www.chinaview.cn 2006-06-30 14:33:58
BEIJING, June 30(Xinhuanet) -- The U.S. scientists found that making phone calls while driving is as dangerous as driving drunk.
The study, conducted by researcher from the University of Utah, was published Friday in the quarterly Human Factors, the journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. |
By Malcolm Moore in Rome and Roger Highfield, Science Editor
Telegraph.co.uk 30/06/2006 Scientists who carry out embryonic stem cell research and politicians who pass laws permitting the practice will be excommunicated, the Vatican said yesterday.
"Destroying human embryos is equivalent to an abortion. It is the same thing," said Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, head of the Pontifical Council for the Family. "Excommunication will be applied to the women, doctors and researchers who eliminate embryos [and to the] politicians that approve the law," he said in an interview with Famiglia Christiana, an official Vatican magazine. |
By Philip Thornton, Economics Correspondent
Published: 30 June 2006 The world's richest countries have failed to live up to promises they gave at the Gleneagles summit a year ago to end extreme poverty in Africa, Bob Geldof said yesterday.
Comment: Are you surprized, Bob? Maybe you should read Signs of the Times to get an understanding of what is really going on? But hey, look on the bright side, it only took you 25 years to figure this one out! Imagine what screamingly obvious facts you could uncover in the next 25 years!
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AP
June 30, 2006 Crude oil futures rose Friday on strong U.S. gasoline demand ahead of the Independence Day holiday in the U.S. Brokers said energy futures were also being supported by hints from the Federal Reserve on Thursday that it could be done raising interest rates.
Societe Generale's director of commodity strategy, Michael Guido, said that by highlighting the role energy prices were playing in helping to slow economic growth to more sustainable levels "it was like giving high energy prices an honorable mention." The question is now, Guido said, "how much higher do (energy prices) go before it becomes a detriment?" |
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