| IPFW turtle expert at China workshop
Paladino met in May with Costa Rican President Oscar Arias to discuss the plight of leatherbacks. Purdue University's Nathan Mosier also will speak at the Workshop on Challenges of Global Warming for Human Beings, which starts today and runs through Oct. 21 in Beijing. Mosier, an assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering, will discuss biofuels and energy conservation. Data show elderly helped by flu shots In an analysis that rebuts the notion that flu shots are of no benefit to people 65 and older, scientists have found that the annual jab reduces the risk of hospitalization and death in the elderly. A team of scientists, led by a Veterans Affairs physician, has found in a study that covered a decade's worth of data that flu vaccinations decreased hospitalizations for pneumonia by 27 percent and cut the overall death rate in half.
Royals sign Gload, three others
The Kansas City Royals avoided arbitration and signed utilityman Ross Gload to a two-year contract with a club option for 2010, the team announced Friday.The Royals also signed catcher John Buck and pitcher Jorge De La Rosa to one- year contracts, and signed veteran pitcher Brian Lawrence to a minor league deal with an invitation to spring training.Gload batted .288 with seven home runs and 51 RBI in 102 games with the Royals in 2007. In 361 career games with the Royals, Chicago White Sox, Chicago Cubs and Colorado Rockies, Gload has compiled a .294 batting average, 19 home runs and 125 RBI.Buck hit .222 with a 48 RBI and a career high 18 home runs as the Royals primary backstop in 2007. He was acquired from the Houston Astros as part of a three team trade in June 2004 that sent Carlos Beltran from Kansas City to Houston.
Is Davos 2008 our last resort?
The guest list is bigger and better than ever. Pretty much every major businessman and politician you can think of will be there, along with Davos staples like Tony Blair and U2 frontman Bono, to indulge in Olympian-quality discussions on geopolitics and Olympic-quality networking. Like it or loathe it - ignore it at your peril. It may not seem obvious at the time, but the World Economic Forum is the event which sets the tone for the year in politico-economic circles. Its seminars proclaiming to seek solutions for some of the world's most intractable problems may be rather hit-and-miss, but whether it's inside or outside the conference rooms, this tiny resort is where things happen. It was here last year that German chancellor Angela Merkel met with fellow leaders to discuss putting the defunct European constitution back on the table.
According to the WWL's fashion expert, Chicago second best-dressed ...
Every couple of months, some magazine or Web site is coming out with the latest bogus list of which cities are the best to live in or have the best quality of life or whatever. And what factors are considered when compiling these assessments? Totally irrelevant criteria such as the food, the weather, crime rates, affordability, school systems, cultural scenes, blah blah blah -- as if anyone cared about that stuff. Everyone knows there's only one quality of life issue worth considering when you're deciding where to live: How good are the local teams' uniforms? Face it, if you're gonna be stuck looking at the same teams every day (not just on TV but also in the newspaper, on billboards, etc.), they'd better be easy on the eyes. Or as an acquaintance once told Uni Watch, "You're lucky to live in New York because you get to watch the Yankees, Giants and Knicks all year long.
Dream home becomes hell for Britons caught in property trap
I partly live in Spain and the ignorance and arrogance of most Brits here is simply amazing. The dubious legality of many house has been known for years, but somehow these people thought they were above the law. It's not only that they were too stingy to hire an independent lawyer, most simply didn't want to know anyway. This is not to condone the practices that have been going on for years here, but if you really wanted to know if your building was legal, you could. Most simply didn't. .
War: The Price We Pay for Freedom
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