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Richard Cramer biomedical industry pioneer
Richard A. Cramer, a biomedical industry veteran and philanthropist who served as chairman of The Scripps Research Institute, has died at the age of ...
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Social-gifting boom spawns dozens of companies
Aaron Forth of Swedish social-gifting company Wrapp works at the San Francisco office. The United States is the service’s fastest-growing ...
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Worlds oldest university poised for revival in India after 800 years
Nalanda University, an ancient seat of learning destroyed in 1193, is poised for revival. According to The Independent, an ambitious plan to establish an international university with the same overarching vision as Nalanda - and located alongside its physical ruins - has been spearheaded by a team of international experts and leaders, among them the Nobel-winning economist Amartya Sen. This ...
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Thomson Alberta adds trade offices to boost business and image
It is a public relations campaign unlike anything Alberta has ever seen, literally global in scope.The Alberta government is expanding its international profile by opening six more international trade offices -- in Chicago, Singapore, Brazil (likely Rio de Janeiro), India, California (likely San Francisco) and one more in southern China. They're in addition to the 10 offices we already have ...
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Al-Zaatari in Jordan Soon to Become World’s Largest Refugee Camp
Al-Zaatari, Jordan, the second largest refugee camp in the world, is set to become the largest by the end of this year. The camp, already home to 500,000 refugees, receives between 2,000 – 4,000 refugees on days when the violence in Syria is especially dire, and will soon overtake the Dabaab camp near the Somali-Kenyan border as the highest-populated refugee camp in the world. According to ...
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Popular Resistance Is Percolating Across the Country -- Inspiring Activism That the Corporate Media Always Ignores
Every week we are inspired by the many people throughout the country who are doing excellent work to challenge the power structure and put forward a new path for the country. The popular resistance to plutocracy, concentrated wealth and corporatism is decentralized, creative and growing. One growing series of protests has been the "MoralMonday" demonstrations in North Carolina. They ...
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The Saturday Profile Europe Economist Rehn Rejects ‘Austerity’ Label
BRUSSELS OLLI REHN, the European Union's top economic policy maker and scourge of debt-fueled budget deficits, is fed up with austerity. Or at least with being tarred by a term that "is clearly used to label somebody as an unworthy person who is almost eating ...
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The Prophet Gibran Khalil Gibran refracted around the world
May 18--BEIRUT -- It is a commonplace of this broad land that it resides overseas as much as it does within the borders the French drew for it. Naturally, the expatriate condition is shared by Lebanon's artists. The prototype for the expatriate Levantine artist was forged early last century in the crucible of New York City. There a cluster of writers experimented with English-language verse ...
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Brazil to unveil World Cup security robots
/enpproperty--> The Brazilian government says some of the security robots bought to improve public safety during the 2014 World Cup will be ready for the Confederations Cup in June. The company iRobot said the 30 robots will be delivered by the end of the year, along with spares and other support gear. The government confirmed on Thursday that some will already be in action in the six cities ...
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Top technology companies named at Hi-Tech Awards
Kiwis feel busier despite technology advances The top technology companies in the country were named in Auckland last night at the annual NZ Hi-Tech Awards. More than 700 people attended the awards dinner at SkyCity, the largest number since the awards started in 1994. Online accounting software company Xero won the top prize, being named Company of the Year. One international judge described ...
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Worlds largest flower blooms for first time in seven years
Titan arum , the plant that grows at a rate of around 10cm a day during its flowering phase, reached a height of 187cm when it bloomed. It produces a variety of obnoxious odours ranging from rotting meat, dung and rancid cheese to a nauseating gaseous stench. The flower typically grows once every seven and 10 years after which it is in full splendor for only 48 hours before starting to die. Its ...
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Bloomingdale’s Castle foundation show improved perceptions of Hawaii’s economy
165,000-square-foot Bloomingdale's store will replace what is now Sears, which is scheduled to close two weeks from Sunday. Bloomingdale's will anchor a $572 million redevelopment of the Sears space that mall ...
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World Golf Hall of Fame member Ken Venturi dead at 82
Ken Venturi, whose 1964 U.S. Open victory was one of the most memorable feats in the history of the golf, died Friday at the age of 82. His death came less than a week after he was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame. Venturi had been hospitalized since March for a variety of health issues, including pneumonia and infections in his back and intestine. He won 14 times on the PGA Tour ...
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South America contraception up to 79 Middle Africa 19
Between 2003 and 2012, the total number of women worldwide wanting to avoid pregnancy and in need of contraception increased from 716 million to 867 million, with growth concentrated among women in the 69 poorest countries where modern method use was already very low. A young Chinese boy walks past a neighborhood 'sex shop', full of contraceptive suggestions, in central Beijing. (UPI ...
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Brazils CB expects economy to expand 3 in 2013
(MENAFN) Brazil's Central Bank President, Alexandre Tombini, stated that in 2013, the country's economy will expand by 3 percent, from just 0.9 percent last year, reported Xinhua News.During the first quarter, Brazil's economy expanded by 1.05 percent compared with 0.63 percent in 2012's same period.Tombini attributed this year's expected growth to strong household ...
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Hackers ring up $500000 phone bill business left with charges
, a company near Boston had a similar situation in 2009 that also involved outrageous charges from AT&T. Those charges were eventually forgiven. A spokesman for A Better Answer, the company that installed Bream's phone system, says it's impossible to hack. He says there's no way the volume of calls charged to Bream could get through her system and that this is a network ...
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World in his qualms COMEDY Bill BaileyMiddle-age has inspired Bill Baileys new show which he brings to Nottingham next weekend. My comedy has...
World in his qualms ; COMEDY Bill BaileyMiddle-age has inspired Bill Bailey's new show which he brings to Nottingham next weekend. My comedy has always reflected where I am in life, he tells Lynne Brighouse HE has reached the age where he is beginning to have qualms. Bill Bailey, now 49, seems to be experiencing serious disquiet about the big unanswered questions of existence. And what ...
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Brasov International Film Festival Market Holds Its First 2013 Press Conference The press conference was sponsored by DARIA Magazine and Race The Oaceans a daring global circumnavigation adventure challenge which promotes the protection of ecolo
BRASOV, Romania, May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- The press conference announcing the winner of the contest "The 'FACE' of Brasov International Film Festival & Market 2013" was held today at the ARO Palace Hotel. At the conference, organized by Brasov Film Center, the official poster of the Festival was revealed as well as the titles of the two films participating this ...
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N58.9 Trillion Oil Deal HEDA Urges Human Rights Commission to Investigate Petroleum Minister Alison-Madueke and Shell Petroleum
By SaharaReporters, New York HEDA, the Human And Environmental Development Agenda, has called on the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to investigate the claim by five oil producing communities in Delta State and their leaders who shut down the National Assembly in protest last month that the Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke and Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) limited ...
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Mugabe’s party accuses Coca Cola of promoting rival party ahead of election
A man waits to obtain his national identity card during a voter registration drive in Harare ahead of the general election. Photograph: Philimon ...
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World War II planes to fly over IMS
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - The Indianapolis Motor Speedway announced Friday evening that there will be a pre-face flyover after all. Six World War II era aircrafts will fly over the IMS before the start of the 97th Indianapolis 500. A North American B-25 Mitchell twin-engine medium bomber and five North American T-6 Texan trainer aircrafts will take part in the ...
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Linda Murray The Best and Worst Places in the World for Mothers
State of the World's Mothers report, ranking the best and worst countries to be a mother. I've been tracking this report for years, and while it's always sobering to see how many countries, including the United States, have serious issues with maternal and children's health, I also find hope in these rankings. Countries do improve and move up the Mothers' Index list. ...
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World Bank says its helping Haiti draft mining legislation
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The World Bank said Friday that it's helping Haiti craft legislation for the impoverished nation's little-known mining industry. In a brief statement to The Associated Press, the bank said it's trying to support the Haitian government in its effort to develop the mining sector in the country's northeastern mountains, which would entail revamping laws ...
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The euro zone economy is declining for six consecutive quarters. Nine of the 17 countries are in recession Spain France Italy Finland Netherlands Portugal Cyprus Greece and Slovenia. The austerity policy imposed by the troika and the German govern
The euro zone economy is declining for six consecutive quarters. Nine of the 17 countries are in recession: Spain, France, Italy, Finland, Netherlands, Portugal, Cyprus, Greece and Slovenia. The austerity policy imposed by the troika and the German government of Angela Merkel is sinking Europe. Eurostat data was released on Wednesday (15th) and are relative to GDP in the euro area in the first ...
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World Briefing | Asia Political Prisoners Freed in Myanmar
President Thein Sein pardoned at least 20 political prisoners on Friday, just ahead of a state visit to the United States. A member of the ...
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Israel and Palestine as one country?
Peace in the Middle East, it’s as illusive now as it was ten years ago and ten years before that. For many commentators, peace in the Middle East has become a myth, something local and international governments strive for or claim to support without any real hope of realization of the goal. With the current impasse between Israel and the Palestinian Authority ongoing, an old theme is being kicked around again, that of a single state that incorporates Israel and Palestine.
A single state solution is an idea that grew up in the 1920s and then died with the Six-Day War when divisions between the newly-founded Israeli state and the rest of the region were too entrenched for the idea to retain any traction. The political landscape after the war and even today is what many Jewish groups feared when Jewish Zionists were calling for a return to the biblical homeland to develop a Jewish state. Read more
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