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Woman returns home with Christmas turkey, a month after setting out

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 A Scottish woman who set out before Christmas to purchase a turkey finally made it home on Monday, after being cut off by snow for a month. Kay Ure left the Lighthouse Keeper’s cottage on Cape Wrath, at the very northwest tip of Great Britain, in December. She was heading to...

Is Lasik Eye Surgery What You Are Looking For?

See More About: Organic Beauty Products Online Submitted by: K Dunn Lasik eye surgery is a surgical procedure performed using laser technology in an outpatient setting. It is technically called Exciplex laser or sometimes called Excimer laser which uses ultraviolet laser technology. This was invented in 1970. It uses a combination of a noble gas...

Thomas Cecil Gray, pioneer in anesthesiology, dead at 94

Friday, January 25, 2008 Pioneer modern Anaesthetic techniques Thomas Cecil Gray, born 11 March 1913 in Liverpool, died peacefully 5 January 2008 at home in Formby. A requiem mass was held at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral on 26 January 2008. Born in Liverpool in 1913, educated at Ampleforth College, he qualified in medicine at The University...

International team of scientists reports on Antarctic lead pollution

Monday, August 4, 2014 Researchers from Australia, Denmark, Germany, Norway, United Kingdom, and the United States conducted lead concentration measurements of sixteen ice core samples, and found that industrial air pollution has persisted Antarctica since its arrival there in 1889 and remains significant in the current century. Their study was published in Scientific Reports on...

Neurovascular Stent Retriever Technology Market Research Report: Forecast Up To 2024

See More About: R&D Consultant According to WHO, there are 15 million people across the globe suffering from stroke each year. The incidence of obesity and diabetes has increased over the years and is responsible for the rising prevalence of strokes. Neurovascular stent retriever technology finds application in medical equipment used for the treatment of...

China overtakes Germany as world’s biggest exporter

Sunday, January 10, 2010 Chinese officials have said that their country’s exports surged last December to edge out Germany as the world’s biggest exporter. The official Xinhua news agency reported today that figures from the General Administration for Customs showed that exports jumped 17.7% in December from a year earlier. Over the whole of 2009...

Ford offers US$78 million for Romanian auto plant

Saturday, September 8, 2007 Ford Motor Company, the U.S. car maker, will reportedly pay €57 million (US$78 million) for a 72.4 percent stake in the Romanian assembly plant Automobile Craiova, a Romanian official said Friday. “The offer of Ford Motor Company for a 72.4 percent stake is €4.1556 per share or €57 million overall,” said...

Former Google employee says he was fired because of blog comments

Saturday, February 12, 2005A former employee of Google, Inc. has said he was fired after he made a series of unfavorable comments about the company on a publically-viewable blog. Mark Jen, formerly a Microsoft employee, began work at the Mountain View, California company on January 18. He then went on to make several observations about...

My Reviews Now Online Shopping Helps College Students Get Ready For The Coming Semester

See More About: Glendale Career College Site MyReviewsNow Online Shopping Helps College Students Get Ready For The Coming Semester by chickie maxwell When MyReviewsNow looked at Target’s webpage that featured appliances for college freshman, the word that came to mind was ‘cute.’ However, the stuff might be cute, but it’s also useful, well made, and...

Opposition may boycott Thai election; demonstrators want Thaksin out

Sunday, February 26, 2006 Having outlined his manifesto in his last pre-election radio broadcast, beleaguered Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has failed to deflect calls for his resignation. Offering an increased minimum wage, additional debt relief for farmers, and pay rises for civil servants the PM starts the election campaign with his Thai Loves Thais...