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China's Great Wall crumbles as tourism soarsBadaling, China (AFP) Oct 4, 2010 Empty gin and whisky bottles, crumpled beer cans and tattered food boxes are piled up after a rave in China - perhaps not so unusual, except that the garbage is on the fabled Great Wall. The filthy remains of the full-moon techno party, which drew several hundred foreigners to one of the sections of the wall at Badaling, about 60 kilometres (35 miles) from Beijing, left Colombian tourist Francisco Garcia in a sad mood. "It's very bad for the environment," Garcia told AFP, summing up a major pro ... read more |
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 04, 2010For the first time, scientists are using advanced technology and an innovative vessel to study, image, and map the unexplored offshore Northern San Andreas Fault from north of San Francisco to its termination at the junction of three tectonic plates off Mendocino, Calif. The team includes scientists from NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service, Oregon State University, the California Seaf ... more  
Columbia MO (SPX) Oct 04, 2010It might seem obvious that a dinosaur's leg bone connects to the hip bone, but what came between the bones has been less obvious. Now, researchers at the University of Missouri and Ohio University have found that dinosaurs had thick layers of cartilage in their joints, which means they may have been considerably taller than previously thought. The study is being published this week in the journa ... more  
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (AFP) Oct 4, 2010Rising demand and deep subsidies on fuel, electricity and water are burning huge holes in the Saudi budget and threaten to eat into its capacity to export oil, officials and experts warn. Oil for electricity generation is sold to power plants at about five percent of the world market price, with those savings passed on to consumers. And water - both from the ground and from oil-fired desali ... more |
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China urges EU to cede IMF power, S.Korea welcomes offerBrussels (AFP) Oct 4, 2010 Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao urged Europe on Monday to cede more power to emerging markets in international financial institutions, as South Korea welcomed an EU offer to give up some IMF seats. Wen made his appeal in a speech at the opening of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) amid complaints by emerging economies that Europe is over-represented at the International Monetary Fund. "We need to improve the decision-making process and mechanisms of the international financial insitutions," Wen told fel ... read more |
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