"Eight out of 10 people in the East Midlands "turn a blind eye" to novice criminals who cost DVD retailers and cinemas millions of pounds each year, according to new statistics.
The research has revealed that as...
The researchers from Oxford University are right. High fat foods should cost more and low fat foods should cost less."More than 3,000 fatal heart attacks and strokes could be prevented in the UK each year if VAT was slapped on a vast range of foods, say Oxford researchers.
A...
Toronto photographer Ed Burtynsky has photographed industrial
landscapes for more than 25 years. From 2003 to 2005, he traveled to
China several times to capture images of the country's industrial
growth.
A film crew followed Burtynsky on his fifth trip in 2005 to shoot the...
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TORONTO
– Prominent Canadian authors, artists and musicians joined seven
conservation groups today in calling on Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty
to bolster his government's much anticipated climate change plan with
protection of Ontario's Boreal Forest. A letter urging the...
"Homeland Security officials are testing a supersnoop computer system that sifts through personal information on U.S. citizens to detect possible terrorist attacks, prompting concerns from lawmakers who have...
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"#1 Future of Internet Debate Ignored by Media
Sources:
Buzzflash.com, July 18, 2005
Title: “Web of Deceit: How Internet Freedom Got the Federal Ax, and Why Corporate News Censored the Story”
Author: Elliot D....
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"By the Editorial Board
14 February 2007
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The World Socialist Web Site condemns the military and political provocations with which the Bush administration is laying the foundations for an attack on Iran. We...
I used to be secure in the knowledge that, if I was driving fast enough, traffic cameras would be unable to capture my license plate. This is a troubling development indeed!"An Air Force contractor has developed the first high-speed camera that can follow speeding bullets...
"While researching for an upcoming article, I stumbled upon the source code for a number of applications that Microsoft aquired when they purchased Sysinternal. It seems that even the mighty Microsoft needs to bow to The Wayback Machine and forgotten files!
If you go to the...
"Courses offer a variety of different looks
Narrow openings to fairways, greens surrounded by marshland highlights of Carolina National
By Alan Blondin
Myrtle Beach Golf Magazine
RANDALL HILL/Myrtle Beach Golf Magazine
BOLIVIA, N.C. - At Carolina National Golf Club you'll see...
"Oh how I've missed the Clintons. I can still recall how Bill Clinton could cry on cue at funerals and how Hillary Clinton could blame a vast right-wing conspiracy for her husband being serviced by an intern that...
Greenpeace has discovered in Iceland an huge amount of the whale meat from the recent hunt has not been used. Nearly 200 tonnes of meat and blubber - a vast proportion of the total yield - are sitting elsewhere in...
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"More than nine out of 10 Americans, men and women alike, have had premarital sex, according to a new study. The high rates extend even to women born in the 1940s, challenging perceptions that people were more chaste in the past.
“This is reality-check research,” said the...
Last week Greenpeace launched a new document, Trading Away Our Oceans, which uses official data from government sources to show that further trade liberalization of fisheries is a disaster for marine environment...
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The vast array of temporary and part-time employees taken on to cover the busy Christmas period are today reminded of their right to be paid at least the national minimum wage.
Shops, bars, hotels, restaurants and courier services all see a surge in the number of employees in...