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Eminent
Physicists Warn US Against Nuclear Option
April
21, 2006
Call
it a pre-emptive strike. Thirteen high-profile physicists, including five Nobel
laureates, have written to President Bush warning him not to use tactical
nuclear weapons. The letter was prompted by reports earlier this month that the
Bush administration had not ruled out using tactical nuclear weapons against
nuclear facilities in Iran.
Source:
New Scientist.com
Gates
to Give Japanese Groups Technology
April
21, 2006
Microsoft
Chairman Bill Gates reaffirmed the U.S. software company's commitment to the
Japanese market Friday as he kicked off a campaign here to offer some free
technology help to nonprofit organizations. Microsoft Corp. officials will
travel to various regions in Japan to teach nonprofit groups ways to hook more
easily with donors and let the public know about their services, he said.
Source:
Abc News
Libya
Court to Try Bulgarian Nurses Again on May 11
April
22, 2006
A
Libyan court will open a new trial on May 11 against five Bulgarian nurses
accused of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the deadly HIV virus. In
December Libya's supreme court overturned convictions against the nurses and a
Palestinian doctor which had resulted in sentences of death by firing squad. The
first trial convicted the six medical professionals in 2004 of intentionally
infecting 426 Libyan children with the HIV virus when they worked in a Benghazi
hospital.
Source:
Reuters News Agency
Chernobyl
'Still Causing Cancer in British Children'
April
23, 2006
More
than a third of Britain is still contaminated by radioactivity from the
Chernobyl disaster two decades ago, and children are getting cancer as a result.
Official measurements - published in a report launched in London yesterday -
show that at least 34 percent of the country will remain radioactive for
centuries as the result of the accident, which took place 20 years ago.
Source:
Independent.co.uk
Scientists
Say Rising Temperatures Threaten Repeat of Caribbean Coral Death
April
24, 2006
Warming
sea temperatures have scientists worried that the Caribbean could see a repeat
this year of the widespread coral death that swept the region in 2005. About 40
percent of coral died around parts of the U.S. Virgin Islands last year, and the
coral that survived likely is not healthy enough to survive another hot summer,
U.S. Geological Survey biologist Caroline Rogers told The Associated Press.
Source:
Environmental News Network
Laser
Discovery 'Big Breakthrough'
April
25, 2006
Research
to harness the scientific potential of laser-driven technology is being
pioneered by a physicist working at Queen's University in Belfast. Dr Marco
Borghesi is part of an international team which has developed a technique that
controls the properties of laser-accelerated ions. This method can be used in
scientific, technological and medical areas, potentially including cancer
therapy.
Source:
BBC News
Web
Site Offers Advice from Elders
April
26, 2006
When
85-year-old Mollie Pier was admitted to the hospital a few months ago after
surgery, the first thing she asked for was a computer. Pier, an 85-year-old
grandmother, is a member of the Elder Wisdom Circle, a group of seniors ages 60
to 103 who dispense advice via the Internet to young questioners from around the
globe.
Source:
Abc news
Chicken
Cull after Bird Flu Find
April
27, 2006
Some
35,000 chickens at a poultry farm in Norfolk are being slaughtered after dead
birds tested positive for a strain of bird flu. The government's chief vet said
it was likely to be the H7 strain, virulent among chickens but less of a threat
to humans than the H5N1 variant. Last month a swan in Cellardyke, Fife, tested
positive for H5N1 - the only confirmed case in the UK so far.
Source:
BBC News
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