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[Geography: Physical]: UN chief urges climate change deal
Jun 30th, 2009

The UN secretary-general wants the world to seal a deal on a new treaty to curb pollution at a crucial climate change meeting in Copenhagen in December.

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  • [Geography: Human]: UN to help advise Calais refugees
    Jun 30th, 2009

    The United Nations Refugee Agency is to formally establish a full time presence in the French port of Calais.

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  • [Science: Biology]: Missing Alzheimer’s patient found
    Jun 30th, 2009

    An elderly Alzheimer and #39;s sufferer missing in Wanganui earlier today has been found.

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  • [Science: Biology]: Daily Sex Helps Reduce Sperm DNA Damage And Improve Fertility
    Jun 30th, 2009

    Daily sex (or ejaculating daily) for seven days improves men’s sperm quality by reducing the amount of DNA damage, according to a new study. Until now there has been no evidence-based consensus amongst fertility specialists as to whether or not men should refrain from sex for a few days before attempting to conceive with their partner, either spontaneously or via assisted reproduction.

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  • [Science: Biology]: Healthy eating contributes in diabetes care – study
    Jun 30th, 2009

    People suffering type 2 diabetes can significantly improve their condition by eating healthy food alongside their medication, a University of Otago study has found.

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  • [Science: Physics]: Solar orbiter Ulysses ends mission after 18 years
    Jun 30th, 2009

    The interplanetary space probe Ulysses officially ceased operations on Tuesday after an 18-year voyage of roughly 5.5 billion miles (8.85 billion km) and nearly three complete orbits around the sun, NASA said.

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  • [Geography: Economic]: IMF softens currency surveillance rules
    Jun 30th, 2009

    (Adds details, quotes by spokeswoman, analyst)

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  • [Art]: French artist Orlan: ‘Narcissism is important’
    Jun 30th, 2009

    Orlan is mostly known for her work with plastic surgery in the 1990s. But Stuart Jeffries finds that she has a body of work that started long before – and one that is still evolving

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  • [ICT]: New wireless networks to put Bell and Telus on same footing as Rogers
    Jun 30th, 2009

    MONTREAL – Bell (TSX:BCE) and Telus (TSX:T) customers should have a greater choice of mobile phones, possibly Apple’s iPhone, and better prices when the wireless companies roll out next-generation networks in early next year, analysts say.

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  • [History: 1900-2000]: George Clare: Memoirist who recalled life in Nazi Vienna and postwar Berlin
    Jun 30th, 2009

    It was an age of durability which was equated with stability… but nothing is so impermanent as permanence, nothing is so insecure as security.” So wrote the memoirist George Clare of Franz-Josef’s Austria in Last Waltz in Vienna (1980). In the book, the Jewish Klaar family’s multifarious, self-made, well-fed, culturally abundant past in Vienna – reaching back in Clare’s account to 1842 – …

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