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Amar Singh asked me to return to Congress: Sanjay Dutt
Indian Express
| Defending his parting of ways with old friend Amar Singh, Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt today claimed that his "return" to Congress came after "advice" to this effect from the expelled Samajwadi Party leader himself. | "It was Amar Singh himself who gave me the advice that I should return to the Cong...
Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh gestures in jest with teammates after he was hurt by a delivery from teammate Shantakumaran Sreesanth in Bangalore, India, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011. India will play an ICC Cricket World Cup match against England on Feb. 28.
(photo: AP / Saurabh Das)
Yuvraj inspired by valiant Armstrong
Deccan Chronicle
| Dashing left-hander Yuvraj Singh has said that he will draw inspiration from cycling champion Lance Armstrong to battle his lung tumour. He is now in the US undergoing treatment. According to the Gulf News, Singh’s much-anticipated return to cricket will hence be delayed further. Even though he ...
Denver Athletic Club's CEO Andre van Hall's sight loss hasn't clouded his vision
Denver Post
n | Denver Athletic Club CEO & General Manager Andre van Hall lifts weights during his morning workout at the facility in Denver. Van Hall suffers from an optic nerve disorder which renders him legally blind. He says his sight appears as though h...
Rural broadband via nonprofit networks
The News & Observer
Email Print Order Reprint Share This Share Text tool name | tool goes here BY WALLY BOWEN BY WALLY BOWEN Tags: | | ASHEVILLE -- President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union address that he wants to upgrade the nation's "critical infrastructu...
6.8 quake in Philippines kills 5, buries homes
Austin American Statesman
| MANILA, Philippines — A strong earthquake in the central Philippines killed at least five people Monday as it destroyed buildings and triggered landslides that buried dozens of houses, trapping residents. At least 29 people were missing. | Th...
The seed emergency: The threat to food and democracy
Al Jazeera
| The seed is the first link in the food chain - and seed sovereignty is the foundation of food sovereignty. If farmers do not have their own seeds or access to open pollinated varieties that they can save, improve and exchange, they have no see...
The real source of American prosperity
Chicago Tribune
| The U.S. needs all the jobs it can get, and we're all for employers bringing factory work back here from China and other foreign locales. We support American manufacturing — period. | But the nation is not going to see the return of loads of ...
6.8 earthquake shakes central Philippines; 1 dead
Austin American Statesman
| MANILA, Philippines — A strong earthquake struck the central Philippines on Monday, killing a child, destroying buildings, shattering windows and triggering a local tsunami alert that sent residents fleeing. | The 6.8-magnitude quake hit in a...
File - A young malaria patient near Alem Kitmama, North East of Addis-Abeba, Ethiopia.
WHO / P. Virot
Malaria death toll far higher than previously thought
The Daily Telegraph
Malaria kills more than 1.2 million people a year, nearly 50 per cent more than previously thought, and inflicts a high toll among adults and older children and not just toddlers, ...
This Oct. 14, 2009 photo shows a giant jellyfish drifting off Kokonogi in western Japan. Once considered a rarity occurring every 40 years, jellyfish swarms are now an almost annual occurrence along several thousand kilometers (miles) of Japanese coast, and far beyond Japan, decimating local fishing industries from the Japan Sea to the Black Sea.
AP / Junji Kurokawa
Are Jellyfish Taking Over the World's Oceans? Scientists Cast Doubt
Treehugger
| /CC BY 2.0 | The uptake in jellyfish numbers has been in the news a lot the last few years. Indeed just last year massive jellyfish blooms were the reason nuclear power plants in...
Progress Made in Developing Community-Acquired MRSA Vaccine
WN / Marzena
Progress Made in Developing Community-Acquired MRSA Vaccine
Scientific American
| By Maryn McKenna of Nature magazine | Over the years, Robert Daum has learned to respect his adversary. In 1995, he and his co-workers at the University of Chicago children&apos...
Office space: Model Builders Inc.
Chicago Tribune
Every now and then, we need someone to bring things down to size. | Leave the shrinking to Hal Chaffee, president of Model Builders Inc., opened in 1950 by his father, William. | The Southwest Side company has constructed close to 10,000 models from ...
Atlantis disappears again ... but this time it's all thanks to Google
The Daily Mail
|  After three years, Google Earth map has finally been updated to remove a gridlike pattern which sparked rumors that the underwater city of Atlantis had been found. | The exciting 'non-discovery' was made in 2009 when eagle-eyed internet users...
Future Technology
The former President of India, Dr. A.P. J. Abdul Kalam.
(photo: PIB of India)
Kalam asks experts in medicine to develop new technology
The Hindu
Former President of India, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam said here on Tuesday that the country's best talent in the field of medicine should strive to develop innovative technology so that the needy could afford the fruits of modern medicine. On Tuesday, Dr. Kalam inaugurated VICTUS Femtosecond Laser Cataract Surgery machine at Maxivision Eye Care, Soma...
Science
Older Man, Alzheimer's Disease
(photo: Creative Commons / JHG Hendriks)
How Alzheimer's spread in brain
DNA India
| Two different research groups, which worked independent of each other, have made the same important discovery on how Alzheimer's disease spreads in the brain. | According to a story in the New York Times in February 2, the groups' findings have the potential to give us a much more sophisticated understanding of what goes wrong in Alzheimer's dise...



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