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Is There a future in trying to persuade film makers to useAberdeen if they need ugly locations?
That's the idea of Scottish Screen who take the view that as wellas some sites of beauty in …
Automated systems have a tendency to fill the world with alerts: fire alarms, low-inventory warnings, squawking medical devices in a hospital, and collision alarms in planes or, increasingly, automobiles. Whether you're designing the alarm-generating software or merely deciding which alarms to turn on in a packaged product, the challenge is finding the right balance between too many alarms and too few. Problem: Too many false alarms train users to ignore valid warnings. Resolution: You must combat a "better safe than sorry" attitude among systems engineers, says James P. Bliss, a professor at Old Dominion University who has studied this "Boy Who Cried Wolf" problem extensively in the …
Nations should avoid dropping aid or restricting trade amid the financial meltdown, the head of a U.N. food agency said Wednesday, warning that such steps could increase the risk of hunger and put pressure on food prices in the poorest countries.
Food and Agriculture Organization Director-General Jacques Diouf expressed concern that the injection of capital into the financial system could push governments to rethink their commitments to development aid.
"If there is a recession, naturally it will be more difficult to mobilize resources for agriculture in developing countries, but also the income of people will not increase," Diouf said in an …
Asian stock markets were little moved in early trading Wednesday after investors in the U.S. seemed to pause and look back on a year of recovery from the market's 12-year lows.
Tokyo's Nikkei 225 stock average lost 0.12 percent to 10,555. And the Shanghai composite index fell 0.24 percent to 3,062.
The South Korean benchmark eased 0.22 percent to 1,657. Australian stocks slipped 0.14 percent to 4,813.
Markets in Singapore, Taiwan and Malaysia all ticked slightly higher. In the Philippines, stocks rose 0.21 percent to 3,114.
The moves echoed Tuesday …
HONOLULU--The families of two Samoan women who passed on knowledgeof a tree's healing powers will share in profits from any AIDS drugdeveloped from the rainforest plant.
In an agreement announced Thursday, the nonprofit AIDS ReSearchAlliance promised to give the government of Samoa and the healers 20percent of any net profits from an experimental anti-HIV compoundcalled prostratin.
Scientists hope to begin the first trials on humans within a year.
The drug, if successful, could earn millions of dollars a year forthe Samoans, said Irl Barefield, executive director of the AIDSReSearch Alliance, which is licensed to research the drug by theNational Cancer …
ZANESVILLE, Ohio (AP) — The owner of an animal preserve who killed himself after freeing dozens of lions, tigers and other exotic animals was deeply in debt.
Court records show that Terry Thompson and his wife owed at least $68,000 in unpaid taxes to the IRS and the county, and he had two federal tax liens filed against him last year. …
