tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68449805607492908652012-02-02T22:47:30.584+07:00There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possiblenaknikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17291227594454162695noreply@blogger.comBlogger2401100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844980560749290865.post-46661641575596949752012-02-02T22:46:00.002+07:002012-02-02T22:47:30.598+07:00

Nuclear accidents pose little risk to health, NRC says - The risk to public health from a severe nuclear power plant accident in the United States is "very small" because reactor operators should have time to prevent core damage and reduce the release of radioactive materials, U.S. nuclear regulators said in a study on Wednesday.The study comes almost a year after the disaster in Japan in March

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'This is not football, this is a war and people are dying': More than 70 dead and 1,000 injured after pitch invasion in Egypt - At least 74 football fans were killed and hundreds injured after a pitch invasion in Egypt last night.Trouble flared after a match in the city of Port Said when armed fans surged forward seconds after the final whistle.The home team, Al-Masry, secured a rare 3-1 victory

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A nuclear reactor at a northern Illinois plant shut down Monday after losing power, and steam was being vented to reduce pressure, according to officials from Exelon Nuclear and federal regulators.Unit 2 at Byron Generating Station, about 95 miles northwest of Chicago, shut down at 10:18 a.m., after losing power, Exelon officials said. Diesel generators began supplying power to the plant, and

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Snowy owls soar south from Arctic in rare mass migration - Bird enthusiasts are reporting rising numbers of snowy owls from the Arctic winging into the lower 48 states this winter in a mass southern migration that a leading owl researcher called "unbelievable."Thousands of the snow-white birds, which stand 2 feet tall with 5-foot wingspans, have been spotted from coast to coast, feeding in

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Search goes on for thousands of Japan's tsunami missing - Leaden winter skies lour on a coastguard boat as it cuts its way through the seas off Japan's tsunami-wrecked shores.Somewhere under these unforgiving grey waters lie hundreds, perhaps thousands of bodies; the unfound, unclaimed dead of one of the country's worst ever disasters.Even though the hunt on these sullen seas goes on every day,

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Japanese government hid worst-case scenario on Fukushima disaster and fact 40 MILLION people may have had to evacuate - Secret report reveals everyone within 105 miles of plant would have had to be evacuated in event of full meltdown - Areas would have been contaminated with so much radiation they would not be safe for several decades - Japanese government insisted there was no need to make plans

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Sleep well to wake up healthy - Have you ever felt sleepy during the day or have you found it difficult to wake up after the weekend? If so, then you know the irresistible grasp that sleep can hold.In a fast-paced world where go-getters rush to achieve their targets, the biological clock is often ignored. Sleep — an essential factor for human beings and one falling in the same category as

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Dreaming about a good night's sleep? - Not getting enough quality sleep because you snore? You could be suffering from Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) - Depending on who you talk to, snoring can either be comic or tragic. For those who suffer it silently, it is a menace. For those who use examples of snorers to tell funny stories, it’s priceless comic relief. And for those who snore, it’s an

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Two buildings in Rio collapse -- Two adjacent buildings collapsed Wednesday night in the historic center of Rio de Janeiro, injuring at least four people, Mayor Eduardo Paes told reporters.It was not immediately clear what caused the collapses -- one a 20-story building and the other 10 stories -- nor was the extent of the casualties clear.Paes did not rule out the possibility of a gas leak, but

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Beijing releases pollution data; US figures higher — Caving to public pressure, Beijing environmental authorities started releasing more detailed air quality data Saturday that may better reflect how bad the Chinese capital's air pollution is. But one expert says measurements from the first day were low compared with data U.S. officials have been collecting for years.The initial measurements were

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Costa Concordia captain: symbol of the era? - The Concordia captain's missteps and failure to take responsibility have spurred deeper discussion about a dearth of moral leaders.When the Titanic went down in 1912, the orchestra was reportedly playing “Nearer My God to Thee.”When the Costa Concordia began to sink off the Italian coast on Jan. 13, Celine Dion’s tribute to the Titanic, “My Heart Will

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Five Things to Remember After Costa Concordia - The Costa Concordia luxury cruise liner tragedy, which to date has resulted in 11 confirmed fatalities and thousands of passengers who incurred bodily and emotional damage, brings to surface an aspect of travel that's often overlooked by vacationers: safety.Many of the shipwreck's survivors voiced concern and outrage over Costa Concordia's emergency

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Close encounters of the Home Counties kind: Two 'alien aircraft' sightings in one week in 'UK's UFO hotspot' - They hover in close formation against the backdrop of a cloudy Kent sky.The two mysterious bright lights were photographed on January 6 floating over Chatham.Less than a week later four similar lights were seen over Essex, shining brightly against the dawn.The remarkable sightings were

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Costa Concordia likely worst maritime insurance loss - The wrecked cruiseliner Costa Concordia could turn out to be the biggest insured loss in maritime history, analysts and industry experts said on Monday, with some suggesting insurers and mutual societies could end up shouldering $1 billion in losses.The Costa, a multistory liner carrying over 4,000 passengers and crew, ran aground and

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Major peacetime shipping disasters since the Titanic - Nearly 40 people are still missing on Sunday from the cruise liner, Costa Concordia, which hit rocks and badly listed near the Italian island of Giglio, late on Friday.Following is a timeline of some of the world's major peacetime shipping disasters since the Titanic sank 100 years ago:April 15, 1912 - CANADA - The White Star passenger liner

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Cruise tragedy conjures memories of doomed Titanic — The first interviews of survivors — and the first impressions of people across the world — of the ill-fated Costa Concordia cruise liner that ran aground and tipped over in Italy are yielding predictable comparisons to another tragedy."Have you seen 'Titanic'? That's exactly what it was," said Valeria Ananias, a 31-year-old Los Angeles

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A crunch, a groaning noise, then the cutlery hit the floor - It was a magnificent floating palace taking 3,200 passengers on a Mediterranean cruise - Soon it would become a massive, half-sunken tomb.The ship ran aground on Friday the 13th after striking a rock which ripped a huge gash in its hull.In the hours that followed, it began to tilt irretrievably on to its side in the chilly waters,

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Forget women and children first. Burly crew men led the race for the lifeboats - Survivors tell of panic as men ignore order that women and children should go first and passengers fight to get on boats - Passengers say they saw captain leaving ship instead of helping people - Pregnant woman says she wept as captain stopped her going ahead - Eight British dancers among the last to leave the

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Ship's Sank 'Like Titanic' - THE 4000 passengers aboard the cruise ship Costa Concordia were settling down to dinner when the cruise ship struck a reef and began to sink. As many as eight people are thought to have died in the incident but other reports put the number of dead at three. Ten Australians who were aboard the vessel were confirmed as being safe. A spokeswoman for the Department

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Scientists say cut soot, methane to curb warming — An international team of scientists says it has figured out how to slow global warming in the short run and prevent millions of deaths from dirty air: Stop focusing so much on carbon dioxide.They say the key is to reduce emissions of two powerful and fast-acting causes of global warming — methane and soot.Carbon dioxide is the chief greenhouse

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How to Buy Time in the Fight against Climate Change: Mobilize to Stop Soot and Methane - Humanity has done little to address climate change. Global emissions of carbon dioxide reached (another) all-time peak in 2010. The most recent international talks to craft a global treaty to address the problem pushed off major action until 2020. Fortunately, there's an alternative—curbing the other

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Cage dogs of Hong Kong: The tragedy of tens of thousands living in 6ft by 2ft rabbit hutches - in a city with more Louis Vuitton shops than Paris - Hong Kong, one of the world's richest cities, is abuzz with a luxury property boom that has seen homes exchanged for record sums. But the wealth of the city has a darker side, with tens of thousands priced out of housing altogether and forced to

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European ski resorts in 'lockdown' after freak snowfalls cut road, rail and air links - 1,000 British skiers trapped in Alps after severe snowfalls - Falling trees and rocks blocking many routes - Avalanche warning raised to stage three, or 'considerable risk' -Holidaymakers advised to stay indoorsSki resorts across Europe are in 'lockdown' after a series of freak snowfalls severed road, rail

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Girl gets boob job voucher for her SEVENTH birthday from surgery-addicted mother dubbed The Human Barbie - She made the headlines last year when she confessed to teaching her then six-year-old daughter Poppy to pole dance. And now Sarah Burge is back in the spotlight again - for all the wrong reasons.The 50-year-old mother - a self-confessed plastic surgery addict known as The Human Barbie -

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Typhoon kills more than 436 in southern Philippines - More than 400 people were killed and an unknown number were missing after a typhoon struck the southern Philippines, causing flash floods and landslides and driving tens of thousands from their homes. In a text message to Reuters, Gwendolyn Pang, secretary-general of the Philippine National Red Cross (PNRC), said the death toll of 436 was

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Death toll from tropical storm in Philippines rising -- The death toll from a tropical storm in the southern Philippines has reached more than 900, an official with the country's disaster agency said Monday. Benito Ramos of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said the toll stood at 927. The Philippines Red Cross reported a lower death toll, at 713. Tropical Storm Washi

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Storm death toll tops 650 in Philippines; hundreds missing -- Tropical Storm Washi moved away from the southern Philippines early Monday, but not before leaving behind a wake of destruction and at least 652 people dead, according to the Philippine Red Cross. There were no public storm warnings for the East Asian island nation Monday morning, according to the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical

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Nordine Amrani: More Bodies, More Mystery in Liege, Belgium - Before Nordine Amrani killed himself and five others in a gun and grenade attack in the Belgian city of Liege on Tuesday, he killed a woman at his home. Police found the body of a woman in the shed where Amrani grew marijuana. She had been shot in the head. Varying reports put her age between 40 and 65,

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Police find body at Liege attacker's home — The body of a woman has been found in the garage of the man who lobbed hand grenades and fired weapons into crowds in the Belgian city of Liege, killing four people and wounding 123, officials said Wednesday. Liege Prosecutor Daniele Reynders said the body of a woman in her forties was discovered during a search of Nordine Amrani's property, and

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Belgian city after deadly rampage asks 'Why?' — A card at a memorial to the victims asked the question haunting all of Belgium: "Why?"Why did Nordine Amrani, a 33-year-old with a history of lawbreaking, sweep into this city's holiday shopping center to unleash a grenade-and-gun rampage that killed three people and wounded 123 others? Why did he then kill himself?Deepening the mystery, police

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'Anthrax isn't scary at all compared to this': Man-made flu virus with potential to wipe out many millions if it ever escaped is created in research lab - Scientist responsible is bracing himself for a media storm - Just five tweaks to H5N1 makes it more contagious - Contagious version of bird flu could cause pandemic - Scientists divided over whether findings can be releasedA group of

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How clever can we get? Study suggests there is an 'upper limit' to how smart humans can be - there will never be a 'Supermind' - Our 'limited' minds may be a defence - having too vivid a memory can be destructive for personalities - Higher IQs may be linked to nervous system disease - Intelligence gains always have 'trade-offs' - 'Enhancers' such as Ritalin make us smarter, briefly - but only

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Is this an alien spacecraft parked next to Mercury? Giant object the size of a planet has astronomers baffled - A gigantic object the size of a planet has appeared on astronomers' screens lurking near Mercury, with UFO hunters around the world wondering whether it’s an alien ship.The object appears from nowhere in a sequence of images of a coronal ejection from the Sun, taken by a Nasa

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'Elvis' Monkey, Psychedelic Gecko Found in SE Asia — A psychedelic gecko and a monkey with an "Elvis" hairdo are among 208 new species described last year by scientists in the Mekong River region of Southeast Asia, a conservation group announced Monday.The animals were discovered in a biodiverse region that is threatened by habitat loss, deforestation, climate change and overdevelopment, the WWF

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The earthquake and tsunami together killed 15,840 people, according to the most recent death tollTsunami that struck Japan in March resulted from merging waves - -- The devastating wall of water that struck Japan in March was the result of at least two waves that combined to create a more powerful tsunami, U.S. scientists said Monday. Ocean ridges and mountain ranges below the surface of the

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Radioactive cesium found in Japanese baby formula -- Radioactive cesium has been found in baby formula in Japan following the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, the manufacturer of the product has said.Meiji Co., the maker of the formula, said Tuesday that it had found traces of cesium 134 and cesium 137 in samples of its Step Milk powder with the expiration date of Oct. 2012, but

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Highly Radioactive Water Leaks From Crippled Japanese Facility -- Japan's crippled nuclear power plant leaked about 45 tons of highly radioactive water from a purification device over the weekend, its operator said, and some may have drained into the ocean.The leak is a reminder of the difficulties facing Tokyo Electric Power Co. as it tries to meet its goal of bringing the tsunami-damaged

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Kingdom’s highest volcano - Saudi Arabia is a tectonic plate, little more than a thin sliver of rock floating on a sea of magma. The thickness of the rock plate in relation to the diameter of the earth is little more than the thickness of a postage stamp on a basketball. Sometimes, the rock gives way and the magma underneath spews out.Often it is black and liquid and oozes out to cover vast areas

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Bangkok floods could go into next year - Parts of Bangkok could still be flooded next year, Thailand's prime minister said on Tuesday, despite waters receding significantly in some areas of the city after weeks of inundation.Thailand's worst floods in half a century, caused by months of unusually heavy monsoon rains, have left at least 562 people dead and damaged millions of homes and livelihoods

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Receding floods reveal crocs lurking in Bangkok — Murky floodwaters are receding from Bangkok's inundated outskirts to reveal some scary swamp dwellers who moved in while flooded residents were moving out — including crocodiles and some of the world's most poisonous snakes.Special teams from the Thai Fishery Department have responded to numerous reports of reptilian menaces, like the 3-foot-long

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Don't Do It for the Money - The founders of Paperless Post and Vineyard Vines share their most important lessons about starting your own business.In 1998, brothers Shep and Ian Murray found themselves in jobs they wished they could leave. Shep, who was 27 at the time, worked for the Madison Avenue advertising firm Young & Rubicam. Ian, who was 23, worked nearby at a small public relations

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Good for You, Good for the Planet? - Is healthy food always better for the environment? — While pondering the many choices I have to make when buying tomatoes—How important is it to buy local? Is it worth it to buy organic? Should I even considered canned?—I started to wonder whether the interests of my body and the environment coincide. Is eating healthy better for the environment, too?You raise

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Tourists invited to see erupting Congo volcano — A national park in Congo best known for its endangered mountain gorillas is now inviting tourists to go on overnight treks to see a volcano spurting fountains of lava nearly 1,000 feet into the air.Mount Nyamulagira began erupting on Nov. 6 and could continue to do so for days, or even months."Last night's was the most spectacular yet," spokeswoman

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Big quake follows increase in Oklahoma rumblings — Clouds of dust belched from the corners of almost every room in Joe Reneau's house as the biggest earthquake in Oklahoma history rocked the two-story building.A roar that sounded like a jumbo jet filled the air, and Reneau's red-brick chimney collapsed and fell into the roof above the living room. By the time the shaking stopped, a pantry worth

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Oklahoma Gets 10 Earthquakes in 24 Hours - Residents rattled after 5.6 quake late Saturday — the strongest in state’s history.Oklahoma residents are recovering Sunday after a series of earthquakes and aftershocks shook the state and were felt as far away as Wisconsin — an unusual experience for many more used to scanning the skies for natural disasters.A magnitude 4.7 earthquake shook areas from

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Storm closes hundreds of schools across Northeast — Thousands of schoolchildren around the Northeast had one of the earliest snow days in memory on Monday after a snowstorm dumped as much as 30 inches of wet, heavy snow that snapped power lines and trees, causing widespread power outages that threatened to disrupt Halloween trick-or-treating.Communities from Maine to Maryland went into

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Winter Storm in Fall Leaves Millions Without Power - Unusually early Nor’easter kills three and leaves the region battered.A large winter storm that caused flight delays and surprised residents across the Northeast with heavy snow has left nearly 3 million customers without power and three people dead.The storm, which dropped inches of snow, sleet, and rain throughout the region Saturday

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SeaWorld Sued by PETA for Enslaving Animals - The animal rights group PETA, which to its credit does a great deal of good work, recently introduced legal action against the theme park SeaWorld that could almost be described as laughable. In the lawsuit, the organization is stating the park keeps the animals as slaves and as such that is in violation of their rights under the 13th Amendment.PETA

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PETA lawsuit seeks to expand animal rights — A federal court is being asked to grant constitutional rights to five killer whales who perform at marine parks — an unprecedented and perhaps quixotic legal action that is nonetheless likely to stoke an ongoing, intense debate at America's law schools over expansion of animal rights.People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is accusing the SeaWorld

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After the tragedy of Yue Yue, the Chinese trucker who hit a boy... then ran over him again to be sure he'd died 'because it was cheaper than paying the hospital bills' - Tragedy comes just a week after two-year-old was knocked down by two vehicles on a busy market street and ignored by 18 passers-byA lorry driver ran over a five-year-old boy – and then reversed over him to make sure he was

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Death toll rises to 217 after massive earthquake in Turkey -- Battling near-freezing temperatures and darkness, rescue workers and residents in eastern Turkey early Monday scoured the wreckage wrought by the country's most-powerful earthquake in more than a decade, hoping to find survivors.They used flashlights, shovels, heavy machinery and their hands to lift the debris, and climbed over

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More than 230 dead in Turkey quake; 1,300 more hurt -- Using shovels, heavy machinery and their bare hands, rescue workers scrambled through piles of rubble to find survivors Monday after a deadly 7.2-magnitude earthquake devastated parts of eastern Turkey.There were conflicting reports about the number dead. As many as 264 people are dead and 1,300 are injured after Sunday's quake, Interior

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"Jaime's China" is a weekly column about Chinese society and politics. Jaime FlorCruz has lived and worked in China since 1971. He studied Chinese history at Peking University (1977-81) and served as TIME Magazine's Beijing correspondent and bureau chief (1982-2000).Growing pains hit mental health in China -- When an ax-wielding man attacked people on the street in Henan Province on Wednesday,

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Chinese girl dies in hit and run that sparked outrage - A two-year-old Chinese girl run over by two different vehicles and ignored by passersby has died, state media reported on Friday, in a case which ignited public uproar over what some called the immorality of modern society.The hospital's "all-out efforts were ineffective" at saving Wang Yue, the China News Service said. Xinhua news agency

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1906 San Francisco Earthquake: First Color Photographs Found (PHOTOS) -- A museum volunteer has unearthed what the Smithsonian Institution believes to be the first -- and perhaps only -- color photographs of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and fire that nearly leveled the city.The six never-published images were snapped by photography innovator Frederick Eugene Ives several months after

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The San Francisco Earthquake, 1906 - The terrifying rumble of an earthquake shattered the early morning silence of April 18 at 5:15 AM. The quake lasted only a minute but caused the worst natural disaster in the nation's history. Modern analysis estimates it registered 8.25 on the Richter scale (By comparison, the quake that hit San Francisco on October 17, 1989 registered 6.7).San Francisco City

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San Francisco Earthquake: 4.2 Magnitude Quake Strikes Near Berkeley, Calif — Another earthquake has jolted the San Francisco Bay area.The U.S. Geological Survey says a quake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.9 hit at 8:16 p.m., about two miles east of Berkeley.The earthquake Thursday night comes after a 4.0 earthquake hit in the same area nearly six hours earlier.Berkeley police say they have no

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Little Yueyue and China's moral road - "What has happened to our morality?" "Where are our hearts of sympathy?" "How come we could ever become even more cruel and hard-hearted than cold-blooded animals?" These were questions being asked by outraged Chinese media and bloggers over a recent incident hit-and-run incident which saw bystanders indifferently walk past a toddler who was struck by a van,

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Iceland's Katla volcano is getting restless — If Iceland's air-traffic paralyzing volcanic eruption last year seemed catastrophic, just wait for the sequel. That's what some experts are saying as they nervously watch rumblings beneath a much more powerful Icelandic volcano — Katla — which could spew an ash cloud dwarfing the 2010 eruption that cost airlines $2 billion and drove home how

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Animals Shrink as Earth Warms - As global temperatures rise this century, the result of human-caused climate change, many living things will shrink, thanks to a host of changes in the environment, as well as the direct effects of warming, two researchers write.If everything were to shrink at the same rate, this wouldn't be a problem. Smaller plants would feed smaller fish that would feed smaller

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Israel traded 1,000 Palestinians for one soldier. Is that the going rate? - Israel announced a deal this week to bring home soldier Gilad Shalit, taken hostage by Hamas militants in 2006. In exchange, the country will free 1,027 Palestinian prisoners. On a per-Israeli basis, that’s more than double what was paid in a famous 1985 swap, when Israel traded 1,150 security prisoners for three soldiers

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The Woman Who Vowed To Take Down Flight 93 - On 9/11, my husband and I were jolted awake at 6:30 a.m. on the West Coast by a phone call from family. Turn on the TV, we were told. We did. Horror, fear, anger, confusion … many different emotions hit me all at once, but I didn’t cry right away. I spent the day gawking at the TV, in shock, as if watching a bad movie unfold. Only that evening, when

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Could the Taj Mahal Collapse in 2 Years? - An Indian archaeologist denied Friday claims that the Taj Mahal could collapse in as little as two years.Britain's Daily Mail reported Wednesday that the iconic structure -- which attracts four million tourists a year -- could "cave in between two and five years," citing Agra lawmaker Ramshankar Katheria.The 358-year-old marble mausoleum is a UNESCO

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Egypt Coptic church decries attacks on Christians - Egypt's Coptic church blasted authorities Monday for allowing repeated attacks on Christians with impunity as the death toll from a night of rioting rose to 26, most of them Christians who were trying to stage a peaceful protest in Cairo over an attack on a church.The spiritual leader of the Coptic Christian minority, Pope Shenouda III, declared

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The Saudi women and Fort Schuyler - Women movements around the world are always slow. Even in countries like America, which was founded in 1776, even though women were only allowed to vote in 1920.America is still behind Europe in women’s movements. Most European countries had women as presidents and prime ministers. Also some Muslim countries had women holding the highest political

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Long road from farm to fork worsens food outbreaks — The recent listeria outbreak from cantaloupe demonstrates one likely cause of large-scale occurrences of serious illnesses linked to tainted food: the long and winding road what we eat takes from farm to fork.A cantaloupe grown on a Colorado field may make four or five stops before it reaches the dinner table. There's the packing house where it

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Homeowners gradually rebuild in tornado-ravaged Joplin - Four months ago, a tornado swept Rick and Jolene Huffman out of their house and dumped them unconscious into a clearing more than a block away.A harrowing way to lose their home and nearly their lives but the Huffmans are rebuilding on the same spot, undaunted by memories of the tornado or devastation of their neighborhood."It will look a

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Asia reels from floods; Vietnam braces for storm — A tropical storm barreled toward Vietnam Friday, forcing 20,000 people to be evacuated, as the Philippines braced for a new typhoon and several Asian countries reeled under floods after some of the wildest weather this summer.Prolonged monsoon flooding, typhoons and storms have wreaked untold havoc in the region, leaving more than 600 people dead

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Listeria cases likely to rise through October: officials - Cases of illness in the U.S. listeria outbreak linked to tainted cantaloupes -- already the deadliest in a decade -- likely will rise in the next month as more people who have been infected with the bacteria begin to develop symptoms, health officials said on Wednesday.To date, 13 people have died and 72 people have been infected in the

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Listeria leaves Colorado town stunned and scared — Eric Jensen surveys his dusty cantaloupe field and seems equally stunned and puzzled at the fate that has befallen his crop: row upon row of melons rotting on the vine.Jensen is the co-owner of the Colorado farm where health officials say a national listeria outbreak originated, making his withering fields the epicenter of a food scare that has

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How did a 33ft whale end up in the middle of a field in East Yorkshire? - A young whale died after an exceptionally high tide carried it 800 yards from the shoreline to a field where it then became stuck.The 33ft mammal, thought to be a Sei whale, was discovered in salt marshes on the north bank of the River Humber near the village of Skeffling.As the tide retreated the whale became stranded

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The Price of 9/11 – The September 11, 2001, terror attacks by Al Qaeda were meant to harm the United States, and they did, but in ways that Osama bin Laden probably never imagined. President George W. Bush’s response to the attacks compromised America’s basic principles, undermined its economy, and weakened its security.The attack on Afghanistan that followed the 9/11 attacks was understandable,

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Can Japan Recover? - The Fishermen of Fukushima - Days before the March 11 earthquake, Watanabe-san, a fisherman from Namie-machi in Fukushima, realized something extraordinary was happening out in the Pacific Ocean. "There was a small tsunami exactly a week before the earthquake," he explains, chopping his square, compact palm in the air like a wave, as if to make sure that the important thing

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Can Japan Recover? - Sendai Rising From the Wreckage - Mr. Akawa—Akawa-san—apologizes as he pulls the taxi over to the shoulder of the two-lane highway. "I must change my uniform when we enter the disaster zone. Company regulations." He gets out of the car, takes off the dark blue suit coat of his driver's uniform, and replaces it with a "disaster casual" ensemble—an immaculate white denim jacket

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Can Japan Recover? - The New Fear of Food - "We were very fortunate that there wasn't much damage," Elizabeth Andoh says as she walks me through her small Tokyo apartment, pointing out the traces left behind by the March 11 earthquake—a tiny crack near the ceiling, a floating shelf adrift and knocked off its anchor. In Tokyo, more than 200 miles from the earthquake's epicenter, the visible signs

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The American 'allergy' to global warming — Tucked between treatises on algae and prehistoric turquoise beads, the study on page 460 of a long-ago issue of the U.S. journal Science drew little attention."I don't think there were any newspaper articles about it or anything like that," the author recalls.But the headline on the 1975 report was bold: "Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global

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The True Cost of 9/11 - Trillions and trillions wasted on wars, a fiscal catastrophe, a weaker America.The Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks by al-Qaida were meant to harm the United States, and they did, but in ways that Osama Bin Laden probably never imagined. President George W. Bush's response to the attacks compromised America's basic principles, undermined its economy, and weakened its

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Conspiracy Theories of 9/11, a Bruised Glee star and Perry vs. Romney - A decade after 9/11, Stahl explains how fringe conspiracy theories blaming the Sept. 11 attacks on the Bush administration gained and then lost traction in the political mainstream. In his five-part series, Stahl separates 9/11 theories from fact, and catches up with ex-truthers who have disavowed the movement."Romney's Perry

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Ten years after 9/11, our answer to al-Qaida won't be on 9/11 - If you're looking for something big to mark the 10th anniversary of 9/11, look again.Yes, there will be ceremonies that day. Politicians will give speeches. Think tanks will issue reports. Terrorists will try to mark the occasion by blowing something up.But the real action won't be on 9/11. And that's because, in these 10 years, so

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French nuclear power plant explosion heightens safety fears - An explosion sparked a fire at a French nuclear power station on Saturday (2 July), just two days after the authorities found 32 safety concerns at the plant.The blaze at the Tricastin plant in Drôme in the Rhône valley sent a thick cloud of black smoke into the sky. A mistral wind sent it south over a nearby motorway on one of the

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France Nuclear Site Explosion: Marcoule Waste Site Rocked By Blast -- A nuclear waste site in southern France had an explosion Monday that killed one person, seriously burned another and slightly injured three others, France's nuclear safety body said.The Nuclear Safety Authority said no radioactive leaks have been detected in the blast at 12:37 p.m. (1037 GMT, 6:37 a.m. EDT) at an oven in the

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Three Asian men struck by car and killed in hit-and-run attack 'as they protected their neighbourhood from rioters' - One man arrested and a vehicle recovered from near the scene - aThree men died after they were hit by a car in a hit-and-run incident in Birmingham in the early hours of this morning. The trio - two brothers, aged 25 and 21, and a friend - had just emerged from a mosque and were

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Who is the suspect in the Norway attacks? -- As Norway struggles to come to terms with its greatest loss of life in decades, all eyes are on the man charged in the explosion in central Oslo and the deadly shooting rampage at a youth camp.While police have not officially named him, Norwegian television and newspaper reports have identified the suspect as 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik, of

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Bomb rocks government offices in Oslo, two said dead - A massive bomb shattered Norway's main government building in Oslo Friday, killing two people police were quoted as saying by local news agency NTB.There was no claim of responsibility, though NATO member Norway has been the target of threats, if not bombs, before, notably over its involvement in conflicts in Afghanistan and Libya. Prime

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Explosion rocks gov't HQ in Oslo; 1 dead but PM OK — A powerful bomb tore open several Oslo buildings, including the prime minister's office, on Friday, killing at least one person, a Norwegian news agency said. Several people also were injured, as the blast shattered windows and coated the street with documents.Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg is safe, government spokeswoman Camilla Ryste told

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Blast rocks central Oslo, Norway PM's office - A huge explosion wrecked government buildings in central Oslo on Friday including Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg's office, injuring several people, a Reuters journalist said from the scene.The cause of the blast was unknown but the tangled wreckage of a car was outside one building and the damage appeared consistent to witnesses with that

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Huge blast blows out windows of Norwegian PM's offices - Number of fatalities not known but pictures show at least two dead bodies - Several people injured by falling glass - Prime Minister was not in the city at the time of the blast - reports - Cause of blast is not yet known - A massive explosion in Oslo has shattered the windows of the Norwegian Prime Minister's offices and forced the

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Mount Lokon Eruption Forces Mass Evacuation - A major eruption of Mount Lokon in Tomohon, North Sulawesi, on Thursday evening has struck local villagers with panic and forced them to leave their houses immediately, causing an almost 100 percent increase in the number of refugees.Some 4,446 people were taking refuge on Friday following the latest eruption, a significant increase from 2,510 people

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Indonesian Volcano Erupts after Red Alert Warning - An Indonesian volcano erupted late Thursday, spewing rocks, lava and ash hundreds of meters into the air, an official said, three days after its alert status was raised to the highest level.There has been a significant rise in volcanic activity at Mount Lokon on Sulawesi island since June 9, prompting hundreds of people to evacuate the area.“

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Huge Underwater Volcanoes Discovered Near Antarctica - A string of a dozen volcanoes, at least several of them active, has been found beneath the frigid seas near Antarctica, the first such discovery in that region.Some of the peaks tower nearly 10,000 feet (3,000 meters) above the ocean floor — nearly tall enough to break the water's surface."That's a big volcano. That's a very big volcano. If

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Will global warming make the planet more humid, too? - Hot, muggy weather created dangerous conditions for residents of the South and Midwest on Tuesday, and there were reports of heat-related deaths. We all know that it's impossible to link any particular heat wave to the phenomenon of global warming, but those of us suffering in humid areas have to be wondering—is the Earth getting wetter, too?

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The Ballad of Fukushima: In the Wake of Disaster, Japan’s True Character Emerges - The iconic Japanese film “The Ballad of Narayama” tells the story of a village where everyone who reaches the age of 70 is sent away to the top of Mount Narayama to die. The old make way for the young so that newer generations may have enough to eat. What makes the film compelling is that it is not shocking.

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The moment a driver is swallowed by a menacing black cloud as a huge dust storm from the desert engulfs Phoenix - A brave driver seems to head straight into midnight from the afternoon along a short stretch of road in Phoenix, thanks to the massive dust storm that hit the Arizona city Tuesday evening.In the video posted on YouTube, the driver goes from typical city streets to a hellish scene

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Fukushima residents dump radiated soil in absence of plan - They scoop up soil from their gardens and dump it in holes dug out in parks and nearby forests, scrub their roofs with soap and refuse to let their children play outside.More than three months after a massive earthquake and tsunami triggered a nuclear meltdown at a nearby power plant, Fukushima residents are scrambling to cope with

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How first 24 hours shaped Japan's nuclear crisis — When Unit 2 began to shake, Hiroyuki Kohno's first hunch was that something was wrong with the turbines. He paused for a moment, then went back to logging the day's radioactivity readings.He expected it to pass. Until the shakes became jolts.As sirens wailed, he ran to an open space, away from the walls, and raced down a long corridor with two

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Fire menacing Los Alamos lab nears record size - Firefighters inside a nuclear weapons complex in New Mexico scrambled on Thursday to clear brush near barrels of plutonium-contaminated waste stored just a few miles from a monster blaze roaring through surrounding forests.The so-called Las Conchas Fire has charred nearly 93,000 acres of thick pine woodlands on the slopes of the Jemez Mountains

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Fast-moving wildfire nears Los Alamos nuclear lab - A fast-moving wildfire raged on Monday near the edge of the nation's preeminent nuclear facility, Los Alamos National Laboratory, a vast complex that houses research laboratories and a plutonium facility.Authorities said there was little threat to sensitive areas of the 28,000-acre complex, where explosives are stored in underground concrete and

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Japan utility behind damaged nuke plant apologizes — Executives at the Japanese utility behind the nuclear power plant sent into meltdown by the March quake apologized Tuesday to investors who repeatedly interrupted the annual meeting of shareholders with heckles, yells and outraged questions.Tokyo Electric Power Co. Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata promised that the company was doing its utmost to

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Fukushima children to receive radiation meters — Radiation meters will be distributed to about 34,000 children living in the largest city near the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant to monitor their exposure levels, a city official said Tuesday.The decision to hand out the meters comes amid growing concern over the safety of children as the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima plant

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Tropical storm in Philippines kills 11, forces 40,000 out of homes -- Heavy rains and high winds from Tropical Storm Meari lashed the Philippines Friday, killing at least 11 people and displacing 40,000 people, an emergency management agency said. The storm has been menacing the Philippines since Tuesday, when 11 fishermen went missing along the coast of Luzon, according to the National

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