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2008-02-08 07:07:23 Shell faces call for new inquiry over leaking of ethelyne oxide gas - media AMSTERDAM (Thomson Financial) - Royal Dutch Shell said a larger amount of ethelyne oxide gas escaped from its Moerdijk location in the Netherlands than previously thought, prompting calls from a Dutch province for an independent inquiry into the incident, Dutch media reported. 2008-02-08 06:54:43 BROKERWATCH Veolia Environnement upped to 'buy' vs 'hold' at SG Secs PARIS (Thomson Financial) - Societe Generale has upped Veolia Environnement to 'buy' from 'hold' and added the waste and water group to its 'premium list', saying developemnts in 2007 are likely to fuel one of the best years to date in 2008. 2008-02-08 06:48:02 London shares outlook - higher after recent falls, overnight Wall Street gain LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Leading shares are expected to open higher Friday as investors seek out bargains following a 150-point drop yesterday, with the UK market taking its lead from Wall Street where moderate gains were seen overnight as buyers returned to the market.
Liquid water found flowing on Mars? Not yet
NEW YORK: Researchers claim to have found no trace of liquid water on Mars, casting doubt on an earlier research which indicated presence of bright spots in some Martian gullies.
"It rules out pure liquid water," according to lead researcher Jon D. Pelletier of the University of Arizona.
Pelletier and his colleagues used topographic data derived from images of Mars from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
The researchers applied the basic physics of how fluid flows under Martian conditions to determine how a flow of pure liquid water would look on the HiRISE images versus how an avalanche of dry granular debris such as sand would look.
"The dry granular case was the winner.
Anita Creamer: He's in an uphill swim to help UNICEF
Even in environmentally conscious California, we waste more clean water in our morning shower than many of the world's people will see in a week. And all we have to do is turn on the tap. As a grass-roots volunteer for UNICEF, Louis Bickle wants you to think about that. And he wants you to pay $1 per glass of tap water at local restaurants from March 16 to 22 as part of UNICEF's Tap Project. .
Why can’t the English be more like the French?
Big faces, pear-shaped torsos with heavy low-slung bosoms . . . one could be cruel about the English physique. But to my practised eye there is nothing wrong with the raw material; it’s just that they don’t know how to showcase their charms. The British press takes great pleasure in women failing to look good. Whole pages are devoted to photographs of celebrities getting it wrong: heavy bosoms falling out of cocktail dresses, pixie boots, helmet hair, ill-judged accessories. In France we could never run such pages, even if we wanted to. Why? Because you could never find women in the the public eye looking embarrassing. Remember that shot of Ségolène Royale in her bikini? A political leader in her fifties with the body of a 25-year-old.
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