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For years, smokers have been exhorted to take the initiative and quit - use a nicotine patch, chew nicotine gum, take a prescription medication that can help, call a help line, just say no. But a new study finds that stopping is seldom an individual decision. The U.S. study, by Dr. Nicholas...
Clear Asset Management Inc ClearAM wwwclearamcom a money management and equity research firm today announced the appointment of Fred S Fraenkel an investment professional with over 30 years of experience as its chief investment officer CIO effective June 1 Fraenkel headed up global research at...
By Pete Harrison BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Finding ways of safely burying carbon dioxide could be the only way of keeping greenhouse gas emissions below dangerous levels, the International Energy Agency's chief economist said on Thursday. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is seen by industry and some...
New Delhi, May 22 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's assessment that inflation will ease in India by September has found favour with experts who also feel the government must monitor the situation and chip in with more steps as and when required.
New study aimed at "evangelical intelligentsia" Expert: Many wrongly equate evangelicals with fundamentalists 75 million evangelicals in U.S. emphasize personal relationship with Jesus Christ BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- For decades, Boston University sociologist Peter Berger says, American...
One look outside the window gives a glimpse of the "economics of energy" in Doha, Qatar. Cranes dot the tops of half-finished towers, a monumental work in progress; the result of vast energy wealth being pumped out of the ground and poured into project after project.
Intellectual historian Richard Wolin, author of "The Seduction of Unreason", visited Greece to speak on the philosophical justification for human rights. For Wolin, all American political and cultural traditions became compromised by the atrocities being committed in Vietnam, so he "looked at...
University of Alberta researcher Lindsey Leenaars found high school females who viewed themselves as attractive had a 35 percent higher risk of being indirectly victimized. This study was recently published in the journal Aggressive Behavior. University of Alberta Educational Psychology PhD...
According to The Telegraph, shaken martinis might be the secret of Bond's success. In fact, two UK researchers, a psychologist and a chemist, are collaborating with a French bartender to prove that 'shaken, not stirred' martinis are different. They'll show the difference on June 4, 2008, during...
Posted: Thursday, May 22, 2008, 10:50 (BST) Senior members of the Roman Catholic and Methodist churches have been invited to join the College of Westminster Abbey. The Dean of Westminster, the Very Rev Dr John Hall, has appointed Mgr Mark Langham, until recently Administrator of the Westminster...
