This summer should be a marketer’s dream. The Olympics have always been a business mecca. But will Beijing 2008 prove to be a marketing nightmare?
The images that lead up to the Olympics generally bring a spirit of excitement to those watching. The torch being held high as it journeys to light the flame. This year [...]
April 30, 2008
Categories: China, business, editorial, sports . . Author: momentsintime . Comments: No Comments
In only one year of operation The Music Copyright Society of Kenya has seen music users obtaining licences and royalties for their works. Their membership has grown from just 400 a year ago to 1,300 today.
In the past businesses didn’t know that they should have a licence to play music. MCSK has set about educating [...]
April 30, 2008
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It has always been the goal of each generation to leave the children more than they had. The children that inherit the world we are leaving are getting a sorry inheritance.
There is no question that the world is changing. Food price increases, powerful storms, war and a host of other issues have changed the world [...]
April 29, 2008
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After allegations of baby selling, fraud and corruption Vietnam has halted all American adoptions. The announcement follows an AP article of an U.S. Embassy report.
According to the report from the U.S. Embassy hospitals are selling babies when mothers don’t have the funds to buy their hospital bills as just one example of the overall corruption [...]
April 29, 2008
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Play groups may spare children the risk of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, the most common form of childhood leukaemia by thirty percent according to a University of California, Berkeley study.
The researchers reviewed 14 studies that involved almost 20,000 children. 6,000 of those child later developed acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL).
One in every 2,000 children in the industrial [...]
April 29, 2008
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The days of a legal medical high from marijuana may be numbered. Scientists researching how to get the medical powers from the plant without the memory-robbing properties may have found the way.
It is going to take some time though for the new breed of medical marijuana to hit the drug store.
This has great potential but [...]
April 29, 2008
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A total of 53 teenage girls were removed from Yearning For Zion Ranch in Eldorado. 31 of those in the massive child removal have either had a baby or are now pregnant. Two of the girls that are now pregnant may also have had children in the past.
“It shows you a pretty distinct pattern, that [...]
April 29, 2008
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As the world’s food prices raise Canada will not remain immune. Within months the problems dealing with the rising cost of food will be appearing on the Canadian horizon reports the Bank of Nova Scotia.
Other than baked good Canada has so far been able to breath easily when it comes to higher food costs. That [...]
April 29, 2008
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19 children have died from an intestinal virus called “enterovirus 71″ in Fuyang, China. The victims have been between the ages of two and six. The virus is sometimes called “hand-foot-mouth disease.”
The children have came to the hospital with fevers and blisters, ulcer in the mouth or rashes on the hands and feet. As of [...]
April 28, 2008
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What would you do if you knew what was making your grandchildren sick? Ed Wiley was posed with that dilemma and started fighting to make sure not only granddaughter Kayla got better but all of the kids at Marsh Fork were safe.
Since 2006 that’s just what this West Virginia redneck has been doing all the [...]
April 28, 2008
Categories: children, environment, health, united states . . Author: momentsintime . Comments: 3 Comments