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Sword is mightiest for Super 14 champs...

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BYU professor honored for innovative online lab...

Awards are granted every calendar year to the best multimedia presentations oriented toward physics, chemistry, mathematics, life sciences and science communication conducted on emerging online communication platforms that go beyond a simple Web site.

Woodfield won the award for his innovative online laboratory, Virtual ChemLab. He came up with the concept as a graduate student at the Uni...

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Freedom Salute ceremony welcomes home Vermont Guard Task Force...

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Abu Dhabi moves to protect culture from expat influence...

by Amy Glass on Sunday, 01 June 2008 PRESERVING TRADITIONS: Emirati women look at Christmas decorations at one of Dubai's main shopping malls. The ADACH has published its five-year plan aimed at protecting Abu Dhabi's culture and heritage. (Getty Images)

Abu Dhabi has outlined a strategy aimed at protecting the emirate's culture and heritage in the face of an ever-increasing expatriate...

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Angry parties to march...

This is after the ANC used its majority this week to ram through 99 new names at a full council meeting, in what the DA and IFP say was a procedurally flawed process.

The ANC, which reached a last minute agreement with the Minority Front to drop the changing of Higginson Highway to Yasser Arafat, refused to budge from its decision to rename Mangosuthu Highway after Griffiths Mxenge, and t...

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Updated Data from Ongoing Phase 3 Trials Support the Continued ......

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Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN) today announced updated interim pooled, blinded, safety results from two Phase 3 trials evaluating Vectibix® (panitumumab) in combination with ...

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TIGERS ARE OFF IT BUT THE SWANS ARE FLYING...

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Invading film crews eye war in Territory...

The Territory outback could easily stand-in as Afghanistan or Iraq for a movie production about the war

BIG budget war films set in Afghanistan could be filmed in the Territory once Baz Luhrmann's epic Australia hits the screens.

NT Film Office director Penelope McDonald has been trying to attract the major studios to film in the NT.

She said the Central Australian desert co...

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Publisher offers 5000 more books for Kindle...

LOS ANGELES - Amazon.com said Friday that publisher Simon & Schuster Inc. will make 5,000 more books available for the Amazon Kindle wireless reader, bumping to 125,000 the number of titles users can download and read.

Later in the day, Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Jeff Bezos appeared at the BookExpo America convention in Los Angeles and touted the benefits of electronic book offering...

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India: does Hinduism exist? Interview with Martin Fárek...

- It was certainly not through tourism! It started in my childhood. One of our Indologists, Vladimír Miltner, wrote a series of stories based on Ramayana, Mahabharata. He put those into very short stories about Krishna, Rama and Sita, but there was also a story about Buddha, and the seventeenth century hero Shivaji. They were all published as a book for older children (from aged 10 onwar...

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Civic funds to fix nawab’s relics...

Wajid Ali Shah's relics in Metiabruz will finally get a sheen as the civic body has agreed to fund the Rs 42-lakh restoration project undertaken by the South 24-Parganas administration.

The last nawab of Awadh, or Oudh, spent the last 30 years of his life in Metiabruz, after being dethroned by the East India Company.

The restoration will be undertaken under the guidance of the Arch...

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