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BusinessWeek: Ryanair's O'Leary: The Duke of Discomfort
Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary is remaking commercial flights in his image: shabby, crabby, and cheap, cheap, cheap
BusinessWeek: Meet the Tech Pioneers of 2011
Each year the World Economic Forum recognizes small companies whose innovations could help change the world. This year's crop is the most diverse ever
 IOL: Russia wildfires kill two, consume homes
A new wave of wildfires has swept through villages in southern Russia, killing at least two people and destroying hundreds of homes.
IOL: Nations meet on climate change cash
About 45 nations have met to seek ways to raise billions of dollars in aid to help the poor combat climate change.
AllAfrica: Eritrea: Resolutions Adopted On Preventing Reckless Cutting of Trees
Resolutions have been adopted on preventing the reckless cutting of trees in the Southern region. The decision was reached following a meeting held in Mendefera town in which zonal administrators and community elders took part.
AllAfrica: Angola: Journalists to Create Ecological Committee
An ecological committee will be created, this month September, by a group of local journalists, aiming to contribute actively to people's environment education and support government initiatives toward making Huambo city as the first ecological capital of the country.
AllAfrica: Tanzania: Push to Protect Environment With Bio-Tech
Scientists have been advised to use biotechnological approaches to revolutionaries agriculture, health, industry, living standards and protect the environment.
AllAfrica: Angola: Environment Technical Commission Meets in Luanda
The multisectorial technical commission on environment (CTMA) met in Luanda for the second working session to discuss its organic and legislative package.
AllAfrica: Uganda: NFA Vows to Plant 31 Million Trees
Clearing land for human settlement and agricultural production in most parts of Uganda may be a setback to afforestation but the National Forestry Authority (NFA) is determined to plant 31 million trees by 2013.
IOL: Capes dry winter sees dam levels falling
The Cape Town weather office says that the city only received only 40.3mm of rain in July and only 31.4mm in August.
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·Norway keen to exploit carbon capture lead
The Sleipner platform is something of a holy site for believers in carbon capture and storage, a promising but controversial technology in the fight against climate change
·Scientists decode wheat genome
Scientists have completed a first draft of the wheat genome – the largest and most complex set of genetic instructions ever tackled by DNA sequencing. The raw DNA data will help crop breeders develop improved wheat varieties
·Scientists create liver cells from skin
Scientists at Cambridge University have used stem cell technology to convert skin from patients with metabolic diseases into liver cells
·Court rules against Obama's stem cell policy
A US district court issued a preliminaryinjunction stopping federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research, in a slap to the Obama administration's new guidelines on the sensitive issue
·Scottish scientists develop whisky biofuel
A biofuel made from whisky by-products, which can be used in ordinary cars, has been developed by scientists at Edinburgh Napier University
·Limits to genetics
Although the US will inevitably take the lead on regulating genetic testing, worldwide standards are required in a business that operates globally, thanks to theinternet and international postal services
·NHS to test 'intelligent medicines'
The health service is to begin testing high-tech pills containing microchips, with the aim of saving money by helping patients with heart failure to take their drugs regularly and in the right doses
·Scientists sound alarm over superbug
A new form of bacteria resistant to most antibiotics is spreading worldwide, scientists have warned
·History of tools pushed back 1m years
Scientists say human tools are almost 1m years older than previously thought, following the discovery in Ethiopia of animal bones that were butchered 3.4m years ago with sharp stones
·Troubled history of state aid for research
Large-scale government involvement in science in the UK beganin the 1940s, but it was not until 1960 that the first science minister was appointed
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·client: Brown and Williamsons improvement: Im Real Sick
date: December 25, 1977
·History and Timeline : "Indepth Look the Early History of BLF"
December 1977 Glikk and Napier form the BLF and christen it by altering and improving 9 "Fact Cigarette" boards around San Francisco on Christmas Day. With the help of Simon Wagstaff (BLFs 1st press agent) they publicize their premier Billboard action for maximum exposure and impact.October 1978 Camel Cigarettes image is improved by properly attiring their scantily clad spokesman, "The Turk". . . .April 1980 The BLF ...
·My Life, My Death, My Billboard: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Billboard Liberation Front (BLF) is honored to announce a new marketing partnership with Philip Morris (PM) that finally brings together the rugged sense of American independence with your most important choice as a consumer: your death. The message of My Life. My Death. My Choice. informs and empowers the consumer to choose, as their god given right, how they want to die. Philip Morris brings this message to t ...
·History and Timeline
In this the latter half of the twentieth century, human life has been overrun with media of every stripe. Wherever media intrudes, advertising has been close at its heels, telling us what to buy, think and resemble. Even in the encapsulation of our cars, with the radio off, on uninhabited stretches of highway, the media reaches out in the monolithic form of billboards.For the last twenty-one years, the Billboard Libe ...
·"Improved" Billboard Advertises Suicide by Cigarettes : Controversial billboard promoting freedom to end ones life edited
A billboard in San Francisco advertising the Final Exit Network, a group that helps people suffering from intolerable illnesses end their life, was plenty controversial on its own.The billboard, located in view of drivers on the Central Freeway near Howard and South Van Ness, read "My Life My Death My Choice," and a link to the organizations website.But the Billboard Liberation Front, a group of pranksters that have ...
·Put that pipe out, Sherlock! After Churchills cigar, what the PC zealots might do to these images
ldnt be surprised to discover that a museum poster of Winston Churchill had his famous cigar airbrushed out.But what would the Elf n Safety brigade have to say if they could interfere with these other iconic pictures?
·New Eco-Friendly Cigarettes Kill Destructive Human Beings Over Time
Executives at Philip Morris USA this week unveiled Marlboro Earth, a new eco-friendly cigarette that gradually eliminates the causes of global warming and environmental destruction at their source."By killing off the No. 1 threat to the environment, new Marlboro Earths will have a long-term effect on the overall health of our planet," Philip Morris spokesperson Janet Weiss said. "If everyone in America does their par ...
·Image : Hands Cartoon: "Outdoor" Smoking Room
·VIDEO: New Anti-Smoking Ads Warn Teens Its Gay To Smoke
·VIDEO: Parkinson criticizes House smoking bill as fraud
Gov. Mark Parkinson on Friday said he would veto a House bill that would ban smoking in indoor public places but allow numerous exemptions.Parkinson called House Bill 2642 a ridiculous piece of public policy that is nothing but a fraud.
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