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Haiti quake toll rises to 217,000Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Feb 10, 2010 Haiti raised the death toll Wednesday from last month's quake to more than 217,000, while the focus turned to providing shelter for the homeless before heavy rains and hurricane season come. "There are people who put forth the figure of 230,000, but we have counted a bit more than 217,000. These are verified figures," Interior Minister Paul Bien-Aime said. The government also declared a day of mourning for Friday to mark one month since the quake struck, bringing death and destruction on an unpr ... read more |
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Buenos Aires (UPI) Feb 11, 2009 Argentina's government has courted more controversy after a meeting between President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and farmers' representatives deteriorated into an angry war of words over who is to blame for higher beef prices. The government is already embroiled in an unprecedented row after its attempted use of Central Bank reserves to pay off Argentina's debt, which led to the rem ... more  
Portland OR (SPX) Feb 12, 2010A team of University of Oregon researchers have isolated an independent processing channel of synapses inside the brain's auditory cortex that deals specifically with shutting off sound processing at appropriate times. Such regulation is vital for hearing and for understanding speech. The discovery, detailed in the Feb. 11 issue of the journal Neuron, goes against a long-held assumption th ... more  
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Feb 12, 2010A study by University of Michigan researchers offers new insight into what happens to mercury deposited onto Arctic snow from the atmosphere. The work also provides a new approach to tracking mercury's movement through Arctic ecosystems. Mercury is a naturally occurring element, but some 2000 tons of it enter the global environment each year from human-generated sources such as coal- ... more |
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US climate skeptics seize on blizzardWashington (AFP) Feb 11, 2010 US opponents of climate change action are seizing on a record snowfall in Washington in hopes of killing legislation to curb carbon emissions, which already faced uncertain political prospects. Environmentalists have launched a swift counter-attack, pointing out that Olympics host Vancouver is facing a dearth of snow and saying the extreme weather may in fact offer proof, not a rebuttal, of dangerous climate change. With Washington and other eastern cities digging out from the heaviest snow in d ... read more |
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