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Walker's World: Russia's 'hypermortality'
Paris (UPI) May 27, 2008 An alarming new word has been born. It is "hypermortality," which might be defined as an extraordinary tendency toward death. It jumps from the first page of the U.N. Development Program report entitled "Demographic Policy in Russia." "The Russian phenomenon of hypermortality comes to be observed primarily in working-age populations," it says. "Compared to the majority of countri ... more Thunderstorms may add to woes of China's quake survivors 
Beichuan, China (AFP) May 27, 2008Survivors of China's earthquake huddled inside tents near their devastated homes Tuesday as they awaited a predicted thunderstorm, wondering how they would cope. In Renjiaping, a village near the quake's epicentre in southwest China's Sichuan province, people made homeless by the disaster said their biggest concern now was rains predicted to deluge the area in the days to come. Wang Sufe ... more 420,000 houses collapse in China aftershocks: state media 
Beijing (AFP) May 27, 2008More than 420,000 houses collapsed in quake-hit Sichuan province in southwest China after two fresh aftershocks hit the area on Tuesday afternoon, state media reported. Xinhua news agency, quoting local disaster relief headquarters, said the houses were in Qingchuan County and added 63 people had been injured there as a result, six of them critically. Southwest China has been rocked by ... more China in emergency vaccination drive in quake-hit areas 
Beijing (AFP) May 27, 2008China said Tuesday it would provide mass emergency vaccinations in quake-hit areas to curb potential epidemics, but reported no major disease outbreaks so far. "By June 15, emergency inoculation of vulnerable people will be completed including vaccines against Hepatitis A and Encephalitis B," Sun Jiahai, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health, told reporters Tuesday. He did not clarify ... more Subprime crisis could still get worse: HSBC chief executive 
Hong Kong (AFP) May 27, 2008The chief executive of Europe's biggest bank said in Hong Kong on Tuesday that the industry's difficulties with products linked to subprime mortgages may not be over. "We aren't convinced yet that the worst is over," Michael Geoghegan, group chief executive of HSBC, told reporters after an informal shareholder meeting here. Geoghegan said HSBC expected its write-downs related to subprime ... more |
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Boston MA (SPX) May 28, 2008Marine bacteria in the wild organize into professions or lifestyle groups that partition many resources rather than competing for them, so that microbes with one lifestyle, such as free-floating cells, flourish in proximity with closely related microbes that may spend life attached to zooplankton or algae. This new information about microbial groups and the methodology behind it could chan ... more Scorched Earth Millenium Map Shows Fire Scars 
Leicester, UK (SPX) May 28, 2008A geographer from the University of Leicester has produced for the first time a map of the scorched Earth for every year since the turn of the Millennium. Dr Kevin Tansey, of the Department of Geography, a leading scientist in an international team, created a visual impression of the fire scars on our planet between 2000 and 2007. The work was funded by the Joint Research Centre of the Eur ... more Study Identifies Food-Related Clock In The Brain 
Boston MA (SPX) May 28, 2008In investigating the intricacies of the body's biological rhythms, scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have discovered the existence of a "food-related clock" which can supersede the "light-based" master clock that serves as the body's primary timekeeper. The findings, which appear in the May 23 issue of the journal Science, help explain how animals adapt their circa ... more Real-Time Observation Of The DNA-Repair Mechanism 
Delft, Netherlands (SPX) May 28, 2008For the first time, researchers at Delft University of Technology have witnessed the spontaneous repair of damage to DNA molecules in real time. They observed this at the level of a single DNA molecule. Insight into this type of repair mechanism is essential as errors in this process can lead to the development of cancerous cells. Researchers from the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft a ... more Pacific Coast Turning More Acidic 
Corvallis OR (SPX) May 28, 2008An international team of scientists surveying the waters of the continental shelf off the West Coast of North America has discovered for the first time high levels of acidified ocean water within 20 miles of the shoreline, raising concern for marine ecosystems from Canada to Mexico. Researchers aboard the Wecoma, an Oregon State University research vessel, also discovered that this corrosi ... more |
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Baghdad (AFP) May 27, 2008Iraq said on Tuesday it is opening talks with Turkey and Syria in a bid to increase the flow of Euphrates and Tigris rivers and end severe water shortages. Water Resources Minister Latif Rashid is heading to Turkey and then to Syria with an appeal from Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to increase the amount of water released into the two rivers, the government said in a statement. Iraq is i ... more International aid reaches one million people in Myanmar: UN 
Geneva (AFP) May 27, 2008Just over a million people hit by the cyclone in Myanmar have received some form of international aid, a United Nations aid agency spokeswoman said Tuesday, adding that "we are on the right track". Aid delivered by the UN and non-governmental groups has reached about 42 percent of 2.4 million affected people, most of whom live in the biggest city Yangon, said spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs. ... more US 'takes seriously' reports of China rights clampdown 
Washington (AFP) May 27, 2008The United States is taking seriously reports that Chinese activists were subjected to a clampdown ahead of US-China talks this week on a range of human rights issues, a spokesman said Tuesday. "We take these reports seriously. And we're going to look into them," said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack. McCormack was responding to reporters' questions about information from the Ch ... more WFP chief urges swift distribution of aid in Myanmar 
Yokohama, Japan (AFP) May 27, 2008The head of the World Food Programme (WFP) on Tuesday called for swift distribution of relief aid to victims of Myanmar's killer cyclone. "Distribution needs to be more complete and quicker and scaled up even more," WFP executive director Josette Sheeran told a news conference here. "We are really hoping we will now be able to scale up ... to the level that we can reach more people more ... more Brazil's new environment minister to tackle fears over Amazon 
Brasilia (AFP) May 27, 2008Brazil's new environment minister, Carlos Minc, took up his functions Tuesday in a government increasingly split over how to balance preservation and development in the Amazon rainforest. Minc, the 56-year-old former environment secretary for the state of Rio de Janeiro, replaces a greatly respected minister, Marina Silva, who unexpectedly stepped down early this month after losing a series ... more
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