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- World Trade Center event in New Orleans to discuss Carribbean trade
- Anton Edmunds, executive director and CEO of Caribbean-Central American Action, will be the featured speaker at a Friday breakfast briefing at in the World Trade Center. Edmunds will speak on "Central America and the Caribbean: Sustainability of the Region," with a focus on opportunities and challenges to...
- Research articles 2008-10-04
- Rugby Tri-Nations to trial experimental laws
- SYDNEY AFP — The upcoming Tri-Nations series will be played under experimental laws designed to make to game more free-flowing, rugby union's southern hemisphere ruling body SANZAR said Tuesday. SANZAR said the Tri-Nations Tests between Australia, New Zealand and South Africa would adopt Experimental Law Variations ELVs already used...
- Research articles 2008-06-02
- IRB agrees global rollout of new rule trials
- PARIS AFP — The International Rugby Board IRB Council said Thursday it had approved a global trial of Experimental Law Variations ELVs designed to reduce the number of turnover situations in a match for a 12-month period starting on August 1, 2008. The trial will cover all levels and...
- Research articles 2008-05-01
- Radio Address of the President to the Nation
- WASHINGTON -- THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Next week, I will be hosting the North American Leaders' Summit in New Orleans. This event will give me an opportunity to meet with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon to discuss some of the most significant issues facing our...
- Research articles 2008-04-19
- Waratahs to axe rugby coach McKenzie
- SYDNEY AFP — New South Wales Waratahs coach Ewen McKenzie's contract will not be renewed beyond this year's Super 14 season, the state's rugby chiefs announced Tuesday. McKenzie's five years at the helm will end in July even if the Waratahs win their first title in the southern hemisphere...
- Research articles 2008-03-31
- IRB eager to see impact of new laws in Super 14
- DUBLIN AFP — Changes to the laws of rugby union are to be trialled at their highest level to date when the Super 14 tournament, the southern hemisphere's premier provincial club competition, gets underway this weekend. Several of the International Rugby Board's Experimental Law Variations, which are designed to...
- Research articles 2008-02-11
- 1998-2007 warmest decade, UN agency says at climate meet
- NUSA DUA, Indonesia AFP — This year is set to be one of the warmest on record and the decade of 1998-2007 is destined to be the warmest ever documented, the UN's World Meteorological Organisation WMO announced at the climate talks here Thursday. With 18 days left in the...
- Research articles 2007-12-13
- England, Scotland and Ireland face elimination from rugby World Cup
- PARIS AFP — The northern hemisphere rugby powerhouses face a nightmare scenario this week - possible elimination from the World Cup before the quarter-finals. The biggest scalp would be that of world champions England, who face the in-form Tongans, with defeat meaning the ignominious tag of being the first...
- Research articles 2007-09-23
- Cold planet: The many ice ages of Mars
- PARIS AFP — Mars has experienced 40 major ice ages over the past five million years, when vast areas of its porous soil froze and thawed again, according to computer simulations released on Wednesday. The changes mainly result from Mars' angle of rotation, which is so extreme that the...
- Research articles 2007-09-12
- Swiss climate warms twice as fast as northern hemisphere: study
- GENEVA AFP — Switzerland's climate has since the 1970s warmed twice as fast as the average for the northern hemisphere, a Swiss public research institute said Tuesday. The Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research said in a study that temperatures in Switzerland increased by an average of...
- Research articles 2007-06-26
- Tipped-over Mars could explain ocean riddle, say scientists
- PARIS AFP — Scientists firing the latest salvo of opinions over the mystery of Mars' water say they have new evidence to back the theory that a mighty ocean once washed over much of the Red Planet's surface. The theory -- derived from photos snapped by orbiters and geological...
- Research articles 2007-06-13
- Pakistani rape victim receives European rights award
- LISBON AFP — A Pakistani woman was on Monday awarded a European human rights prize, five years after she was stripped naked, gang-raped and left for dead on the orders of a tribal council. "All women want equal rights," Mukhtaran Mai, who since her ordeal has become a leading...
- Research articles 2007-03-19
- Timing is everything: MortgageFlex Systems Inc. is taking on some tough competition in the servicing systems arena. But with enthusiastic customers—and the right price—the company's new servicing product has a shot at grabbing some market share
- More than two decades ago, when Lester Dominick decided to launch his own company, you could have found him drawing up the business plans at his dining room table. Credit cards were his funding source. Venture capital was out of the question. This Duke University grad with the bachelor of...
- Research articles 2007-03-01
- Oil prices slip below 58 dollars in New York
- LONDON AFP — World oil prices have dropped as the market digested the supply outlook in the United States, the world's biggest consumer of energy. Traders shrugged off the kidnapping in Nigeria of an American and a Briton working for Norwegian oil services firm Petroleum Geo-Services PGS. New York's main...
- Research articles 2006-11-02
- University of Pittsburgh, West Virginia University and Johns Hopkins University researchers have discovered that exposure to certain industrial chemicals used to degrease locomotives causes the bridge of tissue between the two hemispheres of the brain to
- University of Pittsburgh, West Virginia University and Johns Hopkins University researchers have discovered that exposure to certain industrial chemicals used to degrease locomotives causes the bridge of tissue between the two hemispheres of the brain to shrink. The four-year study conducted on railroad workers exposed to the cleansers indicated that...
- Research articles 2006-11-01
- World-Renown Chefs Compete at IFE Americas - 9th Americas Food & Beverage Show 2006 in the Americas Chef Competition
- South Florida Chefs Michelle Bernstein, Christopher Cramer and Patrick Fagen Compete against Olympic Winning Canadian, Caribbean and Latin American Chefs MIAMI -- At this year's IFE Americas - 9th Americas Food & Beverage Show and Conference, prestigious chefs from the hemisphere will compete head-to-head for the ultimate culinary accolade:...
- Research articles 2006-10-04
- New threat to southern hemisphere hard wheat supplies?(scanty rainfall)
- Lack of rainfall was threatening to affect sowing plans in the two main southern hemisphere producing countries, Australia and Argentina this week. In a season of tight North American hard wheat supplies, consumers have been hoping for a good top-up in supplies from these...
- Research articles 2006-06-09
- Crusaders outclass Hurricanes in fog-bound Super 14 final
- CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand AFP — The Canterbury Crusaders were crowned southern hemisphere rugby champions for a record sixth time when they beat the Wellington Hurricanes 19-12 in a Super 14 final robbed of much quality by thick fog. It was a deserved victory for the Crusaders who overwhelmed the...
- Research articles 2006-05-27
- Wallabies to be more forwards-orientated under Connolly
- SYDNEY AFP — The Wallabies will play a more forwards-orientated game under new coach John Connolly, team vice-captain Nathan Sharpe has revealed. Connolly has shown his intentions to restore order at the set pieces by appointing noted "scrum doctor" Alec Evans as an assistant to forwards coach Michael Foley....
- Research articles 2006-05-24
- US, Uruguayan presidents meet on bilateral trade
- WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush and his Uruguayan counterpart Tabare Vazquez hailed their close bilateral trade ties, although they did not discuss the possibility of a future free trade agreement. "We talked about extending our commercial relations," the US president said in brief remarks after their...
- Research articles 2006-05-04
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