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http://cnn.com/video/?/video/politics/2011/01/20/sotvo.us.china.state.dinner.cnn Washington (CNN) -- After all the niceties of a state dinner at the White House, the reception Chinese President Hu Jintao receives on Capitol Hill Thursday may be a bit chilly in comparison. Hu is scheduled to...

Anthony Gucciardi www.ShatterLimits.com January 19, 2011 While food riots have begun emerging across the globe as a result of surging food prices, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has decided to funnel 12 million dollars into the popular pizza chain Domino’s Pizza, in what...

-- Chinese President Hu Jintao arrives in Washington on Tuesday, a day before a high-profile meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama to discuss trade, currency and a host of other issues, including North Korea. Chinese state media has reported that Hu will stress how a constructive...

A bright full moon on a dark, clear night is always an impressive sight, but did you know that each full moon of the year has its own name? Sometimes, the full moon of each month even has more than one name, all of which originated in antiquity. Full moon names date back to Native Americans...

Jennifer Loewenstein is an Associte Professor (University of Wisconsin-Madison), an Israeli-born Jewish academic who is married to Professor David Loewenstein teaching at the same University. She is the founder of Madison-Rafah Journal. For her criticism of Zionist-regime’s Zionazi policies and...

VATICAN CITY - The pope on Friday signed off on the miracle needed for the beatification of Pope John Paul II, and set May 1 as the date to honor one of the most beloved popes of all times as a model of saintliness for the church. Pope Benedict XVI said in a decree that a French nun's recovery...

- Curtis Acosta's class on Latino literature opened on Monday with a poem: "You are my other me," the high school students said in unison, reciting the words in Spanish and English. "If I do harm to you, I do harm to myself. If I love and respect you, I love and respect myself." It's a simple...

More drugmakers are seeing potential in the business of producing copycat versions of expensive biotechnology drugs as U.S. guidelines take shape. The topic was at the forefront of plans discussed by several executives at this week's JP Morgan healthcare conference in San Francisco. Kevin...

British scientists have developed genetically modified (GM) chickens that cannot transmit bird flu infections -- a step that in future could reduce the risk of avian flu spreading and causing deadly epidemics in humans. Scientists from Cambridge and Edinburgh universities said that while the...

Massive changes in farming practices, eating habits and consumption will be needed to feed Earth's population sustainably when it hits nine billion in 2050, French scientists warned on Wednesday. In under 40 years, the world will have to make farming more productive but less dependent on...

Eswaran Brothers Exports announced that it has achieved CarbonNeutral company certification, a major milestone in the sixty-seven year history of the family-owned tea company. The Vice Chairman of Eswaran Brothers and a third generation tea taster, Mr. Subramaniam Eassuwaren, stated, "As part...

BINDWEED (AN ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR) Examples of Patient Reports From The Center The RECNAC team (CANCER spelled backwards) is located in Wichita, KS, at The Center for the Improvement of Human Functioning International. A breast cancer survivor of 14 years, who used the Center's approach...

Dying young was not likely the reason Neanderthals went extinct, said a study out Monday that suggests early modern humans had about the same life expectancy as their hairier, ancient cousins. Scientists have puzzled over why the Neanderthals disappeared just as modern humans were making huge...

1 hr 15 mins ago SYDNEY – Residents of low-lying parts of Australia's third largest city, Brisbane, sandbagged their homes against rising waters Monday as torrential rain exacerbated record floods that have paralyzed the coal industry in the northeast and now threaten tourism. Weather...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – Scientists whose genetics-based research became a lightning rod in the debate over protecting the Great Lakes from Asian carp have made their case in a newly published article that says at least some of the dreaded invaders have gotten beyond an electric barrier meant to...

United Parcel Service plans to open four new global healthcare distribution centers, driven by rapid demand from pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device companies. The world's largest package delivery company said it expects to spend $100 million to build facilities in Venlo, the...

Malaysia has delayed a landmark field trial to release genetically modified mosquitoes designed to combat dengue fever, an official said Tuesday, following protests from environmentalists. In the first experiment of its kind in Asia, 4,000-6,000 male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes were originally...

A US study found that Neanderthals, prehistoric cousins of humans, ate grains and vegetables as well as meat, cooking them over fire in the same way homo sapiens did. The new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) challenges a prevailing theory that...

Abraham Foxman, the ‘defender of the Zionist-regime’, has issued a statement on January 6, 2011 – calling Hamas a “Holocaust denier”. The dude expects to scare Hamas’ senior leader, Mahmud Zahar, for repeating the same truth which Jewish academic, historian and writers like Finkelstein, Roger...

Wealth Cycles Jan 7, 2011 In the United States, it’s sometimes hard to imagine the disaster that rising food prices wreak. In Western countries, we are more likely battling obesity than starvation. In 2007, with food prices skyrocketing,*The Economist declared this: “In 1974-2005 food prices...