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Dalai Lama tweets to Chinese web usersBeijing (AFP) May 21, 2010 The Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, held his first Internet chat with Chinese web users Friday, in a wide-ranging dialogue touching on politics and his eventual successor. The webcast was seen on the micro-blogging website Twitter and on Internet sites inside China despite Beijing's long-standing efforts to police the web and silence the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize winner on the Chinese mainland. During the 90-minute chat, the Dalai Lama said a decade of negotiations with Beijing on auto ... read more |
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Sonipat, India (UPI) May 14, 2010 The revival of the long-dormant Policy Planning Division of India's Ministry of External Affairs in September through the initiative of Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor is a positive step for a country that wants to climb up the rungs of global status and power. Policy planning bureaus have played a vital role in foreign ministries of great powers by providing broad ... more  
Salt Lake City UT (SPX) May 17, 2010Researchers have long wondered why the people of the Tibetan Highlands can live at elevations that cause some humans to become life-threateningly ill - and a new study answers that mystery, in part, by showing that through thousands of years of natural selection, those hardy inhabitants of south-central Asia evolved 10 unique oxygen-processing genes that help them live in higher climes. In ... more  
Boulder CO (SPX) May 17, 2010A team of researchers led by the University of Colorado at Boulder believe a dry powder, inhalable vaccine developed for measles prevention and slated for human clinical trials later this year in India will lead to other inhalable, inexpensive vaccines for illnesses ranging from tuberculosis to cervical cancer. The inhalable measles vaccine, developed by a team led by CU-Boulder chemistry ... more |
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Radiation death exposes India's waste disposal failuresNew Delhi (AFP) May 11, 2010 The death from radiation poisoning of a scrapyard worker in New Delhi has highlighted the lax enforcement of waste disposal laws in India, leading to calls for urgent action. In early April, a machine from Delhi University containing cobalt-60, a radioactive metal used for radiotherapy in hospitals, ended up in a scrapyard in the city. Rajendra Yadav, a 35-year-old worker in the congested yard in Mayapuri, western New Delhi, died due to multiple organ failure on April 26. Seven others were hosp ... read more |
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