Women represent 70% of the 1.3 billion people living in poverty worldwide. In Canada, 35% of women living on their own, and 51.6% of single mother families live in poverty.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
BC Police warns of new drug foxy methoxy(sex drug)
Police in Vancouver are warning the public about a new designer drug with hallucinogenic properties that is causing teens to put themselves in unsafe sexual situations.Foxy methoxy, police say, is part of a family of tryptamines that come in a powder form, or in small, colourful pills that feature graphics like spiderwebs and alien heads.
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
New Contact Lenses Promise On-Demand Bionic Eyesight
A team at the University of Washington has created a flexible contact lens, assembled with functional circuitry and LEDs. Potential uses for the "Bionic Contact Lens" include virtual displays for pilots, video-game projections and telescopic vision for soldiers.
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Friday, February 15, 2008
At Halliburton/KBR, sexual assault is part of the workplace.
Jamie Lee Jones, a young computer tech, was gang-raped on her fourth day by coworkers after being drugged; the other, Tracy Barker, was sexually assaulted by a State Department employee. Both immediately reported their assaults, only to have KBR first lock them in isolation, then question their accusations.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Monday, February 11, 2008
Ten Principles Of Effective Web Design
Since the visitor of the page is the only person who clicks the mouse and therefore decides everything, user-centric design has established as a standard approach for successful and profit-oriented web design. In order to use the principles properly we first need to understand how users interact with web-sites, and how they think.
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Time travelers from the future 'could be here in weeks'
The first time travelers from the future could materialize on Earth within a few weeks. Physicists around the world are excitedly awaiting the start up of the £4.65 billion Large Hadron Collider, LHC - the most powerful atom-smasher ever built - which is supposed to shed new light on the particles and forces at work in the cosmos and reproduce con
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