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Largest genetic sequencing study of human disease completed
A global team of scientists has completed the largest sequencing study of human disease to date, investigating the genetic basis of six autoimmune diseases. The exact cause of these diseases - autoimmune thyroid disease, coeliac disease, Crohn's disease, psoriasis, multiple sclerosis and type 1 diabetes- is unknown, but is believed to be a complex combination of genetic and environmental ...
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UN urges collective efforts to achieve water secure world on Day for Biological Diversity
22 May 2013 150 Unless greater efforts are made to reverse current trends, the world will run out of freshwater, the United Nations said today marking the International Day for Biological Diversity and urging stronger scientific alliances to understand and protect natural resources. "We live in an increasingly water insecure world where demand often outstrips supply and where water quality ...
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UN World Bank Say Development is Key to Congo Peace
GOMA -- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has been visiting the war-weary city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), accompanied by the president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim. Both men stressed they see investing in development as the way out of Congo’s conflicts. The front lines outside Goma were silent on Thursday morning as Ban and Kim conducted their ...
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New Standards Approved for Extractive Industries
New performance standards have been announced (5/23) for oil, gas and mining companies, requiring them to be much more transparent in their business dealings. to De Capua report on extraction industries The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative approved the new performance standards at a meeting in Sydney, Australia. Created in 2003, the initiative includes government, ...
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Arrested Development and the Frozen Banana Economy
Regular viewers of "Arrested Development" may think the Bluth's Frozen Banana is just another of the show's oddball inventions, along ...
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Lamenting Preventable Devastating Condition Secretary-General Heralds Global Campaign to Make Obstetric Fistula Virtually Non-Existent
Three million women now live with a condition that develops during childbirth and can have debilitating consequences for ...
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Other companies challenging contraception mandate
DENVER -; Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is challenging the part of the federal health care law that requires for-profit companies to offer employees health coverage that includes products the business owners find morally objectionable, such as certain types of ...
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Google Trends Lets You Track What The World Is Searching For
Google likes to remind us just how much they know about the things we like, the things we're interested in, and the people we'd like to see experience some sort of wardrobe malfunction. Earlier this month, Google's YouTube released a data map which ...
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It’s World Turtle Day
turtle crossing a busy road - pick it up and send it in the direction it was originally going on the other side of the road, advises the advocacy group American Tortoise Rescue (ATR), which is celebrating their 13thannualWorld Turtle Day2013 today.Picking up the tortoise and turning it around will only cause the slow moving animal to try crossing the road again, according to ...
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Obamas Real Legacy Savior of Corporate Fascism
It's downright weird to watch America's right wingnuts react to Obama. Sometimes you just have to admire how their racism goes so deep it overcomes their native love for fascism. In that case, it must simply gall them to watch a black man serve the cause of "job creators" and creeping fascism far better than Dubya, Cheney, and Rumsfeld themselves. Or maybe they just like ...
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Man who pretended to be member of Walt Disney family arrested
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. - Authorities say a man has been arrested after claiming to be a member of the Walt Disney family and giving away invalid Disneyland passes.Los Angeles County sheriff's officials say the man called himself "Stephen Disney" and had a fake driver's license and tax forms that falsely claimed income from the Walt Disney Corp.The statement says he gave ...
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Silvercorp net income drops as mining costs rise in China
Silvercorp Metals reported net income down 34 percent to $6.4 million from the same quarter a year ago citing the effects of higher production costs, lower metal prices, and falling metal ...
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SA ranked worst out of 36 in global road safety report
The International Transport Forum's latest Road Safety Annual Report ranked SA the worst, out of 36 others, when it came to the number of road fatalities. ...
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Commercial banks overstating current risks in Russia’s economy
VORONEZH, May 23 (Itar-Tass) - Commercial banks are apparently overstating the risks that exist in Russia’s economy today, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday at a conference with businessmen in the city of ...
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Rotterdam Hits Out at EU Port Package
The Port of Rotterdam said the European Union's proposal to appoint a supervisor for ports in every member state will increase bureaucracy on the waterfront.Europe's largest port said the proposal, which is part ...
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Garcia Fried Chicken Comments Should Bring Sponsor and PGA Consequences As A Deterrent And Business Strategy
Tiger Woods, champion golfer, drives the ball down range during the inaugural Earl Woods Memorial Pro-Am Tournament, part of the AT&T National PGA Tour event, July 4, 2007, at the Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Woods donated 30,000 tournament tickets to military personnel to attend the event honoring soldiers and military families. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Not so ...
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Artistic Entrepreneurs Fuel the Creative Economy - It takes a community...
BrandVoice ™ allows marketers to connect directly with the Forbes audience by enabling them to create content - and participate in the conversation - on the Forbes digital publishing platform. ...
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What Microsofts Clever New Im A PC Im An iPad Spot Says About The Company
's largely unsuccessful 8-month campaign to market Windows 8 and its new Surface tablets got a reboot at last with a new spot that takes direct aim ...
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The Basic Thing To Know About The Corporate Income Tax Companies Dont Pay It
Google seemingly using a Dutch Sandwich (both methods of moving profits around so as to reduce the tax paid upon them) it's worth noting the most important point about the corporate income tax. Companies simply do not pay it. Once we get that idea properly fixed in our minds then it's possible to think through what might be done about the taxation system. Clearly, companies do ...
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Five Obstacles To A Healthier World
Runners in the Zurich Marathon (Credit: Wikipedia) Imagine a community in which "great health" is as important as education or social status, or where health education is as important as mathematics. In this community, well-being would be a priority that would be appreciated, pursued and rewarded. That's the vision of leaders at the World Economic Forum. In collaboration with ...
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Salesforce Earnings Climbing Costs Can Offset Revenue Growth
Salesforce.com is set to announce its Q1 fiscal 2014 (ending April 31, 2013) earnings on May 23. The company provides enterprise cloud computing and social enterprise solutions across businesses and is the market leader in cloud customer relationship management segment. We expect it to continue to post double digit growth driven by the growing adoption of its Sales Cloud and Service Cloud ...
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Calls continue for Mayor Ford to answer crack cocaine allegations
Calls are continuing for Toronto Mayor Rob Ford to address week-old allegations about a video in which he is reported to be shown smoking crack cocaine. The mayor has remained largely silent on the accusations, which he called "ridiculous" late last week. Toronto Coun. Josh Matlow told CP24 on Thursday that the allegations against the mayor, which have made international ...
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Tax-Avoiding Corporations Siphoning Billions from Worlds Poorest
Some of the world's wealthiest corporations-utilizing secretive tax havens backed by powerful governments-are siphoning of billions of dollars of potential revenue from the very same poor countries that foreign investment is so often said to be helping.According to a new report by ActionAid International, ...
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Austerity’s Vicious Cycle Spurs Record Cash Hoarding By U.S. Companies
Big corporations have been stockpiling cash rather than investing in expansions to their operations for years, but a report Thursday indicates that recovery-bridling behavior is worsening in 2013. Cash hoarding sped up in the first quarter of the year, and American companies are now ...
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Microsoft to take Bing deeper into Windows Blue Xbox One
Microsoft's Bing is morphing from a "mere" search engine into more of a service that will power next-generation devices -- Windows Blue PCs and tablets, as well as the Xbox ...
Kazakhstan Focus
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Kazakhstan capital's next challenge
Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, has experienced rapid growth in recent years and has seen the completion of some impressive architectural feats, now there are plans by the government to build a huge indoor city within the capital, providing the country with a modern feat of engineering and a tourist attraction of which to be proud.
Astana and Dubai, despite vast differences, have a few things in common as cities. Dubai is not the capital of the United Arab Emirates, while Astana is the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana is one of the coldest capitals in the world while Dubai is in one of the hottest regions on the planet. But Astana, like Dubai, has experienced rapid development in recent years, due in large part to the relocation of the capital to the city, and like Dubai, it has had to make sometimes impressive adaptations to architecture and development in order to compensate for the climate. Read more
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