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Ahead Of U.N. MDG Summit, Media Outlets Examine Various Aspects Of Goals
09/08/2010 07:00 AM
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Ahead of the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Summit on September 20-22, the media examines different aspects of the MDGs. The Daily Nation reports on a United Nations Development Program report which showed poverty eradication remained one of Kenya's greatest challenges to meeting the MDGs. "'Poverty is still at 2006 levels...
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Adaptable Flood Defences
09/08/2010 04:00 AM
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Buildings, car parks and roads could, alongside their 'regular' functions, have a role to play in protecting the rest of the city from flooding. According to researcher Bianca Stalenberg, this concept could be very useful for the Dutch cities along the River Rhine, for example. Stalenberg defended her PhD thesis on this subject on Wednesday 8 September at TU Delft...
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Freerice 2.0: Feeding Minds While Feeding The Hungry
09/07/2010 07:00 AM
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Does the word arundinaceous mean long and thin or someone who talks too much? Is an aleconner a beer-taster or a kind of bird? Does scunner mean deep dislike or something you'd find on a boat? Questions like these have stumped millions of people across the globe since 2007, when Freerice.com - the world's only vocabulary game that feeds the hungry - took the web by storm...
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Any New Financial Transaction Tax Must Dedicate A Proportion Of Its Funds To Health
09/07/2010 03:00 AM
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As Finance Ministers from the European Union gather in Brussels for a formal meeting to discuss the establishment of an EU-wide financial transaction tax, international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières calls on them to dedicate a proportion of the receipts from any fundraising mechanism to global health. "The EU is in a unique position to act here," said Dr...
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Recent Releases In Global Health
09/06/2010 05:00 AM
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Lancet Editorial Makes Recommendations For Health-System Strengthening "There is strong consensus in the global health community, among donors, recipient countries, and policy makers, about the need for health system strengthening in low-income and middle-income countries," write the authors of a Lancet Comment...
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At U.N. MDG Summit, Ministers Will Propose World Currency Tax To Fund Development Aid
09/06/2010 04:00 AM
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"A group of 60 nations, including France, Britain and Japan, will propose at the U.N. [summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)] this month that a tax be introduced on international currency transactions to raise funds for development aid, ministers said on Wednesday," Reuters reports (Irish, 9/1). Ministers estimate the proposed "0...
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Red Cross Responds To Hurricane Earl Along The Atlantic Coast
09/05/2010 04:00 AM
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The American Red Cross is responding with help to people affected by the winds, rains and flooding of Hurricane Earl in North Carolina and is ready as the storm moves up the Atlantic Coast. A dozen Red Cross shelters were opened in North Carolina, giving more than 260 a safe place to ride out the storm last night as heavy rain and strong winds passed through the area...
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Urgent Call For Blood Donors As Hurricane Approaches
09/04/2010 05:00 AM
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New York Blood Center (NYBC), serving more than 20 million people in New York City, Long Island, the Hudson Valley and New Jersey, calls upon our communities to please donate blood and platelets, as the East Coast braces for Hurricane Earl. While donations from Rh-negative types are especially crucial, healthy people of all blood types and ethnicities are encouraged to donate...
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New Prediction Tool For Oil Spill Spread, Other Contaminants
09/04/2010 03:00 AM
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Prompted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a UC Santa Barbara scientist has come up with a new way of predicting how contaminants like oil will spread. He was able to forecast several days in advance that oil from that spill would wash ashore in particular parts of the Gulf of Mexico...
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Research Initiatives Collaboration Between SRNL, Chernobyl Laboratory
09/03/2010 09:00 AM
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Under a recently signed agreement, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) and the Ukraine's International Radioecology Laboratory (IRL) will collaborate on radiation ecology research, including projects in the region impacted by the catastrophic accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant 24 years ago...
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Red Cross Ready To Respond To Hurricane Earl
09/03/2010 07:00 AM
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The American Red Cross is on the ground in fourteen states along the East Coast as Hurricane Earl heads toward North Carolina with sustained winds of 140 mph. Red Cross shelters are expected to open this afternoon in North Carolina, and additional shelters are poised to open in New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, with emergency planning continuing in ten other states along the coast...
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WFP, UNICEF Heads Appeal For More Flood Aid For Pakistan
09/02/2010 08:00 AM
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After touring flood-hit areas in Pakistan on Tuesday, the executive directors of UNICEF and the World Food Program (WFP) appealed for more flood relief aid, VOA News reports (Maroney, 8/31). WFP head Josette Sheeran "warned during a joint press conference in the capital, Islamabad, that there is a triple threat unfolding as the crisis widens and deepens," U.N. News Centre writes...
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