Tourism is the greatest industry on the planet and until the 2008 recession kicked in, world Tourism growth was rising at an approximate rate of 8% year on year. In order to achieve such massive Tourism growth across our planet, the mass market had to be penetrated by...
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GENEVA – Dozens of countries urged the World Health Organization on Monday to change its criteria for declaring a pandemic, saying the agency must consider how deadly a virus is — not just how far it spreads across the globe.
Fearing a swine flu pandemic declaration...
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CVS/pharmacy Pays Tribute to Caregivers and Announces Winners of the "For All the Ways You Care" Contest Pat Pumphret of Winthrop, Mass., awarded $25,000 grand prize for lifelong dedication to fostering...
Cemmani Mass Grave in Jaffna 1996 under Sri Lankan army control!Sri Lankan Army Lance Corporal Somaratne Rajapakse, facing a death sentence for the rape and murder of student Krishanti Kumaraswamy and her family,...
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Mass dolphin strandings in some parts of the world are being blamed on military sonar, as the animals become temporarily deaf for about 40 minutes after sonar has passed through the region. Hearing is important to...
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When the Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol appeared on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, a caller criticized his publication for hyping President Bush’s pre-invasion lies about WMD in Iraq, and asked him to...
Millions of cats roam around outside their home for at least part of the day, and scientists are now looking at what some of them might get up to during the day. Scientists in the UK are claiming that cats kill...
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Dark Matter SolvedIt is a bit scary when you're in the shower and a 'demon' rears its 'ugly' head revealing itself. It's even scarier when you have to teach Stephen Hawking something about physics. The 'demon' I refer to is the truth about space-time. And, that I can teach...
The remains have many characteristics that lead to think they are warriors, tall young men with bones that had been broken and healed. What makes this burial unusual is the mixture of two cultures. Aztec and...
CERN has extended the timetable for the restart Large Hadron Collider to next September, not this Spring as had been hoped. Last September 19, just nine days after its initial start, the LHC suffered electrical...
Two million people have descended on Washington DC for the Inauguration of Barack Obama, and the crowds have clogged the mass transit lines and security checkpoints as they try to get a spot to witness a moment in...
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Amidst the tight security thousands of people attended the last rites of killed Sri Lankan editor Lasantha Wickramatunga in capital Colombo. The dead editor was a fierce critic of Sri Lankan government...
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"Although under-presented, manipulated and used, masses of Sri Lanka had always acted and would act an important role in solving the social aspect of this conflict. To be direct, a political solution implemented overlooking the masses or without adequate participation of the...
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Historian Claudio Sanchez-Albornoz concludes that the Spanish civilization is Catholic and other influences.However others such as the biologists in this case states that Spain have been enriched by 3 historical cultures; Catholic,Jewish and Muslim.Test conducted by...
"An 11-year-old girl in Mumbai, India, was hospitalized with pain in her stomach, and surgeons were forced to operate. What they found was a foot-long hairball. The mass of hair -- known as a trichobozear - -is a...