TOKYO: The toxic chemical made infamous by campaigning single mother Erin Brockovich has been found at up to 15,800 times safety limits in groundwater at a Japanese iron plant, the factory's operator said Thursday.Excessive amounts of hexavalent chromium were discovered at Nippon Denko's plant in Tokushima in the country's west as it prepared to halt production of chromium salts at the...
Pak for permanent solution of Kashmir issue: Zardari
Label: Lifestyle ISLAMABAD: Pakistan wants a "sustained and result-oriented" engagement with India to find a permanent solution to the Kashmir issue that could usher in peace and stability in the region, President Asif Ali Zardari told a visiting Hurriyat delegation today. "Pakistan firmly believes in a meaningful, sustained and result-oriented process of engagement with India that could lead to a permanent solution...
Detecting Rabid Bats Before They Bite
Label: Health A picture is worth a thousand words—or in the case of bats, a rabies diagnosis. A new study reveals that rabid bats have cooler faces compared to uninfected colony-mates. And researchers are hopeful that thermal scans of bat faces could improve rabies surveillance in wild colonies, preventing outbreaks that introduce infections into other animals—including humans.Bats are a major reservoir...
Schools Threatened Nationwide After Sandy Hook
Label: Business Schools across the country, already on edge following last week's massacre of 20 students and six adults at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school have been further unnerved following a series of copycat threats, sometimes yielding arrests and caches of deadly weapons.From California to Connecticut, police in the past five days have arrested more than a dozen individuals in Indiana,...
Dec
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President Obama’s remarks on gun control policy, Dec. 19, 2012 (Transcript)
Label: World
Here’s a running transcript of President Obama’s remarks on his administration’s gun control policy as delivered on Dec. 19, 2012. Transcript is being updated as the remarks unfold.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Good morning everybo...
Bank of England votes 8-1 to maintain stimulus
Label: Technology LONDON: Bank of England policymakers voted 8-1 to maintain their quantitative easing stimulus programme at their December meeting, repeating the voting pattern from the previous month, minutes showed on Wednesday.The BoE's nine-member monetary policy committee (MPC) had voted earlier this month to keep the QE stimulus amount at 375 billion pounds ($611 billion, 460 billion euros).Polcymakers...
Race Is On to Find Life Under Antarctic Ice
Label: Health A hundred years ago, two teams of explorers set out to be the first people ever to reach the South Pole. The race between Roald Amundsen of Norway and Robert Falcon Scott of Britain became the stuff of triumph, tragedy, and legend. (See rare pictures of Scott's expedition.)Today, another Antarctic drama is underway that has a similar daring and intensity—but very different stakes.Three...
Inside One School's Extraordinary Security Measures
Label: Business While schools across America reassess their security measures in the wake of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., one school outside of Chicago takes safety to a whole new level.The security measures at Middleton Elementary School start the moment you set foot on campus, with a camera-equipped doorbell. When you ring the doorbell, school employees inside are...
Dec
18
Coal use set to surpass oil in a decade: IEA
Label: Technology PARIS: Coal is set to surpass oil as the world's top fuel within a decade, driven by growth in emerging market giants China and India, with even Europe finding it hard to cut use despite pollution concerns, according to a report published Tuesday."Thanks to abundant supplies and insatiable demand for power from emerging markets, coal met nearly half of the rise in global energy demand...
TN minister's brother O Raja, others get anticipatory bail
Label: Lifestyle MADURAI: O Raja, brother of Tamil Nadu minister O Panneerselvam, and four others, charged with abetment of suicide of a Dalit youth, were today granted conditional bail by the Madras high court. Police had filed cases against them under IPC section 306 (abetment of suicide) and Cr.PC 174 following a "suicide note" recovered from the spot. 21-year-old Nagamuthu of Kailapatty area in the district...
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