Campaign by Students Organization to Turn Chandigahian vegetarian

"Chandigarh (Mera Chandigarh): A student’s organization wants to turn Chandigarh into a city of vegetarians. They’ve made a good beginning by persuading the owner of a non-vegetarian eating joint to switch over to vegetarian food.Members of YES!+ club (Youth empowerment...

It'll cost mucho dinero for Chad Ocho Cinco to switch jerseys

This story gets stranger and stranger. First of all, I have no idea why someone would change his perfectly good name from Johnson to Ocho Cinco (I wonder what his family thinks about this). I know Chad Johnson is an...

The $70 Billion Spectrum Rip-Off

The airwaves belong to the People, but the FCC plans to cut us out and give away the new digital spectrum to the same corporations that have been ignoring and violating the public interest provisions in their license in the analog spectrumhttp://www.fcc.gov/contacts.html"On...

SpeedDate Hijacks Facebook Users With A Bait And Switch

"SpeedDate, the online dating site that throws singles in a series of rapid dating sessions, has hijacked over 500,000 users from at least three Facebook applications. Users are logging on to Facebook to find that the applications they’ve had installed for months have been...

Hopes raised for block on cancer

Could this be the breakthrough that will cut to the heart of cancer treatment and see real hope of a cure for many cancers? The research will need backing from not only bug drug companies but international...

Madrid air crash stewardess survived by 'switching seats'

" Antonia Martinez Jimenez, 27, has told relatives that she normally sat at the back of the plane during take-off and landing, but on the ill-fated flight to Gran Canaria last Wednesday she was rostered to sit...

Aussie science to make net 100 times faster

Considering the number of otherwise credible sources that have reported on this, it would seem it's not a hoax, and if it works should end big telco's profit and greed-driven and already debunked fear-mongering about a coming "internet clog""COMPUTER users frustrated by slow...

Operators insist Antigua is safe, but locals disagree

"Tour operators are urging customers not to cancel plans to visit Antigua in the wake of the murder of the British honeymooner Catherine Mullany, insisting that the Caribbean island is still safe for holidaymakers....

Telus and Bell to become iPhone-friendly

Canada's second and third-largest cellphone providers are rumoured to announce a conversion to the same network technology used by Rogers, a move that would make them iPhone-compatible.It would also mean that...

Ferguson says Ronaldo is staying

So he's staying now."Ferguson says Ronaldo is staying Ronaldo is currently recovering from ankle surgery Manchester United manager Sir Alex...

Gordon Brown: Motorists should switch to electric cars and learn 'eco-driving'

Brown is making quite a number of evironmental style public service announcements. Be good to see these technologies embraced more widely - perhaps even the priministerial and presidential car convoys will consist of these cars soon... now that would be a good example to us...

Sheehan makes Elland Road switch

"Sheehan makes Elland Road switch Sheehan is a Republic of Ireland at under-21 international Leeds United have announced they have signed...

Britain goes slow as trains, planes and ships cut fuel costs

Even jet planes are slowing down to save fuel - well really to save 'fuel costs' which is perhaps slightly different - an economic rather than environmental decision. If that's what it takes to save the planet then...

Is Saudi Arabia about to repeat its oil policy error of 1998? « Peter J. Coo...

" So I wonder if Saudi Arabia really decided to screw down oil prices next week, how long will this last? The emerging economies will soon swallow up any surplus production and we will be back to square one, and prices will go up again. Only at that point Saudi Arabia may...

Gene-based diabetes therapy paves way for personalised medicine for all

"A therapy tailored to individuals’ genes has transformed the treatment of achronic disease, in a ground-breaking advance for personalised medicine.Hundreds of diabetes sufferers in Britain were able to switch from insulininjections to cheaper, more effective drugs after a...

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