Louisiana called a state of emergency and put the National Guard on standby, preparing for a possibly devastating hurricane Gustav. Currently at wind speeds just below hurricane threshold, Gustav will probably pick up a lot of energy after passing between Cuba and Mexico and entering the warm and deep Gulf waters. Meanwhile, gas prices are rising as some fear another Katrina-like disaster. The Gulf area is home to 4,000 oil rigs and half of America's refining capacity. Workers were already...
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The European Court of Human Rights has denied U.K. hacker Gary McKinnon's appeal against
demands for his extradition to the U.S.
Gary McKinnon, who is 42 years old, appealed against his
extradition under Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The
hacker had claimed that the conditions of detention he would face if convicted
in the U.S.
would breach a European prohibition on inhumane or degrading treatment.
However, the European
Court refused to delay his extradition...
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Scientists managed to turn mouse pancreas tissue into specialized cells which produce insulin. Lead researcher Qiao Zhou of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and his colleagues have managed to give a significant boost to an area of medicine called regenerative medicine, which focuses on using a patient's own cells to repair damage in other tissues. The three-year study consisted of infecting the pancreases of dozens of 2-month-old mice with a virus that contained three genes active in...
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Berlin - Japanese electronics group Sharp forecast Thursday that annual world demand for LCD flat-panel televisions would burst through the 100-million barrier some time this year.
At a news conference on the eve of the IFA consumer-electronics fair in Berlin, Sharp also boasted its thinnest flat-panel yet, with the thinnest part of the device just 22 millimetres from front to back, or less than on inch. The thickest part was just two inches.
Sharp said the set with the series name...
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Berlin - Airbus SAS is considering an extended 1,000-passenger version of the A380 aircraft, Louis Gallois, chief executive of Airbus's parent company, the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) NV, told a German newspaper in an interview to be published Friday.
The airlines, Deutsche Lufthansa AG and Air France-KLM SA, were both interested in the extended version of the A380, Gallois told the Dresden-based Saechsische Zeitung.
The A380, the world's largest commercial...
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