Studies funded by the drinks companies were more likely to conclude that soft drinks did not have a major role in obesity â even though separate analysis of similar data found to the contrary
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Derogations aside for small business, the German-based NGO Save our Seeds (SOS) says the regulation is an open door for big companies like the US-based Monsanto and Dupont Pioneer to effectively certify, test, and inspect the seeds themselves.
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Saudi Arabia’s atomic energy ambitions are grand enough to grant several reactor vendors multi-billion dollar contracts to keep them busy building in the desert for decades. Of course this has nothing to do with building a Saudi nuke.
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In 2009 it introduced fines and jail terms for those who patronise prostitutes (whom it treats as victims). In 2010 it outlawed strip clubs. In February the government decided to take on the glut of smut online and floated the idea of banning violent or degrading pornography, which some Icelanders take to mean most of it.
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A new review of the facts surrounding Bolivia’s possibility of becoming the new Saudi Arabia of lithium in the World depicts a rather pessimistic short-term prospect for the country holding at least one fourth of the planetôs identified lithium resources.
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Alexey Miller, CEO of Gazprom, believes that the extraction of shale gas in the US is unprofitable and that the American shale gas industry “is not a competitor” for the Russian energy company.
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They want to cash in on non military domestic use. But both left and right fear for invasion of their privacy
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The future is murky for former NJ governor and fallen financial titan Jon Corzine. Two directors of the National Futures Association will move tomorrow to ban Corzine from the multibillion-dollar futures trading industry in light of the scandalous collapse of MF Global, the commodity futures brokerage firm Corzine once headed.
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The International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) have filed a petition with the FDA asking the FDA to alter the definition of “milk” to secretly include chemical sweeteners such as aspartame and sucralose.
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The Pirate Bay has shipped out of Sweden following the threat of legal action, but the Pirate Partyâs ability to react and shift the site onto safer ground shows that the international movement cannot be rattled, party founder Rick Falkvinge said.
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