09/08/2008
Businesses strive to chip in for Paralympics (China Daily)
If the Summer Olympic Games is a perfect marketing platform for corporate sponsors, the Paralympics can be an excellent opportunity for companies keen to present an image of social responsibility.
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09/05/2008
National's proposed welfare policy (Scoop.co.nz)
National has recently released their proposed welfare policy that people on the DPB who’s youngest child is 6 or more have to find work for 15 hours/week. This is not just impractical but offensive: they have work!
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09/02/2008
Grant funds study of self-control (Albany Times Union)
Army takes interest in UAlbany researcher's work on decision making ALBANY -- Refusing a chocolate bar may help you refuse something much tougher, like a cigarette or drink of alcohol, according to a University of Albany professor who studies self-control. Mark Muraven, a social psychologist, theorizes that self-will is a muscle. Exercise it, and it gets stronger. Like lifting weights, ...
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09/01/2008
Nigeria: Revisiting Zone 4 Corner Shops (AllAfrica.com)
In 1991 when I came to Abuja, it was a virgin city.
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08/25/2008
From Presidency of Georgia: President Mikheil Saakashvili convened the session of the National Security Council of ... (Girodivite)
22 August 2008 Monday 25 August 2008, by Emanuele G. - 62 letture Good evening!
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08/25/2008
Nazek Hariri: ‘Saad Rafik Hariri carries on his father’s unifying national role’ (Monday Morning)
On Sunday, February 13, 2005, Nazek Hariri called her secretary Zeina Ramadan in Beirut from Paris to order a thousand red roses in the shape of a heart to be given to her husband. The following day was Valentine’s Day, the feast of lovers, which Nazek never failed to mark with her dear Rafik.
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08/24/2008
Through the Chinese lens (The Telegraph)
Scattered around three darkened rooms at the Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre on SP Mukherjee Road are computers showing myriad images — of a man dancing, two men rowing and a forest scene. Put on the headphones attached to the computers and each image tells a story.
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08/24/2008
Call to review women's rights (Gulf Daily News)
BAHRAIN could be forced to pass a family law and other new regulations if the country lifts reservations it has to a UN convention on discrimination against women, say campaigners.
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08/23/2008
Future bleak for Welsh chapels, says academic (icWales)
THE future of chapels in Wales is simply a question of keeping the doors open until the last members die, an academic has claimed.
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08/22/2008
Patent Infringement (The Shorthorn)
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington upheld an Austin federal court’s judgment in favor of Motorola Inc. and other wireless phone companies after the UT System filed a patent infringement claim against them.
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