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Youth in India were the happiest, and youth in Japan were the least happy, according to a new study. Reuters has the details.
A study that just recently came out says that deforestation might not be getting worse - the problem may be getting better.
Carolina Forest High School is letting their students learn about business, science, aquaculture, technology, permaculture, and horticulture all in one great program. In this program, the students farm tilapia and plants. They are creating novel methods of automating the process. They are putting a lot of hard work in to the project and seem to be enjoying it a lot. Perhaps programs like these are the ways more high-schools should be teaching their students about the real world.
“So I say this: It’s time for ascended blacks to wish niggers good luck. Just as whites may be concerned with the good of all citizens but don’t travel their days worrying specifically about the well-being of hillbillies from Appalachia, we need to send niggers on their way. We need to start extolling the most virtuous of ourselves. It is time to celebrate the New Black Americans–those who have sealed the Deal, who aren’t beholden to liberal indulgence any more than they are to the disdain of the hard Right.”
Researchers have successfully tested two candidate vaccines that may eventually be used together to confer immunity against HIV infection. Their findings are published in the December 15 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases…
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Thats right! NASA will next week (Nov15) make the first ever HD TV broadcast from the International Space Station NASA will next week (Nov15) make the first ever HD TV broadcast from the International Space Station. HD footage will be streamed live back to earth using the spacetastically named “Space Video Gateway.â€
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya of the ruling Hamas group has said he is willing to resign if this will end a Western aid boycott. Good move…
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Good health not only benefits the individual but also a nation’s economy, British researchers said
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IBM sponsored study shows: At least in the server world, Linux has won. Web servers and database servers remain the dominant applications, but development environments are now among the most popular systems in production, meaning the trend toward Linux and open source applications should accelerate.
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“A common mineral similar to rust fashioned into a powder of tiny crystals could provide a method for removing hazardous levels of arsenic from drinking water. That would help reduce the risk of cancer for tens of millions of impoverished villagers in China and Southeast Asia, where high levels of arsenic occur naturally in many water supplies.”
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In January of 2004, the Boston Globe newspaper issued an original variation on the theme of political preferences in America: it divided the country into 10 distinct, but not necessarily contiguous areas.
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President George W. Bush broke bread with Democrat leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday after her party’s triumphant sweep of Congress, saying he’s open to “any idea or suggestion” on winning in Iraq.
Less than two years after announcing new semiconductor technology aimed at drastically reducing the cost of making very basic wireless phones, Texas Instruments says it now has developed a similar chip that will help make so-called smart phones cheaper to produce.
Will Google transform and perhaps even help reform America’s University system? Next, we need Google Apps for Government! Let Google disrupt bureaucracy!
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Solar-power modules that concentrate the power of the sun are becoming more viable.
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A Japanese inventor unveils batteries powered by a single drop of water. Susumu Suzuki, the president of Tokyo-based building material maker TSC, has invented water-powered batteries, which have an electric current as powerful as that of a standard battery. Check out the video!
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A factory of one’s own: According to MIT’s Neil Gershenfeld, the digital revolution is over, and the good guys won. The next big change will be about manufacturing. Anyone with a PC will be able to build anything just by hitting ‘print.
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Europe is commiting demographic suicide. If something is not done, Europe will soon turn into Eurabia. America is threatened by Islamic facsims too. This essay, and the book being reviewed in the essay, are not “…arguments for more war, more bombing, or more killing, but for more will.†It is still not yet too late.
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Future by Design shares the life and far-reaching vision of Jacque Fresco, considered by many to be a modern day Da Vinci. Peer to Einstein and Buckminster Fuller, Jacque is a self-taught futurist who describes himself most often as a “generalist” or multi-disciplinarian
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Web 2.0 start-up activity is hot, and here
’s the latest data. Venture capitalists invested $455.5 million into Web 2.0 companies in the first three quarters of the year, more than twice the amount invested over the same period last year. Charts outlining where the investments are going, and listing the biggest recipients and investors.
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I think some CEOs are overpaid. No, I’m not going to give you some leftist mantra about how no one should make $50 million a year because I don’t believe that. What I believe is that there are other people capable of doing the job of CEO that would do it for less money.
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“The knee-jerk reaction to the Dems’ win is that it spells disaster for corporate America and Wall Street. In fact, this was probably the best of all outcomes for people concerned about stocks and business. If anything, it could spur the best two years we’ve seen in the markets for quite some time. I humbly make my case:”
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Somehow, Internet commerce maintains this high concept and of-the- future aura. Maybe it’s all the jargon, like dot com or intention marketing. Take today
’s news from Google for example. They announced free processing for all Google Checkout merchants through the holiday season.
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a pimp unknowingly attacks a man on the street who turns out to be a black belt legend and gets taken to the pavement by him.
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A factory of one’s own: According to MIT’s Neil Gershenfeld, the digital revolution is over, and the good guys won. The next big change will be about manufacturing. Anyone with a PC will be able to build anything just by hitting ‘print.
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Newts can regrow a limb. Some lizards can sprout new tails. Even humans can replace some damaged tissue in organs, such as the liver. But none can accomplish what the zebra fish, a common denizen of home aquariums, can do: regenerate their hearts. Biologists have long known about the zebra fish’s cardiac ability, and now researchers think they have.
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Businesses and insurance companies are starting to eye the potential savings of outsourcing health care from the world’s richest country to the developing world. With an estimated 45 million uninsured Americans, some 500,000 trekked overseas last year for medical treatment. Asian hospitals in Thailand, India and Singapore have long been swarmed…
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Why oh why you ask……pssstt….This it “Top Secret” classified material the government doesn’t want you to know about. Read it, copy it, spread it around like leaflets. It will be terrorist speech soon enough 
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Google will soon announce that its Google Talk instant messaging and VOIP service will be built into its social networking site Orkut, Google’s version of MySpace.
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Protests in Europe and Turkey against rising Islamic influence. Maybe it’s not too late.
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Behold the car that could displace the Toyota Prius as the eco-ride of choice. The new natural-gas-powered Honda Civic GX uses domestically produced fuel that costs as little as one third the price of gasoline. The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy calls it the cleanest-burning internal-combustion vehicle on Earth.
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“We’re switching to IPv6, dontcha know, and it might be worth it.”
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NEW YORK - Surging demand for wireless Internet will translate into a 47 percent jump in global Wi-Fi hotspots in 2006, a market research firm said. An ABI Research forecast concluded that in 2006 the number of commercial Wi-Fi hotspots would increase to 143,700. For the moment, Europe is still the market leader with over 57,000 hotspots, ABI said.
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20 Health tips/hacks/tricks to raise your qaulity of life. You may laugh, as well.
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A 37-year-old appliance merchant topped a list of China’s richest businesspeople released Thursday by the business magazine Forbes, leading a group of young entrepreneurs who have profited from the country’s economic boom. The release of the 400-person Forbes China Rich List comes as some of China’s richest businesspeople are ensnared in scandals.
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Jian Li was the perfect student. Incredibly, he got a perfect score on his SATs. He applied to Harvard, Princeton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Stanford, among other places and didn’t get into any of those colleges. Yet, he soon became aware that other high school students with lower SAT scores had sailed past him.
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The British army is planning to extend its training for young recruits because so many potential soldiers are obese, an official report discloses today. The military has had to relax its criteria over the physique and weight of recruits as a result of the problem.
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It’s a hybrid airship–part plane, part dirigible. Two Ohio inventors think production versions up to 990 feet long will launch a new era of aviation–one where low and slow is the way to go. Zeppelin NT In Europe, these 246-ft.-long hybrids carry up to 12 sightseeing passengers. Vectored propellers on three engines on the upper structure and tail.
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A day after a senior U.N. official was indicted on bribery charges, the United Nations management chief said Thursday an investigation into corruption was “at full throttle” and he urged anyone with relevant information to cooperate. The warning followed Wednesday’s indictment and arrest of former U.N. procurement official Sanjaya Bahel.
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Statewide marijuana reform proposals will be on the ballots of three states next
… COLORADO: Amendment 44, the “Alcohol-Marijuana Equalization Initiative,” would
… NEVADA: Question 7, the “Regulation of Marijuana Initiative,” would …
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The deal creates a pharmacy giant, to be known as CVS/Caremark Corp., that will have 180,000 employees and fill or manage more than one billion prescriptions per year. Combined, the two companies estimate they will generate $75 billion in revenue this year.
People talk about the problem of the increasing cost of healthcare. Perhaps, if large drug companies and dispensaries can consolidate, the price of perscription drugs will decrease organically and naturally.
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“The accent of these photos is on enormous Moscow traffic. The situation on road like on this pictures was without any difference during all the day today - both in the daytime and late at night.”
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A long, long time ago, packaging was an exciting idea. There were disputes over style and process, there was innovation. There were reasons to prefer .deb over .rpm over emerge and it
’s binary packages… Today, these differences are just a hindrance.
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Penn State researchers have “taught” computers how to interpret images using a vocabulary of up to 330 English words, so that a computer can describe a photograph of two polo players, for instance, as “sport,” “people,” “horse,” “polo.”
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To look and feel your absolute best, you need to get approximately seven to nine hours of deeply restful, quality sleep each night. Here are eleven simple tips so you can start sleeping like a baby. Find out how to get a great night’s sleep, right here:
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Some resiliant patients above average levels of the enzyme called APOBEC-3G (A3G) in their white blood cells. A3G fights infections. A structural biologist has joined the team to provide the first look at the A3G structure. This is an early step towards developing a new class of drugs to fight HIV/AIDS.
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Saying that America’s minorities remain a hugely underserved and untapped market, Jackson announced another initiative, the Small Business Institute. Expected to launch in January in New York with satellites across the country to follow, Jackson’s newest initiative will focus on giving entrepreneurial training to youth, immigrants, and minorities.
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Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Vermont have discovered a key molecular mechanism that allows tiny flies and other “no-see-ums” to whirl their wings at a dizzying rate of up to 1,000 times per second. “We have determined important details of the biochemical reaction by which the fastest known muscle type –
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Linux is becoming mainstream and people are finally realizing ways to make money with it. Some of that money supports the contributors and some supports the projects.
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China, believed to carry out more court-ordered executions than all other nations combined, took a step toward human rights Tuesday by enacting legislation that requires approval from the country’s highest court before putting anyone to death.
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The link has the stats. 90% of US military has HS diploma vs. 75% of US population. They score well above the US average on vocational aptitude tests. US soldiers come overwhelmingly from middle class America as well as middle America with urban poor being under-represented.
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