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Japan (SPX) Jun 10, 2005 Vast genetic resources – "blue gold" on the international deep sea floor – need protection from unfettered commercial exploitation, warns a new report from the Japan-based United Nations University Institute for Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS). Increasingly recognized as important to humankind for their potential medical and other uses, deep sea resources are now more accessible and vulnerable than ever because of rapid advances in exploration technology, the report says. Known as "extremophiles," the genetic make-up of organisms of the deep that live in extreme conditions of pressure, temperature and toxicity is drawing enormous interest from scientists...

VOIR - Montréal July 11, 2002 Satan is an American Richard Martineau (Translated from the original French by NorthernRight)You probably didn’t even see it. It was small note published in the newspapers, just this past July 2nd. An Agence- France-Press dispatch concerning an odd event which occurred last month in Pakistan. The title: "Raped to punish her brother". In a small village of Panjab, a member of the Gujjar tribe had sexual relations with a woman of the Mastoi tribe. However, in this area of the globe, that is quite simply not done. Mastoi, you see, belong to the higher...

U.S. leaders ignore lessons of history (Barf Alert!) Georges Clermont The Ottawa Citizen Wednesday, July 10, 2002 ReutersAn armed British police officer stands guard outside the American Embassy in central London to discourage Independence Day attacks. A writer suggests policy changes might work better. Re: An all-American bash, July 4. It is befitting to wish your American neighbours the best on Independence Day. Denigrating our other allies, such as the Europeans, in your editorial was mean and betrays the dislikes of your newspaper's chain for the more balanced policies advocated by the European Union on the Palestinian-Israel dispute. The simplistic...