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Bioengineers and geneticists in the United States are currently worried that, under the new National Institutes of Health (NIH) guidelines currently under development, none of the existing lines of stem cells could benefit from federal funding. The strict informed-consent provisions in the new documents would make it... |
27 May 2009
20:01 GMT |
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The highly controversial FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (FAA), proposed as far back as 2001 by former president George W. Bush, has allowed the US National Security Agency (NSA) to collect extremely large amounts of data from American citizens, and centralize them into a massive database, which is constantly expanded. A... |
17 April 2009
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Breaking loose from its wrong, Bush-era policies, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) now plans to ask all companies in the United States to reveal exactly how much of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) they emit in the atmosphere. This is a first for the federal agency, which has been tied up by the previ... |
11 March 2009
05:27 GMT |
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Barack Obama is currently on his way to making those who voted for him happy, taking yet another step he promised during the presidential race. At the time, he told the scientific community that he planned to lift the ban on stem cell research, which former president George W. Bush had placed, under pressure from rel... |
7 March 2009
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On Friday, president Obama and his team made the first step towards setting things in the American health care system right, when they announced that they were looking to review and replace the decisions that Bush made before he left the White House. These resolutions basically gave health care employees the poss... |
28 February 2009
03:46 GMT |
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Even before he ran for President, Barack Obama expressed his concern about the morality and use of populating the orbit with space weapons, fearing that if the US engaged in such activities, than every other country with launch capabilities would follow suit. His view thoroughly opposed that of then-President Bush, w... |
5 February 2009
11:04 GMT |
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Former President Bush apparently left office before he could do “right” by all his supporters, as proven by the fact that only yesterday Republican senators urged President Barack Obama to resume the proceedings on an offshore drilling plan, meant to last for the next few years. The politicians also asked... |
5 February 2009
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The Iraqi city of Tikrit, the home town of the former dictator Saddam Hussein, now hosts a large statue depicting a shoe, which has been erected to honor the journalist who took both of his shoes off and threw them at President George W. Bush, while he was on tour in the country. People in the area are very pleased w... |
2 February 2009
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In an anticipated and highly-expected move, president Barack Obama has gone after some of the latest climate proposals that former president George W. Bush tried to push through Congress in the time frame between Election Day and Inauguration Day. These decisions are usually very hard to reverse and take years to do ... |
26 January 2009
03:35 GMT |
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The White House announced on Tuesday that all the legislative proposals that former president George W. Bush tried to pass through Congress in the twelfth hour had been stopped, pending a full review from the new administration. Among them are a few bills that will have disastrous consequences on the environment, if ... |
22 January 2009
10:07 GMT |
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Over the course of his term, President George W. Bush seemed to be spearheading a crusade to destroy the American environment, despite serious efforts on behalf of several organizations to stop him. He went on and removed regulations, changed decisions, and eliminated the necessity of scientific opinions from various... |
7 January 2009
07:58 GMT |
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Religiousness is a soft spot when it comes to being president or any other kind of country leader, wherever in the world. A vast majority of people hold on to their religious beliefs and would expect the same from their ruler, up to the extent where they would not vote for a candidate that is an atheist. In spite of ... |
10 December 2008
04:31 GMT |
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Last week, the Bush administration again favored the fossil fuel industry over the environment, when it allowed for new legislation, regulating the amount of debris that mountaintop mining companies could throw away into adjacent streams in valleys. As soon as the decision was announced, environmental groups started ... |
8 December 2008
05:21 GMT |
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With only one more month in office, the Bush administration seems bent on destroying the US environment and ecosystems thoroughly, as proven by the recent pressures the former president has made on the Supreme Court, to allow the country's power plants to continue sucking billions of gallons of cooling waters, w... |
5 December 2008
07:09 GMT |
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The Bush administration seems to thoroughly lack common sense in its decision-making process, as evidenced by the fact that, in the last few weeks, more environment-damaging bills were passed than during the entire duration of its office. The latest proposal, which was already accepted by the Environmental Protection... |
3 December 2008
19:01 GMT |
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Further trying to highlight its failures, the Bush administration is currently seeking to put forth legislation that would virtually eliminate a large part of the restrictions that genetically modified organisms (GMO) are subjected to in the United States. The Department of Agriculture also plans to strip states of t... |
22 November 2008
03:46 GMT |
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Since August 2001, all researches on stem cells coming from human embryos have been outlawed by the former presidential administration, as a response to increased pressure from religious groups throughout the United States. But now, President-elect Barack Obama announced that this area of research would once again be... |
12 November 2008
04:31 GMT |
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The recent resolution of the Bush administration managed to lift the ban on the exploitation of uranium mines in the Grand Canyon. This could cause the contamination of the Colorado river's water, severe wildlife damage and increased toxicity of the area.According to the associated news release, a last year'... |
17 October 2008
05:59 GMT |
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January the 28th was named, in 2007, Data Privacy Day in the United States and in 27 European countries, by the International Association of Privacy Professionals, and it was celebrated properly yesterday, with a conference at Duke University in North Carolina. Google attended, as a symbol of good will and to show th... |
29 January 2008
13:26 GMT |
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Every once in a while, the Internet users are discovering interesting images published on Google Maps or Google Earth that show all kinds of unexpected things. Because these two mapping solutions provide one click access to satellite imagery, it is extremely easy to view hidden stuff (unless it is not censored). This... |
31 August 2007
05:13 GMT |
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The first Bush transistor radio was designed by Ogle Design and launched in 1959. It is still regarded as an icon of early radio design. Surprisingly, the Bush name disappeared from the British market during the 1980s. However, since the purchase of the brand by Alba electronics in 1986, it has once again become comm... |
18 July 2007
04:05 GMT |
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The "failure" Googlebomb is surely the most famous prank ever made to the best search engine on the Internet because it appeared for multiple times although the Mountain View company tried to stop it. Some time ago, the search giant sustained that Google was working on a powerful technology to stop all the bombs even... |
5 June 2007
15:06 GMT |
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The search giant Google is again affected by a Googlebomb as a regular search for the term "failure" returns you a picture with the president of the United States, George W. Bush. As far I can see, the picture appears only when the user searches with the recently introduced features for Google Image Search that enabl... |
29 May 2007
02:15 GMT |
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Google's search technology returns some funny information about one of the most famous persons in the entire world, George W. Bush. If you search Google for the phrase "who's george bush", the search engine returns you a funny result: "George Bush was a prominent biblical scholar, preacher and controversial... |
9 May 2007
04:16 GMT |
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Remember David Jaffe's Project HL? Sure you do, there were tons of rumors on the PSP game called Heartland (as God of War creator revealed later on), but there were several reasons why the game didn't make it on the PSP, or on any other console for that matter. Thus, speaking to Newsweek about this and tha... |
23 April 2007
03:25 GMT |
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