Afghanistan flooding EU with 7.700 tons of Heroin, 90% of world opium product...

Canabis down, Opium up With the smoking ban, Canabis consumation is decreasing, cheap Heroin from Afghanistan is flooding Britain. The soldiers are among the most exposed, followed by the everyday people in...

Will the banking crisis become a food crisis?

Having no money is one thing.  Having no food is another thing entirely."Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- The credit crunch is compounding a profit squeeze for farmers that may curb global harvests and worsen a food...

Millions at risk in North Korean food crisis

North Korea is in the middle of a food crisis that threatens the lives of millions according to the latest study of the U.N."BEIJING, China (CNN) -- The first survey on food and nutrition in North Korea since the...

African Union: "Unite or Starve"

I can't really argue with this: if it means bargaining with a collective continental market in order to get a better deal on necessities, then so be it. SInce the various AU nations have such different agendas, both with the West and with each other, it's hard to predict how...

No power for cellphone? Just walk a few blocks

A device simply amazing, one wonders why it wasn't thought of before.  The applications are numerous, only limited by ones imagination.  A Coup for SFU and most likely world wide attention for it's...

Your Food: Toxic Mold Found in Iowa, S.D.Corn

The fact that 25 to 30% of the early harvest in one area was rejected for having larger-than-allowed aflatoxin is bad news, maybe good news, and puzzling news. The bad news is that there's such a high amount of a substance that causes cancer and has previously killed pets via...

Clear2Pay harvests success in China with BNPP (China) CNAPS pjt

""This solution will give us the ability to have full Straight-Through-Processing for all local currency transactions, thus providing us with a foundation to offer our customers a broader range of services. This will enable us to expand our business in China, says Charles...

Are Mobile Phones Killing the Bees?

Following up earlier posts, here is a new development in the honeybee die-off mystery. Scientists are positing that honeybees are refusing to return to hives when a mobile phone is nearby, leading to the mass abandonments that characterize Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD),...

Canada and Russia: Global warming winners?

A report set to be released by the UN reports that global warming may pose a short-term benefit for people living in the northern hemisphere, like Canada and Russia. Our crops and tourism might improve for a brief...

The Nutcracker: Researchers Uncovering Mysteries Of Memory

" Keeping track of one set of keys is difficult enough, but imagine having to remember the locations of thousands of sets of keys. Do you use landmarks to remember where you put them? Do you have a mental map of...

The Crime Of Genocide

This law protects four groups: National, Ethnical, Racial, Religious. The crime, is the intended destruction of the whole, or part, of a group. Genocide crimes include: Aiding, Attempting, Complicity, Conspiring, Inciting, Planning.  

Scientists skeptical of banking baby teeth - Yahoo! News

There's a new high-tech version of the tooth fairy, but some scientists aren't ready to bite. Austin-based startup company BioEden Inc. has opened the nation's first baby tooth bank, which harvests and freezes stem cells from a tooth's pulp. The hope is that the cells may...

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