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When It Comes To Emotions, Eastern And Western Cultures See Things Very Differently
Edmonton, Canada (SPX) Mar 06, 2008A team of researchers from Canada and Japan have uncovered some remarkable results on how eastern and western cultures assess situations very differently. Across two studies, participants viewed images, each of which consisted of one centre model and four background models in each image. The researchers manipulated the facial emotion (happy, angry, sad) in the centre or background models a ... more Walker's World: Fearing the unknown 
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 05, 2008It is not quite official, but when Warren Buffet says there's a recession, and when Alan Greenspan says growth is zero, there is a recession. The only question is how long and how severe it will be. All the numbers are looking bad. New home sales are at their lowest in 27 years. Consumer confidence is at its lowest in 14 years. Vehicle sales are down 7 percent year on year, Autodata ... more US cautious about Ukraine, Georgia NATO aspirations 
Brussels (AFP) March 5, 2008US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice expressed caution Wednesday on the hopes of Georgia and Ukraine moving closer towards membership of NATO, ahead of alliance talks on their aspiration. Speaking to reporters travelling with her to Brussels, Rice underlined that NATO "is a consensus organisation", and that its 26 member nations must decide unanimously when it comes to admitting new partner ... more US Internet users going mobile: study 
San Francisco (AFP) March 4, 2008A comScore study released Tuesday shows US mobile Internet use is rising exponentially as people increasingly opt to be online while on the move. The number of people using broadband mobile Internet connections jumped to 2.16 million in the final three months of 2007 as compared to 854,000 in the same period a year earlier, according to comScore. "Though mobile broadband access is currently ... more Warmer Springs Mean Less Snow, Fewer Flowers In The Rockies 
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 06, 2008Spring in the Rockies begins when the snowpack melts. But with the advent of global climate change, the snow is gone sooner. Research conducted on the region's wildflowers shows some plants are blooming less because of it. David Inouye (University of Maryland) used data gathered in the Rockies from 1973 to the present to uncover the problem. Writing in the journal Ecology, he demonstrates ... more |
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 06, 2008Scientists have solved a 40-year-old puzzle by identifying the origin of the intense radio waves in the Earth's upper atmosphere that control the dynamics of the Van Allen radiation belts - belts consisting of high-energy electrons that can damage satellites and spacecraft and pose a risk to astronauts performing activities outside their spacecraft. The source of these low-frequency radio ... more One million Ethiopians face water shortage 
Addis Ababa (AFP) March 5, 2008More than one million people in eastern Ethiopia's drought-hit Somali region face critical water shortages, the United Nations said Wednesday. "A joint multi-sectoral Drought Emergency Response Plan.... has been released by the regional government. The plan indicates that more than one million people are currently facing critical water shortage," the UN humanitarian agency OCHA said in a ... more China to strive for safer products: PM Wen 
Beijing (AFP) March 5, 2008China will step up its monitoring of product safety, Premier Wen Jiabao said Wednesday, as it tries to counter a string of scandals over Chinese-made goods ranging from food to toys. Authorities would "accelerate efforts to formulate or update national standards for product quality and safety," Wen told legislators at the annual session of parliament. Wen also vowed to ensure the country ... more Brussels seeks European disaster response force 
Brussels (AFP) March 5, 2008The European Commission on Wednesday relaunched an initiative to create an EU civil protection force to intervene anywhere in the world in case of a natural or man-made disaster. The idea was first advanced in 2006 but was blocked by several member states who had reservations about a pan-Europe body with such a broad mandate. A spokesman for the Commission, the EU's executive arm, said a ... more Beijing Ready To Help With Darfur, Russia Deploys Helicopter Forces 
Paris (AFP) March 5, 2008China's special envoy to Darfur said Wednesday Beijing was ready to work with Western powers for a peaceful end to bloodshed in the war-torn region, but remains opposed to sanctions against Khartoum. "There is no fundamental difference between China and Western countries. China is ready to cooperate sincerely, and is not looking for confrontation with the West" on Darfur, Liu Giujin told ... more |
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Vilnius (AFP) March 5, 2008Lithuania wants next week's European Union summit to put common external energy policy and internal energy links high on its agenda, Lithuanian Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas said on Wednesday. Kirkilas made the comment to Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa in a telephone conversation on Wednesday, according to Lithuanian government's information bureau. Slovenia currently holds ... more Latin America could become biofuel player 
Oak Ridge TN (UPI) Mar 05, 2008Latin American countries could become major suppliers of ethanol for world markets in the future, an Oak Ridge National Laboratory report says. The ORNL study, part of a larger Department of Energy project, focused on the importance of Brazil's sugarcane industry in world trade in fuel ethanol. ORNL researchers projected that Brazil, Argentina, Colombia and members of the ... more Chinese firm sacks over 500 Zambian workers after riots 
Lusaka (AFP) March 5, 2008A Chinese copper smelter in Zambia on Wednesday dismissed more than 500 construction workers after they rioted and beat up Chinese workers in protest at poor wages, a company spokesman said. Management at the Chambishi Copper Smelter resolved to sack the workers following two days of a strike and riots which led to the destruction of some company property, George Jambwa said. "They have ... more CeBIT tech fair presents gadgets both hot and weird 
Hanover, Germany (AFP) March 5, 2008If swimming goggles with an in-built underwater camera, a bamboo laptop or a pink crocodile PC case is your thing then Germany's CeBIT IT fair is for you. The technology fair, with 5,500 exhibitors the world's biggest, opened its doors to the public in Hanover on Tuesday and runs to March 9, allowing thousands of visitors to check out the hottest and also the weirdest gadgets. A chilly ... more 21 grants awarded for biomass research 
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 05, 2008Two U.S. departments said they plan to invest $18.4 million for biomass research, development and demonstration projects over three years. The U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Energy said in a news release Tuesday the projects would address barriers to making production of biomass more cost-effectively and efficiently. Project funding is provided through the Biomass Research and ... more
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