Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez died Tuesday in Caracas after an almost two-year battle with cancer and 14 years of a dominating socialist presidency that leaves the country with the world's largest oil reserves mired in uncertainty. The ...
The COSATU-affiliated Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union (SACTWU) held its Annual National Bargaining Conference from 28th February to 3rd March 2013, in Cape Town. The Conference was attended by 200 delegates ...
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By Design Day, the annual fundraising day for Light Relief in the UK and Behind the Scenes in the US and Canada, takes place this year on Wednesday April 24 on both sides of the Atlantic. One of the main fundraising events for these ...
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Finally. That’s the word that comes to mind after a stint in the new Mercedes-Benz A-Class. After two generations of oddball A-Classes that traded on practicality rather than flair or fun, Mercedes has at last proven it has the ...
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Georgia-Pacific, the maker of Brawny paper towels, announces the launch of a national campaign and partnership with Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) to help support and raise awareness of the needs of injured service members and their families ...
Prices for grocery items remain high, as unit prices in Nielsen-measured categories and retail channels have risen every month over the past two-and-a-half years. And the higher prices have consumers keenly focused on their budgets and how ...
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Three FIT Fashion Design students specializing in intimate apparel have won the 2013 Femmy Awards Student Design Contest. Dr. Joyce F. Brown, president of FIT, announced the top winners from the competition’s six finalists at the ...
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AMS 3095A qualification aids airlines in selecting exterior paint for mixed fleets SYLMAR, Calif., Feb. 19, 2013 – PPG Industries’ (NYSE:PPG) aerospace business has qualified nine coatings systems to SAE International’s ...
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Such excitement. The technology media world has been whipping itself into a frenzy of speculation and Dick Tracy jokes during the past couple of weeks since two US newspaper reports that Apple is working on a new gadget - the iWatch. ...
China this week faced allegations that it is helping the Zambian government with deep packet inspection technology in order to eavesdrop, mine data, censor and intercept communications. The allegations come less than two years after the ...
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Jim Wallace of Seaward looks at the implications of the new IET Code of Practice for maintaining the safety of electrical equipment in the workplace. The new fourth edition of the IET Code of Practice for In Service Inspection and Testing ...
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Dako, an Agilent Technologies Company, has launched instant quality in situ hybridization (IQISH) technology in the US, to lessen cancer evaluation turnaround time. IQISH technology, based on Dako's fast IQISH hybridization buffer ...
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The USFDA has granted priority review designation to ViiV Healthcare's dolutegravir as a candidate with the potential to treat HIV infection in combination with other antiretroviral agents, in adolescents and adults. The dolutegravir new ...
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Biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences has issued a voluntary recall of one lot of Vistide (cidofovir injection) at user level due to incidence of particulate matter in few vials. The recalled lot of the product was distributed to ...
With robots increasingly being used on manufacturing floors, researchers are looking for ways that humans can work better with their robot coworkers. Scientists at MIT say the answer is cross-training -- humans and robots switching jobs ...
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