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Beef Firm in US Withdraws Its Products from Markets After E. Coli Outbreak.

Health officials claim that tainted ground beef bought from stores caused E.Coli outbreak. Se... The Department said the beef trim was turned into ground beef by the stores that sold them under many different retail brand names. The PM Beef spokesman s...

Children Using Slide in Playground Treated for Exposure to Poisoning

...inated by airborne lead particles that drop to the ground and become "a persistent, hard to remove component of the dust matrix." Playground equipment is another possible source of lead contamination, a study by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) revealed. Factoring in amounts of lead on the ...

Ranbaxy Labs Extends Roots in South Africa

...folio of affiliates, joint ventures and alliances, ground operations in 49 countries and manufacturing operations in 9 countries. As part of this acquisition, Ranbaxy has concluded a Black Empowerment transaction with a Community Investment Holding(CIH) group company. Peter Burema, President of Ranbaxy'...

Students Join Hands to Save Green Cover in Delhi

...native, they suggest that the sprawling University ground near Vijay Nagar in the north campus itself can be used for this purpose. The petition reminds the mass felling of putranjiva (Putranjiva roxburghii) and saptaparni (Alstonia scholaris) species of trees for university sports complex before the 1982...

Good News for Sufferers of Heart Attack, Chest Pain

...uch patients. "The U.S. especially has a lot of ground to gain, compared with European and Canadian hospitals, in reducing the time lag between hospital presentation and acute coronary artery angioplasty," Eagle adds. "That's why efforts to improve hospitals' systems for providing this kind of care are s...

Uganda Bans Plastic Bags, Still a Tough Battle Lies Ahead

...ashed into drains and water courses and eventually ground into the earth. The country is blessed with some of the richest soil in Africa, but around the towns and villages it is laced with plastic. New strata are forming - a layer cake of polythene and poisoned soil, through which Uganda's rains can ne...

Indian Researcher Finds Human Urine Grows Better Fish Food

...i Jana and his colleagues at the university, mixed ground water with human urine from the university's urinals and added the zooplankton Moina micrura, which is often fed to hatchling fish in commercial fisheries. They also tried rearing the plankton in various cocktails of cow urine, vermin compost, poul...

Australian Grape Glut Dries Up as Drought Bites

...ar story; in some parts of his Orange property the ground is so dry it would be useless to plant vines while in others the drought has left plants stunted and fruitless. "If the drought just continues as is, we are going to see vines that are struggling to produce fruit at all," he told AFP. He too has ...

Air Pollution Affects Women More Than Men: Study

... often than mice that breathed filtered air. At ground level, ozone is a dangerous air pollutant that can cause irritation in the respiratory system, triggering shortness of breath, chest pain when inhaling deeply and wheezing and coughing. Ozone is formed when sunlight acts on hydrocarbon pollutants ...

Desert Droughts Shorten Mountain Snow Cover, Reveals Study

...d out 24 to 35 days earlier, Painter said, quoting ground measurements and computer simulations. Recent studies agree that with global warming, the Southwest will be warmer and drier. Enhanced dust deposition is likely, further shortening snow cover duration. Ultimately, a warming climate and the dust it ...

Witchcraft in Focus at Arctic Rendez-vous

... is more solid," she said. While witchhunts gain ground in some parts of the world, sorcery and witchcraft are making strides in the West, in particular in Britain, Canada and the United States where the neo-pagan Wicca religion with influences from Shamanism and Druidism is increasingly popular. "Those...

Organic Farms Provide a Clue for India's Struggling Farms

...rly morning visit, white ducks sat placidly on the ground in a large enclosure with wire fencing. Elsewhere turkeys and even a small number of quail and pheasants strutted and pecked at the ground. 'People said 'you are crazy, no one will buy your ducks',' said Langbour, who started the three-acre (1.2-he...

'Walk of Shame' Triggers Toilet Consciousness

...tered all around, the magnitude of the open toilet ground stood exposed. To drive the point home, the sarpanch captured the dismayed and horrified expressions of the villagers on video film, which he screened for all after the infamous walk around the fields. It was dubbed the "Walk of Shame" and the vil...

New Research to Make Science and Technology Work for the Poor

...-size-fits-all solutions ignore differences on the ground and remain compartmentalised by geography, sector and discipline at a time when unparalleled interaction between people, the environment and technology demand interdisciplinary solutions. Recent examples of these failings include the UNs polio erad...

Northern Forests Less Effective Than Tropical Forests in Reducing Global Warming

...nd measurements of carbon dioxide taken just above ground level indicate that northern forests are taking up...tended to move too much carbon dioxide down toward ground level in the summer, when growing trees and other plants take in the gas, and not enough carbon diox...

China's Three Gorges Dam Changing Local Weather: Scientists

...Dam. The researchers combined satellite data and ground weather stations to create a computer climate simulation, which they then compared to what has already happened in recent years. More recently, other NASA satellites have been watching the weather changes, said Wu. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring M...

Talks Break Down in Polish Nurses' Pay Protest

...r the early hours of Friday, failed to get off the ground after each side accused the other of bad faith, officials said. Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski refused to start the negotiations unless four nurses ended their occupation of a room in the government's office, which they began late Tuesday after ...

Drug Addiction Slowing Down: UN Report

...world drug situation has stabilized. There is some ground for optimism that the run-away train of drug addiction is being slowed down." Costa warned against complacency, however, saying that the drug problem had not been solved. "Drugs remain a deadly form of addiction, pose a real danger to security and...

New Technique to Measure Xanthone in Mangosteen

...ture was used to extract the xanthones from dried, ground whole mangosteen fruit rind. A total of six xanthones were purified by preparative HPLC, utilizing the same solvent system and UV detection as for the analytical method, said Walker. Each compound has unique UV absorption spectra that allows for ea...

WTC Neighborhood Residents Misled on Extent of Contamination

...ed by some of the men and women who volunteered at ground zero after 9/11 and have suffered physical and men...nts response to environmental and health issues at ground zero. The report concluded that the misleading information had left residents with an erroneous i...

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