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- Africa and Coca-Cola: Index of Happiness?
AFRICANS buy 36 billion bottles of Coke a year. Because the price is set so low—around 20-30 American cents, less than the price of the average newspaper—and because sales are so minutely analysed by Coca-Cola, the Coke bottle may be one of the continent's best trackers of stability and prosperity.
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In the 1960s, Mao Zedong banned baseball in China because of its Western roots. Even after his death in 1976, the sport never caught on. And yet, because of the marketing potential of the country's 1.3 billion people, Major League Baseball has invested tens of millions of dollars into seeding the sport in China, league officials said.Переслать Сохранить на memori.ru - After 4 years, 115K miles & 100's of awkward first dates...
In 2004, Ahmed Ibrahim launched a matchmaking service from behind the wheel of his New York City cab. After four years, 115,000 miles and hundreds of awkward first dates, Mr. Ibrahim has reached a milestone: his first engagement....Переслать Сохранить на memori.ru - Stephen King: Why Hollywood and Big Studios Can't Do Horror
Looking back at the dozen films that truly scared me, is that most really good horror films are low-budget affairs with special effects cooked up in someone's basement. Horror is an intimate experience, something that occurs mostly within oneself, and when it works, the screams of a sold-out house are almost intrusive.Переслать Сохранить на memori.ru - Fresh puzzle over dark energy supernovae
IT'S an embarrassing gap in astronomers' knowledge. Despite relying on type Ia supernovae as tools to measure the dark energy speeding up the universe's expansion, they still don't know exactly what causes the blasts. Now the picture has got even fuzzier.Переслать Сохранить на memori.ru - Voicemail is Dead. Please Tell Everyone to stop Using it
Voicemail is dead. Please tell everyone so they'll stop using it. When I first started out in the real world in the mid-nineties voicemail was an important productivity tool. But now an increasing number of people are just plain avoiding voicemail. It takes much longer to listen to a message than read it.Переслать Сохранить на memori.ru - Surface of Mercury Dominated By Volcanism & Iron-Deficiency
Volcanism has played a more extensive role in shaping the surface of Mercury than scientists had thought. This result comes from multispectral imaging data gathered in January 2008 by MESSENGER, the latest spacecraft to visit the sun's innermost planet.Переслать Сохранить на memori.ru - On the Web: Free Headsets and Rebates
It's all out there: free cell-phone headsets, help getting refunds from big-name retailers, and, of course, cell phones making popcorn.Переслать Сохранить на memori.ru - Polymorph Robot Mimics 'Human Joints And Muscles'
Using polymorph plastic, some curtain rods, electric screwdrivers, motors, and a whole lot of mad-scientist creativity, an Xrobots hobbyist created this organic-looking robot base. By using wooden sockets and curtain rings as hip joints, the designer is clearly going for a human-like creature of doom here. Knee joints are kept moving with four motoПереслать Сохранить на memori.ru - WTF?Internet addressing agency (ICANN) loses its addressess
The nonprofit agency (ICANN) in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own.Переслать Сохранить на memori.ru - New West Nile virus strain may worsen epidemic
A new strain of West Nile virus is spreading better and earlier across the United States, and may thrive in hot American summers, researchers said on Thursday.The virus infected an estimated 175,000 people last year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in its weekly report on death and disease on Thursday.Переслать Сохранить на memori.ru - The Boys and the Subway
My sons Arthur, 5, and Gustav, 3, are obsessed with the New York City subway system. They can barely sit through an episode of "Sesame Street." But when we go for aimless subway joy rides on the weekends, they sit like little angels, devoutly calling out the names of every station.Переслать Сохранить на memori.ru - America's Top 20 Growing And Disappearing Jobs
Most of the growing job opportunities are at the non-specialist, or unskilled, end of the field, though they run the full gamut of wage levels. The disappearing jobs are concentrated in the lower third of the pay range, though the field work was done before the onset of the credit crisis, so it precedes recent job losses in the housing and ...Переслать Сохранить на memori.ru - Sonics take a page out of history
Amazing. Without a single revision, no call for updates and nary a shift in tenses from present to past, the Seattle SuperSonics' 2007-08 media guide was transformed, overnight, into a history book.Переслать Сохранить на memori.ru - Pixar's "Presto" short (as seen before "WALL-E")
Catch this Pixar short before it gets ripped from the tubes! A short in the classic Warner Bros. style, Presto is about an elegant magician and his bunny, whose task, naturally, is to come out of a top hat at the appropriate time. "Presto" clearly references Bugs Bunny's man-outwitting wabbit, but with a Pixar twist. Brilliant!Переслать Сохранить на memori.ru - On Day Care, Google Makes a Rare Fumble
Parents who had been paying $1,425 a month for infant care would see their costs rise to nearly $2,500 — well above the market rate.Переслать Сохранить на memori.ru - America's Birthday Party. Were You invited?
The nation's largest fireworks display exploded in a spectrum of color over the East River, temporarily stealing the spotlight from New York's world-famous skyline and helping to create a brilliant end to a day of July Fourth celebrations nationwide.Переслать Сохранить на memori.ru - What Does Alzheimer's Look Like in Your Brain?
This A-beta peptide fibril has been rendered in 3-D by a transmission electron microscope, providing the most detailed look yet at the telltale sign of Alzheimer's disease.Переслать Сохранить на memori.ru - Job Centre Advertises For Naked Cleaner £10 An Hour
(But only £6 if you're fully clothed) A job centre has been carrying an unexpected advert - for a naked cleaner. The advert is one you might expect to see in a top shelf magazine or on an X-rated internet site. But the job of naked domestic help is one of the positions Southampton Jobcentre Plus has been offering to the Hampshire city's unemployed.Переслать Сохранить на memori.ru - 10 things you might not know about robots
The movie "Wall-E," a futuristic tale of a trash-compacting robot, has become a money-making machine at the box office. Here are some key components of robotics:Переслать Сохранить на memori.ru - I'll Bet You $1 You'll Read This Homeless Guy's Sign [PIC]
Seriously... Wanna take the bet?Переслать Сохранить на memori.ru - Assisted Suicide of Healthy 79-Year-Old Renews German Debate
When Roger Kusch helped Bettina Schardt kill herself at home on Saturday, the grim, carefully choreographed ritual was like that in many cases of assisted suicide, with one exception. Ms. Schardt, 79, a retired X-ray technician from the Bavarian city of Würzburg, was neither sick nor dying. She simply did not want to move into a nursing home, and rПереслать Сохранить на memori.ru - Mysteries of time, and the multiverse
In his studies of entropy and the irreversibility of time, Caltech physicist Sean Carroll is exploring the idea that our universe is part of a larger structure.Переслать Сохранить на memori.ru - Spacecraft Woken for Asteroid Encounter
A comet-chasing spacecraft has been awoken during its years-long journey so it can study an asteroid it will fly past this September. Launched in March 2004, Rosetta will reach its final destination only in 2014, after traveling a total of about 4 billion miles (6.5 billion kilometers). The spacecraft will also fly by asteroid Lutetia in June 2010.Переслать Сохранить на memori.ru - How the Hubble Telecope Assembles Raw Image Data
From the telescope's raw data to the final, fully processed photograph, this feature shows the various steps and how much effort went into assembling the famous image of the Eagle Nebula.Переслать Сохранить на memori.ru - U.S. not prepared for possible asteroid strike
On the 100th anniversary of the devastating Tunguska event in Siberia, scientists and an Orange County congressman urge the government to take further defensive measures against near-Earth objects. A group of scientists draw attention to their belief that the United States is not doing enough to defend the planet against the dangers.Переслать Сохранить на memori.ru - Pomegranate Ranked Healthiest Fruit Juice
Pomegranate is the healthiest of them all because it contains the most of every type of antioxidant. It wins in all categories. And it's thought that it might do some very good things; it may protect against some cancers, such as prostate cancer. It might also modify heart disease risk factors, and it could be healthy for your heart.Переслать Сохранить на memori.ru - Hey Condoleezza, How Do I Get These Nasty Stains Out?
Переслать Сохранить на memori.ru - 2010: the 5TB 3.5in HDD cometh
Hitachi has pledged to release a 5TB 3.5in hard drive within two years, and it claims two of the drives will boast enough capacity to store everything in your brain.Переслать Сохранить на memori.ru - Contest of the Titans: China and the US in Africa [chart]
Graph showing the skyrocketing and increasingly fierce competition between the PRC and USA for African trade. Something that has largely gone unnoticed by the world at large, but will exert a profound effect on the economics and geopolitics of the 21st century.Переслать Сохранить на memori.ru - Benefits of 'magic mushroom' therapy long lasting
The benefits for people who have had positive or even mystical experiences induced by the psychedelic drug psilocybin — the psychoactive ingredient in 'magic mushrooms' — linger for as much as a year, according to the latest follow-up study of such patients.Переслать Сохранить на memori.ru - APOD: Comet Between Fireworks and Lightning
Sometimes the sky itself is the best show in town. Last January, people from Perth, Australia gathered on a local beach to watch a sky light up with delights near and far. Nearby, fireworks exploded as part of Australia Day celebrations. On the far right, lightning from a thunderstorm flashed in the distance. Near the image center, though, seen thrПереслать Сохранить на memori.ru - The Biggest Wave Ever Surfed (& caught on video)
Youtube comments seem to dispute whether this is at Peahi off of Maui (aka "Jaws") or Cortez Bank, west of San Diego CA. Anybody know for sure? Either way...Holy Freaking Shit!Переслать Сохранить на memori.ru - Outdoor BBQ: A 700,000-year-old Ritual
As we all stand around waiting for the fire to die down so that we can make s'mores, it's also a time to ponder the notion that the barbecue is a ritual 700,000 years old or more, and it might have something to do with our big brains.Переслать Сохранить на memori.ru - Do you see a black dot on your GMail too?
What's up with the black dot that shows up on the top-left corner of GMail, do you know anything about it?Переслать Сохранить на memori.ru - Venus beats sister Serena to win her 5th Wimbledon title
Venus Williams won her fifth singles title at Wimbledon on Saturday with a 7-5 6-4 win over her sister Serena Williams in the final.Переслать Сохранить на memori.ru - Condolezza Rice: 'I Am Proud Of The Decision to Invade Iraq'
In an interview with Bloomberg TV yesterday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was unable to acknowledge the failure of Iraq. She said: "But I know that great historical events go through difficult phases and often emerge with the world left for the better. And I am proud of the decision of this administration to overthrow Saddam Hussein."Переслать Сохранить на memori.ru - UK Identifies Russia as Biggest Threat After Iran & Al-Qaeda
Britain's security services have identified Russia as the third most serious threat facing the country, it has emerged before Gordon Brown's first meeting with President Medvedev. Security officials say that only al-Qaeda terrorism and Iranian nuclear proliferation are greater menaces to the country's safety than Russia.Переслать Сохранить на memori.ru - Phelps breaks world swimming record
By Steve Keating OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters) - Michael Phelps broke his own world record in the 200 meters individual medley at the U.S. Olympic swim trials on Friday, clocking a time of one minute, 54.80 seconds. Pushed to the wall by good friend...Переслать Сохранить на memori.ru - Firefox 3 Boosts Browser's Market Share Over 19%
Firefox 3 has experienced rapid market share gains since its release in mid-June, helping to push the Mozilla browser's overall share to more than 19%, a Web metrics firm said Wednesday.Переслать Сохранить на memori.ru
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