Obama Administration Outlines R&D Funding Priorities for FY 2014 :: Federal activities that support the bioeconomy and biological innovation should be prioritized in fiscal year 2014, according to a memo from the White House to federal agencies. Such activities include “enhancing translational sciences” and training programs to prepare students for the bioeconomy workforce. The Obama Administration outlined its blueprint for a bio-based economy in April 2012.
Among the other funding priorities laid out in the memo are several administration favorites, including advanced manufacturing, clean energy, climate change, and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. In terms of climate change, the top priority for research is scientific activities that advance understanding of vulnerability of human and natural systems to climate e...
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Effectiveness of Interventions to Increase Screening for Breast, Cervical, and Colorectal Cancers: Nine Updated Systematic Reviews for the Guide to Community Preventive Services :: Conclusions:
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Sleep Regulation Influenced By Dopamine Levels :: According to a study published in the journal PLoS Biology, dopamine, a neurotransmitter that helps controls the brain's reward and pleasure centers, also plays a role in sleep regulation. The study was conducted by researchers from CIBERNED (Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas), dependant on the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through the Carlos III Health Institute, and from the Faculty of Biology of the University of Barcelona. Dopamine is produced in the pineal gland... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
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Investing in our future: White House honors Dr. T. Berry Brazelton :: Investing in our future means investing in our children.
That's the message that Boston Children's renowned pediatrician T.Berry Brazelton wants everyone to hear, loud and clear.
Brazelton was one of 11 individuals from Head Start programs around the country who was honored by the White House on June 18th as a "Champion of Change." The Champions of Change program is part of President Obama's Winning the Future Initiative. If anyone has spent his life thinking about our future, it's Brazelton.
Along with guiding millions of parents in raising their children, Brazelton collaborated with Ed Zigler and Julius Richmond to create Head Start, a comprehensive early education program for low-income children that, as he says, gives "every child a chance to make the American dream come ...
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Lawless Bihar: The Sicily Of India :: Widespread poverty, an under-educated populace, underpaid police, extensive criminal gangs, vigilante justice, lynchings and corrupt politicians all conspire to make rural Bihar a dangerous place.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/361426/20120710/bihar-corruption-poverty-crime-murder-landowners.htm
Very Strange Bedfellows (North Korea Included) Ponder How To Escape Media Decline :: Russia isn't the first place that comes to mind when thinking of free speech, but that's exactly where the second World Media Summit was held. Attendees including BBC and CNN heard about a free press from Vladimir Putin, and about world harmony from the North Koreans.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/361422/20120710/world-media-summit-russia-2012.htm
Congo warlord Lubanga jailed for 14 years :: In the first sentence it has handed down in its 10-year history, the International Criminal Court in The Hague jails Thomas Lubanga for using child soldiers
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Fed Knew About Libor Issue In 2007-08, Proposed Reforms :: The Federal Reserve Bank of New York may have known as early as August 2007 that the setting of global benchmark interest rates was flawed. Following an inquiry with British banking group Barclays Plc (NYSE: BSC) in the spring of 2008, it shared proposals for reform of the system with British authorities.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/361407/20120710/libor-fed-barclays.htm
Indian Car Sales Up 8.3 Percent; Auto Industry Cuts FY13 Forecast :: The Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) cut its car sales growth projection for the financial year 2013 to 9-11 percent from the 10-12 percent growth as expected earlier, amid concerns of escalating cost and sluggish demand for cars in the domestic market.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/361373/20120710/indian-car-sales-up-8-3-percent.htm
Kingfisher Cancels Flights Due To Pilots' Strike; Lenders Ask Vijay Mallya To Pump Money In From His Liquor Business :: The State Bank of India (SBI), the prime lender to the debt-stricken Indian private air carrier Kingfisher Airlines, said Tuesday that a full recovery of its loans might not happen immediately. The ailing airliner owes $1.4 billion in loans to 17 plus lenders, who have asked the company to infuse fresh capital.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/361353/20120710/kingfisher-cancels-flights-due-pilots-strike-lenders.htm
World Bank to Offer ₹5.55 Billion for Bihar Rural Development Project :: The World Bank, government of India, and the Bihar government on Monday signed an agreement for $100 million in additional funds for the ongoing development of rural development programme "Jeevika".
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/361313/20120710/world-bank-100-million-jeeva-bihar-rural.htm
Indian Stocks, Rupee Up On Mixed Global Cues :: Amid the mixed global cues, Indian markets opened on a positive note Tuesday morning.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/361304/20120710/indian-rupee-bse-sensex-nse-nifty-trade.htm
Australian Stock Market Report – Afternoon 7/10/2012 :: It was yet another extremely quiet session on the Australian sharemarket today, with the All Ordinaries Index (XAO) down 0.5 pct or 21.9 pts to 4137.9. This did not come as a huge surprise due to the falls on most global markets overnight and the lack of interest in shares in Europe and the U.S.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/361302/20120710/australian-stock-market-report-afternoon-7-10.htm
Joint U.S., Soviet Recycling Program of Weapons-grade Uranium Into Low-enriched Fuel Almost Complete :: USEC Inc., a global energy company and provider of enriched uranium fuel and nuclear industry-related services for commercial nuclear power plants, announced it has completed by 90 per cent the conversion of weapons-grade uranium from dismantled former Soviet Union nuclear warheads into low enriched uranium fuel under the program called Megatons to Megawatts(TM).
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/361277/20120710/soviet-russia-nuclear-warhead-electricity-fuel-uranium.htm
Australia Signs BPO Deals with India's SBS :: Australia has signed two business deals with Sundaram Business Services (SBS), the business process outsourcing arm of Sundaram Finance Ltd., which will aid the latter's expansion plans in the Asian nation.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/361247/20120710/india-bpo-jobs.htm
Eurozone Crisis: Ailing Spanish Banks to Receive €30bn Initially :: Eurozone finance ministers also extend deadline for correction of excessive deficit by one year to 2014 for Spain.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/361241/20120710/eurozone-crisis-spain-banks-bailout-aid-deficit.htm
Australian Integra Mining Sources Fund to Repay Debts, Fund Expansions, Seeks to Raise $25M :: Gold producer from Australia Integra Mining has undergone into a trading halt on Tuesday as it seeks to raise $25 million to pay down debt as well as finance a number of expansion projects.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/361231/20120710/gold-expansion.htm
Asian Shares Nudge Up As Investors Await China Data :: Asian shares crawled higher on Tuesday after sharp losses the day before but gains were limited as investors, worried about a global economic deceleration, waited for Chinese trade data due later in the day that could set the tone for risk appetite.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/361181/20120709/shares-nudge-up-gains-seen-capped-before-china-data.htm
Rare Earth Miners from China Create Alliance to Build Reserves :: At least eight major producers of rare earths based in China's Guangdong Province have formed an alliance, the Guangdong Rare Earth Industry Group, in compliance to the federal government's pronouncement to start building a rare earths reserves.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/361174/20120709/rare-earths.htm
Global Markets Overview - 07/10/2012 :: Nervousness about Europe's debt crisis, an economic slowdown in China and the onset of domestic earnings season pushed U.S. stocks lower for a third-straight day Monday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 36.18 points, or 0.3%, to 12736.29. The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index gave up 2.22 points, or 0.2%, to 1352.46.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/361170/20120709/healthcare-jp-morgan-goldman-sachs-ftse-hang.htm
In numbers: Women in politics :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/gc7WD3Ta9FM/index.html
Countering the Livestock‐Targeted Bioterrorism Threat and Responding with an Animal Health Safeguarding System :: SummaryAttacks against livestock and poultry using biological agents constitute a subtype of agroterrorism. These attacks are defined as the intentional introduction of an animal infectious disease to strike fear in people, damage a nation's economy and/or threaten social stability. Livestock bioterrorism is considered attractive to terrorists because biological agents for use against livestock or poultry are more readily available and difficult to monitor than biological agents for use against humans. In addition, an attack on animal husbandry can have enormous economic consequences, even without human casualties. Animal husbandry is vulnerable to livestock‐targeted bioterrorism because it is nearly impossible to secure all livestock animals, and compared with humans, livestock are le...
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It's green growth or nothing | Chris Huhne :: We have no choice. High energy prices are here to stay and resource-frugality is our only hope for a sustainable futureMuch of our economic debate implies we must choose between going green or going for growth. That view may be the opposite of the truth. There is now hard evidence that the real choice is between green growth or no growth at all.For the first time in the postwar period, energy and other commodity prices are unusually high for this point of the global recovery. Normally the cost of basic materials falls in real terms for at least two years after a recovery begins. In the past, this boosted real incomes, supported spending and fuelled recovery.No more. Today there is a different phenomenon in the developed world: the "squeezed middle". Far from boosting incomes and spending, ...<div id="medworm"><p><b><i>MedWorm Message:</i></b> Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm <b><a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=%2Bswine+%2B%28influenza+flu%29&t=Swine+Flu&f=infectiousdiseases&r=Any&o=d" target ="_self">Swine Flu RSS news feed</a></b> - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.</p></div>
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Healthy Eating Hindered By Parents' Work-Life Stress :: In a tight economy, with fewer jobs, many people end up working harder and sacrificing more to stay employed. A new study finds that one of those sacrifices is sometimes their own and their family's nutrition. While prior studies have implicated working mothers in providing less healthy family food environments, this is one of the first studies of family nutrition to look at fathers - in particular a population of urban fathers, who face higher rates of unemployment and under-employment... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
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Alcoa Earns 6 Cents In Q2, Excluding Items, Beats Estimate :: Alcoa (NYSE: AA) posted a second-quarter loss as a slump in aluminum prices to near two-year lows offset growing demand in the aerospace and automobile markets.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/361140/20120709/alcoa-earnings-aa-second-quarter.htm
Alcoa Beats Estimates In First Major 2Q Earnings Report :: Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA), the largest U.S. aluminum manufacturer, reported better-than-expected second quarter earnings Monday as auto and aerospace orders rose in the the second quarter's first major earnings report.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/361135/20120709/alcoa-beats-earnings-2q.htm
Japan, World's Third Largest Economy, In The Stranglehold Of A Recession :: Japan, which is still floundering from last year's earthquake-tsunami, is once again nearing a recession, economists say.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/361081/20120709/japan-current-account-surplus-core-machinery-orders.htm
World Economies Slowed In May, Even White-Hot Brazil Disappoints: OECD :: The world's major economies extended their slowdown in May, with conditions deteriorating significantly in India and Italy, according to a statistical indicator released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development on Monday. Even in Brazil, one of the few economies surveyed that is expanding, the pace of growth slowed.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/361051/20120709/economic-news-oecd-brazil.htm
WellPoint To Buy Amerigroup For $4.9B :: Health Insurer WellPoint Inc. (NYSE: WLP) agreed to buy the managed-care company Amerigroup Corporation (NYSE: AGP) in a roughly $4.9 billion cash deal to expand its presence in Medicaid space.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/360954/20120709/wellpoint-wlp-buy-amerigroup-agp-4-9.htm
Obama To Seek Tax Cut Extension For Annual Incomes Under $250K :: President Barack Obama will call for a one-year extension of Bush-era tax cuts for families earning less than $250,000 per year, according to a White House official, seeking to spare the economy the impact of taxes going up on Jan. 1.
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/360953/20120709/tax-cut-obama-middle-class-bush-irs.htm
President Hollande's First Budget was the Easy One :: In an effort to raise over €7 billion, French President François Hollande and his Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault announced in their Budget on Thursday 05 July 2012, measures that included an increase in the tax rate from 50 per cent to 75 per cent for all income over €1 million - about £790,000 at the current exchange rate.
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