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Ukraine's 'hot Air' Bedevils Global Climate Deal

Closed Communist-era Factories Reap Windfall Profit For Ukraine But Problem For Climate Deal (AP) KONSTANTINOVKA, Ukraine (AP) - Vladimir Gapor is a plumber by trade, but now he's a scavenger, prying bits of scrap steel from...

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Hirscher, Borssen Win Parallel Slaloms

Austria's Hirscher and Sweden's Borssen win parallel slalom Champions Cup on ramp in Moscow MOSCOW November 21, 2009 (AP) The Associated Press Post a Comment Austria's Marcel Hirscher clears a gate during Audi FIS Alpine Ski...

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Crackdown on Russian ski doping scandals near?

MOSCOW (AP) -- The head of skiing's governing body says the Russian federation and Olympic committee could face sanctions if there are more doping cases involving the country's skiers. "We are not happy with what is going in...

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Vincent Carroll: Climate bar set too high

Count to 1.5 billion. Now imagine a sea of that many peoplefive times the population of the United States — still waiting for a path to the good life, still living in villages and on farms that lack electricity.

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Hacked Emails prove Climate Science debate will not end soon

A team of unidentified hackers has managed to steal "confidential" global warming data after breaking into the e-mail server of a prominent, British climate-research center and posted them online - showing that climate...

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Sugar-coated polymer is new weapon against allergies and asthma

Scientists have developed sugar-coated polymer strands that selectively kill off cells involved in triggering aggressive allergy and asthma attacks. Their advance is a significant step toward crafting pharmaceuticals to fight...

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Russia: Social Network Graffiti Gains Popularity

Recent Articles also in Eastern & Central Europe Recent Links also in Eastern & Central Europe English Russia writes about the phenomenon of “social network graffiti” [ENG] that became very popular among the users of the...

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Long-isolated Belarus appeals to foreign investors (AFP)

AFP/File – A Belarussian woman watches President Alexander Lukashenko giving his annual address on television at … by Amelie Herenstein Amelie Herenstein – 12 mins ago MINSK (AFP) – Scorned as Europe's last dictatorship, ranked...

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Road deaths cost world economy $500bln - Kremlin

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday called on world powers to battle a rising tide of road accidents which he said killed the equivalent of a major city each year and drained the global economy of...

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Week in review: Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie on apps, Al Gore at GreenBeat

Here’s our rundown of the week’s business and tech news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days: Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie: Apps don’t make your phone special — “It’s not the applications...

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