Jennifer Argo, a marketing professor in the U of A’s Alberta School of Business, says that people are psychologically hard-wired to believe that products that are damaged or that aren’t whole—such as small or ripped paper or dented cans—are useless, and this leads users to trash them rather than recycle them. To circumvent overcrowding landfills […]
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By Chalmers Johnson However ambitious President Barack Obama’s domestic plans, one unacknowledged issue has the potential to destroy any reform efforts he might launch. Think of it as the 800-pound gorilla in the American living room: our longstanding reliance on imperialism and militarism in our relations with other countries and the vast, potentially ruinous global […]
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By Frank G. Hoffman and Evan Kalikow That is the question. Whether it’s better to stand idly by in the face of egregious violence or to contemplate costly interventions with American ground forces? What’s a policy maker to do? Accept the slings and arrows of terrorists with their outrageous terms or attack them with arrows […]
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(RFE/RL) — A U.S. military jury has sentenced a U.S. soldier who massacred 16 Afghan civilians to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The six-member military panel reached a verdict on August 23 after less than two hours of deliberations at the Joint Base Lewis-McChord military base in Washington state. Bales pleaded guilty […]
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A US Army psychiatrist on Friday was convicted of premeditated murder for a 2009 rampage shooting at the Fort Hood military base in Texas that left 13 people dead, making him eligible to become the first American soldier to be put to death in 52 years. A panel of 13 military jurors found Maj. Nidal […]
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Pakistan’s new government should urgently address serious human rights abuses, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif outlining “10 Steps to Improve Human Rights.” The abuses include attacks on religious minorities, disappearances in Balochistan, and impunity for abusive militant groups. In May 2013, Pakistanis went to the polls, effecting […]
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The Czech Republic will hold an election on October 25-26, President Milos Zeman officially announced on Friday, August 23 confirming a date he gave earlier for a snap poll that is expected to usher in a left-leaning, pro-European cabinet, according to Reuters. Opinion polls show the center-left Social Democrats will be the biggest party in […]
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In one of his last acts as Pope, Benedict XVI approved changed wording in the rite of baptism which emphasizes “the Church of God” as the community into which the baptized individual has been incorporated. After having baptized a child, the minister will now receive him, saying, “The Church of God welcomes you with great […]
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The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution prohibits searches and seizures without probable cause. Since 9/11 searches without probable cause have increased alarmingly, as most Americans must know. Here is another case that applies to a narrow enough population that most Americans are probably unaware of it. That population is general aviation pilots and the aircraft […]
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“As difficult as the problem is, this is something that is going to require America’s attention and hopefully the whole international community’s attention.” “America’s attention” — these are not fighting words. The use of chemical weapons on a large scale — an event that would breach the “red line” Obama drew a year ago — […]
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(CORDIS) — Global demand for renewable energy sources has created a burgeoning manufacturing sector for bespoke light-emitting diodes and solar cells. Europe needs to capitalise on this transition from mass production to more personalised, customer-oriented and eco-efficient manufacturing if it is to remain a leader in this field. The EU-funded MANUCLOUD (Distributed Cloud product specification […]
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(CORDIS) — Replicating human behaviour in robots has long been a central objective of scientists working in the field of information and communication technologies (ICT). However, a major obstacle towards accomplishing this has been controlling the interaction between movement and vision. Indeed, achieving accurate spatial perception and smooth visual-motor coordination have proved elusive. Tackling this […]
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Egyptian intelligence and security services trained members of a group calling itself “Tamarod Gaza,” a senior Hamas official charged Friday. In a video released Sunday, masked activists read a statement by “Tamarod Gaza” calling for protests across the enclave on Nov. 11 to overthrow Hamas. On Nov. 11, all “tyrannies and oppression practiced by the […]
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The widening circle applauding megamillionaire Larry Summers –of Harvard University, Washington, D.C. and Wall Street – agrees on one word to describe the colossal failure – Brilliant! That circle includes Barack Obama, who appointed Summers in 2009 to be his chief economic advisor, Bill Clinton, who made him Secretary of the Treasury, and the Harvard […]
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By Siamak Kakaei Turkey is currently grappling in its domestic politics with widespread popular protests in a number of Turkish cities. Also, on a regional level, Ankara is dealing with the aftermath of another crisis in its southern neighbor, Syria, and is also looking for ways to give a proper response to the demands of […]
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Fallen Chinese political star Bo Xilai continued his spirited defense against charges of corruption and bribe-taking leveled against him during the second day of his trial in the eastern city of Jinan on Friday, taking aim at the quality of evidence presented by the prosecution. Bo described his wife Gu Kailai as “insane” during Friday’s […]
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The mood on Wall Street has changed dramatically since the Fed announced it planned to scale-back QE by the end of 2013. Although the Central Bank continues to purchase $85 billion of US Treasuries (UST) and Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS) per month (as it has since the program was launched nearly a year ago), the expectation of reduced […]
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Among those who have fled Syria from the Yarmouk Palestinian camp in Damascus are close to 50,000 children. This is the figure cited by the Palestinian Popular Committees in the Damascus-Homs area as well as Anthony Lake, head of the U.N. children’s agency UNICEF. Roughly 75% of the Palestinian youngsters fleeing the country are under […]
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The Nigerian government has stepped up its emergency food aid in response to severe food insecurity and child malnutrition in the northeast, where the military has been running a sweeping offensive against Boko Haram (BH) Islamists since June. Some 492,000 children in northern Nigeria are severely malnourished, according to European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil […]
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Researchers at the Beihang University School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, led by Dr. Yubo Fan, have discovered that Biphasic Electrical stimulation (BES), a non-chemical procedure, may be used as a strategy for preventing cell apoptosis in stem cell-based transplantation therapy. The article describing their studies will be published in the August 2013 issue […]
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