The conference was told that most of those working in preventive medicine were general practitioners and that they lacked the knowledge and experience required to deal with threats posed by established epidemics such as malaria and tuberculosis, as well as emerging pandemics such as HIV/AIDS, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and a human form of mad cow disease and bird flu. Viet Nam News ::Politics::Socio-Culture ::Economy::Comment::Miscellany. The conference was told that most of...

April 3, 2007 OSLO Northern nations such as Russia or Canada may be celebrating better harvests and less icy winters in coming decades even as rising seas, also caused by global warming, are washing away Pacific island states. report to be issued in Brussels on April 6 foresees unequal impacts from warming: tropical nations from Africa to the Pacific, mostly poor, are likely to bear the brunt but those nearer the poles, mostly rich, may briefly benefit. Australia and the United States have...

Sony said it has received numerous inquiries from companies about using the PlayStation 3's processing power in a distributed-computing project. A distributed processing grid, using networked home computers, has also been used successfully by the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project, which uses the processing power to sift radio signals for patterns that might indicate transmissions from alien civilizations. NewsFactor Network . Sony Considering Commercial PlayStation 3 Grid.

The last cow was removed in June 2005, which city officials say has led to improved quality of life throughout Sunnyside. Yes, Knowles said, there's still a whiff of cow in the air, particularly as spring weather moves in. That's just part of life in an agricultural community, she said. It's impossible to say how much of that building boom happened because the city doesn't smell as bad anymore, but it's got to have something to do with it, he said. Last year was a banner year, with 114...

You people are so far beyond hurting your work, a story about how PETA employees allegedly killed kittens and puppies won't make much of a dent. They just don't tell you about what they do with 90 percent of the animals that aren't adopted or recovered by their owners. After she launched into a tirade about how the ranchers wouldn't be in this situation if they had treated the animals differently, Peterson was repeatedly asked how an organization that was supposed to care about animals...