Genetically modified food: Rice checks.
The News Review:
- Genetically modified food: Rice checks.
- Silicon Valley’s Golden Past Tarnished by Latest Probes
- Germany to ordain first rabbis since Hitler shut seminaries
- Delhi hybrid car wins accolade in US
- Garden of delight for the senses
- Latest Enhancements to I-many Validata Optimizes Control of Rebate…
Genetically modified food: Rice checks.
Free with registration – St. Louis Post-Dispatch – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 14, 2006
Louis Post-Dispatch on Wednesday, Sept. 13: X X X Last July, Japan banned the import of all long-grain rice grown in the United States… The European Union, meanwhile, is imposing expensive new tests on American rice exports. The reason: A tiny amount of genetically modified rice was found mixed in with rice stored in Missouri and Arkansas. This is just the latest example of irrational resistance to scientific progress in plant technology and the unfair use of trade barriers to protect home-grown economic.
Silicon Valley’s Golden Past Tarnished by Latest Probes
Washington Post – Sep 14, 2006
, the standard bearer for ethics among Silicon Valley’s home-grown technology community, is hustling to move forward after the resignation Monday of its chairman, Patricia C. Dunn, amid investigations by prosecutors and federal lawmakers over whether directors’ phone records were illegally accessed. Prompted by concerns that a board member leaked information to the press, the HP debacle is shedding light on the valley’s insular culture, where secrets are prized and key players have multiple and sometimes conflicting obligations. No industry has been immune to executive greed or governance lapses in recent years. The era’s most disastrous collapses, of Enron Corp.
Germany to ordain first rabbis since Hitler shut seminaries
Telegraph.co.uk – Sep 14, 2006
He said he covered up when out on German streets. Walter Homolka, the rector at the Academy of Judaism, inaugurated in 2000, called the ordinations a “new beginning” which sent out an “important political signal”. But he stressed they were a “drop in the ocean” and did little to meet the huge demand for “home-grown” rabbis. The next new wave of students from Germany, Russia and Ukraine are not due to be ordained until 2008. connelly@telegraph.
Delhi hybrid car wins accolade in US
Economic Times – Sep 14, 2006
The association with VDA is
understandable given Germany headstart in this technology. And a number of
Indian companies are working on hybrid models. Home-grown Mahindra Scorpio is
expected to be out in its hybrid avtaar in the next three years. Auto analysts
admit that the first bunch of hybrids on Indian roads will be locally made,
given that the imported models will simply be too costly to make business sense
for companies like Toyota, Honda or
Ford. Of course, product
development is one thing and having a model that is ready for the roads and
commercially viable to boot is quite another. That’s where the car whiz
gang of Delhi College of Engineering come in. These young engineers were the
Indian representatives to the world famous annual green car festival Tour De Sol
Championship in USA.
Garden of delight for the senses
Wimbledon Guardian – Sep 14, 2006
The Fieldway Nursing and Residential Centre in Tramway Path is one of 39 Bupa care homes in the UK to develop a sensory garden this year, designed to stimulate all the senses. Among the attractions at Fieldway are a seaside mural, designed and produced by teachers and students at St Mark’s Primary School. The garden also boasts real sand, wind chimes, home-grown tomatoes and fragrant flowers. Centre manager Isabella MacKenzie said: “I really want to acknowledge the enormous contribution that our activities co-ordinator, Patricia Montlouis, has made to this project. ”
The garden was officially opened on Saturday by Councillor Geraldine Stanford, Mayor of Merton. advertisement12:22pm Thursday 14th September 2006.
Latest Enhancements to I-many Validata Optimizes Control of Rebate…
Free with registration – Business Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 14, 2006
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