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Staggering tree loss from 2005 Amazon storm

WASHINGTON — A single, huge, violent storm that swept across the whole Amazon forest in 2005 killed half a billion trees, a new study shows. (more…)

‘Jillian Lauren: Life in a Harem’

Culture, Media

Bored while at the New York University, Jillian Lauren followed a road that ended up at the Harem of Prince Jefri Bolkiah, the younger brother of the Sultan of Brunei. And we know, Brunei has lots of money.

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Brooding Russians: Less distressed than Americans

Culture

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy portrayed Russians as a brooding, complicated people, and ethnographers have confirmed that Russians tend to focus on dark feelings and memories more than Westerners do.

But a new University of Michigan study finds that even though Russians tend to brood, they are less likely than Americans to feel as depressed as a result.

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comScore Launches Video Metrix 2.0 to Measure Evolving Web Video Landscape

Technology

*Next Generation Online Video Measurement Service Features Video Ad Reporting*

*New Metrics Enable Cross-Media Comparability and Help Improve Monetization of the Online Video Medium*

RESTON, VA, July 15, 2010 – comScore, Inc. a leader in measuring the digital world, today announced the introduction of Video Metrix 2.0, the next generation of comScore’s industry leading online video measurement service.

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Peking University People’s Hospital Partners with IBM to Build China’s First Evidence-Based Patient Centric Care System

Technology

BEIJING – 15 Jul 2010: IBM and Peking University People’s Hospital (People’s Hospital) have built an evidence-based patient centric care (ePC3) system to enable cooperation and resource sharing among medical services providers for improved patient care.

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Microsoft Awards Top Performing Partners at Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference

Technology

WASHINGTON — At the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) on July 14, 2010 in Washington, D.C., Microsoft Corp. honored the strongest performing Microsoft Dynamics partners for demonstrating significant customer impact by developing and delivering innovative solutions that help customers drive their businesses forward.

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Breast Transplantation, the Consequences

Health

Sheyla Hershey, the woman with the biggest breasts (breast transplantation operation – 30 times), is now encountering serious health problems. Sheyla now living in Texas, originally comes from Brazil.

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‘Sea Levels Rising in Parts of Indian Ocean’

Environment

*Greenhouse gases are playing a role in changes, say scientists*

Newly detected rising sea levels in parts of the Indian Ocean, including the coastlines of the Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea, Sri Lanka, Sumatra and Java, appear to be at least partly a result of human-induced increases of atmospheric greenhouse gases, says a study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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