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World News
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Ratings Agency Fitch Downgrades More EU Nations (Fri Jan 27 2012 10:47)
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Credit rating agency Fitch on Friday downgraded an additional five European Union nations, adding that while the EU's efforts to curb its debt crisis so far have been commendable, more must be done.
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Online Database Launched To Help Businesses Adapt To Climate Change (Fri Jan 27 2012 10:28)
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A new online database launched by the United Nations will showcase successful strategies that businesses and communities are using to adapt to climate change while simultaneously increasing their profits and using their resources more efficiently.
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Report Shows Sharp Rise In Palestinians Uprooted By Israeli Demolitions (Fri Jan 27 2012 10:22)
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Almost 1,100 Palestinians, over half of them children, were displaced due to home demolitions in the West Bank by Israeli forces in 2011 – over 80 per cent more than in the previous year – according to a new United Nations report.
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Science & Technology
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Bedwetting Can Be Due To Undiagnosed Constipation, Research Shows (Fri Jan 27 2012 09:58)
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Bedwetting isn't always due to problems with the bladder, according to new research by Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. Constipation is often the culprit; and if it isn't diagnosed, children and their parents must endure an unnecessarily long, costly and difficult quest to cure nighttime wetting.
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Diabetes Affects Hearing Loss, Especially In Women: Study (Thu Jan 26 2012 09:50)
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Having diabetes may cause women to experience a greater degree of hearing loss as they age, especially if the metabolic disorder is not well controlled with medication, according to a new study from Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.
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Radical Theory Explains the Origin, Evolution, and Nature of Life (Thu Jan 26 2012 09:47)
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The earth is alive, asserts a revolutionary scientific theory of life emerging from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
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Business News
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Ratings Agency Fitch Downgrades More EU Nations (Fri Jan 27 2012 10:47)
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Credit rating agency Fitch on Friday downgraded an additional five European Union nations, adding that while the EU's efforts to curb its debt crisis so far have been commendable, more must be done.
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Can The Economy Bear What Oil Prices Have In Store? (Fri Jan 27 2012 10:09)
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Scientists say people should stop wrangling over global warming and instead reduce fossil-fuel use for the sake of the global economy.
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Annual Gross Domestic Product Up 2.8 Percent In Advance Estimate (Fri Jan 27 2012 09:44)
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Real gross domestic product, which measures output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States, increased at an annual rate of 2.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011 according to the "advance" estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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