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The Twitter accounts of U.S. president-elect Barack Obama, singer Britney Spears and other prominent figures were hacked on Monday. Twitter founder Biz Stone, in a post on the official company blog, said a total of 33 Twitter accounts had been hacked including those of Obama, Spears and Rick Sanchez, a CNN television anchor with tens of thousands of followers. As a result, fake messages sent

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In a move to dissipate latest rumors about his health, Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs said on Monday that his weight loss is caused by a treatable hormone imbalance and he will continue to run the company. "As many of you know, I have been losing weight throughout 2008.The reason has been a mystery to me and my doctors," Jobs wrote in a letter published on Apple's website. Blood

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Apple's iconic founder Steve Jobs said he has an easily treated "hormone imbalance" and will remain head of the company. Jobs, a pancreatic cancer survivor, said in the statement Monday, "I will be the first one to step up and tell our Board of Directors if I can no longer continue to fulfill my duties as Apple's CEO," breaking his silence about his health for the first time in months. The

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Retail sales rose 13 percent year-on-year in the three-day New Year holiday, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) reported on Sunday. The 1,000 retail enterprises involved in the calculation reported total revenue of 12.5 billion yuan (1.83 billion U.S. dollars) from Jan. 1 to Jan. 3. An unidentified official from the MOC Market Operation division said sales promotions and exhibits boosted

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Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen Thursday called on all countries to make prompt commitments to jointly tackle the urgent issue of ever-worsening climate change. In his new year address, Rasmussen stressed time and again the importance of environmental protection. The increasing import of oil and gas in many countries indicates the soaring global energy consumption, he said.

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BEIJING, Jan. 3 -- A UK researcher has a new explanation for how the human race manages to keep a fairly even balance of males and females, despite massive deaths of young males in war and selective abortion of female fetuses in certain parts of the world. Corry Gellatly, a research scientist at Newcastle University, proposes that there's a gene that determines whether a man will father more

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Researchers in New York have identified brain to be blamed for hearing trouble with background noise, according to media reports Tuesday. They said the hearing trouble, sometimes called the cocktail party problem, may lie in the brain's dimmer switch for controlling the input from ears. That bit of brain circuitry appears to falter with age, and scientists are getting some clues about why.

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Researchers at the Ohio State University have discovered that a molecule implicated in leukemia and lung cancer is also important in muscle repair and in a muscle cancer that strikes mainly children. The study is published in the current issue of the journal Cancer Cell. It shows that immature muscle cells require the molecule, called miR-29, to become mature, and that the molecule is nearly

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The American Astronomical Society (AAS) announced on Saturday that it will hold its 213th national meeting to mark the International Year of Astronomy. The meeting is scheduled to begin in Long Beach, about 60 kilometers south of Los Angeles on Sunday, the announcement said. More than 2,400 astronomers are scheduled to attend the meeting which will also bring together astronomers from

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Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen Thursday called on all countries to make prompt commitments to jointly tackle the urgent issue of ever-worsening climate change. In his new year address, Rasmussen stressed time and again the importance of environmental protection. The increasing import of oil and gas in many countries indicates the soaring global energy consumption, he said.

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Japanese electronic giant Fujitsu won approval Monday from the European Union (EU) to take sole control of Dutch-based Fujitsu Siemens Computers. The European Commission, the EU's antitrust watchdog, said it had granted clearance under a simplified merger review procedure which applies to deals that arouse no suspicion of harming competition. Fujitsu supplies information

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Under pressure from both the government and the public, a Shanghai-based game designing company has revised its popular on-line game "Giant", which presented virtual pornographic bathing and massage to winners. On Dec. 10, the Ministry of Culture issued a notice to the Shanghai Interactive Group Inc., ordering it to make revisions. Confessing it failed to design the game in a

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Indonesia will launch a network adopting the Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) broadband technology next year to improve access to the Internet across the country, an official said Sunday quoted by the Jakarta Post. "We hope that by next year, WiMAX technology will be implemented," said Engkos Koswara, an expert adviser to Indonesian State Minister for Research

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Britain Culture Secretary Andy Burnham said that his country and the world should employ film-style rating standards for website in a bid to protect children from harmful and offensive material, according to media reports Monday. Burnham said the government was planning to negotiate with the administration of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama to draw up new international rules for

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Microsoft has applied for a patent on metered "pay-as-you-go" computing, which means users would only be charged for the hardware, software, and services actually used but the computers would be subsidized or even free, according to media reports Tuesday. The patent application, filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in June 2007, was released on Christmas Day, highlighting

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The State Council, or Cabinet, agreed at an executive meeting on Wednesday to start issuing licenses to mobile phone operators for third-generation (3G) high-speed networks. 3G networks handle faster data downloads, allowing cell phone users to make video calls and watch TV programs. The 3G networks will use three technological standards, including the domestically developed

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Dawning 5000A, a China-made supercomputer, is expected to be installed in Shanghai in April, its developer said Thursday. The supercomputer, with a peak capability of more than 200 trillion FLOPS (Floating-point operations per second), will be used for information processing and fundamental scientific research at the Shanghai Supercomputer Center (SSC), said Li Jun, president of

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Time Warner Cable Inc. reached a deal with Viacom Inc. on carriage fees, the company said Wednesday. Time Warner will be allowed to carry Viacom Inc's (VIAb.N) MTV, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central channels, the company said after they reached an in-principle distribution agreement. Further details of the deal were not immediately available. Viacom on Tuesday said it will pull

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This one is a new innovation in the table design. This coffee table is contemporary in design and has an artistic touch to it. Tony Kenway products always have some added zeal to them which makes them truly unique. This table is of pure wood and literally changes sides and tides. I am not quite sure how functional it would prove itself to be, nonetheless, it is really classy to look at.

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This phrase was originally taken from the Bible, in which a person who has taken the eye of another in a fight is instructed to give his own eye as compensation. This same belief was echoed in Hammurabi’s code. The Code of Hammurabi is the best-preserved ancient law code in existence today and was enacted by the 6th King of Babylon, Hammurabi, who believed that he was chosen by the gods to

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One of the most famous museums in the world is the Louvre, or more correctly the Musée du Louvre, and it was one of the items that was high on my Paris must-see list. It is located on the Right Bank (of the Seine) in the 1st arrondissement. Originally a palace, the museum is now home to some of the most world-famous works of art, including the Mona Lisa, Winged Victory, and Aphrodite/Venus de

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Today, I’d like to highlight another one, “as alike as two peas in a pod,” which describes two identical items or people. This simile is based on the fact that two peas sitting in a pod are virtually indistinguishable. A simile is a figure of speech comparing two items using the words like or as. Perhaps you listened to my earlier podcast a few weeks ago introducing the phrase, “he is after

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While beer and wine seldom lasts long in my household, from time to time there is the odd can or bottle left over after a party. When this rare event occurs, the leftovers can be put to use in a huge variety of ways - many of which most people would never think of. Soak in it Beer is an excellent skin conditioner. Next time you want to have a long soak in the bath, tip in a good can of dark

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To me, Christmas is a time of family and friends. Of giving and receiving. A time for baking and singing carols and playing silly games half way into the night. Christmas is a time for children and watching their eyes light up as they open something that they really wanted. It's a time of laughing and drinking and eating too much. And of course, the perfect back drop to all this merriment is the

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Shakespeare is the best known writer to have expressed this idea. In his original versions of The Merchant of Venice, written in 1596, he uses the phrase “all that glisters is not gold.” Glister, glisten and glitter all mean the same thing―something that shines or sparkles with bright light, such as diamonds, crystal, even water when reflecting the sunlight. Thus, what this phrase means is

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