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Space News From SpaceDaily.Com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Boston MA (SPX) May 09, 2008 - Global Positioning System (GPS) devices have become commonplace across the country, and across the world. This satellite-based navigation system, made up of a network of 24 satellites placed into orbit, works in any weather conditions, anywhere in the world, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.
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Myanmar (Free subscription) | yesterday
YANGON: More than 1.5 million people are at risk from disease unless a tsunami-like aid effort is mobilised, aid agency Oxfarm warned last night. The warning came as desperate survivors of Cyclone Nar...
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China Digital Times (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
The hand foot and mouth disease outbreak seems like a local version of the 2003 SARS epidemic. And there's one more similarity: the silence of the local media. A commentary translated by CDT from the Beijing News: I am the father of a five-year-old, and I have been closely following the ...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Eritrea won broad acclaim and was cited as an exemplary nation at the Burkina Faso International Conference on Basic Health Care for the major achievements it has registered in reducing child and mother mortality rate as well as controlling malaria epidemic.
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Chanel News Asia (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
SINGAPORE: An expert on epidemics said that the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) which appeared five years ago is unlikely to recur.
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Myanmar (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
... with aid being distributed by the Burmese Red Cross.Charities have been warning of a disease epidemic of "apocalyptic proportions" due to delays in supplies getting through to those in need.Aid agencies have accused the country's ruling junta of delaying crucial relief work needed to help the survivors of last Saturday's cyclone that killed an estimated 100,000 people and has left some 1...
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Robert Lindsay (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Although many factors are involved in this epidemic, one of the worst is the Chytrid fungus epidemic. It is being spread by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), which causes chytridiomycosis. This fungal disease is devastating frog populations all over the world, but particularly in Australia, and North, Central and South America. The devastation in Central America has been particularly...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
It's rare that a physician would single-handedly play a crucial role in resolving two big health crises in China, saving untold scores of children's lives. But that's precisely the case with Dr. Liu Xiaolin.
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Aid experts warned today of an epidemic of “apocalyptic proportions” in Burma if the country's regime continues to block international aid.
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Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
The United States has appointed a federal prosecutor to work with state and local authorities on bringing an end to lawlessness in polygamous communities, an investigation that may extend to finding a way to stop the so-called polygamy underground railway across the Canada-U.S. border.
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Kiko's House (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Nick was never the same after Vietnam . He would lapse into deep depressions. He let his teeth go, chain smoked cigarettes and pot and drank way too much booze, fought with his wife and would leave home for days at a time after suffering nightmares about the people that he had killed and seen killed. I was one of the very few people who knew about Nick's Vietnam experience. It was horrific -- skippering...
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Alertnet (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Source: Reuters (For related story see [ID:nPEK160627]) HONG KONG, May 8 (Reuters) - Multiple epidemics of hand, foot and mouth disease have occurred in several countries in Asia in recent weeks, most notably in ...
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OpenMarket (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
... suffering for regular people, the bureaucracy is bloating up like a balloon. We have an obesity epidemic in the federal bureaucracy in my opinion.
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Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
[Kat - I'm still recovering from the weekend, so pardon any randomness in my comment] The armorer linked to Crittendon linking to Small Wars Journal article by Canadian Cpt Nils French: Social Epidemics and the Human Element of Counter-insurgency Insurgents typically choose to operate from within a population and for this reason it is the human element that has had and will continue to have...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Chruch to address porn epidemic NORMAL - Internet search engines process 68 million requests for pornographic content each day. There are 4.2 million pornographic Web sites. Internet pornography sales total almost $5 billion annually.
