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New Efforts To Plug Indonesian Mud Volcano
Jakarta (AFP) May 12, 2007The Indonesian government is to use new measures to plug a 'mud volcano' that has left thousands homeless and unemployed, reports said Saturday. The steaming crater, located near Indonesia's second-largest city of Surabaya in East Java, first began spewing mud in May last year after exploratory gas drilling went wrong. The torrent has continued despite constant efforts to stop it. Th ... more Urban Future Tries World Health 
Washington (UPI) May 11, 2007Sometime in 2007, the majority of the world's population will live in cities for the first time in human history. Health systems are struggling to keep up. "Urban poverty and its implications on health transcend societies," said Diana Silimperi, a global maternal and child health expert. "I'm not sure that we as a civilization have even begun to come to grips with the ramifications of global urb ... more Analysts Question Concerns Over China-Africa Relations 
Johannesburg (AFP) May 13, 2007China is not the only investor motivated by self-interest in its pursuit of closer ties with Africa, a continent in dire need of generous new friends, South African observers believe. Human rights concerns raised as China and Africa bond economically and politically, while not to be dismissed, come mostly from economic rivals whose own democratic records leave much to be desired, they say. ... more New Petroleum-Degrading Bacteria Found At Rancho La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 14, 2007Environmental scientists at UC Riverside have discovered that the Rancho La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles, Calif., house hundreds of new species of bacteria with unusual properties, allowing the bacteria to survive and grow in heavy oil and natural asphalt. Trapped in soil that was mixed with heavy oil nearly 28,000 years ago, the bacteria are uniquely adapted to the pits' oil and natural asphalt ... more India Wakes Up To E-Waste As Economy Booms 
New Delhi (AFP) May 13, 2007Environmentalists, alarmed by surging demand for consumer gadgets in India, are pushing manufacturers to tackle mounting piles of hazardous . India's 300-million strong middle class is grabbing gadgets as global competition pushes down costs of electronics which a decade ago were beyond the reach of many households. "We're raising the red flag," said Vinuta Gopal, spokeswoman of the Indian ... more |
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Paris, France (ESA) May 11, 2007Travellers have relied on accurate timekeeping for navigation since the development of the marine chronometer in the eighteenth century. Galileo, Europe's twenty-first century navigation system, also relies on clocks - but they are millions of times more accurate than those earlier timepieces. The operational Galileo satellites will carry two types of clocks - passive hydrogen masers and ... more Boeing Orbital Express Completes First Autonomous Free Flight And Capture 
St. Louis MO (SPX) May 11, 2007The Boeing Orbital Express system has completed another industry first by successfully performing a fully autonomous free-flight rendezvous and capture operation. The demonstration of the two-spacecraft system is part of an ongoing Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency mission to validate on-orbit servicing capabilities. Using its onboard cameras and advanced video guidance sys ... more The Battle To Save The ABL 
Washington (UPI) May 10, 2007Democrats on Capitol Hill have declared war on the ambitious Airborne Laser anti-ballistic missile program, but the three giant aerospace contractors who are building the ABL are already fighting back. War was declared on Tuesday when the Strategic Forces Subcommittee of the Armed Services Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives announced it was slashing $400 million from the $517 million ... more US Congress Cuts Missile Defense, Space Weapons, Nuke Funding 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) May 11, 2007A United State congressional panel has cut administration defense spending for next year by 9% of the total requested, blocking funds to build a missile base in Poland. In a resolution focused heavily on greater independent control over President Bush's missile defense projects, the House Armed Services Committee cut $764 million from the requested total of over $10 billion. ... more Nuclear Powers Clash With Iran At Non-Proliferation Conference 
Vienna (AFP) May 10, 2007Nuclear weapons states warned Thursday that peaceful use of nuclear energy requires honoring the Non-Proliferation Treaty but Iran rejected charges it is failing to do this. "The Iranian nuclear program does not currently respect the conditions set in the treaty for the right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy," French ambassador Jean-Francois Dobelle told 130 states at a conference in ... more |
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Baltimore MD (SPX) May 11, 2007Northrop Grumman, in conjunction with the Office of Naval Research, has successfully demonstrated the ability to extend communications range and capability using the Killer Bee tactical unmanned aerial vehicle built by Swift Engineering, Inc. "When military units need to communicate over long distances through mountainous or urban terrain, connectivity becomes a challenge," ... more Pakistan To Deploy New Nuclear Missile As Counter To India's Nuke Build-Up 
Washington DC (ANI) May 11, 2007Pakistan is preparing its next-generation of nuclear-capable ballistic missiles for deployment, a Federation of American Scientists report has claimed. According to the Dawn, India's nuclear build-up is motivating Islamabad to modernise its nuclear armoury. Authors of the FAS report estimate that Pakistan currently has 60 nuclear weapons ... more Egyptians, Not Greeks, Were True Fathers Of Medicine 
Manchester, UK (SPX) May 11, 2007Scientists examining documents dating back 3,500 years say they have found proof that the origins of modern medicine lie in ancient Egypt and not with Hippocrates and the Greeks. The research team from the KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology at The University of Manchester discovered the evidence in medical papyri written in 1,500BC - 1,000 years before Hippocrates was born. ... more Wife Of Arrested Environmentalist Sues China Government 
Beijing (AFP) May 10, 2007The wife of an arrested environmental campaigner Thursday said she has filed a lawsuit aimed at censuring the eastern Chinese city where he is awaiting trial for blackmail. Xu Jiehua, wife of Wu Lihong, is seeking a court ruling that will remove Yixing in Jiangsu province from an official list of "model environmental cities," she said. ... more Drug Firms Going Green 
Boston (UPI) May 10, 2007More drug manufacturers are turning to natural substances as sources for new drugs, even though the road from plant to pill can be a bumpy one, industry executives said this week. However, the big market potential for some of the new drugs makes it worth the effort, said the executives at the BIO International conference in Boston. Drugs from natural substances, known as botanicals, that ... more
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