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Measuring Salt Shine To Improve Climate UnderstandingLondon, UK (SPX) Aug 17, 2010 From 14 - 25 August 2010, scientists from around the world will gather in Southern Turkey to measure the spectral reflectance of a few square kilometres of salt. These measurements will have a major impact on the future of satellite based Earth observation, and will ultimately improve our understanding of the Earth's climate. For ten months of the year Tuz Golu (Lake Tuz) in southern Turkey appears to be like any other lake. However, during July and August it dries to become a bright, pristine, wh ... read more |
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Washington (UPI) Aug 18, 2010 If Shakespeare were to write a tragedy today, it could well begin: "Alas poor Pakistan. I knew it well." Facing existential economic and security threats, it hardly needed a third, in this case the catastrophic "super flood" that became a massive water sword slashing through Pakistan's underbelly. Estimates are that as many as 20 million of Pakistan's 170 million-180 million citizens co ... more  
College Park, Md. (UPI) Aug 17, 2010 Deflation is coming and Americans should be alarmed. Many, though hardly all, prices are falling. Government regulations, subsidies and sanctioned monopolies make some price increases inevitable - the world may end before doctors' visits, prescription drugs, college tuition, and cable TV rates stop rising. For now, U.S. President Barack Obama has legislated higher car prices and ... more  
Montevideo, Uruguay (UPI) Aug 17, 2010 Uruguay is cobbling together a regional partnership around its planned deep sea port as part of President Jose Mujica's strategy to raise at least $1 billion for the project. Already the government has promised landlocked Bolivia and Paraguay full use of the planned new port in return for electricity and gas supplies required to run the facility and an adjoining iron ore mine and extens ... more |
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Politicians wary as Aussie voters embrace social mediaSydney (AFP) Aug 17, 2010 Australian grandmother Lesley Dewar is an unlikely political pundit, but 12,350 people follow her every 140-character utterance. The retired financial planner, 66, began using microblogging site Twitter two years ago, and the prolific pensioner is now ranked among the top 100 most influential Tweeters in Australia's 2010 election campaign. Her closest competitors are political journalists and news sites, the ruling Labor party, members of parliament and The Economist magazine, according to the B ... read more |
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