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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 24, 2009 
Chemists are preparing to play an important but often unheralded role in determining the success of one of the largest and most important scientific experiments in history - next year's initial attempts at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) to produce the world's first controlled nuclear fusion reaction. If successful in taming the energy source of the sun, stars, and of the hydrogen ... read more 
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 24, 2009A scientific trend to view the world's biggest cities as analogous to living, breathing organisms is fostering a deep new understanding of how poor air quality in megacities can harm residents, people living far downwind, and also play a major role in global climate change. That's the conclusion of a report on the "urban metabolism" model of megacities presented at the 238th National ... more
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Caracas, Venezuela (UPI) Aug 20, 2009 Venezuela appears to be reconsidering its reported plans to demand more cash upfront from Caribbean and Central American countries following pleas for a rethink from worried member countries of the Petrocaribe oil pact. After public pronouncements of concern by Petrocaribe member countries the Venezuelan state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA has been reassuring the importers it ... more 
Washington (UPI) Aug 21, 2009 The U.S. State Department issued a permit Thursday to Enbridge Energy Corp. to build a 326-mile pipeline from Canadian oil sands fields to refineries in the United States. The Alberta Clipper pipeline -- which will run through Minnesota and the northeast corner of North Dakota from Superior, Wis., to Hardisty, Alberta -- will carry up to 450,000 barrels of crude oil a day. Enbridge ... more 
Champaign IL (SPX) Aug 24, 2009A new process for creating ultrathin, ultrasmall inorganic light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and assembling them into large arrays offers new classes of lighting and display systems with interesting properties, such as see-through construction and mechanical flexibility, that would be impossible to achieve with existing technologies. Applications for the arrays, which can be printed onto flat ... more |
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Ottawa (AFP) Aug 21, 2009Exxon Mobil is evacuating all 200 workers from its Sable gas platform off the Canadian east coast, ahead of Hurricane Bill's expected arrival on the weekend, a spokeswoman said Friday. "We're closely monitoring the progress of Hurricane Bill. Based on the current predictions of its severity and with the safety of our workforce as a priority Exxon Mobil has decided to evacuate all personnel ... more  
Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 23, 2009With Air China last week boosting its stake in Cathay Pacific, the globally renowned Hong Kong airline has moved a step closer to becoming a mainland company, analysts say. By increasing its holding to 29.99 percent, Air China bolstered its position to just a hair's breadth below the 30 percent threshold that would trigger a mandatory takeover offer, while also doubling its presence on the ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Aug 21, 2009Half of the 24 million people on China's official unemployment rolls may not find jobs this year even if the country posts eight percent economic growth, the labour ministry said Friday. The estimate given by the ministry does not take into account millions of recent university graduates and migrant workers, meaning the actual number of jobless could be much higher. "Even if economic ... more |
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