Friday 18 July 2008
Rough ride for Web films
Filmmakers are turning to the Internet to distribute their films. But does the new medium help them make ends meet?
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- INTERNET - CINEMA
- Rough ride for Web films
- Friday 18 July 2008
- Filmmakers are turning to the Internet to distribute their films. But does the new medium help them make ends meet?
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- ENVIRONMENT - USA
- California will make 'greener' buildings
- Friday 18 July 2008
- A new set of rules forcing every new building project to be based on energy-efficiency and water consumption has been adopted by California. It is the first code of its kind to be deployed on a statewide basis in the United States.
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- WEB NEWS
- Prisoner exchange splits Israeli Web users
- Thursday 17 July 2008
- Since Wednesday's prisoner-swap between Israel and Hezbollah, Israeli Web users are arguing about the outcome of the operation. The families of the dead soldiers were pushing for the exchange while others felt it favored Hezbollah too much.
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- WEB NEWS
- Anglican Church crisis moves online
- Friday 18 July 2008
- The Anglican Church, under threat of schism, uses the internet as another forum for heated discussion between those who support a "modern" view of Anglicanism and those who are more "traditionalist".
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- AIDS - RESEARCH
- Genes said to help prevent HIV infection
- Thursday 17 July 2008
- Scientists in Canada say they have isolated two specific genes that could determine an innate resistance to HIV infection and thereby prevent people from developing AIDS.
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- ENVIRONMENT
- Ivory sale infuriates animal activists
- Wednesday 16 July 2008
- Four African countries will sell between 50 and 100 tons of ivory to Chinese and Japanese buyers, infuriating activists and the organization Animal Rights Africa, who blame those countries for inciting illegal elephant culling.
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- SPACE - MARS
- Water bathed Mars four billion years ago
- Wednesday 16 July 2008
- US lander Phoenix analysed mineral elements in Martian soil that prove the presence of water in the southern hemisphere about 4 billion years ago. This could mean there was once life on the Red planet.
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- ENVIRONMENT - CANADA
- Canada to protect its Boreal forest
- Tuesday 15 July 2008
- Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has announced an ambitious plan to protect 225,000 km² of Canadian Boreal forest from industrial exploitation. This "permanent protection" will also restrict human activity to eco-tourism, hunting and fishing.
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