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Free Your Necktie and Stop Global Warming

...w offices to turn down the air conditioning on hot summer days, thereby saving energy and reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, reported the online edition of New Scientist. Italy is one of the European Union's worst performers on the pollution front and is expected to exceed its greenhouse gas emission targ...

Purdue Pharma Agrees to Pay $600 Million Fine for Misbranding Oxycontin

...gest-selling product. The investigation began last summer with a search of the companys Manhattan headquarters by federal agents and it led to the dismissal of the chief executive, Peter R. Dolan....

Present Rate of Carbon Emissions Could Increase Number of Hot Days in Mediterranean by 500 Pc

...ndings further revealed that global warming caused summer temperatures to dramatically exceed the range that was correlated with the increased number of deaths. "The thresholds of the 2003 event are substantially exceeded in the future in both of our research scenarios. This research is about understandin...

After Bringing Cheer Rains Choke Delhi's Roads

...tioned Metro that brought relief during sweltering summer days has again come to the rescue of Delhiites. "Thanks to the Metro I am saved from the endless wait on the roads during traffic jams especially during the rains," said Arihant Misra, a bank employee....

Volunteers Remove Garbage from Kashmir's Dal Lake

...an said. The Dal Lake, situated in the middle of summer capital Srinagar, is presently facing a grave ecological disaster. Most of the natural area of the lake has been reclaimed and converted into residential areas. Floating vegetable gardens have come up on the lake at many places from which fertilize...

Nanoparticle in the Treatment of Glaucoma

...anism for the compound after supervising a student summer project at UCF. Duke University undergraduate Serge Reshetnikov spent a summer studying nanoscience on UCFs Orlando campus as part of a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU...

Early Arctic Spring Indication of Climate Change

...ds were so strong when considering that the entire summer is very short in the High Arctic with just three to four months from snow melt to freeze up at our Zackenberg study site in northeast Greenland," Hoye said. Hoye's team said that the varied response by species "could lead to particular problems by ...

Keep a Cool Head on Hot, Humid Days to Avoid Heat Stroke

Keeping cool on hot, humid summer days is good advice for more reasons than sheer comfort. It's vital for good health - even staying alive. That's the message from the Pennsylvania Medical Society, warning young and old alike that heat stroke is a deadly illness to be avoided at all...

France Celebrates Summer With All-night Music Fest; NY Swings Along

France celebrated the summer solstice in the wee small hours Friday with an all...ve. Further south in Chatelet and Les Halles the summer air crackled to rock rhythms, electric guitar and even the music of the Andes. Those in search of th...

Wine Packaging: Bag-in-box, Plastic Bottles, Cork Comeback?

...in Britain -- sometimes called the "scourge of the summer party" -- or in the United States. Holding back innovations in both French packaging and branding has been the complexity of its wine classifications system, as opposed to the simplicity of new world producers such as Australia, South Africa, New Z...

Doherty Will Marry Moss If He's 'smack and Needle-free'

...rty is planning to marry girlfriend Kate Moss this summer if he gets rid from his drug addictions. The 'Ba...ies. "Smack and needle-free we shall marry in the summer and I become 10 times happier than any given smackhead. Huzzah!" the Daily Mail quoted Doherty, as s...

Lightning Strikes Deadliest in Summer

...ional Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , and summer is the peak season for lightning-related injuries. The Fourth of July is a particularly deadly time because so many people are outdoors, says Dr. Mary Ann Cooper, professor of emergency medicine and director of the lightning injury research program ...

Another Sexual Attraction is Possible ...

The coming summer vibrates with expressions of insect love and desire. The cicada's songs or the butterflies' bright colours are examples of how an emitting sex attracts conspecific members of the responding sex. Moth odours (pheromones), though less conspicuous for ...

Jenny McCarthys Beauty Secrets

...revealed her plans about getting a lovely tan this summer . The actress insisted that the couple will be sp...so revealed her warm-weather beauty secrets. "My summer beauty regimen is deodorant, shave, and wipe!" she said....

Chinese City Turns Off the Air-con

... recently and officials fear further failures this summer as the overburdened energy network in China's largest city and other parts of the country lags behind the surge in demand. The Chinese government set a goal of reducing energy consumption per unit of gross domestic product by 20 percent by 2010, bu...

Car Sickness for the Little Ones can Be Prevented

Many a families summer vacations mean piling into the car and heading towards the highway. At times these trips are marred by frequent nausea and vomiting . This means some passengers have a bout of car sickness or motion sickness. Carsickness, a variant of motion sicknes...

Russian Health Care Marred by Corruption

...al, a global corruption watchdog. According to a summer 2006 study commissioned by the group, 13 percent of 1,502 respondents who had sought medical help during the previous year had to pay an average of $90 under the table, out of wages averaging $480 a month. The poll had a margin of error of 2.6 percen...

Death Rates Will Rise Because of Global Warming

Global warming will cause more deaths in summer because of higher temperatures but these will not ...l warming is associated with increased variance of summer temperature. While all 50 US cities showed similar rises in deaths when temperatures plummeted, mo...

Outdoor Alcohol Ads Boost Urge to Drink in Young Teens

...cantily clad women and hunks chilling out on a hot summer day with a nice cold bottle of beer may be aimed at young adults, but they're also having an impact on teens, and boosting their urge to drink. The finding is based on a study conducted by researchers at the University of Florida and University of...

Exposure to Computer Games can Be 'good' for Kids, Says New Study

...ple, young people whose parents could not afford a summer holiday enjoyed virtual holidays online," Dr Bradford said. Dr Bradford also said games give way for kids to experiment on their entrepreneurial skills, and that it is necessary to identify the benefits of the Internet and computer games. "We not...

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