Startling finds in a recent National Trust survey: of 1,600 schoolchildren questioned, nearly half couldn't recognise an oak leaf, a barn owl or tell the difference between a bee and a wasp. Yet they had no...
Thousands of dogs and cats face a bleak future in Britain because their owners are being forced to rent homes due to a housing downturn and landlords will not accept pets " Landlords are in the dog-house with a...
"New Weapon Against Crime in the SouthCrime in the South's fast-growing cities has a negative affect on economic development and social and community harmony. In Africa, with one fifth of the world's population, for...
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"NEW DELHI: With the top Congress leadership closing ranks over the Indo-US nuclear deal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday night said India is in the process of making history by going ahead with the deal. Another highlight of the two-hour long meeting of the...
As the left side of the UPA left the government alliance, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will attempt a trust vote. This move is aimed at proving support for the Congress government. It also attempts to speed up a controversial civil nuclear pact with US...
Vegetarians beware. Those that eat lots of any kind of specific food might be in danger of too much or too little of one chemical or another. After all in the end that's all that food is - a combination of chemicals....
Will generations of kids raised with "online lives" have less grasp of reality and be at psychological risk? Some health professionals see real problems ahead."Children growing up amid the rise of social networking Web sites may have a "potentially dangerous" view of the...
NowPublic in the News, Citizen journalism site adds new features Update found at end of this story Here is a related story that was published first on NP from mtippett NP gets Kudos from Journalism Blogs...
"P.O.T.U.S Thursday, July 3, 2008 It’s time to get mad and put the Austin Police Department in their place. They are now planning to pull you over, and if they suspect you’ve been drinking, the police will stick a needle in your arm, and take your blood without a warrant....
"SOUTH Korea's largest business group Samsung faces a leadership crisis after its chairman quit in the wake of a scandal, the acting chairman said today. "Without a captain or rudder, Samsung now faces...
I'm all for promoting healthy eating but the notion of teachers trawling through kids lunchboxes every day and sending notes home chastising parents about their contents begins to wrankle. Sure if a kid brings a beer...
For years the news business has built it's solvency on the notion that people 'trust' conventional news brands. But that trust is eroding fast. According to the Pew Research Center:"The American public...
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Headline: NowPublic - Now with Trust and Twitter"Vancouver-based news bookmarking and citizen journalism site NowPublic relaunched its website earlier this month and added a few new features that Mashable picked up on today. The new site design is less conservative that...
""I get asked, on a daily basis, about the trust factor in user generated news. The new features NowPublic just released are our answers, and, frankly, I think it gets to the heart of the matter in a way that traditional media has never been able to - by being transparent and...