In a bill passed earlier today, the Government of New Zealand announced that software in the country will no longer be patentable
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Bring together the World Malaria Day 2013 and the world immunization week 2013 and whar do you get? A new possible vaccine against malaria! (Though it must be said that the last such vaccine turned out to be a dismal failure in test trails)
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Not for the fish! It seems to be the omega-3 fatty acids found mainly in seafood.
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Forcibly pushing a tongue into someone else’s mouth should no longer be classed as rape, the Dutch high court said on Tuesday.
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Proposed changes to the official Body Mass Index mean tall people may not be as overweight as they thought, while those under 5ft 7ins could find themselves with a few extra pounds to shift.
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Turkey, a major buyer of oil and gas from Iran, will no longer give a breakdown of where its energy imports come from, an official at the country’s statistics office said Friday.
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Being overweight is unhealthy. The medical community never tires of predicting an early demise for obese people, and strongly urging them to lose weight. But in fact, the latest science says that fat people live longer and can tolerate higher levels of stress.
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As long as they are not eating them to prevent starvation there is some more value to wring out of them.
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Greece’s international lenders have suggested measures including increasing the maximum working week to six days.
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As long as professional burglars are behind bars, that is. They also came to the amazing conclusion that the more police is active in crime fighting, the lower the crime rate is. I noe support a Nobel prize for these geniuses.
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