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BRUSSELS, Feb. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- Slovenia's government on Thursday confirmed its first bird flu case in the north of the country. Germany also confirmed two dead swans had been affected with the fatal H5N1 virus. The European Union approved new measures to tighten control of the spread of the deadly disease.
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PARIS, Feb 15, 2006 (AFP)
The French government on Wednesday ordered all poultry and tame birds to be kept indoors, as the deadly strain of bird flu continued its spread through Europe.
All farm ducks and geese are also to be vaccinated in three departments on the Atlantic coast to prevent their contamination from wild birds, Agriculture Minister Dominique Bussereau announced after an interministerial meeting. France is Europe's biggest poultry producer, with free-range birds accounting for 17 percent of its production — as well as western Europe's main crossroads for migratory birds, potential carriers of the deadly virus. |
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
16 Feb 06 Who can forget the neocons’ claim that under their leadership America creates its own reality? Remember the neocons’ Iraq reality--a “cakewalk” war? After three years of combat, thousands of casualties, and cost estimated at over $1 trillion, real reality must still compete with the White House spin machine.
One might think that the Iraq experience would restore sober judgement to policymakers. Alas, neocon reality has spread everywhere. It has infected the media and the new Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, who just gave Congress an upbeat report on the economy. The robust economy, he declared, could soon lead to inflation and higher interest rates. Consumers deeper in debt and fresh from their first negative savings rate since the Great Depression show high consumer confidence. It is as if the entire country is on an acid trip or a cocaine trip or whatever it is that lets people create realities for themselves that bear no relation to real reality. |
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer posted: 18 February, 2005 "We have observed an object only 20 kilometers across [12 miles], on the other side of our galaxy, releasing more energy in a tenth of a second than the Sun emits in 100,000 years."
A huge explosion halfway across the galaxy packed so much power it briefly altered Earth's upper atmosphere in December, astronomers said Friday. No known eruption beyond our solar system has ever appeared as bright upon arrival. But you could not have seen it, unless you can top the X-ray vision of Superman: In gamma rays, the event equaled the brightness of the full Moon's reflected visible light. The blast originated about 50,000 light-years away and was detected Dec. 27. A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion kilometers). |
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Last Updated Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:28:49 EST
CBC News You'll be happier making a big decision like buying a car if you don't think about it too much, a group of psychologists say.
The researchers figured that complex decisions are best left to the unconscious mind because humans can only think about so many things at the same time. "Contrary to conventional wisdom, it is not always advantageous to engage in thorough conscious deliberation before choosing," the researchers wrote in Friday's issue of the journal Science. |
By MAY WONG
AP Technology Writer 17 Feb 06 SAN JOSE, Calif. - Apple Computer Inc. has resorted to a poetic broadside in the inevitable cat-and-mouse game between hackers and high-tech companies.
The maker of Macintosh computers had anticipated that hackers would try to crack its new OS X operating system built to work on Intel Corp.'s chips and run pirated versions on non-Apple computers. So, Apple developers embedded a warning deep in the software _ in the form of a poem. |
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