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Thai "red shirts" offer compromise to end impasse

Reuters - Fri, 2010-04-23 01:47
BANGKOK (Reuters) - "Red shirt" protesters offered a compromise to the Thai government on Friday a day after a series of grenade attacks in Bangkok, saying they would accept dissolution of parliament in 30 days rather than immediately.


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Goldman underwrote, invested in Lloyds refinance: report

Reuters - Fri, 2010-04-23 01:40
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc was involved as an underwriter and an investor in Lloyds Banking Group Plc's 23.5 billion pound (US$36.1 billion) refinancing in late 2009, the Financial Times said on Thursday, citing four people involved in the capital raising.


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Obama scolds Wall St for resisting reform

Reuters - Fri, 2010-04-23 00:34
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama scolded Wall Street on Thursday for its "furious efforts" to fight tighter regulation, saying the United States was doomed to another financial crisis if reforms were not implemented


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Pentagon disinvites evangelist who scorned Islam

Reuters - Thu, 2010-04-22 23:39
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army on Thursday withdrew an invitation to a Christian evangelist to speak at a Pentagon prayer service next month following an outcry over his references to Islam as a violent religion.


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City dwellers cite climate as top concern: poll

Reuters - Thu, 2010-04-22 22:45
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Residents of major world cities cite climate change as the most pressing global issue, except residents of large U.S. cities who list the economy as the bigger problem, according to a survey by HSBC Bank.


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Impacts of Climate Change Extend to Human Health

Scientific American Online - Thu, 2010-04-22 22:40

Climate change is already affecting the nation's public health, according to a new multi-agency report released by the Obama administration. It urges federal agencies to adapt their research and policies to limit future suffering.

"Climate change endangers human health, affecting all sectors of society, both domestically and globally," the report says.

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To sleep, perchance to dream--and learn

Scientific American Online - Thu, 2010-04-22 21:55

Dreams might be helping your brain do more than express Freudian fixations or practice escapes from prehistoric predators. They are there, in part, to help you learn, according to a new study from Harvard University. [More]

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Years later, looking for traces of Sept 11 victims

Reuters - Thu, 2010-04-22 21:33
NEW YORK (Reuters) - While much of New York has tried to return to normal since September 11, 2001, the search for victims of the World Trade Center attacks goes on every day.


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Good teachers really do make a difference

Scientific American Online - Thu, 2010-04-22 21:30

Twin studies have shown that genetic factors can account for as much as 82 percent of the variability in children's reading skills. But while genes might set the bar for reading potential, a new study published April 23 in Science shows that teachers play a leading role in helping kids reach it. [More]

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Bill McKibben's Eaarth (conclusion)

Scientific American Online - Thu, 2010-04-22 21:29

Writer and activist Bill McKibben talks to Scientific American 's Mark Fischetti about his new book Eaarth: Making A Life On A Tough New Planet . [More]

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U.S. budget office: 4 million likely to pay health fine

Reuters - Thu, 2010-04-22 21:21
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About four 4 million people in the United States could be fined for failing to buy health insurance when the health overhaul law is fully in force in 2016, the Congressional Budget Office forecast on Thursday.


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Last surviving U.S. prosecutor at Nuremberg trials dies

Reuters - Thu, 2010-04-22 21:15
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - The last surviving U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trials of major Nazi figures after World War Two has died.


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U.S. sees sanctions by May; Iran lobbies against West

Reuters - Thu, 2010-04-22 20:56
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Thursday he expects new sanctions on Iran by May as Tehran began lobbying the U.N. Security Council to oppose new steps against the Islamic Republic over its atomic plans.


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IMF chief tries to shore up fraying G20 unity

Reuters - Thu, 2010-04-22 19:54
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The IMF sought to shore up fraying unity among the Group of 20 rich nations on Thursday, urging countries not to go separate ways in reforming the financial sector, as frictions emerged over a controversial plan to tax banks.


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Ocean chemistry changing at 'unprecedented rate'

Scientific American Online - Thu, 2010-04-22 19:53

By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming are also turning the oceans more acidic at the fastest pace in hundreds of thousands of years, the National Research Council reported Thursday.

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Rig sinks in Gulf of Mexico, oil spill risk looms

Reuters - Thu, 2010-04-22 19:35
HOUSTON (Reuters) - An oil drilling rig that had burned for 36 hours in the Gulf of Mexico sank on Thursday as hopes dimmed for 11 missing workers and the risk of a major oil spill loomed, officials said.


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Lasers and lidar systems gather data about the position and makeup of Iceland's volcanic plumes

Scientific American Online - Thu, 2010-04-22 19:26

With Europe's airport staffers scrambling to send tens of thousands of flights into the air to make up for a week's worth of halted traffic and stranded travelers thanks to Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano, researchers at the U.K.'s University of Reading are taking the first direct measurements of the ash plume parked over Scotland. [More]

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Hubble Space Telescope clocks up 20 years

Scientific American Online - Thu, 2010-04-22 18:30

By Katharine Sanderson

It was an instrument that much of the astronomical community didn't want, but times change: to get time now on the Hubble Space Telescope, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this week, an astronomer usually faces competition from at least 11 other eager scientists.

Hubble, named after American astronomer Edwin Hubble, has been orbiting Earth for 20 years, sending back images in the visible, near-infrared and ultraviolet parts of the spectrum. [More]

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Orcas are more than one species, gene study shows

Scientific American Online - Thu, 2010-04-22 17:40

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - They may all look similar, but killer whales, also known as orcas, include several distinct species, according to genetic evidence published on Thursday.

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