201. Solar industry responsible for lead emissions in developingcountries
October 23, 2012
Solar power is not all sunshine. It has a dark side - particularlyin developing countries, according to a new study by a Universityof Tennessee, Knoxville, engineering professor. A study by Chris Cherry, assistant professor in civil andenvironmental engineering, found that solar power heavily...
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202. Men with reduced fertility at reduced risk for prostate cancer
October 22, 2012
Involuntary childlessness owing to reduced fertility is a concernfor many men. However, these men do have one advantage - they run asignificantly lower risk of suffering from prostate cancer . Researchers are interested in whether this phenomenon could beused in the fight against cancer . There ...
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203. Us to review online marketing of beer, liquor and wine
October 21, 2012
WASHINGTON Twitter didn't exist the last time the Federal Trade Commissionexamined alcohol advertising, back in the lastdecade. /p p Now hundreds of millions of tweets flydaily across the micro-messaging site, including an increasingnumber from wine, beer and liquor companies seeking market buzz...
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204. Japanese diplomat charged with domestic abuse in us
October 20, 2012
LOS ANGELES - A Japanese diplomat posted in California has beencharged with domestic violence against his wife and could face upto 20 years in jail, the local district attorney said Tuesday. Yoshiaki Nagaya, vice-consul at Japan's consulate in San Francisco,is accused of 17 felony offenses, 14 o...
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205. Syria braces to announce election results as un warns of civil war
October 20, 2012
As Syria is bracing to announce the results of its firstparliamentary elections under the new constitution, the UnitedNations-Arab League joint envoy Kofi Annan expressed Tuesday"profound concern" that with the ongoing violence Syria mightdescend into a full civil war. Syria's mainstream media sai...
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206. 'hunger games' leads box office charts for a third straight weekend
October 20, 2012
a tremendous amount of momentum, led obviously by 'Hunger Games,'"said Hollywood.com analyst Paul Dergarabedian. "Just about everything seems to beworking." The first big-screen "American Pie" sequel since 2003's "AmericanWedding," "American Reunion" brings back all key cast members fromthe 1999 g...
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207. Search continues for abducted sisters with arizona ties
October 19, 2012
Authorities continued Tuesdy to search for two Tennessee girlsabducted by a man who is believed to have killed their mother andolder sister and dumped their bodies in a backyard. FBI officials confirmed that the bodies are that of Jo Ann Bain,31, and her 14-year-old daughter Adrienne. The nationw...
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208. Zerotouch turns 55-inch tv into touchscreen, gets ready for market
October 18, 2012
ZeroTouch, the inexpensive technology that turns regular displaysinto touchscreens, can be fitted to larger screens, is moreresponsive and is almost ready for commercialization, according toresearchers working on it. The project debuted at the Computer Human Interaction conference in 2011 and t...
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209. Google+ hangouts on air now offers live broadcasting for all
October 18, 2012
Google+ is enabling live Hangouts broadcasting for all its users after thefeature was available to a limited number of professionalbroadcasters. With Hangouts On Air , you can broadcast live video publicly from a Google+ stream, aYouTube channel or embed it on a website. Hangouts On Air is more ...
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210. Saudis had key role in stopping al-qaeda plot: experts
October 17, 2012
The FBI said investigators were examining the explosive thatappeared to be a revamped model of the bomb employed in theChristmas Day plot of 2009, in which a plastic explosive hidden ina Nigerian man's underwear failed to detonate on a plane headed forDetroit. The plot hatched by Al-Qaeda in the A...
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