"Banks and building societies are coming under increasing pressure from MPs to pass on the latest cut in interest rates to their mortgage customers. Some of the major lenders made an immediate decision to pass on...
Nature is full of suprises and the more humans tries to solve the mystry the more it gets confused.The latest study on changing climatic pattern suggests that we are heading towards ice age.. " The planet could...
Yeah, yeah, I know: another study proving what everyone on the face of the earth already knows: bad boys get the girls. The interesting twist, though, is that it doesn't work the other way. The study discussed...
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"“China spends 9 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) on infrastructure and India budgets 3.5 percent … while aiming to increase its allocation to 8 percent. By comparison, the United States budgets $112.9 billion or just 0.93 percent of its GDP, and sidesteps the...
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""With support from 32 red cross and red crescent societies in many countries, domestic and foreign NGOs, we will enable the tsunami survivors to own the shelters," he said.
The shelters are temporary dwellings consisting of galvanized steel structures and anti-termite wooden...
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This is why science is so cool. Robot cockroaches infiltrating a bug community and then getting the bugs to do stuff."This experiment in bug peer pressure combined entomology, robotics and the study of ways that...
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"The U.S. military asserted that an American
soldier was justified in erasing journalists’ footage of the aftermath
of a suicide bombing and shooting in Afghanistan last week, saying
publication could have...
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Several NowPublic commentators have written in recent weeks about the four year prison sentence imposed on Egyptian blogger Kareem Solimon, convicted of defaming Islam. Representative Trent Franks (R-Arizona) has entered the fray via a Washingon Post letter to the editor. The...
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"Arab societies generally tend to brush under the carpet incidents of sexual harassment of children, particularly if the delinquent is a close relative, says a visiting psychiatrist.
But ignoring an incident can only aggravate the problem, says Dr Mamoun Obaid, from Belfast...
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"Island nation cultural history and methods on how societies operate and evolve is an extremely important component to island life.
Anyone who has traveled the Pacific knows that the undercurrent of how things operate is colored in island tribal tradition and that this is...
"Big Oil The Crude Facts
Manipulating The Oil Reserve
Big Oil The Crude Facts: Thomas Palley runs the Economics for Democratic and Open Societies Project. He is the author of Plenty of Nothing: The Downsizing of the American Dream and the Case for Structural...
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Gingrich's '24' scenario: US, Israel face potential 'second Holocaust' which could lead to 'greater dictatorial societies' - Echoing the plotline of a popular television show, Newt Gingrich,
former Speaker of the House and a potential Republican candidate for
president in...