews provides breaking news articles from Reuters as a service to its ... www.euronews.net/.../1014971-world-bank-chief-urges-broad...

MSI Global – News Type : Product News, Lastest Updated : Thu, 14 Jul 2011 ... single-core world record with a high score of 2501.6. Then, he topped that score this week with ... us.msi.com/news-media/news/100022.html

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