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- Web users entering the words "miserable failure" into the popular search engine are directed to the biography of the president on the White House website, in addition to other references. Details Try it |
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- Today Bush warned Taiwan not to seek independence from China. Now, re-read that sentence and let that sink in for... |
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- WHAT: Panel discussion of Use and Misuse of Science in Regulating Chemicals: Unintended Consequences for Developing Countries |
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- Ch. Bouvet Jake "Scooby" of Yesallaw Kennels in Australia has been stricken with laryngeal paralysis. This serious illness makes breathing difficult and, if untreated, eventually impossible. Scooby is having surgery to open his airway. Please pray for his speedy recovery. |
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- On February 3, Arizona Democrats will hold a primary election to help to determine which of the nine candidates will get the votes of the state's delegates at the convention in Boston at the end of next July. Although Howard Dean just today, received the endorsement of Al Gore, they all still stand on roughly equal footing, at least here in Arizona: Carol Braun John Edwards Dennis Kicinich Wesley Clark Dick Gephardt* Joe Lieberman Howard Dean John Kerry Al Sharpton* I had a dream about Gephardt last week. I have no idea why. |
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- Please find attached to this article the 9 Baseline Reports that will be presented by the chairs of the working groups during the Consultative Forum on Environment & Health on 18 and 19 December in Brussels, Rue Froissart 36, "Conference Centre Albert Borschette", floor 1 room D. During the meeting, the Consultative Group will provide feedback on the 9 draft Baseline Reports prepared by the 9 Technical Working Groups. The basis for assessing the reports are the "mandates" which are (...) |
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- EU Foreign Ministers met in Brussels on the 8 December, the last opportunity to find solutions for the Constitutional Treaty before the European Council of 12-13 December. The meeting was dedicated to an in-depth examination of two important themes discussed at the Naples Conclave: defence and budget. The Presidency had proposed two documents for the discussion on defence, based on progress made in Naples on the definition of the ESDP in the future Constitutional Treaty. The Italian (... |
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- A new publication from the Nuffield Trust shares the results of a seminar organised in London in November 2002 on health and equity. The papers delivered at the Seminar by leading academics are written from the perspectives of ethics, economics and political science. Many of the articles address the issue of patient choice. Download EQUITY IN HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE |
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- A senior executive with Britain's biggest drugs company has admitted that most prescription medicines do not work on most people who take them. Allen Roses, worldwide vice-president of genetics at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), said fewer than half of the patients prescribed some of the most expensive drugs actually derived any benefit from them. Speaking to a conference in London, Dr Roses referred to another study carried out by Brian Spear, a senior scientist at the US company Abbott (...) |
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- Pesticide testing ahead for many state farmworkers. In the first week of December 2003, the US state Department of Labor and Industries is expected to adopt rules requiring blood samples from workers who handle certain pesticides. The rules are aimed at protecting workers from a class of pesticides called organophosphates and carbamates. Both compounds affect the central nervous system by depressing cholinesterase, an enzyme that helps regulate the nervous system. By 2005, the regulation (... |
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- UNICEF's 2003 Social Monitor paints an alarming picture of health in the 8 countries of the Caucasus and Central Asia (Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgysztan and Turkmenistan). A special section looks at the real infant mortality rates which are much higher than official figures. Actual infant death rates in these countries are 5 times greater than in the rest of Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS and 12 times greater than in Western industrial (...) |
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- The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released preliminary findings on Chromated Copper Arsenate (CCA), a chemical mixture consisting of three pesticidal compounds (arsenic, chromium, and copper) registered for wood preservative uses. This follows public concern about the longterm health impact of treated wood in children's outdoor play structures. The biggest risk is posed by hand-to-mouth contact with the treated wood. Concerned parents should ensure that children wash their (...) |
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- The World Health Organisation is launching two new publications to explore the impact of climate change and health at the COP 9 meeting in Milan, Italy on 9-12 December 2003. The 'Conference of Parties' or COP is the "supreme body" of the Climate Change Convention. Its mission is to promote and review the Convention's implementation. The WHO programme on global change and health started in 1999 to implement the recommendations of the Third Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health (...) |
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- As if having flu, sore throat, cough and lousy climate are not enough. (210 Words) |
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- As if having flu, sore throat, cough and lousy climate are not enough. (210 Words) |
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- You may remember February 25, 2003 when Sensitivity and Specificity endorsed Dr. Gov. Howard Dean for presisdent. Now Al Gore... |
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- Ce soir mon père est parti pour Paris, à mon retour chez moi ma mère voulais pas que je rentre, j'ai donc crocheté la porte, et oui je sais faire ça depuis longtemps, je n'ai créé aucun dommage, mais ma mère à appellé la police, et il arrive, elle leur à expliqué qu'elle m'a foutu à la porte, mon patron me dis elle a pas le droit, poutant la police viens me cherché, il vont arriver d'une minute à l'autre, donc je vous dis à une prochaine, parce que je sais pas vraiment ce qui va ce passer et comment moi je vais réagir fasse au flic, d'habitude il sont forcé de me passé les menottes parce que je veux jamais les suivre, alors on verra. Bisous à tous, et désolé pour tous ça, j'aime pas ce qui se passe, et je sais pas ce qui va ce passé, pourtant titi m'as dit ce soir ne provoque plus, il disait de que je devais être heureux d'être dehors de chez moi, mais je supporte pas de pas avoir mes affaires avec moi. Enfin je vous raconterai la suite si j'arrive à avoir le net. Normalement si je suis au boulot demain je devrai pouvoir vous écrire, mais si je n'écris rien c'est que quelque chose va pas. Pourquoi ça m'arrive ces connerie, depuis 21h je sonne ma mère ouvre pas, et pendant une heure j'ai réfléchi, j'ai fait confiance à ce que mon patron à dit et je suis entré mais voilà les prob commence, ça n'arrive qu'as moi ces chose là, dehors il fais -5 et j'ai vraiment pas envie d'y retourné. |
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- J'aimerais prendre un peu de votre temps pour vous raconter une histoire . |
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- Oyez, oyez, gentes dames et gentilhommes ! Suite aux souhaits de notre maître vénéré, ghost, j'ai l'intention de proposer des parties de JDR pour le soulager de temps à autre, son cerveau risquant de nous faire des crampes à force de cogiter de nouveaux scénarios; au menu, soit du bon vieux AD&D, soit du Villains & Vigilantes, soit Elfquest; exprimez-vous afin que je puisse savoir avec précision ce qu'il me faut bûcher pour les prochain mois. A vos claviers ? |
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- Nos personnages après avoir découvert dans une étrange forêt un enfant dormant qui n?était ni sous l?emprise d?un sort, ni dans le coma, portant un étrange tatouage, durent affronter des Barbares des Routes après avoir fait tomber, malencontreusement, un ancien accord. Lors de cet affrontement des créatures mutilées apparurent dans des gerbes de feu et ce mirent à attaquer, sans distinction tous ceux qui passé à porté. |
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- Used to be that starting around the first of December, people would say "Merry Christmas" to just about everybody they encountered. That was fine enough for many, but not for the folks who don't celebrate Christmas. ... |
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- ... ... ... The MoveOn.org voter fund has just posted a print and video ad talking about President Bush's "Christmas List". |
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- BBC Dec 9 2003 5:41PM ET... |
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- Search Engine Lowdown Dec 9 2003 5:58PM ET... |
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- Search Engine Lowdown Dec 9 2003 5:58PM ET... |
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- CNET Asia Dec 9 2003 5:04PM ET... |
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- The Register Dec 9 2003 5:19PM ET... |
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- Pocket PC Thoughts Dec 9 2003 5:21PM ET... |
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- Bruce Simpson, the New Zealand man who built a cruise missile in his garage using parts bought off the internet to show how easily it could be done, claims the New Zealand government forced him to shut down his project... |
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- Bruce Simpson, the New Zealand man who built a cruise missile in his garage using parts bought off the internet to show how easily it could be done, claims the New Zealand government forced him to shut down his project... |
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- A naked, samurai sword-wielding martial arts expert screaming, 'I'm god! I'm immortal', hacked his wife to death in a blood-soaked Bronx rampage. When the madman lunged at police, one cop fired 14 shots — bringing down the suspect but also... |
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- A naked, samurai sword-wielding martial arts expert screaming, 'I'm god! I'm immortal', hacked his wife to death in a blood-soaked Bronx rampage. When the madman lunged at police, one cop fired 14 shots — bringing down the suspect but also... |
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- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has dropped a plan to conduct his own investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct against him, a spokesman said. |
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- A former employee at a printing plant slipped in through a side door Tuesday morning and shot one worker to death before killing himself, police said. |
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- Former V.P. Al Gore endorses Democratic front-runner Howard Dean for President. |
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- New information could be a boost to Jackson's defense has surfaced. |
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- Why did it happen? That is what friends and family members are asking... |
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- Nike, two tennis sources told The Associated Press on Monday, a deal that could be the richest for a female athlete in history. |
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- Two Holocaust survivors were reunited today in Los Angeles for the first time since they were children and one carried the other to safety on their way to a concentration camp. Leon Shipper, now 75, met 65-year-old Michael Hartogs at LAX in a reunion arranged by the Red Cross. |
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- A piece of the Tilma of St. Juan Diego -- a cloak that bears the image of Mary and is one of the Catholic Church's most sacred relics -- will be enshrined today at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. |
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- Reality has set in for yet another reality TV couple, as Andrew Firestone and Jen Schefft from "The Bachelor" have broken up. |
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- A wild high speed pursuit rolls through Victorville and ends with the suspect behind bars. |
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