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In the hope that workers can have more comfort and safety in the intense heat of summer in the country, authorities in southern India began a competition to encourage the creation of a jacket to cool. According to the site PhysOrg, the Kerala state will pay one million rupees to the winner, about $ 37,000, but might be a person or a research group. [...]

Europe relieved sighs today after most of the continent‘s banks passed the stress tests, whose results were released yesterday. However, analysts warn that the tests may not have been tough enough to restore confidence in the European financial sector. The aggregate results of the tests show a high degree of resilience in the banking sector of [...]

Owners of famous trademarks have convinced the European Commission to allow sites to block sales without physical store not to distribute their products, claiming a need to protect their image. But eBay and consumer groups say the new rule may hurt online trade at the time that the Commission intends to promote this market. The provision is part of [...]

Although suffering a steady and growing censorship, more and more Chinese use the Internet to express their opinion using the great ease to write good articles, and at the same time circumvent government control. “The Chinese bloggers are the smartest in the world. In addition to writing a good and interesting article, they should think how to [...]

Today one of the most elite and prestigious trains of India Rajdhani Express was held hostage for almost 5 hours. Some 200 people who surrounded the train and abducted the driver were no terrorists but yet they did manage to spread word of terror. The abducted driver was later released and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) rescued of 1200 stranded [...]

The swine is in the news these days thanks to the swine flu which is spreading fast globally across various countries. The Swine flu getting attention in developed countries is understandable. Not many killer diseases or killing living conditions stalk people there. But it getting attention in developing nations and even under developed countries is [...]

Police, intelligence agencies and other public English organs asked more than 500 thousand accesses to confidential and personal information in 2008. That is equal to spy one in each 78 people in the whole United Kingdom. There were 1500 daily requests, totaling 504.073 requests for approval to access private e-mail and phone data. That number represents [...]

As is widely known, the peanut butter salmonella poisoning came not too long after another salmonella outbreak, that of the contaminated peppers produce. After a false alarm over suspected tomato salmonella poisoning, the FDA cleared tomatoes for consumption in early July of 2008 (PrietzkerLaw, 2008, July 17). Like the peanut butter case and the tomatoes [...]

A good leader worthy of loyal following is fundamentally honest. This translates to the corollary qualities of being truthful, ethical, and principled. There is no escaping the fact that the only way to gain people’s trust and confidence is for a leader to have integrity and character. People can only believe the leader that they can trust. A leader [...]